every once in a while, i remember that Ultima Online is still running, and has a "Screenshots" page with a grand total of nine images to represent the game that all look like this

Photo of the Dr. Robotnik Wackers! disc, released in the UK in the 90's. This was disc #39.

Magneto Slam 'X-Men: Mutant Academy 2' PlayStation

Sonic 1 and 2 for SEGA Master System, but if they had gotten that Crap Master System Box Art treatment (please enjoy both "somewhat crap" and "really crap" versions). Happy 8-Bit Day (8/8)! ...Which isn't a thing but my friends and I think it ought to be. #sonicfanart [ #jezmmart | #fanart ]

There are only two things I want from a Xena game and these are the two things

Still one of the best game installers. <3 Does some lovely worldbuilding and mood-setting for the air adventures ahead with its 1930s/40s-ey radio play. (Note: This kind of installer was rare even then) 📺: Crimson Skies, Zipper Interactive, 2000

I love unofficial DOS game art so much. I really need to document these somewhere…

This may be of interest to Disney TV animation fans - rescued from an ancient cassette tape found deep within my archives, here's a 1988 demo for an unused RESCUE RANGERS theme song… (More to come!)

Big thank you to @bobinator.bsky.social for showing me The Legend of the Hawaiian Slammers www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ9g...

Blimey, there's a new episode of the @hg101.bsky.social Top 47k game podcast out today and I'm on both segments, talking about some cool video games with @bobinator.bsky.social @kaly.bsky.social and @taxowlbear.bsky.social! Go listen to it, it's good stuff www.hardcoregaming101.net/podcasts/top...

I think to this day about the friend of mine (I think @bobinator.bsky.social ) who saw the US cover and said, "that's just an actual picture of Tim Follin." 💪😆

www.hardcoregaming101.net/podcasts/top... It's TIME! For the TOP 47, 858 games PODCAST. This one's outta dis woild! DARK CLOUD @kaly.bsky.social @frdougal9000.bsky.social And me! Frankie Coleman BUBSY 3D @kaly.bsky.social @bobinator.bsky.social @x-pert74.bsky.social And ME listen to discover

go give this a listen, I'm on the 140 segment with cool people @bobinator.bsky.social and @kaly.bsky.social. I talk about synaesthesia/chromesthesia in relation to this game, and get the piss taken out of me for drinking water out of a mug among other things. Big things. : )

I've been playing this thing again and man if this isn't the funniest copyright screen I've ever seen

So there's this game right and when you press the button right you're just like, you're now a beast right? There's only like 3 games that do this you understand? What are you doing? Why doesn't your game have a button and then you're a beast are you stupid?

i just unsubscribed from the carl's jr rewards program (after only signing up for it 2 days ago to use a paper coupon). the face it just gave me feels like they're rewarding me for doing so because this is somehow the most hilarious thing i've seen all morning

Yo, this is pretty neat stuff recently released: EXO DEMOSCENE 2.0. A collection of over 2000 DOS demoscene prods and musicdisks from 1987 to 1998, all pre-organised in a Launchbox with emulators pre-configured for click-and-enjoy. www.retro-exo.com/demoscene.html

Big day for me -- I bought my first non-digital RPG books. Truth be told, I'm really, really not a fan of 5e, so I feel kinda bad about picking up something based on it. Thus the Pathfinder adventure to balance it out. I'm probably just gonna skim these and keep them on the shelf, but still!

Shantae Advance is on Internet Archive Go nuts

@davidxnewton.bsky.social Hi there! Could I get a hold of you on Discord about a podcast, if you'd be interested? Bluesky still doesn't have DMs, sadly, so I gotta ask here. Thanks in advance!

And will visit the James Turrell retrospective for real bubsy3d.com

If anybody ever turns this on, Bubsy will escape into the real world

Hullo howdy, a new article of mine went up on @hg101.bsky.social earlier today, looking at Data East's pretty but brutal mascot platformer High Seas Havoc on the Mega Drive! Also known as that game whose sound engine got used for a bunch of unlicensed games. www.hardcoregaming101.net/high-seas-ha...

www.hardcoregaming101.net/podcasts/top... Its the @hg101.bsky.social TOP 47,858 games podcast! DISRUPTOR! @kaly.bsky.social @bobinator.bsky.social @shadowhog.bsky.social Apollochungus! 5D CHESS WITH MULTIVERSE TIME TRAVEL @kaly.bsky.social @mercurycdx.bsky.social ME, FRANKIE COLEMAN!!!!

Remember that time when Mortal Kombat 11 had a skin where Sub-Zero was voiced by "world renowned" DJ, Dimitri Vegas, and the end result was HILARIOUS?

I need you all to know that the Croc remaster that came out today has an extensive feature that teaches you how to crochet your own Croc plushie.

I am sure several of my followers want to smash mario's dad

I know everybody has opinions on the new Donkey Kong, but I say if they're going to take stuff from the movie, they need to go just whole hog with it Mario's Dad for Smash, is what I'm saying

www.hardcoregaming101.net/podcasts/top... TMNT SHREDDERS REVENGE! @bobinator.bsky.social @r0bb0.bsky.social @hg101.bsky.social AND ME! that's a fact jack! Then, like, have a Night of 100 Frights with Scooby! @bobinator.bsky.social Apollo Chungus @mercurycdx.bsky.social All the stars are here!

New on the Secret Area: "Halo with chips" has been found. A dumb back of the box quote from Maxim magazine promoting a poker video game had become a small meme. I wanted to find out where it came from. Likes, shares and comments are really appreciated. asecretarea.com/2025/02/21/h...

www.hardcoregaming101.net/podcasts/top... Endure nasty demons and the Timeless Art of Seduction In Catherine! @hg101.bsky.social @bonuslizard.bsky.social @ghaleonunlimited.bsky.social And ME! Then shout it OUT in SCREAMER! @kaly.bsky.social @bobinator.bsky.social @taxowlbear.bsky.social 🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🏃🏻

also also, special thanks to @bobinator.bsky.social for his suggestion on discussing compilation tapes I grew up with, and @pinguino0.bsky.social for supplying the Robot Carnival screenshots I used in the back half of the article. : )

Seems I was slightly off... the retail version was only the censored 13+ version, the 18+ version was only available as a patch disk you could order separately, so I guess it's understandable the porn wasn't mentioned in that review.

AFAIK there was a censored PG-13 version of it alongside the actual 18+ one, so presumably that was the one they reviewed... but it is still funny regardless cuz they don't specify said two versions, so I'm imagining someone back then buying the 18+ one and getting a surprise. lol

Been reading through Electronic Entertainment, May 1995, and caught this review. What they don't mention that somebody really probably should have is that Knights of Xentar is full of anime porn, so the lede got buried six feet deep there

My latest @hg101.bsky.social article is up, looking at the neat but very difficult hairdo-based platformer Rocky Rodent! One of (prolly many) games Arino couldn't beat on Game Center CX, for good reason tbh lol. www.hardcoregaming101.net/rocky-rodent/

I strongly believe that companies like Nintendo, Sony, Sega etc should hurl a fraction of their profits to translating completely arbitrary old games.

i miss annotations more than you can imagine

this is where i post from

I'm in a sort of mood this evening where I need to curse your timelines with something. So... here. This is, allegedly, a mouth - it's from Fast Food, one of my strangely favorite Atari 2600 games.

I miss the days when an animated series would finally have their big budget theatrical movie adaptation and all they'd do is add shading

We came across a "Hear Me Out" cake world and decided we were going to do a proper set.

I desperately need video games to add a “you put the game down for a while and now it’s been months or even years since you played it so here’s a quick reminder on the controls” feature.

Hey you know how games used to have it so you could click on things and you'd get like a random animation, like a chicken would pop out or there'd be a guy surfboarding or something We used to be a society

You ever think about how Gex's entire thing is canonically nothing but a deep-seated coping mechanism for his unresolved grief and inability to connect with others? Yeah me too

lmao

I hear this is the screen you get when you log into Telegram.

Hello. It is me. I am Bear, from Sega's hit 1988 game, Altered Beast. I hope your day is going well. Do you have any honey. Hello