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recently playing SKETORI, thinking about SANVEIN, this Star Solider game, my daily thought-turns to Neon Genesis Evangelion. i need to dive deeper into the world of "serif font scifi"
If you're looking for an extremely easy STG, I accidentally 1CC'd Star Soldier: Vanishing Earth on N64 the first time I played it.

What was your first STG 1CC?
December 8, 2025 at 12:41 AM
the ghostly glowing effect totally POPS
Demon's Souls CRT series starts soon (Thursdays and Saturdays, tentatively). Here's a spicy teaser plate.

Kinda went ham with the new photo mode power up.. May or may not have over 70 pictures already.
December 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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ben solo. my beautiful son. i named you after the oldest man i ever knew’s witness protection name
December 2, 2025 at 7:29 PM
December 3, 2025 at 1:02 AM
resist! don't outsource your brain!
My family so quickly went to "well it's here now so there's nothing we can do" when I mention AI. Someone out there is scripting people to say that line, the exact same way
November 27, 2025 at 10:21 AM
"perfect heir to geometry wars" i think you mean SANVEIN (game looks cool as hell)
Sektori is one of the best games I’ve played all year. Design perfection, a fantastic soundtrack, it’s almost impossible for me to put down. I need every sicko reading this to play it. For @aftermath.site aftermath.site/sektori-shoo...
Sektori Is The Technically Perfect Heir To Geometry Wars
I need every sicko reading this to play Sektori right now.
aftermath.site
November 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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I hate every box I see
From Xbox One to 360
No you'll never stop me playing on PC
Oh my god! I was wrong
It was an Xbox all along
a cartoon of a man kneeling down next to another man
Alt: Animated gif of Troy McClure in the Planet of the Apes musical in the Simpsons.
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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We have to turn impostor syndrome into a pill and give it to every prominent person in this country. They should constantly be worrying that they're stupid
November 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
and yet nobody has been nice to me today 😤
we can finally celebrate men
November 19, 2025 at 7:42 PM
not much just schoolin' some demons @necrosoftgames.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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you can tell there have been three ninja gaiden games released this year because ninja gaiden fans are more miserable than ever
November 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM
if hank hill met bob burger: " well i don't much care for all the singin' you fellas do here, and your kids are somehow more asinine than our Bobby, but ya sure do grill a fine burger i tell you hwat"
November 18, 2025 at 11:59 AM
i don't hate the opening premise of space cops sending samus a voicemail saying "a bunch of our goons are dead on some weird planet" and she thinks "i bet there's something cool down there to find and/or kill" but yeah, the only good space cop is a mummified-by-metroids space cop
If I was writing a Metroid game, first thing I'd actually do is set up that a Dramatically Named Event has destroyed the Galactic Federation. never have a Space Marine show up again

they are the least cool part of the setting. get rid of that shit and stop having Samus be Unofficially A Cop
November 15, 2025 at 10:57 AM
they are so often putting samus matroid next to very bland scifi army dudes and it looks like she got reverse isekai'd into a mundane game from a much cooler one
Finding out Metroid Prime 4 has a bumbling, comic relief sidekick that looks like this. It has maybe never been more over.
November 15, 2025 at 10:42 AM
the anticipation i feel for demonschool has made me Believe in video games again
All I (brandon) can say is: If you like music, you're gonna want to check this out. I keep thinking Kurt can't get any better but he keeps going over the top. This soundtrack sounds like many things you've heard and also nothing you've heard, and that's exactly the vibe we're going for.
November 14, 2025 at 5:49 PM
neGcon support
November 11, 2025 at 10:10 AM
November 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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New awareness campaign
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
i put off clicking play on this coz i thought it was gonna be really good and you know what i was completely right
Chainsaw Man is Never Gonna Score
October 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
it's called "sackbird" but the bird has a hand-penis and no ballsack.
October 10, 2025 at 12:37 PM
cavill would call it megadrive though!
Some of my students seem genuinely perplexed when I tell them I spend more time playing my Genesis than I do my PlayStation 5. I don't get mad. Instead, I use it as a teaching opportunity. "Do you have a moment to talk about the 16-bit wonder, Sega Genesis?"
October 2, 2025 at 10:35 AM
i habitually took the stickers off all my games but recently a friend showed me a gamestation preowned sticker on Donkey Kong Jungle Beat and i felt an unexpectedly sharp pang of nostalgia
#RandomGameSaturday gives us Wild Arms, an RPG that I started but never finished. Good off-brand version of Ecstasy of Gold as the world map music.

I know some will hate the big pre-owned price sticker on the front, but that in itself is a historical artifact, so live with it.
September 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
perfect
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Episode 6
Showdown in Tokyo-3
Rei II
August 22, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Reiko going through her wardrobe and revisiting a bit of the past 🏁✨
August 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
i always think about Iwata around this time of year and i very much enjoyed reading the wonderful bit of remembrance here.
New on Nintenkats: 10 years ago today, we lost Satoru Iwata. There have been many tributes. This is the moment that still sits closest to my heart.

LINK: nintenkats.beehiiv.com/p/the-kat-ta...
July 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM