New on Gaming Hell - Gunvalkyrie (Smilebit, 2002) www.gaminghell.co.uk/Gunvalkyrie.... ARMORED VALKYRIES HEAR OUR CRIES!

She can pick him up but at what cost

It occurs to me that many people don't know about the GameFan coffee incident. In 1993, GameFan published a manic 6-page review of the game Cybermorph that was written while tripping on LSD that somebody put in the office coffee pot The review declared that Cybermorph was the first "real" game

Here's a vid of the extra suits for Saburouta in GunValkyrie's Challenge Mode, documented in the game's Perfect Guide Book and nowhere else on the internet AFAIK 1st: Standard 2nd: Hold L/R, press Up, X, Right, X, Down, X, Left, A on 'Send to insertion point?' prompt 3rd: As above, replace X with Y

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ninja baseball bat man mention! probably my favorite beat em up rn. so good. get me outta them grimy alleyways and into some goofy cartoon shenanigans *please*

this is the realest post because video games did not get better after. at all. online play with your buddies? herb shit. massive open environments? tell it to the shareholders, fucking whatever, that is for babies. xevious. xevious. xevious

crazy that two decades of indie devs decided they'd rather make symphony riffs than castlevania 1 riffs... it's like being served a steak dinner and going "no thanks, I found this hot dog on the ground outside"

mr sweetness, we meet again... mappy kids is a really excellent retro co-op title btw. split screen platforming, 20 minute playthroughs plus alternate routes with different stages for replays, competitive scoring component. extremely solid.

...some stupid stuff #bombrushcyberfunk

I started this year by bouncing off ninja gaiden 2, spent a long time journeying through different action games, and have now returned. I think the distance from black helps, but also, I have such a hard time keeping enemies in view. come back dmc fixed camera, I didn't mean what I said.

As prominently featured in one of my favorite games history articles of all time, courtesy of @mrbiffo.bsky.social: web.archive.org/web/20231008...

youtu.be/phiWRZ_VCCA fun video about an arcade genre that doesn't seem quite as well-remembered as, like, shmups. i had a little difficulty picking out the voice over from the background music but it's definitely worth it. you gotta share videos like these so they don't fly under the radar!

More random NES things on a WedNESday? More likely than you'd think. www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3pR...

friday soapbox: as a designer, if you want something to be a skillful action for players, and you want growth in this skill to be very deep/meaningful, then you need to also let players be bad at it. sometimes horrendously bad. players hate this pain, and designers often want to mitigate it away.

Welcome to the Robotic Romance Jam, hosted by @ophanimkei.com and yours truly~ A jam for stories about robots and the people who love them. All mediums are allowed and encouraged! Tell us about your love of the artificial, the mechanical, in all its many forms 💻 More info: itch.io/jam/robotic-...

I often think about how katamari damacy was a quick $20 shot of a beautiful experience and everyone loved it. but instead of getting the message and providing more experimental experiences at that scale, they just made bigger versions of it that cost more money.

DISASTER ARMS IS OUT 30 BOSSES 2 ARMS 1 SOLDIER 0 TURNING BACK

how_it_feels_dolphin.png cheating infinite experience points into dragon's crown to just skip to the level cap endgame

I <3 banjo

oh yo, I saw these folks at a convention recently. really loved their setup. looking forward to the game!

my beat em up fixation folded back in on an old dos game import fixation from a few years ago. korea has all the cool ones. thinking about Eojjeonji Joheun Il-i Saenggil Geot Gateun Jeonyeok again. I found pictures of the physical release, lookit. no leads on how I might get a copy though.

the point of a game is not to beat it, it is to play it. difficulty is only "a problem" if it is "in the way" of beating the game, which is an issue in the mindset of the player, not in the structure of the game. redoing parts of a fun game is not a punishment, it's an invitation to hang out

was watching @onemillionpower.com's brilliant scrolling down the belt series and raised an eyebrow at the mention of a custom rigged alchemy button for final fight. did some digging, and sure enough! this is so cool. I'd love to try this. rapidturbo2000.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-8...

Here's a fascinating interview with the developer behind Virtual Lab! I'm not surprised to see it excluded here, though www.badgamehalloffame.com/interview-me...

if the virtual boy replica is 1:1 then I'll be able to get a new official eye shade and stand for my original virtual boy. finally I can ditch the repairbox stand that's built backwards.

There's a *lot* of mechanically interesting and carefully planned arcade-like design going on under Panzer Dragoon Zwei's gorgeous surface. Let me show you just how special this game is: kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2020/04/27/o...

watching a bunch of final fight retrospectives and reeling at how revenge is treated in them. you'd think it was unplayable from the vitriol. people don't know how to play fighters and let the game's reputation validate any silly comment. istg someone complained that the AI blocks too much.

referring to metroidvanias as "hollowslop" to simultaneously piss off people who like metroidvanias, people who like hollow knight, people who want a better genre name for "metroidvania", people who are sick of the word slop being misused, and gradius fans who want to see more checkpoint recoveries

it's uncanny that modern players will accept either death as a slap on the wrist back to the last checkpoint or permadeath removing *all* progress, but the middle ground is unacceptable. if you fuck up a lot then you lose significant progress, but you have some leeway first. why does this scare ppl?

*every* tengo project game has been wildly incredible. most of all shadow of the ninja, which is by a wide margin the most reworked of their remakes, basically being a new game. I'd guess this will be similar since it's also an nes game. shatterhand reshattered or w/e is gonna be game of the decade.

lol, just the other day I downloaded every beat em up I could off some doujin archive site and came across this myself. pretty fun.

obsessed w this

homestar & friends from last year

after hearing that the new gradius collection has a rank display, I got real curious: is there any rerelease of xevious with that function? and there totally is. it's in namco museum ds, which is all around much cooler than I knew.

metro city gang

one more final

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!!! EMERGENCY SALE !!! My car got damaged, so I'm opening a flash sale on the Itch versions of Cycle Chaser and SomnaBuster. You can get a bundle of both (+ a SomnaBuster Steam key) for 10 bucks. Please please please help me if you can - and if you can't, please RT!! itch.io/s/158310/-em...

Added some color.

CANNON SPIKE

reading vinland saga for the first time, right here in chapter two, I thought: if this notion becomes central to the story, this manga will be something special. lo and behold, it is, beyond my wildest expectations.

"I think what bothers me about roguelikes is how vast their randomness is. So much of the game is randomized that I don't know how to hear the designer's voice anymore." sylvie is just like me fr. the rest of this could've come right out of my mouth too, esp about the roguelike learning process.

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