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DeciderVT @decidervt.bsky.social · 2d
That's really good to hear. Get well soon, little man!
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DeciderVT @decidervt.bsky.social · 2d
Aww! Hope he's over the worst of it!
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DOKI DOKI CRT PANIC @crtpixel.bsky.social · 2d
RESIDENT EVIL
CAPCOM 1997
SEGA SATURN
The first appearance of a zombie in the RE series. "Did I do that?"
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DeciderVT @decidervt.bsky.social · 2d
B&M (and Wilkinson's before it) are such money traps for us. We rarely get out of one without spending at least £30.

Any good games on sale this time?
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lete lyre@中秋の名月 @letelyre.bsky.social · 2d
Jill, I was under the impression that your skillset would have allowed us to avoid this specific scenario

PlayStation 1 Barry had explicitly assured me I needn't worry about this happening
Resident Evil REmake's HD port, in which Jill Valentine leisurely trots to a door only to find it locked. That's okay, the angry zombie behind you will patiently wait. The undead are very understanding when we forget our keys.
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Neimi @aquaticscent.digital · 3d
The year is 2010. Civilization has progressed little in the last 20 years. - Game: The Firemen Developer: Human Entertainment Platform: Super Nintendo Entertainment System 📺: Sanyo DS24425
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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 2d
So, today I'm announcing a new book project... and doing a call for papers: crpgbook.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/t...

It's an anthology of video game history outside the usual US perspective - an accessible & exciting panorama of different realities - and I'll pay 300 USD per article.

Please share :)
The Video Game History Expansion Pack – Pitch your story
Today I’m putting my money where my mouth is and launching a new project — a book focused on game history outside of the usual North American perspectives.
crpgbook.wordpress.com
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DeciderVT @decidervt.bsky.social · 2d
Incredible to think that Capcom had the confidence to put Street Fighter Alpha into the hands of a team with lots of new hires and initially gave them just three months to get it made.

(From readonlymemory.com/products/lik...)
Chapter title: A BIG BREAK On top of the short timeline, one of the biggest challenges the Street Fighter Alpha team faced was their lack of experience. While the game was led by Funamizu - a series veteran who had overseen multiple Street Fighter II games - the team also consisted of a number of younger members, including planner Hideaki Itsuno. At the time, Itsuno was new to Capcom, having worked on a couple of obscure quiz games, and Alpha served as a turning point in his career. Following Alpha's release, Itsuno moved into various leadership roles, overseeing Capcom's first attempts at 3D fighting games, working on key 2D fighting games like Capcom vs. SNK, and eventually heading up the Devil May Cry and Dragon's Dogma action franchises and becoming one of Capcom's most popular game directors. He says it all started when Funamizu noticed him playing a game from Capcom rival SNK. HIDEAKI ITSUNO Street Fighter Alpha planner, Capcom Japan They were short on staff, and my boss [Funamizu] saw that I came into the office early every morning to play the Neo Geo - I was playing King of Fighters '94. So my boss was like, 'Hey, how about you become the new planner for Street Fighter Classic?' 'Street Fighter Classic' is what Alpha was called at the time; it was abbreviated 'SFC'. This was around the time Super Famicom was released. Since it had the same abbreviation as 'Super Famicom', we were confident the game would eventually be ported over to the Super Famicom, right? So when I was given that opportunity, I was like, 'Yeah, absolutely. I want to have an opportunity to work on this.' Internally, I was freaked out. I had absolutely no confidence I could make this happen. But how many times do you have a chance as a new employee, being given this great opportunity? I felt like, If I back down now, then I'm not going to be able to do anything in the future, so I jumped on the opportunity. SEIJI OKADA Street Fighter Alpha lead programmer, Capcom Japan Yeah, I learned that the Alpha team had been given a three-month deadline to make the game. So even though I was working on something else, I thought to myself, There's no way they'll make it without my help. That's how I ended up joining the team. [...] I had been doing research on the PlayStation, and it was my first time learning about 3D. But then, just as I was starting to understand it, I had to switch over to Street Fighter Alpha. NORITAKA FUNAMIZU Street Fighter Alpha planner, Capcom Japan Yeah, we had a three-month deadline. I mean, it was initially three months, although I guess the game really took six months in the end.
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DeciderVT @decidervt.bsky.social · 2d
Loved this so much when it came out. Very flawed in lots of ways but that just made me like it even more.

Really wish Konami would hand it over to the likes of @nightdivestudios.bsky.social for another N64 remaster.
nosolobits.com NoSoloBits @nosolobits.com · 2d
Hybrid Heaven (1999)
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Forgotten Worlds @forgottenworlds.bsky.social · 2d
Single screen platform games were a whole sub genre back in the day. Here’s Rod Land from 1990…

#Cute #Jaleco #Design #Aesthetic #RetroGames
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DeciderVT @decidervt.bsky.social · 2d
Would like to hear your thoughts on it. Been a big Damrey fan for years and would love to know if there were more games like it. Absolutely bone-dry sense of humour sometimes as well.
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DOKI DOKI CRT PANIC @crtpixel.bsky.social · 3d
ELECTRICIAN
SYNAPSE/KOTOBUKI SYSTEM 1986
FAMICOM DISK SYSTEM
World Trade Center Towers
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PlayStation Park @playstationpark.bsky.social · 3d
Clock Tower
'Resident Evil 3: Nemesis'
PlayStation
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DeciderVT @decidervt.bsky.social · 3d
Sigh. Of course Nintendo are locking the NES and Game Boy games behind the NSO subscription.
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DOKI DOKI CRT PANIC @crtpixel.bsky.social · 4d
RISTAR
SEGA 1995
SEGA GENESIS
That boy star named RISTAR doing a pull-up
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DeciderVT @decidervt.bsky.social · 4d
So happy that this seems to have turned out well. Earmarked for my Christmas holiday game this year.
oniongames.bsky.social Onion Games @oniongames.bsky.social · 4d
This is it!

The last day before you're playing #StrayChildren on Steam and/or Nintendo Switch!

We hope you all land safely in our world!

Wishlist the game on Steam now, and be sure to join us again tomorrow for the launch!

store.steampowered.com/app/3649490/...
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DeciderVT @decidervt.bsky.social · 4d
Can't really remember much of BotW's soundtrack at all.

Regardless, I'd be interested in domestically released CDs of classic soundtracks I'd actually play instead of overpriced vinyl. Was more than happy to leave that format behind the first time.
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Kurt @ Hardcore Gaming 101 @hg101.bsky.social · 5d
New Patreon Postcard art! Detana!! TwinBee by @kaibuzetta.bsky.social
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Onion Games @oniongames.bsky.social · 5d
Only TWO more sleeps until #StrayChildren is out on Nintendo Switch and Steam!

We hope you're excited to get sucked into our world!

Wishlist it now on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/3649490/...
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DeciderVT @decidervt.bsky.social · 5d
Yep. Beautiful slow burn of a story that focused on the people instead of the mechs. Loved the way the investigators were piecing everything together in the background.
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DeciderVT @decidervt.bsky.social · 5d
That might explain why Ninja Scroll was doing the rounds among my friends on VHS. Patlabor... possibly my favourite film in the genre!
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DeciderVT @decidervt.bsky.social · 5d
Yeah, same. I mainly like the films or series on their own merits, rather than being a fan of the genre. Tend to prefer the older stuff too.

The body horror in Akira completely blew my mind back then and I recall feeling queasy afterwards. I'd never seen anything like it, especially in animation.
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DeciderVT @decidervt.bsky.social · 5d
Surprised to see some PSVita UI in Everybody's Golf on PS5. That datetime display looks very familiar.
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DeciderVT @decidervt.bsky.social · 5d
Oh, curious about what was on terrestrial TV back then! I only remember that Akira screening and not much follow-up. Even the Ghibli films were buried in the late night schedules over on Sky, which seems unthinkable now.
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DeciderVT @decidervt.bsky.social · 5d
Several things:

1. Super Play's reporting introducing me to what anime actually was
2. The BBC's screening of Akira in 1994
3. Getting cable TV in 1996 and taping Tenchu Muyo from the Sci-Fi Channel overnight
4. Seeing Porco Rosso late at night on Sky Movies before Ghibli was well-known in the UK
The cover of issue 1 of Super Play, a groundbreaking British games magazine that also covered anime, manga and Japanese culture extensively. A still from Akira. Tetsuo is inspecting Kaneda's classic red motorcycle in a dingy alley in Neo Tokyo. The collected cast of the Tenchi Muyo OVA. A lazy beach scene from Porco Rosso. The protagonist is reclining in a deckchair on his private beach, listening to the radio while his red seaplane bobs on the surface of the water in the shallows nearby.
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