PSA: if you're playing Pokopia and not using mouse mode, consider using mouse mode.

For #RandomGameSaturday here's Lack of Love for the Dreamcast, just about the most minimal box art you're ever likely to see. The front cover tells you nothing. The back cover doesn't really give you much more information. And, to be fair, even playing the game doesn't reveal much more about it.

Loved working on this one. Though I'm struggling to believe it was nearly 20 years ago.

Another fact in the same genre: later this year, the video game 1942 will have been released closer to the year 1942 than to the present day.

Gone back to Pokemon Violet after the fantastic Switch 2 upgrade. It's taken a bit of work, but I think I now have the perfect team. Go Porygang!

There's only one choice for Switch 2 exclusive launch day games, right?

I went there on a school trip about 40 years ago, and filled a roll of film with photos of that police box :)

The FunKey is definitely the most practical way to play Tetris. Game Boy for scale.

From the Nintendo UK Store, as they didn't put this in the direct.

It's Ridge Racer! RIIIIIIIIDGE RAAAACER!

A game I worked on has just been announced for Evercade. I am officially retro.

Stop talking about the Switch 2, and start talking about how Kiryu is in our game and Pinky's actor's performance is probably the best performance in any game. I'm serious. When we release some longer gameplay footage of her acting, YOU WILL UNDERSTAND

Everybody getting excited about Switch 2. Meanwhile, I'm learning Game Boy programming. Look, I made a triangle wobble a bit!

Looking forward to Nintendo releasing a trailer for an Alarmo update or a LEGO Virtual Boy at 1pm today.

Another nice thing from my Japan trip 20 years ago is this little magnifier and strip of film from the Ghibli museum. The strips were 1000¥ each and have a few frames from a movie on them.

Just found this retro Gradius phone strap thing that I bought at Tokyo Game Show in 2004. The strap, which I haven't yet got around to opening, is now older than Gradius was when I bought it.

Day 20 of our "Build a Model of Tails” advent calendar. So far zero pieces of Tails. I assume the final day is just a Tails figure you stick on top.

Got off to a pretty good start with the new Mystical Island expansion for Pokémon TGC Pocket, opened a God pack.

Cologne cathedral has a window where the texture hasn't finished loading.

Picked up Super Robot Wars 30 in the Steam sale. Never played the series before, but I'm already loving the over the top attack animations.

Had no power for the last hour or so. Looking forward to my PlayStation acting like this guy once it comes back on.

Order up! Critter Café is now open! Head into the Otherlands to save those Critters, give them a home, then open your café's doors to serve coffee, cakes, and more to your customers. #CritterCafé is now taking orders on PC via Steam and Nintendo Switch!

2025 will bring a new Magic Knight game! Currently known as MK5. The series stopped in 1987 and now, for the 40th aniversary of the launch of the first game, there will be a new one. Full details at davidxjonesauthor.com/MK5. #RETROGAMING #retrogames #zxspectrum #pcgaming #MagicKnight

Four games I've worked on:

Okay, Pokémon TCG Pocket, it's nice art and all but I didn't really need four of these Digletts. A different rare would be good now.

Pokémon TCG Pocket has some nice cards, and I mostly like how they've streamlined the game. It's doing that typical mobile thing of throwing loads of stuff at you early on, then drip feeding stuff after that, though. Plus there are like 10 different currencies, which seems excessive.

I forgot that, actually, this is my voice acting debut as I'm one of the voices in a group of Sontarans shouting "Sontar, ha!" Also, this means I now have a Kevin Bacon number of 2: I was in this with Karen Gillan, who was in The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special with Kevin Bacon.

What better way to celebrate November 5th than watching a complete play through of Doctor Who: The Gunpowder Plot? It has Sontarans, Rutans and the guy from Parklife. Also, I met my wife working on it (I was lead coder and she was an animator). #doctorwho youtu.be/HO95-3OrUhI?...

Buy this game to hear my voice acting debut as a talking giraffe!

I grew up on these streets.

Name a video game moment that wrecked you.

Started to learn VIC 20 coding a while back. My first attempt at writing something in assembler for it is massively unimpressive, but it is vaguely Halloween themed, so here you go. #gamedev #retrogaming #retrogames #vic20

I probably should have signed out of my personal Steam account on my work PC while I was working on Human Fall Flat. It's going to be my most-played Steam game for the rest of my life now. #gamedev

One of my favourite stories like this was on a C64 game which kept resetting the coder's computer when there was a lot going on on-screen. It turned out the joystick lead was wrapped around the power lead and when he got excited playing the game he'd pull it and briefly disconnect the power.

What got you into #gamedev? As a hobby: SEUCK, Garry Kitchen's Game maker, Graphic Adventure Creator and AMOS. As a job: I was bored on my MSc and applied for a programmer job at Gremlin to see what would happen. Somehow, they gave me a job.

Post a random game in your collection, here on Saturday. This is Tokyo Bus Guide for the Dreamcast. A game where, unsurprisingly, you drive a bus around Tokyo. Basically Densha de Go but buses. I think this was a limited edition as it's on two disks, but I can't remember what the extras were.

Reminder that you can see lots of random video games in this feed:

Hello, BlueSky! My point and click adventure, Lord Winklebottom Investigates, is a frightfully British murder mystery set on a deserted island in an alternate 1920s. Interrogate suspects, solve puzzles and find clues to catch the killer. Available now on Steam and consoles: linktr.ee/cavemonsters

Okay, I'll do it too. I'm expecting to only have to post about two games, and that's if I like it myself.

If you enjoy posts of random games from people's collections on a Saturday, I made a BlueSky feed that attempts to collect them all: bsky.app/profile/did:...

What's the most unfitting video game music ever, and why is it the intro to the Amiga version of Outrun? www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOGx...

For post a random game from your collection Saturday, here's Under Defeat. Can't remember much about this other than it being a vertical shooter that was a pretty late Dreamcast release. Comes with a soundtrack CD and sticker, apparently.

Back in the UK after Essen Spiel. Our first time at the show and really enjoyed it. Fitting our ridiculous #boardgame haul into suitcases was a bit tricky. Also just discovered I got a bonus free gift while I was there (like quite a lot of other people too, it seems). #boardgames #essen #spiel

Back in the UK after a trip to Germany for Spiel Essen. This is the last souvenir we bought, from a shop in Dusseldorf. I'm pretty sure he's a famous historical figure in Germany.

It's post a random game from your collection Saturday! Here's Gunpey for the WonderSwan, designed by, and named after, Gunpei Yoko, who also developed the original Game Boy system.

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Share a screenshot you can hear.

In retrospect, selling my Game Boy and games to buy a Lynx with Batman Returns was a mistake.

Randomly opened Pilot Quest as my first game on #UFO50 and now my life is just waiting for these numbers to get bigger. I really like the combination of an idle game and Zelda, though.