Garou: Mark of the Wolves (1999) is the final #arcade game in the Fatal Fury #fighting series and a classic #NeoGeo masterpiece. Fun fact: the Japanese name of Fatal Fury is "Garou Densetsu," "Garou" meaning "Hungry Wolf" and "Densetsu" meaning "Legend." Also, there's a guy named Butt. 🍑

What's your favorite shameless #StreetFighter2 clone from the #nineties #arcade scene? Mine is either Kaiser Knuckle (1994) or Martial Champion (1993), the latter of which has a killer OST—all headbanging Mega Man X trumpets and guitars. Both have great gameplay. Sometimes copying the best works.

Here's an #untranslated series of #MSX2 #sugoroku style RPGs - the Rune Master series started with titular original (1989), and plays pretty smooth - there's even plenty of English text! Reminds me a bit of Sugoro Quest for the Famicom. Looking to try more MSX games in the future. #retrogaming.

Recently gotten into playing some obscure CD #jRPGs from the nineties, especially those that aren't English translated. Anearth Fantasy Stories (1995) pushed the #PCEngine CD to the limit. It looks like a beautiful SNES game. Vibrant colors, artwork, and solid voice acting. #retrogaming

Riven (1997) was masterful in its environmental storytelling. The original #Myst has that early CG look, but #Riven looks quite photorealistic, even today. It's a testament to the amazing artists, but also a budget built upon the back of one of the biggest-selling games ever. #retrogaming #pcgaming

Climbing into this contraption in Riven: The Sequel to Myst (1997) for the first time was breathtaking. I tore this game apart when I was a kid. I wasn't very good at it, but it never felt unfair. Like the best games, it rewards persistence and patience. #pcgaming #retrogaming #myst #riven

Next level: I somehow finangled OG #Xbox #emulation into working on my #Linux laptop. There are so many great games for this console that I've never played. Jade Empire (2005) from BioWare is an example. For a game from 2005, it is gorgeous beyond belief. And it works—somehow. Any suggestions?

#Trump is a pedo, the #DOJ, #PamBondi, #ToddBlanche, #KashPatel and the rest of the administration and #GOP are covering it up. I am so angry. Justice must be served, but I don't trust our liberal establishment to do it. #Capitalism protects itself from justice as a foundational trait.

#StandUpComedy has an important purpose in modern society—it came about as a response to an increasingly maddening, suffocating, and oppressive world. #StandUp comedians translate the insanity into palatable laughs to help us cope. The goal isn't just laughter. It's therapy for the working class.

Drakan: The Ancients' Gates (2002) for the #PS2 feels like a primitive Skyrim—not a primitive Morrowind, since the mechanics are more Diablo than Bethesda, but aside from that, the game is a competent quest-based, open world #aRPG for the PS2. It's Tomb Raider meets Ocarina of Time. #retrogaming

Commercials are getting increasingly deranged. "Experience the euphoria that only a high-interest credit account can bring" says an ad for CreditKarma. The dollar consumes. #EndStageCapitalism #capitalism #SocialismNow #socialism

Releasing the #Epstein files in this state of #redaction constitutes effective legal contempt. Alas, the rich and powerful will always protect their own under #capitalism. Those who partook in underage sex trafficking do not deserve mercy. Those perpetrating this cover up deserve the same.

One of my fave forgotten Street Fighter ripoffs is the World Heroes series, and they nailed the formula with World Heroes Perfect in 1995. It's Street Fighter, but also, how about a football player, a viking, a RoboCop, a pirate, and Rasputin! The "death matches" are cool, too. #arcade #retrogaming

There needs to be a genuine counterculture against generative #AI replacing natural human #art, and #genZ and #genAlpha need to lead the charge.

Art and music are primarily #antifascist and anticonservative. Anything that pretends to be #conservative #art and #music is just imitating the #leftist, working class springs by which all rivers of media circulate from. For this reason, #AI bros love using AI to steal art from the working class.

Before the Neo Geo Pocket proved you could make amazing handheld fighting games, Fatal Fury Special (1993) for the #GameGear was an achievement. Fluid combat, easy and responsive special moves, and beautiful 8-bit graphics with lots of colors and parallax—this was the best at the time. #retrogaming

The Legend of Nayuta: Endless Trails is a Japanese #PSP game that came out in 2012. Part of the Trails series, it's gorgeous for a game over 12 years old. Thankfully, due to fan translation, we can enjoy this #Falcom classic that many consider to be one of their masterpieces. #retrogaming

The game is an exercise in misery, but the soundtrack has to be heard to be believed. Tim Fallin's Silver Surfer OST for the NES might just be the most amazing musical achievement of the 8-bit era. One of the very best. #timfallin #silversurfer #nes #retrogaming

#Antifa is not a terrorist organization because Antifa doesn't exist as an organization. It's an ideology shared by, essentially, anyone who is not a #fascist. Our administration is a bunch of clout chasing clowns.

If we let it, generative #AI under #capitalism will destroy #art as we know it. This is what the bourgeoisie always wanted—a way to remove human artists from art entirely. We need to, as a society, choose authentic #human art, or perish as a culture. Don't let the rich steal this from us.

Just don't visit #America, anymore. We don't deserve the economic boon of #tourism. America hasn't just gone dark, it's gone incomprehensibly stupid. Our natural beauty will still be here after the smoke clears, once its #fascism inevitably self-destructs. #SocialismNow #Socialism #FuckTrump

Super concerned for the #children of the new generations—short form content, social media #algorithms, and #AI are forming a trifecta of generational damage to reading comprehension and critical thinking. This is the future the rich want: power to the few, and the masses too uneducated to fight.

If #Republican policies are so popular, why do Republicans constantly vote to #gerrymander, disenfranchising minorities and rigging the system in their favor?

One of my favorite all time RPGs is #PopoloCrois, and now that the entire #PS1 trilogy is fan translated, you can play all three in a row as intended. Such attention to detail, world building, with a unique art style. The isometric landscape provides depth other games of the era lack. #retrogaming

Chase Bombers (1994) was a late bloomer to the #superscaler #arcade wars. Power Drift came out in '88, while Super Mario Kart hit consoles in '92, but Chase Bombers took the experience of both back to arcades in one sprite-scaling, psychedelic rainbow package—it's a hidden gem and rare to boot.

#Facebook lost 77 billion dollars on failed #metaverse research since 2020. Could you even imagine the difference 77 billion dollars could make in the lives of actual human beings? #SocialismNow

The #American #fascist government is murdering human beings. Extrajudicially, against international law. There will be a reckoning. We can't let people with power and wealth get away with this.

Unfortunately, the rest of the game fails to go as hard as the intro implies, Vigilante (1988) being another monotonous Yie Ar Kung Fu clone. Sad, because the idea of "rescuing the Queen of Pop from Nazis" seems hard to ruin. 🤣 Why did they make so many of these crap games? #arcade #retrogaming

Tengai (1996) is a competent #arcade #shmup with the cutting edge features of the best of the era, namely a character select and unique attacks and abilities. The character designs are all adorable, and the "bomb" attacks all have unique hand-drawn animations. It's also on Switch now! #retrogaming

#FIFA is hypocritical and corrupt. Any organization that supports American #fascism is the enemy of free people.

Space Bomber (1998) by #Psikyo is next level aesthetic trolling. The stupid, pre-rendered sprites and static backdrops feel bad on purpose. Setting that aside, this game kinda rules. The claw mechanic that allows you to capture and attack with your foes is big addictive fun. #arcade #retrogaming

Tecmo's Strato Fighter (1991) meets the very definition of hidden gem—an #arcade #shmup with no era home port, gorgeous graphics, and a killer soundtrack. The mechanics are typical but solid, with the ability to switch direction when needed, and there's lots of upgrades. Near-perfect. #retrogaming

The #arcade #vector classic Red Baron must have been amazing in 1981—this is a full-on flight simulator where you take out enemy fighters and blimps. It's basically a 3D version of Battlezone, and you can even go off course and attack land targets hidden in mountains. Still fun today. #retrogaming

Hotdog Storm (1996) is just your average late #nineties #arcade #shmup, quite competent, unremarkable, but good. The theme? Your average shmup science fiction setting. So, I can't explain the title at all. Mistranslation? #retrogaming

B. Rap Boys (1992) is an absurd, Dadaist #arcade #brawler featuring a rap soundtrack (with actual vocals—rare for era) and a hero that maniacally beats up foes on his bicycle, and when he loses that due to damage, switches to rollerblades. It's silly as heck and somewhat inexplicable. #retrogaming

Devil World (1987) is an early #Konami #arcade title that's probably way ahead of its time. It kind of feels like a fantasy version of Zombies Ate My Neighbors, combined with a power-up system resembling Gradius. There's some Gauntlet in here, too. Definitely underrated.

#Wages have stagnated, and yet the #rich have never been richer. This is a runaway train that we need to halt. We need new tracks, a new engine, and a new locomotive. It's okay to set aside what isn't working and go back to the drawing board. #americansocialism #socialismnow #socialism

#GWAR is the new #Antifa.

When times are rough, there is always R-Type. #pce #pcengine #tg16 #turbografx16 #retrogaming

This is a strange one—Days of Thunder (1991) for the Game Boy is a racing game by the visionaries at Argonaut Software, later of Star Fox fame. This is a fully-fledged vector-based racing game, playing at a respectable, playable frame rate. Tom Cruise not included. #gameboy #retrogaming #racing

Might and Magic III: Isles of Terra (1991) redefined the dungeon crawler genre, but more than that, the game is all vibes. It's a beautiful game despite its age, with gorgeous island landscapes to explore, unique dungeons, and expansive cities. Best version is on the PC Engine CD. #crpg #retrogaming

The groundbreaking #AD&D: Pool of Radiance (1988) is one of the classic western RPGs of all time. You can play it in its original #DOS form, or in a very good, streamlined form on the #NES, but the best way is to play the remake in Unlimited Adventures (1994), with full VGA graphics. #retrogaming

The Black Onyx (1984) was one of the very first jRPGs ever made, famously programmed by a European living in Japan, his wife providing the Japanese dialogue. This is a fan-translated version for the #SG1000, Sega's pre-Master System console. It's surprisingly smooth, if a tad shallow. #retrogaming

Cadash (1989) is kind of an insane prospect: a #RPG #arcade machine, along with stats, equipment, NPCs, many towns and dungeons, and even some sequence breaking. The arcade version was a quarter-munching nightmare—and it's still the best version, especially now that you can emulate. #retrogaming

W-Ring: The Double Rings (1990) is a semi-forgotten, underrated #shmup. The mechanics are simple, and the game is on the easy side, but I still find myself still playing it regularly. There's just something about it. The graphics are some of the best on the console. #tg16 #pcengine #retrogaming

All sectors of the left need to work together to dismantle capitalism. That includes #anarchists, #Marxists, and #DemSocs. We need a widespread coalition of anti-capitalists working together to fight homelessness, strengthen unions, and work to end wealth inequality. No more infighting.

There's a direction that this country is heading towards, and it isn't Republican or Democrat. What a bunch of clowns that only care about sticking a flag in the ground and running in circles around it—If only they truly cared about #affordability, or #healthcare, or ending #homelessness.

#KristiNoem and admin officials like her are consistently doing everything they can to profit off of the #Trump regime. This is the most corrupt administration in history. Capitalism is choking this country—we are in the death throes. We need #socialism now, before it is too late to save #America.

#AI does NOT democratize #art for the masses. Art is not an exclusive club that shuns people. Anyone can learn to make art. All AI does is give art to machines and the corporations that build them.

Ultima VI: The False Prophet (1990) is my favorite PC RPG of all time, right next to Ultima V and VII. All three games pioneered open world, sandbox gameplay, day-night cycles, NPC schedules, and complex storylines. V and VI both have engaging, strategic combat as well. #ultima #dos #retrogaming