Mein Beitrag zum RETURN Magazin #62: Eine vierseitige Auswahl weniger bekannter, aber trotzdem sehr beachtenswerter Amiga-Spieleperlen aus den "dünnen Jahren"; sowie ein ebenfalls vierseitiger Hintergrund zum verpatzten Marktstart des Sega Saturn 1995. Viel Spaß beim Lesen! 😀 #retrogaming

Last week on vacation in Montréal, I bought this little gem at RetroMTL. Some collectors say "bad condition!!", I say: "Lovely, feels like a torch being passed on from someone who loved the game!" 🥰 #sega #segagenesis #retrogaming

Arrived in downtown Montréal for #AMCIS2025 information systems research conference. Looking forward to many interesting talks!

My zine about M.U.L.E. is done! REJOICE! (It took me like 7 months to make this please clap) mrblacksbox.net/mule/zine.html

Time to hop onto the Conni AI trend 😁 (note: Conni is a famous German children's book series) #retrogaming

I strolled through Breath of Fire III on #Sony #PS1 - about one hour of gameplay recorded from real PS1 hardware gives a good first impression of the game. #retrogaming www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdYS...

Well, well, well... It's M.U.L.E.'s 42nd birthday today! 🎂 For anyone who didn't know yet, of course M.U.L.E. is the answer to life, universe and all the rest! 😇 Happy 42nd!!!

Celebrating the release of Lunar Remastered Collection, I am finally publishing the English version of my 30th Anniversary Special Feature on the Lunar Universe, featuring interviews with Kei Shigema and Noriyuki Iwadare. Hope you enjoy it! www.carpeludum.com/lunar-30th-a... #retrogaming

Celebrating the release of Lunar Remastered Collection, I am finally publishing the English version of my 30th Anniversary Special Feature on the Lunar Universe, featuring interviews with Kei Shigema and Noriyuki Iwadare. Hope you enjoy it! www.carpeludum.com/lunar-30th-a... #retrogaming

So, THIS is what it should look like..? 🤣 Dani would turn in her grave though if she saw the gun... One of the reasons why the 1993 Sega Genesis sequel (Son of M.U.L.E.) was cancelled because either EA or Sega insisted on "adding guns'n'bombs" to it. www.carpeludum.com/son-of-m-u-l...

In meinen alten #Sega #MegaDrive Spielen entdecke ich gerade diese in der Kindheit geschriebenen Zettel wieder. So sah Trophäen-, Highscorelisten- und Spieledatenbankmanagement in den 90ern aus 😅

Heute werde ich mal wieder solche Zertifikate verteilen, als Abschluss eines KI-Workshops an der RMS Horrem. Bin schon gespannt, welche Highscores heute erreicht werden! #ki #mint #digitalebilung

Got my shipping notification today for ININ Games' X-Out Resurfaced - so guess what's up for today's #retromonday / #retromontag! Hope the disk still works... If so, I'll post a video recording later tonight. #commodore #commodore64 #c64 #retrogaming

Live right now with a four human players M.U.L.E. Online tournament! www.youtube.com/live/8Tt465H... #atari #atari800 #commodore #commodore64 #c64 #retrogaming

Just published: An exclusive interview with Roy Glover, M.U.L.E. theme composer! The author of #MULEOnline talked with Roy (top right in photo) and drove down memory lane. Really something special after so many decades! 🤩 #c64 #atari #retrogaming www.carpeludum.com/2024-intervi...

Im neuen #RETURNMagazin #57 habe ich diesmal den zehnseitigen Hintergrund mit Entwickler-Interview zum #SegaCD Spiel "Heart of the Alien" beigetragen, sowie einen Test des neuen #C64-Spiels "Rocky & Co". Viel Spaß beim Lesen! #sega #megadrive #megacd #segagenesis #retrogaming

Arrived! So it looks like, after almost 41 years, M.U.L.E. now has an official age rating of 6/7 #retrogaming #atari #atari400 #atari400mini

"To use, or not to use #LLMs": Acceptance or rejection hinges on human factors. My M.Sc. studies involved a systematic literature review on this topic which I now published on #arXiv, highlighting the sparse research. arxiv.org/abs/2403.09743 #AI #GenAI

Das RETURN-Magazin #56 ist da und im Webshop bestellbar. In der aktuellen Ausgabe schaue ich auf zwei C64- und einen Sega CD-Klassiker aus meiner Sammlung zurück: Below the Root, Alice in Wonderland und Dark Wizard. Viel Spaß beim Lesen! 😊

Very nice 3D-printed devotionalia to lighten up the retrogaming shelves arrived. :-)

Last night I enjoyed a little known game for Sega Mega CD: Devastator. Years ago I never bothered to play past stage 1, but afterwards it gets much better. Especially the shmup stages 3 and 5 are enjoyable. New footage recorded from real hardware: youtu.be/JhRZQK6cdu0

My first retrogaming indulgence this year: A rare-ish Sega Mega Drive mouse. What better game to try it with than the infamous Sega CD version of "The Secret of Monkey Island"! I recorded and uploaded new "bright" footage of the first 45min of gameplay here: youtu.be/50M7_m6n9gI

Father-son-project successfully completed between the years! Phew, 1125 pieces 🥵! We deliberately included an error, can you spot it? 🙃

Merry Christmas and a good start into the New Year 2024 to y'all! (Commodore SX64, playing the famous 1982 Commodore Christmas demo 🙃)

I couldn't resist any longer, so I am now finally a proud owner of an Amiga 1200 too. Before enjoying some of the exclusive AGA games, first I have to learn to play diskjockey again though - for example, 8 installation disks for the Doom clone "Nemac IV". 😅

Dark Wizard is 30 now. Created by Kenji Terada (of Final Fantasy fame). I celebrate it by re-starting the game again, new footage recorded from real hardware. Though graphics are mediocre, the depth of gameplay and story still warrant playing it. At 16:45, look at the sheer size of the world map!

Great work, Dall-E - so in order to not infringe on ONE copyright (Toejam&Earl), you decide to rather infringe on TWO copyrights (Monsters Inc. AND Toejam&Earl). 🤣 Aaaah, GenAI has such a long way to go...

"The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor", a new work of interactive fiction, has just been released by Moonmist Entertainment for C64, C128 (screenshot), MEGA65 and many more platforms. Just the right theme for the dark days of the year! Get it here: 8bitgames.itch.io/ghosts

I recorded the first half-hour of gameplay from Briley Witch Chronicles 2 from real C64 hardware. I felt right at home again, flashback to 2021! Can't wait to play further. :) youtu.be/4CVRjKuOKkA

Die RETURN #55 ist seit ein paar Tagen erhältlich. Von mir sind diesmal die Berichte zu den beiden neuen C64-Spielen "Lester" und "Terrestrial", sowie die Buchrezension von "Morgen, Morgen und wieder Morgen". Viel Spaß beim Lesen, und wie immer: Feedback willkommen!

Briley Witch Chronicles 2 is out for C64! There goes my work-life-gaming-balance in December... 😩😅 sarahjaneavory.itch.io/briley-witch...

Just released today: "Devolution: Global Warming" is a cool new real-time strategy game for the C64. It is rare that my leisure time for retrogaming and a new game release coincide, but today it worked! As always, I recorded from real hardware: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m_b...

Die RETURN Ausgabe #53 mit meinem 14-seitigen Jubilieren über das 40-jährige Jubiläum vom Jahrhundertklassiker M.U.L.E. ist aktuell im "Black Week" Sonderangebot zu haben. Also wer den Release im Mai verpasst hat - hier ist nun DIE Gelegenheit, zuzugreifen. 😉😊 www.return-magazin.de/produkt/retu...

I am really astonished by these statistics for my retrogaming YT channel. That simply cannot be true, it MUST be a measurement error!!! 😱 Come on - help me out here please, so that in 1 month time I can see less stereotypic demographics!!! 😅 www.youtube.com/@CarpeLudumGGS

Impressive gathering of videogame characters. On second glance... No, DALL-E. 😅

I love doing science... Only here, during systematic literature analysis, you can find the most recent paper "Carcass and meat quality attributes of broiler chickens fed leucaena leucocephala (lam.) (LLM)" when your intention was just to research specific aspects of Large Language Models (LLMs) 😅

Subtrade - Return to Irata on Commodore Amiga. Brand new tournament played Nov 10th 2023, played properly huddled around a real Amiga 600. Two humans (Andre, Chris) against two AIs (Joe, Sue). www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX1x...

Tonight I gave the new ZPF demo from Mega Cat Studios a go. My head still spins from the jimpoweresque parallax scrolling... I recorded from real hardware (early Mega Drive model 1). Hope you enjoy it - watching is definitely less head-spinny than playing!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Mx4...

I'm proud to have published my first scientific paper as preprint on arXiv! arxiv.org/abs/2310.08683 I investigated the use of augmented reality for reinforcement learning agents by integrating Meta Research's SAM (Segment Anything) zero-shot model into the RL training data pipeline.

Tonight I enjoyed "Alice in Wonderland" for the first time. Less RPG (like it's predecessor "Below the Root"), more puzzle solving through speaking with characters. I quite enjoyed it too, but maybe I should have made a different decision at 17:50! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KKR...

Getting ready to experience this couple of Windham Classics tonight for the first time. What have I missed!?! Hard tempted to dig out my NTSC C64 for authentic YT recordings, as these games have never been released in PAL countries anyway.

I'm a bit late to the party, but finally gave 2022's "Terrestrial" a try and recorded it from my real hardware, a PAL C64G. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYES...

BEHOLD, my EXTENSIVE VideoCD collection, just discovered hidden in my (real-extensive) Audio CD collection! Kind of like the "HD-DVD of the 90ies"... I even bought a Sega Saturn MPEG cart to watch these

Tonight I enjoyed revisiting Warriors of the Eternal Sun, a Sega Mega Drive / Genesis exclusive RPG by Westwood Associates. The new video, recorded from real hardware, shows the first 30 minutes of exploring the game. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFl3...

So, which of my red-marked unsorted retrogame collection new arrivals of the past, errr, months should I play for tonight's Carpe Ludum recording session? 🤔

Tonight felt like an Amiga 600 night, so I looked into my unplayed backlog and found Z-Out, and recorded my first gameplay: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWvY... Alas, I was disappointed. Too many unfair situations with no chance to survive by skill, only by memory. Nice Hülsbeck & Stember music though!