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Bert the Bort
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She/Her. Collector of many geeky things. Artist?
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It ain't Silver Ball Saturday if they used LEDs!
Pokémon Thundershock Challenge Game, 1999, Tiger
It a cromulent pinball offering, but it does suffer from Tiger's penchant for being too loud. LED pinball is always clunky and slow.
The physical flippers and plunger are charming.
#RandomGameSaturday
A red tabletop pinball game with original 151 Pokémon theming. It uses red LEDs instead of balls, but does have a pair of flippers at the bottom of the table, and one off the mid right. The playfield is a cromulent representation of a standard pinball table. The lanes are clear plastic. The field is bright and colorful with a background map of Kanto and Charmander, Ekans, Meowth, Pikachu, Squirtle, Pidgeotto, and Bulbasaur. There are two black round buttons with a white ring around them on either side toward the bottom for the flippers. There is a black plunger with white on the end. The score is kept at the bottom middle on a basic LCD. It lets you enter your initials and save your score! The speaker grille is at the bottom left. It are loud.
November 15, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Is it #RandomGameSaturday or Silver Ball Saturday?
Attack from Mars, 1998, Tiger (yes, THAT Tiger!)
This game deserves way more attention.
It uses actual digitized sound effects, multiple modes, decent controls, a pull back plunger, LCD wiggle Martians, and a solid table layout.
It's great o'clock.
Attack from Mars handheld game. Shaped kind of like an isosceles trapezoid. It is taller than wide, top is 2.7in (6.858cm), 5.7in on either side (14.478cm), and 3.7in (9.398cm) on the bottom. The top of the casing is black, and royal blue for the rest. There is a bezel that surrounds the 1.6in (4.064cm) across and 1.8in (4.572cm) down screen, that is situated in the upper half of the game. The bezel has a sticker with the art from the Attack From Mars pinball table with the Attack From Mars logo in red at the top. The screen has an isometric view of the AFM table, with the score to 100 millions at the top middle, GAME OVER to the top left, and SCORE in the top right. There are two silver flipper buttons just below the middle of the game. There is a yellow pull down plunger on the bottom right side. The bottom middle is silver plastic with a round bump in the middle because art. Page 73 of the spiral bound 1999 Tiger Electronics trade show catalog. The page is yellow orange with pictures of Pin.Bot and Attack from Mars.
November 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Murderous Mogs, love only if you catch it, and the power of the sun!
Mogland, 1983, Casio.
I love how sturdy and pocketable this little game is, and it is solar powered!
You traverse up and down through the sewers to catch a heart for your person, who won't let you up without one! That's not love.
Mogland by Casio all folded up. The casing is slightly off white. It is 3 panels and folds together horizontally, with the top folding down and the bottom folding up over the screen. It has the Casio logo in red, a red heart with green wings, MOGLAND diagonally in brick red and green outline, and a green spiky red toothed bastard standing on a red oblong GAME. Mogland all opened up. The casing is all red. The top and thinnest panel contains the solar panel. The middle has the screen. The bottom panel has a silver metal overlay. It has a 5x5 open dot speaker grille, a black CATCH button, a black Music Note Music Note button, a white START, and a black rocker switch for up and down - positioned left to right. It has the red flying heart, CASIO CG-60 in black, and the spiky bastard on his red GAME, with the Mogland logo at the bottom middle. The screen for Mogland. There is a bezel that makes the screen look 2.8in (5.112cm) across x 1.8in (4.572cm) down. Lies. The screen is really 2in (3.08cm) across x 1.2in (2.848cm) down. From top to bottom, the bezel has blue sky with white puffy clouds and a green leafed tree with a brown trunk in the middle, a white house with a small area of LCD exposed, and descending white levels with brown floors, with the bottom just brown. The upper left has the score (of 30 because I suck), and the upper right, inside the house, has your dead 2 protags and GAME OVER (again, suck). The levels are descending horizontal strips, with ladders leading down each in the middle. Prowling the levels are those spiky bastards from the front, and if you get got, they bum rush your ass across the level and you ded. There are also flying hearts. You have to descend into the sewers, literally net a heart, and run back up to deliver heart to your person for points. You cannot come back up without a heart. Shitty first date.
November 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Inktober - Weregroundhog
An anthropomorphic ground hog with clothes ripping off looking up at a full moon.
October 31, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Inktober 30 - Vacant. Can anyone else stare through space and time to the nothingness these days?
Cartoon drawing of a brunette in glasses staring into the bleak abyss.
October 30, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Inktober 29 - Lesson. I’ve still never beaten Super Mario Land.
A drawing of a younger person looking down at a Game Boy DMG with Game Over. You suck. on the screen
October 30, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Inktober 28 - Skeletal. (We hate skeletons, so this is what I can do. )
A drawing of a big ass snail eating a femur at night.
October 29, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Inktober 27 - Onion (Knight)
A digital drawing of a dorky kid dressed in red overalls and a white shirt, wearing an onion helmet with a metal visor, holding a sword with an onion pommel, and a shield with an onion on it that says ONION.
October 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Inktober 26 - Puzzled. I regret not using a T piece with Virus. I also love my Evil Wall.
October 26, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Inktober 25 - Inferno. Based on Choriza May’s song “Party in Hell.”
A digital drawing of a ladylike who is purple with plum hair and red horns. She is wearing a green hair covering and is holding an orange bra. The background is fire!
October 25, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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A new Frogger added to the collection for #RandomGameSaturday
Frogger, 1983, Gakken VFD.
Though it looks like the Coleco Mini-Arcade from the same year, it is tougher! It added a snake in the 2nd level on, for more frog peril. I prefer the gameplay of the Gakken.
However, the viewing angle sucks.
A bright yellow tabletop VFD mini arcade game. The unit is pretty big and clunky. It is an octagon, but the upper sides are longest and flare out a bit. It is taller than wide. At the widest point it is 6.5in (16.51cm) and the height is close to 10.5in (26.67cm). It has the same yellow plastic as a hood from the back and up, to block the glare on the screen. The VFD has a viewable size of 3.8in up (9.652cm) x 2.8in across (7.112cm). It looks like it is multicolored, but the screen has colored bands that blend with the fluorescent sprites to give the illusion of color. The score is at the top, with extra Froggers at the top right, and GAME OVER at the left corner if you done fucked up. The time is a bar at the bottom that decreases one line at a time to the right. Frogger has to move upward past trucks, trucks, trucks, safe bank, turtles, logs, turtles, base. There is a big clear over top of black bezel around the screen. It has the cute Japanese FROGGER logo in white outline with a Frogger smile in the O. The left and right sides of the bezel describes the portion of the screen. The control is just a white plastic four way joystick in the bottom of the casing below the screen. There are two switches beneath that for SOUND (ON OFF) and GAME (A OFF B). The controls have a metallic blue sticker as an overlay. There is a blue metallic sticker at the bottom right corner of the game with the FROGGER logo in red outlined in yellow, LSI GAME in green outlined in yellow, and the Gakken logo in black. The Gakken VFD Frogger game with its ancient Japanese box. The Gakken VFD Frogger beside the green Coleco Frogger Mini Arcade.
October 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Inktober 24 -Rowdy
Cartoony drawing of kilted and mulleted Rowdy Roddy Piper double deuce flipping off the everything.
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Inktober 22 & 23 - Button and Firefly
A drawing of a baseball player about to hit a ball and a doggo about to hit a big red button. It’s Peanut Butter! A night sky with fireflys.
October 24, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Inktober 21 - Blast
Digital art drawing of white Bomberman holding up peace sign/ Victory and a lit bomb, with an explosion behind that says BOM inside.
October 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Inktober 20 - Rivals
Digital drawing of an orange cat flat on the ground, looking annoyed, with a grey little cat about to chomp on orange Himbo’s face. Violence.
October 21, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Inktober 19 - Arctic
A digital drawing of a chunky blue and white penguin standing on ice holding a green sign that says STAY CHILL!
October 19, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Inktober 18 - til A group of frogs really is called an Army.
A digital drawing of a group of frogs in front of a US flag with “A Group of FROGS is an ARMY” written at the top.
October 19, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Happy Birthday, Yoko Shimomura!
Live A Live, 2022, Switch.
This game is one of my newer favorites. I enjoyed each well crafted scenario, the characters, and the gameplay. It doesn’t take itself too seriously.
Yoko Shimomura’s remixed music adds a richness to the atmosphere.
#RandomGameSaturday
Live A Live for the Nintendo Switch in its case sitting on Pokeball fabric.
October 19, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Inktober 17 - Ornate
A drawing of a stained glass windows of a Heal Slime from Dragon Quest on a field of Vert.
October 17, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Inktober 16 - Blunder(Cat)
October 17, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Inktober 15 - Ragged
A drawing of a black cat with a white string of gauze in its mouth, rolled on its back. The gauze is from a mummy hand all wrapped up.
October 16, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Do they jump in the sink and demand it like a moron?
Orange and white Himbo cat sitting in the white porcelain sink, looking away to show how much he doesn’t want me to turn on the water. This is all a lie. If I do not acquiesce, the violence and curse words will begin.
October 16, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Inktober 14 - trunk from memory and little turd from years ago.
Digital drawing of a tree trunk with a grey squirrel double deucing with scowl face. Photo of a squirrel face popping out of a hole in a tree. This one is way less double deucing.
October 15, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Inktober 13 - Drink (Rupert from memory)
Orange himbo cat drinking water out of white persons hands.
October 14, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Inktober 12 - Shredded
A digital drawing of Sonic the Hedgehog wearing a bib about to eat a Cheese Coney on a yellow and black background, all reminiscent of Skyline Chilli from Cincinnati, Ohio.
October 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM