Happy (?) 4th music.youtube.com/watch?v=VPxO...

At first glance I thought this was a Galaga firework.

great america state fair just fundamentally doesn’t understand what a state fair is. state fairs are not grand celebrations of all that make us proud to be americans. they are lynchian phantasmagorias of family-friendly kitsch braided with licentious perversity and just a sprinkle of cosmic horror.

I stumbled into a discrepancy between Family BASIC v2.1 and v3, in how they handle the COLOR command. it seems that V2.1 moves the cursor when doing this, whereas V3 does not.

New article up on the site! @playhistory.bsky.social breaks down the oddly exciting legal drama where Donkey Kong clobbered King Kong. This the true story! www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2026/06/h...

Curiously, someone has affixed a label to the top of my Princess Tomato cartridge. It has Famitsu branding -- I guess they included/sold Famicom top labels at some point?

Today's #RandomGameSaturday game is Salad no Kuni no Tomato Hime for the Nintendo Famicom; perhaps better known as Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom. The cartridge is the color of fresh lettuce.

when you get one of those pieces of paper they wrap around the edges of Japanese CDs stuck to your leg, that's called a shin obi

Kids mercilessly beating up Donkey Kong Jr. until they get some credits.

Kids poking Donkey Kong Jr. with flattened straws until they get some credits.

Kids throwing small change at Donkey Kong Jr. until they get some credits.

comic + secret wordz: www.whompcomic.com/comic/every-... beginning of arc: www.whompcomic.com/comic/deep-s...

Blob removed! It had gotten itself wrapped around the thermistor wires, so that was fun. #3dPrinting

For #RandomGameSaturday here is Game & Watch Gallery for the Nintendo Game Boy. Who would have guessed that playing Fire for hours and hours would give me practical management experience.

It's fixing time.

Weezer x Wednesday, holy crap. I could use a full album of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyE8...

Had a legit conversation over beers tonight as to whether it's Istanbul or Constantinople.

Born and raised in NJ. Bruce Springsteen is alright, but nothing special 🤷

If it's once, I've got it. If it's twice, I don't. jadetree.bandcamp.com/track/start-...

What a useful feature. Will keep me from forgetting alt text when drinking 😅

9.5% abv is a pretty good abv.

Behold: Buttercup Festival 3-382

Here is Wai Wai World 2 for the Nintendo Famicom for this rainy #RandomGameSaturday . Fond memories of finding a ROM for this back in the day. Castlevania guy and Contra guy in the same game? And also a baby for some reason? Yes. Another great and very import-friendly exclusive.

William Shatner blocked me because of that joke and I do not regret anything

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.