For #RandomGameSaturday I have Challenger for the Nintendo Famicom! It's kind of fun, kind of annoying, and the color of light milk chocolate. If you're looking for cheap FC exclusives to add to your cart, throw this one in there. Garf!

Great, great album. It's pay what you want for 24 hours, definitely worth a listen. headphones.bandcamp.com/album/headph...

Her name is Jonas. She's carrying the wheel. music.youtube.com/watch?v=EBoZ...

Bandcamp Friday! was yesterday. Here's a thread of the stuff I've picked up recently 🧵

Hanjuku Hero Tetris 2 + Bombliss Also my first Famicom...which I blew up the day it arrived by using the NES's AC adapter. Remember the mnemonic, kids: "If the console is red and white, 10v DC center negative-ite."

Advertise your account with a Simpsons image.

There was a computer virus called CIH, that would overwrite the Windows partition table every April 26th. This meant I'd get to spend the following Saturday reinstalling Win98 for people. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIH_(co...

It pairs nicely with Toshie the Hero Book 1.

Got the notes from my editor, and made all the changes. Working on the epub file right now and will be getting ready to publish Toshie the Hero and the Shapeshifter’s Mask very soon! #fantasy #indieauthor #booksky

This took up more of my weekend than anticipated, haha. I've been looking at some hacker magazines from ~1985 and they had figured all this stuff out, so I wanted to try it for myself using only what would have been available at the time. I will do a more formal write-up later for my website.

Hey, here is Jongbou for the Nintendo Famicom for #RandomGameSaturday . If you're trying to pick out a game to play, but can't decide between Arkanoid and Mahjong, then let Jongbou scratch both those itches at the same time! It's actually pretty decent.

Let's drink and role play that it's 1985 and I want to figure out how the Family BASIC interpreter works!

An ad / review for Famicom Creator. This is a hardware + software kit for the NEC PC 8801 and Sharp X1 computers. It let you dump Famicom carts and view the ROM data on your PC. It also featured a graphics viewer (and editor?) and a 6502 code viewer. Also came with a RAM cart to play backups.

I write about Family BASIC a lot, but I don't think I've shown the carts, so here they are for my #RandomGameSaturday pick. They are taller than most Famicom carts, have a physical switch on the front, and have a battery slot on the back that takes two double-A batteries.

Drinking some gin and thinking about this Chrome/Chromium issue that I've been following for 10 years now: issues.chromium.org/issues/41239...

I couldn't have predicted that the dungeon synth genre would eventually lead to waffles, but here we are. Great little EP; check it out! griddlekeep.bandcamp.com/album/warm-w...

Turn your Quick Disks into Famicom Disk System disks with plastic and glue!

Here's a random Nintendo Famicom game for #RandomGameSaturday . This is Family School, which I think was a game that an insurance company gave away for free. I forget why I went out of my way to purchase this cart!

Rum and Coke and Pocky

Bring it back.

FBTT (and the rest of my website) are back online! hvc7.dev/fbtt/readme.... Did you know that if you don't pay bills, people just, like, stop providing service? Rude.

A new namitape album for this fine Sunday. Solid technopop vocaloid tunes. Worth a listen. namitape.bandcamp.com/album/hetohe...

Hey hey, it's Nakayoshi to Issho for the Nintendo Famicom for #RandomGameSaturday . I've never made it very far in this due to the language barrier, but it's pretty cute. I've not played the part featuring Sailor Moon, either, since it isn't until the end of the game.

I can back up that claim of snazziness.

Here is Maniac Mansion for the Nintendo Famicom for #RandomGameSaturday. Jaleco released it with this weird case design with a removable dust cover. This is an entirely different port than the NES version. If you know the game well enough, you can brute-force your way without knowing Japanese.

"Welch was a staunch Prohibitionist, who actively worked to reduce or end the sale of alcoholic beverages in New Jersey and adjacent regions."

Played through Frequency (PS2) on Normal mode. Good times. I remembered the game was really strict on timing, but wow, harsher than I remembered. Got through a few songs on Expert mode now but not sure I'll stick with it. Getting to the "more frustrating than fun" part and I'm too old for that now.

March 10, 3am Hatsune Miku digitizes herself within a private room. Something she has set up for herself. Tight encryption, or tight enough to keep fans from revealing it for a while. A moment of calm.

Hatsune Miku and the Spiders from Mars

For #RandomGameSaturday , here is Aerobics Studio (aka "Dance Aerobics") for the Famicom. I believe this is the pinkest game cartridge that I own, by volume.

Instant wishlist.

I like pressing buttons while listening to music.

Ugh. Guess who stored their Game Boy Pocket with batteries in it...

While others struggle internally with how they might use their time machine to change history for the better, I will have already returned to the 90s to stuff my stupid face with P.B. Crisps.

Happy 40th, Zelda!

There is a file on my Google Drive titled "Notes, Thoughts, Etc". I created it all the way back in 2014. Inside, it contains a single quote: “Jim Kerr’s porridge croon is almost undecipherable”

What is it about making a PowerPoint deck that makes me want to do literally anything else but make a PowerPoint deck?

Same Karen... Same.

When did cassette tapes go and get all pretty like this?

Hey, it's Random Game Saturday, so here is Electroplankton for the Nintendo DS. More of a music toy than a game, really, but fun thing is fun. Picked it up via @japanretrodirect.bsky.social -- great shop! #RandomGameSaturday

It's the intro to Highway to Hell by AC⚡DC, but the "oi oi oi oi" parts keep growing in their chorus until it's just your speakers clipping between the riff.

my advice to you

Four pics from my Nintendo 3DS SD card.

"These were tense moments: would I be able to catch enough of the lyrics to figure out what song this was later? Might the DJ show mercy and say the song's name?"

Someone spent a lot of time making and uploading these 4k Aikatsu videos to YouTube so that I can crop off the edges and play them on an old TV.

The rain rotted house on the dead end of Baytree old bitter lady sits caddy corner to the aftershock from the Quarry She says "America's a spoiled child that's ignorant of grief" but then she gives out full sized candy bars on Halloween wednesdayband.bandcamp.com/track/quarry

A couple of hours left for Bandcamp Friday. Gonna dig into my wishlist and grab some stuff. Follow along, if you'd like. 🧵