Tired: It's on like Donkey Kong. Inspired: I'm ready like Dynamite Headdy.

SEGA City@segacity.bsky.social · 8h ago

'Dynamite Headdy' was released on the SEGA Mega Drive 32 years ago today in Japan.

Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

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Damn, that's some good Strider art. It even has the panda! And the uncensored amazon outfit! tcrf.net/Strider_%28A...

台羽正@tadashidaiba.bsky.social · 7h ago

For the first time since March 22, 1996 this notice is A LIE.

Nintendo of America [Twitter/X Mirror]@nintendousa.bsky.social · 2d ago

These previously unreleased Virtual Boy games are now available to play on Virtual Boy – Nintendo Classics for #NintendoSwitchOnline + Expansion Pack members: ☑️ ZERO RACERS ☑️ D-HOPPER

Dayton has so many neat stores selling old games, comics, toys, books, magazines, music, DVDs, etc. that I feel strange when my purchases across all those shops amount to something like two little Battle Beasts figures and a $10 Super NES cartridge.

Did you ever play the ultra rare Taito arcade game BAS that ACE Magazine reviewed in 1988? You probably have without realising it, as they were reviewing Raimais, which was no doubt installed in a recently released Brent Leisure BAS generic arcade cab The game name's on the screen lads

Suncoast at the Fairfield Commons Mall in Beavercreek, Ohio has a good anime selection if you a) need to fill some holes in your DVD library of largely forgotten series or b) want an exhibit showing why the early-2000s anime bubble popped.

WHOA. Ruin Explorers! Fam & Ihrie! My favorite little fantasy anime that no one really talks about! ! In HD! I assume this won't have the commentary track from the second DVD release, as it isn't mentioned here. But hey, it's Ruin Explorers looking better than ever!

AnimEigo@animeigo.com · 5d ago

Ruin Explorers - Fam & Ihrie is a 90s fantasy OVA that focuses on action & comedy and was written and directed by Takeshi Mori. It's getting a brand new HD restoration and will be here in 2027!

If you liked RPGs and wanted a Nintendo 64 in the mid-1990s, you learned to manage disappointments. Well, Final Fantasy VII is on the PlayStation now, but there's still Dragon Quest VII! Uh, well, there's still Tales of Phantasia 64! I mean, there's still Earthbound 64 for the 64DD!

downchasm@downchasm.bsky.social · 6d ago

I think what stands out about the N64 for me when compared to its contemporaries was how entire genres just got passed over on the system the 90s was a blossoming time for JRPGs, though not well represented on the N64 the renaissance era of 2D arcade/FTG/STG? virtually unrepresented on the N64

The Battle Beasts never had their own cartoon series* but Killer Carp appeared in a commercial to teach kids everywhere that WATER PUT OUT FIRE. (*Yeah, they show up briefly in the Transformers: Headmasters show.) youtu.be/CL4zNgZPPHw

Battle Beasts Toy Commercial 1987

YouTube video by GrowinupinSincity81

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Rik@slightlyonfire.bsky.social · last wk.

Battle Beasts Killer Carp! He’s pretty fin-tastic with his fin Mohawk (😍) cute lil fin feet, sharp fin gauntlets & jagged fin adornment jutting out from the crotch of his screaming fuchsia armour (unsettling combined with the wicked grin). Beware his double shoulder missile batteries & anchor blade

In the late '90s and early 2000s, I saw that mainstream folks were only vaguely aware of anime as "big-eyed cartoons from Japan" with "porn" periodically tossed in. They didn't mock you for liking it unless you made it a constant part of your personality. The people who actually HATED anime were...

Zero Utopia@zeroutopia.bsky.social · last wk.

Genuinely impossible to make people understand how much most the United States in the 90s hated and looked down on anime if they didn't live through it.

If you're blaming only Sega and Nintendo marketing for turning video games into an industry aimed at middle-school boys, you need to take a good look at PC gaming ads and media from the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Thew@amazingthew.bsky.social · last wk.

I think about King's Quest a lot. Distinct childhood memory of overhearing a middle-aged woman at church telling my mom about how much she loved kings quest. This was like circa 1995? games used to be for everyone until nintendo/sega marketers turned them into Action Toys For 12 Year Old Boys

I'm so very sickened.

Marcus 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧@marcusjdl.bsky.social · 2w ago

My beef with Morrissey runs all the way back to 1986 when he said this about Black artists. Nineteen Eighty Six, while the Smiths were still active. It’s not a “later phenomenon” don’t try and lie to me www.standard.co.uk/culture/musi...

If we're doing Wii titles for #randomgamesaturday, here's my favorite: Sin & Punishment: Star Successor! It's one of Treasure's best, and I refuse to call it their big closing number, because Treasure technically hasn't closed. Maybe, just maybe, they'll make a third S&P to resolve that cliffhanger!

Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️@sharkabytes.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'll stick with the Wii theme with my #RandomGameSaturday, coming away with pirate treasure: Zack & Wiki!

Happy Science, a Japanese new religion with its own political party, was founded by Okawa Ryuho, who claimed to be the reincarnation of Buddha, various mythical kings, and the Greek god Hermes. At a 1991 gathering, he announced he was El Cantare, "the Law itself."

Happy Science: Inside Japan's Far-Right Religious Movement - Unseen Japan

In the mid-1980s, a Japanese salaryman declared himself the reincarnation of Buddha and Hermes. Now his religious organization claims millions of adherents.

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There's no rule in the book that says a dog can't pilot a Gundam!

Gotta get in some jokes about the XARX BROTHERS and XARXIST PROPAGANDA before everyone notices that it's apparently pronounced "Alex Zero."

Ryan Higgins@ryanhiggins.bsky.social · 2w ago

Mobile Suit Gundam RG XARX-ZERO

This really cool! I like how the artists are listed. And I like this F1 Boy art by Yukihisa Fujita, partly because it helps me envision a world where every Game Boy title had "Boy" in it. Super Mario Boy, Final Fantasy Boy, Metroid Boy, Qix Boy, Battle Bull Boy, Stop That Roach Boy, Fish Dude Boy...

VGDensetsu@vgdensetsu.bsky.social · 2w ago

Here is a gallery dedicated to the Game Boy, featuring over 200 box art, illustrations and logos. vgdensetsu.net/gameBoyGalle...

Has the dawn ever seen your eyes? Have the days made you so unwise? Realize you are... ARMADILLO RACING This is pretty cool! Maybe someone like @magictrashman.bsky.social can make a special trackball shaped like a rolled-up armadillo. (I joke, but I would not put it past him.)

GSK | ALL CITY SLOP SHOP (ETA SOON)@allcityslopshop.com · 2w ago

another home first from Namco's 3D era on Arcade Archives this week: the 1997 trackball-controlled racing game Armadillo Racing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDMD4OwRuzE once again, compatible USB trackballs/mice & Switch 2 joycon mouse functionality also, split-screen multi's exclusive to ACA2

There is debate as to whether its budget cleared $100 million, but I'm still going with Cutthroat Island.

Canadian Tokusatsu Donald@rangerdonald.bsky.social · 2w ago

QTP with a movie with a budget of over $100 million that has been completely and utterly forgotten.

Art by legendary mangaka Shigeru Mizuki

Unfortunately, I don't have any old media kits for Anime Insider. BUT this reminded me that the magazine once planned on having a mascot: a cybernetic catgirl with a computer mouse on the end of her tail. She never made it past the design phase.

Teresa (Katy) Castillo 🔜 Anime NYC@harleygin.bsky.social · 3w ago

Weird question, but does anyone have older anime magazine media kits (like Newtype, PiQ, Animerica, Tokyopop)? I have OtakuUSA's advertisement but not media kit. I'm super curious on how they went about it.

This is especially lousy considering that Mischief Makers is a no-show for Switch Online so far. By the way, the game's unused graphics include an alternate opening shot of Marina and the professor, and it's...uh, worse. tcrf.net/Mischief_Mak...

Time Extension@timeextension.com · 2w ago

"Truly An Injustice" - Looks Like This Mischief Makers Recomp Is Another Vibe-Coded Disappointment. (Repost)

It's interesting that a few illustrations on the second page are of Annet in the cutscenes for Earnest Evans. Was Annett Futatabi going to include some flashbacks, or did this layout just fill some space with those?

Game Vecanti@gamevecanti.bsky.social · 2w ago

Concept art & storyboards from "Anett Futatabi" (SCD) from the magazine "Bishoujo Densetsu Mata Aeta Ne, Memorial '93". [アネット再び]

Well, time to play through Crimson Shroud again and hope that @yazzmat.bsky.social comes back to post here.

Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age@jumpovertheage.com · 2w ago

I love dice rolls in videogames, I love the way they invite the player to narrate their experience in relation to unexpected events, I love their connections to the history of chance as a storytelling tool, I love the way they attack the player's tendency to want everything their own way.

The holy grail of Muppet Lost Media has finally found it's way online; the original unaired pilot episode of The Muppet Show. Here's a preview featuring the original extended opening.

Every SMB2 world has three levels save for the seventh. The reason why is explained in Doki Doki Panic, which explains that Wart emerged from a storybook. He tore out the final page, which detailed his defeat. This is never explained in SMB2, however. more: thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com/m4#53

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

Bill Smiley@neokefka99.bsky.social · 3w ago

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

I cannot believe that user830418118295318299427 would say that about anime.

Possum A-ko@kaiserbeamz.bsky.social · 3w ago

Cringe culture was always gonna lead to a trend of millennial parents banning their kids from watching anime so they don't grow up to be "weird."

My answer to this is usually Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise, because nothing else went so severely from brilliant and amazing to uhhhh no thanks

Mike Toole@miketoole.com · 3w ago

What's the worst anime you've ever seen?