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Case came dirty but I'm excited to dig into this. The games list has a few bangers! PD/freeware/shareware compilations have a bit of a sketchy reputation but tbh they may be a better representation of what computer gaming was like for most of us in the 90s and 00s than your Half-Lifes and shit.
I knew about the link from British microcomputers to modern phones via Acorn/ARM. But I only just learned that some models of the ZX Spectrum were manufactured by Samsung
In one hour at 11am PST, I will be streaming a handful of early Kirby spinoffs.
I've just been having a noodle through a lovely site: Big Box Collection. There, you'll find scans of big box microcomputer and DOS/Win PC games that you can rotate around and have very high levels of detail. You can also see what came inside them, too. bigboxcollection.com/Shelf
In 1996, Nintendo founded Marigul Management, a company who would help develop and fund games for the N64... However they actually did so much more than that, including helping to develop games for the PlayStation and Dreamcast?? youtu.be/mIMw3JFL-D0
The PlayStation and Dreamcast Games Funded by Nintendo? - Marigul Management
YouTube video by LEXX
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Senkousya won! Genuinely excellent dungeon-crawling ARPG with deceptively thoughtful design. Really tight resource management and combat that emphasises spacing and patience. Very 'pure' dungeon crawl experience. Highly recommended if you like King's Field, Thunderdawn, or the like.
Interesting that almost all analysis of Xbox in freefall completely ignores an organized boycott intended to harm the company financially. Meanwhile, multiple news stories on the home page all month about PlayStation boycotts that haven't even happened yet.
IGN@ign.com · last wk.Game Pass was supposed to be the all-you-can-play subscription service that put Xbox on top after a disastrous generation. Instead, it's a failure that's threatening to ruin the company. https://bit.ly/4pIIUau
An old freeware Japanese ARPG called Senkousya came up on Discord recently. I was checking out the manual and found a link to the dev's website, which can be accessed on Wayback. There's a developer diary here! You'll need a way to deal with shift_JS encoding and preferably some Japanese to enjoy
the thing with reading so much about prehistory and antiquity lately is that I'll see some 12th century medieval shit and be like "oh that's quite recent actually."
why must i be stuck in work. i am craving to play an obtuse and esoteric computer role-playing game that is older than me
Looking at some of the Japanese computer ports of Ultima IV and the visual differences in the opening are really interesting.
Reading the George Ainslie Hight translation of Grettis Saga and the introduction has this absolutely brutal aside omfg 💙📚
I am starting a comic that I am releasing by the page. I won't spam every time I make a page but I will announce when full chapters are done tennis-witches.the-comic.org
Tennis Witches
Chapter 01, Page 01
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Wandering aimlessly through a sudden storm in BS Zelda no Densetsu: Inishie no Sekiban (SNES, 1997). A weekly broadcast "Soundlink" Satellaview game originally intended to stream high quality music and voice alongside the game.
Thinking of playing the first Tomb Raider again. I really wish the rest of the series had followed in its footsteps; it's so much weirder and darker than everything else, including its remake. Just grows more and more haunted as you go until everything is made of blood. Fuckin all-timer.
I know I'm a decade late to the party, but Brigand: Oaxaca feels more like a total conversion mod than it does a commercial game and I mean that in an intensely positive way.
Barbarian Prince has lodged itself permanently in my brain. Solo RPG-ish board game where you set out seeking gold to hire an army great enough to retake your lost kingdom. It's a nightmare game that hates you but it was miles ahead of its time and, when it works, it's fucking beautiful.
Heaving a very weary sigh— NEW: I spoke to those impacted by layoffs within XBOX's accessibility teams to try and understand the scale of those cuts and what they mean for accessibility going forward. It's all pretty bleak, but there *are* tiny shreds of hope.
Accessibility teams hit hard in XBOX’s “reset”
Among 1600 jobs cut by Microsoft this week, the axe has fallen heavily on XBOX's accessibility teams.
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I often wonder what it would have been like to grow up where school is like this 💙📚
For this year’s anniversary of The Swedish Games, I’ve written about some recent personal experiences related to my favorite obscure Swedish video game, Kosmopolska: theswedishgames.wordpress.com/2026/07/09/m...
My Kosmopolska year
Today is the four-year anniversary of The Swedish Games, and as usual, I want to celebrate it by writing something about my favorite Swedish game, the game that inspired me to start this blog in th…
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