Gerald Collings

@geraldcollings.bsky.social

Professional artist and lover of gaming - retro gaming before it was retro.

Playing good old Sol Deace for the Genesis. As I was reading the story, I thought, “yep, that sounds about right.” Also “sometimes life makes no sense, but the battle must occur.” is an amazing line. lol. Very true, indeed.

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Finally connected one of my switch controllers to my recently repaired PlayStation and played Soul Blade for a little bit this afternoon. Namco really needs to come out with a collection of this series of fighters. Such a good bunch of games that everyone should have the chance to experience.

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Something to consider: We know what happened in Minneapolis today because dozens of people filmed it. If we let this shooting make us afraid to document, it will paradoxically makes us easier to kill and more likely to be murdered.

Metroid Prime 4 has been great so far. It’s a fantastic game with incredible visuals on the Switch 2. The concerns people had about the game are a bit over blown and nothing to worry about in my opinion. I’m loving pretty much everything about it and have few complaints.

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Big flashing warning sign right here: US spending on video game consoles fell 27% last month, marking the worst November in two decades as tariffs and rising component costs pushed prices to record highs. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

US Game Console Sales Crater in Worst November in Two Decades

US spending on video game consoles fell 27% last month, marking the worst November in two decades as tariffs and rising component costs pushed prices to record highs.

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Just replaced the laser component in my PlayStation and it can now read and play cds / games. Very excited. I bought this PlayStation for $20 at a thrift store, spent around $20 for the replacement part. Feels very good. Now I just need to get my GameGear to stop cycling through the resolutions.

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I was looking through my old work and decided to post a few. 1 and 2 are from grad school in 1998-2000, 3 is from my undergraduate years at the University of Tampa and 4 was also created during my grad program at MICA in Baltimore, MD.

I’m not good at soldering, but this is where I am on my screen mod for the Game Gear. It’s “done” but I think I still need to recap a bunch of the board because the screen keeps cycling through the aspect ratios. Everything should work fine.

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This is the last political drawing I’ve made recently. And while it doesn’t quite cover all of the ground I wanted it to, it does reference some of the most glaring abuses of power and the most dangerous. So, I do feel it is worth sharing in its final form. brush pen and ink on paper 12”x9” 2025

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