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The 'official' BlueSky of Gaming Hell, the little video game website with guts! Huge guts!! Sarah is our mascot! gaminghell.co.uk
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Gaming Hell @sarahssowertty.bsky.social · Oct 10
New on Gaming Hell - OOParts (Success, 1992, never released) www.gaminghell.co.uk/OOParts.html AN OUT-OF-PLACE ARCADE GAME
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This is really close to the goal, so please take a look if you're interested!
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OK, let's go! You want to hear about cool strategy games? I want to write about them! Let's help each other make this happen :D

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November 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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TOUMA, current-day model maker, ex-Sega designer & creator of Fang the Sniper, is collaborating with toy company T-BASE on a line of classic Sonic blind box mini-figures toumart.biz/10048/ 🇯🇵neat to see Trip made the cut…I'm not super tapped in but I've never been able to gauge whether she really hit
November 10, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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My favourite part of writing fighting game articles is putting together the little character bios~ This article's coming in the future!

Art from Sonic Retro info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_the_Fi...
A look at the future Gaming Hell page for Sonic the Fighters, highlighting the first six characters in the game. Character artwork taken from the Sonic Retro page on Sonic the Fighters. https://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_the_Fighters#Character_select_sprites SONIC From: Sonic the Hedgehog (1991) Full Name: Sonic the Hedgehog Speciality: Spin Attack Home Stage: Giant Wing A gallant hedgehog with a free spirit who's always running, spinning and stopping the ambitions of the nefarious Dr. Eggman. TAILS From: Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (1992) Full Name: Miles "Tails" Prower Speciality: Propeller Dash Home Stage: Canyon Cruise A young two-tailed fox who idolizes Sonic, he's a smart kid who created the Lunar Fox and can use his tails to fly. KNUCKLES From: Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (1994) Full Name: Knuckles the Echidna Speciality: Knuckle Glider Home Stage: South Island The last of the Echidna tribe who lived on the Floating Island, his name's not just for show, he's rougher than the rest of 'em. AMY From: Sonic the Hedgehog CD (1993) Full Name: Amy "Rosy the Rascal" Rose Speciality: Magical Hammer Home Stage: Flying Carpet An energetic girl with a big crush on Sonic, she's brought along her Piko Piko Hammer to squish and flatten the competition. FANG From: Sonic Triple Trouble (1994) Full Name: Fang the Sniper Speciality: Popgun Home Stage: Casino Night A lousy bounty hunter who once tried to sell the Chaos Emeralds on the black market, he's armed with a long-range popgun. ESPIO From: Knuckles' Chaotix (1995) Full Name: Espio the Chameleon Speciality: Tongue Attack Home Stage: Mushroom Hill Part of the Chaotix Crew who once helped Knuckles in the Neutrogic High Zone incident, he fights alone this time around. A look at the future Gaming Hell page for Sonic the Fighters, highlighting the last four characters in the game, including the two boss characters (Honey the Cat is not in the original arcade version and has been omitted, she also has no official art like the others) Character artwork taken from the Sonic Retro page on Sonic the Fighters https://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_the_Fighters#Character_select_sprites BEAN From: Sonic the Fighters (1996) Full Name: Bean the Dynamite Speciality: Bomb Attack Home Stage: Dynamite Plant With a familial connection to Bin from Dynamite Düx, he sure takes after him with his penchant for explosives. BARK From: Sonic the Fighters (1996) Full Name: Bark the Polerbear Speciality: Throw Home Stage: Aurora Icefield Just a big ol' polarbear with a wicked-sick beanie and scarf, he's ready to take everyone else for a ride with his throws. METAL SONIC From: Sonic the Hedgehog CD (1993) Full Name: Metal Sonic Speciality: Metal Laser Home Stage: Death Egg's Eye The mid-boss. Created by Dr. Eggman to beat Sonic at his own game, Metal Sonic is the scientist's last line of defence here. DR. EGGMAN From: Sonic the Hedgehog (1991) Full Name: Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik Speciality: Drill Claw Home Stage: Death Egg's Hangar The final boss. An evil genius of a scientist with a 300+ IQ, the Death Egg II serves as his latest attempt to conquer the world.
November 10, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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...34 part SEGA AGES 2500 series...
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Sega Ages 2500 Series
Is there anything more definitively “Sega” than the company fighting tooth and nail against itself to deliver something extraordinary in spite of its own self-inflicted problems? The Se…
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November 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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OK, let's go! You want to hear about cool strategy games? I want to write about them! Let's help each other make this happen :D

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November 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Also: I've set up a small fundraiser to cover the material costs of writing about as much of the Power Dolls series as I can reasonably get my hands on (minimum 6 new articles). Do you like giant mechs and fun strategy games? Me too! Let's go! :D

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November 10, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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New article time!

Here's an extended piece covering the incredible 1986 adventure Relics (PC-98 and others), as well as the Famicom Disk System game in the same series. Everything from ciphers to stumbles to social hierarchies is in here, so please take a look!

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Relics Anthology: Full of spirit[s]
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November 10, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Here's something fresh for everyone on PS1 shmup Einhänder! I had to really dig to find this game's treasure, but I did find it in the end:

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November 10, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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The Super Nintendo is one of my all-time favorite consoles <3
November 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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I finally got around to scanning the contents of the Idol Hakkenden Master HoeHoe Tracks Connoisseur Plus album from 2017! Sorry it took so long~ I really like the outline style of the art here!

I'll add this to my Idol Hakkenden page in the near-future so it'll be preserved elsewhere.
The front and back pages of the Idol Hakkenden Master HoeHoe Tracks Connoisseur Plus album booklet from 2017. The left side shows an outline drawing of the 'Bad Ending' outfit for Erika, the right side shows ouline drawings of multiple characters from the game, with a signature from Tomoo "PSG" Misato. The inside pages of the Idol Hakkenden Master HoeHoe Tracks Connoisseur Plus album booklet from 2017. The inside page of the Idol Hakkenden Master HoeHoe Tracks Connoisseur Plus album from 2017. A series of outline drawings of Erika from the game are shown inside multiple boxes. The back of the case of the Idol Hakkenden Master HoeHoe Tracks Connoisseur Plus album from 2017. A tracklisting is shown, as well as outline drawings of scenes from the game.
November 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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I have made a reasonable facsimile of this sprite paper (US letter size). Please feel free to use.
sprite grid paper
November 8, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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...a soundtrack CD with newly-sourced recordings of the music from the three main games & ports, reprints of Bouken's fold-out map & Densetsu's how-to-play cards and a CD-ROM PC reissue of the original 2007 version of the feature phone original Valkyrie no Eikou, in collaboration with G-MODE
October 23, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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out early '26, ¥29700: Adventure of Valkyrie 40th Anniversary Official Complete Works, a comprehensive materials collection for Namco's Valkyrie series featuring 1200 pages of art, interviews & dev docs (incl. docs for unreleased games) across 4 books, plus... shop.asobistore.jp/feature/pacm... 🇯🇵
October 23, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Got a brand new article for you! Every serious RPG deserves a silly spinoff, and Sword and Fairy is no exception. Let's turn Aunt Li's inn into the best in the land!

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Sword and Fairy Inn: Intense customer service meets RPG fantasy
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November 7, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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Here's a fresh piece for everyone on the best licensed game ever made:

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November 7, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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This week's Arcade Archives release is Tokyo Wars, Namco's 1996 3D tank deathmatch game. The Green Forces face off against the White Forces in frenzied tank combat- blow the enemy away across the Bay Area and Downtown arenas!

Dreamwidth post!
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November 7, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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For #OSThursday... It's Karnovember after all, so let's kick it off with the theme of the nuclear man, the fighter. No enemy can put a stop to justice!
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Fighter's History: Mizoguchi Kiki Ippatsu!! [SFC] - ATOMIC RUNNER (Chelnov Theme)
YouTube video by MegaNinten 007
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November 6, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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The stream went well. Cyberstorm is a funny old game.
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TepidSnake - Just like that comedy film
Watch TepidSnake's clip titled
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November 6, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Tonight on the Gaming Hell Stream, it's Arcade Location Test Night again- this time, fighting and competitive games that went unreleased! Cyberstorm, Tattoo Assassins and more!!
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November 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Holy shit, this week's Arcade Archives release is TOKYO WARS
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Arcade Archives TOKYO WARS
YouTube video by HAMSTER Corporation
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November 5, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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My Night Striker Gear article's now available for everyone to read!

"It’s flashy and exciting and looks as at home on my PC as any other game released in 2025."

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Night Striker Gear: Loves the old, embraces the new
This is a game comfortable with and confident in itself, eager to show everyone how great Night Striker not only was in the ’80s, but still is; an intense shmup that has me flying high above …
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November 4, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Holy shit. @shmuplations.bsky.social translated a massive thread of old tweets from Hideo Yoshizawa that goes deep into the NES Ninja Gaiden's development, including finally confirming the Castlevania influence shmuplations.com/ninjagaiden/
Ninja Gaiden – Developer Commentary (2023) - shmuplations.com
Taken from a string of social media posts shared in 2023, these comments from director Hideo Yoshizawa recount the making of Tecmo's classic side-scrolling action game, Ninja Gaiden.
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October 31, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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One odd thing I've noticed going through unreleased arcade fighting games that have publicly-available dumps- it's mostly American games like Cyberstorm and Tattoo Assassins. The only big Japanese ones I can think of are Kenju and Force Five, am I being silly and forgetting some?
November 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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The other three questions and the entry form do indeed show up in subsequent issues as promised, but it doesn't seem like they ever announced a winner.

As for the game itself... Bell Fruit thought they destroyed all the cabinets after the location test, but...
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A photo of the Rise of the Robots arcade cabinet, taken from the MAMEWorld forums. A plain, grey cabinet with side-art of The Cyborg sits sadly, comforted only by the stand-up Outrun 2 cabinet next to it.
November 2, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Doing some research on prototype arcade fighting games, and of course I had to dig up one of my favourite stories- Rise of the Robots.

There was a prominent, three-issue competition in Games World: The Magazine to win a cabinet! Here's the first issue with it.
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Issue #2 (August 1994, released June 30th 1994) of the UK games magazine Games World: The Magazine, with a competition in the corner to win a Rise of the Robots coin-op (term for arcade machine, usually used in the UK and Europe), a game that was ultimately unreleased in arcades. AS SEEN ON SKY TV! Britain's Biggest Multi-Platform Magazine! Mega Drive - SNES - Amiga - PC - 3DO - Jaguar - Handhelds - Mega-CD - CD-32 - CD-i - Arcades GAMES WORLD THE MAGAZINE NEW! Fight Special Mortal Komat II VS Super Street Fighter II The gloves are off! This year's big two fighting games, on Mega Drive and Super Nintendo, with MKII exclusively on Game Gear and Game Boy. All featured in vivid detail. ALSO FEATURED INSIDE: - Deep Space Nine - Shaq Fu - Desert Fighter - Zee Wolf - Sensible Golf - System Shock - Lethal Enforcers 2 WIN! RISE OF THE ROBOTS COIN-OP Exclusive to Games World: The Magazine readers, your chance to own the most talked about arcade machine of the year. Pages 12 and 13 of Issue #2 (August 1994, released June 30th 1994) of the UK games magazine Games World: The Magazine, advertising a Rise of the Robots arcade machine competition, a game that was ultimately unreleased, so presumably the winner never received their cabinet. RISE OF THE ROBOTS METAL MAYHEM WIN A RISE OF THE ROBOTS ARCADE MACHINE! EXCLUSIVE TO GAMES WORLD: THE MAGAZINE Yes, you could be the coolest kid on the block and have one of this year's most talked about arcade release in your front room. Over the next two months we will be running one of the most sensational competitions ever seen in a UK games magazine. At the end of it, someone will win their very own version of the yet to be released Rise of the Robots arcade machine, courtesy of Bell Fruit Manufacturing and Games World: The Magazine. Imagine the jealous look on your friends' faces as the lorry pulls up to deliver the unit to your doorstep and the World Gamers step out to present you with one of the most desirable arcade releases this year. Wallow in their pathetic begging and pleading as they'll do anything you ask, just to have one go on this gleaming, state-of-the-art games machine. THE RULES ARE: To win the biggest compo giveaway this year, you will need to answer the three robot questions that will be printed on the Rise of the Robots tokens given away in the August, September and October issues of Games World: The Magazine. Cut out these three tokens and then send them together with the final entry form from the October issue of Games World: The Magazine to us, and cross your fingers... TIGHT! RISE OF THE ROBOTS COMPETITION FROM AUGUST ISSUE OF GAMES WORLD: THE MAGAZINE TOKEN 1 Q Name the final Robot you have to face in Rise of the Robots: A ... Now keep this token somewhere safe and look out for Token 2 in the September issue of Games World: The Magazine, the UK's ultimate games-playing bible.
November 2, 2025 at 4:50 PM