Somewhere, Trip Hawkins looks at what has happened to EA and sheds a single tear. "I could have sold out to Saudi Arabia," he says...

I miss the days when "We purchased a scanner for the office and we need to justify the expense" was all the game design document you needed.

Taito's Hit the Ice hit the PC Engine with a hockey game that was much more about the brawling than getting the puck in the net. youtu.be/uuQD6apDIcQ

Hit the Ice (ヒット・ジ・アイス) - PC Engine Power 291

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"Today is August 4, 2026" There Will Come Soft Rains By: Ray Bradbury

I name dropped Poison Elves in this video script as part of my eternal quest for nerd media that's too obscure for even my audience.

I noticed the Babylon 5 YouTube channel has started posting full episodes of the series with the pilot movie and first two episodes up right now. Such a nice, calm space station. I'm sure nothing bad will happen to it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGVW...

The Gathering (Pilot) | Babylon 5 Full Episode

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It's another Famildaily/Year of FDS compilation video, this one just covering the summer of 1988. The Famicom's quality is on the upswing again as the gold rush boom era is coming to an end... youtu.be/I3FSQp3XI9w

A Chronology of the Nintendo Famicom Part 14: July - August 1988

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This is one of the big ones. It's impossible to understate just how influential Kamaitachi no Yoru is. This is a game that shaped Japanese games in the 90s. This group has now done the first two games in the Sound Novel series, and the next one is Machi which I have some opinions about...

1564 Studio@1564studio.bsky.social · 2d ago

I'm trembling while writing this: Kamaitachi no yoru—not the PC remake, not the iOS port, but the actual original SFC version—has been translated at last by ButThouMust, who graciously brought us an English patch for Otogirisou in the past. This is HISTORICAL.

I just came across my Frankensteined Hypershot a few minutes ago...

LI Retro@liretro.bsky.social · 3d ago

Import retro games are more than just foreign exclusive titles, they’re completely different experiences like a rapid-fire light gun Famicom game found only in Japan as seen here with @frankcifaldi.bsky.social of VGHF. Check out the Retro Import showcase this week, Aug 7-9 at LI Retro. LIRetro.com

There's nothing I love more in video game writing than paragraphs of exposition packed with completely irrelevant details that could deliver the exact same information with the exact same impact in two or three sentences. All great writers know that more detail equals better.

Power Gate for the PC Engine is one of the more forgotten shooters on the system. There's good reasons why everyone just ignored it after playing it once. youtu.be/jmh1X71IHpo

Power Gate (パワーゲイト) - PC Engine Power 290

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What?!

Well, I'm definitely not cutting my complaints about modern film cinematography from the script for my video about a game from 1991.

The shortest period of time from a game's release to it being played as a challenge on Game Center CX is Mario 64 which was nine years, seven months from game's release to episode airing (Steel Battalion and Roommania do not count as the show had a different format then).

Daryl Surat@darylsurat.bsky.social · 4d ago

I regret to inform you that the Kacho will be pontificating this month on a Game Center CX livestream whether or not it is time to expand the scope of retro gaming to include the PlayStation…3. And Nintendo Wii.

"Can we have pizza tonight?" "Sure. I guess so." "Can we have pizza now?"

The question isn't why do *I* own three copies of Deus Ex on disk, it's why don't *you* own three copies of Deus Ex on disk?

For Random Game Saturday, I have a two-fer: Prince of Persia on the Game Boy, twice! The gray cart was was a 1992 port while the black cart is a 1999 port. As a black GBC cart, it works in the original GB. So Prince of Persia was ported to the Game Boy twice!

My goal is to have the next bonus episode up on Monday. It's all about a game that I don't think is very good, but is really interesting. That's the best kind of game to make a video about, after all! Wildly ambitious half the time, behind the times the other half. Secret sequel to a classic, too.

What do the last four digits of your social security number and your mother's maiden name say about you? Take our online quiz to find out!

Seiryuu Densetsu Monbit for the PC Engine sure is an RPG. It is so RPG that it could be used as the basis for the standard until of 8-bit RPG. youtu.be/dYKdpoXKhLg

Seiryuu Densetsu Monbit/Legend of the Dragon Saint Monbit (聖竜伝説モンビット) - PC Engine Power 289

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Best fighting games based on classic Chinese novels: Romance of Three Kingdoms: Dynasty Warriors (the original one) Water Margin: Outlaws of the Lost Dynasty Journey to the West: Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3

I was joking about there being no Dream of the Red Chamber video games but then I looked and uh... yeesh.

The best thing about the EA buy out is going to be in two years time when they're auctioning off the thousands of properties they've been sitting on and doing nothing with them. I'm thinking of buying the Kesmai library. It'll probably only go for a dollar or two and then I'll own the first MMORPG.

Yeah, right, they sure are adding Evangelion to the Criterion channel. Good joke, everyone. What, are they going to use the 90s translation and dub, too?

It's official: emulating Windows 9x in a scaleable setting is, in fact, hell

Feel free to get mad over what they're doing with the text of the books, but destroying them for the scanning process isn't a big deal. People treat the physical object of books as a sacred things but not know the reality of old books: 99% of them are things nobody wants and are dumpster bound.

I'm 18 minutes into the audio track for my next bonus video and I'm finally reaching the game. There's that much weirdness around the game to get through first. Also, to be more specific, I'm at the demo for the game. Not the game itself.

Fire Pro Wrestling 2nd Bout kept refining the fledgling series on the PC Engine. There's a reason that Fire Pro was the one wrestling game of the era to become a series... youtu.be/EWZgOqg48m0

Fire Pro Wrestling 2nd Bout (ファイヤープロレスリング2nd BOUT) - PC Engine Power 288

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Games I need to get b-roll of tonight: - Ultima 7 - Wizardry 7 - Ultima Underworld - System Shock - Deus Ex - Marathon 2 - Duke Nukem 3D (or Tekwar, but Duke shows things off better) - Wizards & Warriors I've got some b-roll pre-made for some of those, but not illustrating the features I want...

I often say that there's no wrong way to play retrogames... besides stretching the aspect ratio. I'd like to amend that with one more wrong way to play retrogames...

Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️@sharkabytes.bsky.social · last wk.

If you've got even an ounce of a soul in your body, you don't touch anything by ModRetro. It's too intrinsically linked to Palmer Luckey and his cohorts. I know the vast majority of you haven't and won't, but it's always worth a fresh reminder.