i heard you were looking for an illustration of Olive Oyl using her nintendo famicom, with the tv-net modem peripheral plugged into it, so she can use "daiwa my trade", and make trades on the japanese stock market, with the help of popeye. well here you go

These aren't new to the internet or anything but I just dug out these Mother 3 screenshots from 1997, I heard Bluesky likes Mother 3

Ever wonder what it takes to port a retro game to a modern console? Emulators are just one piece of the pie...or pancake, as it were! Revenue sharing and licensing hell and legal battles, oh my! Listen on as @gamedocs.bsky.social and Bill Litshauer of @implicitconversions.com dive deeper!

Imagine my surprise upon discovering my previous transition GoFundMe expired (I was not aware they expired)! So here's a new one. This is a great way to support me if you'd rather make a single donation than sub to a Patreon, and/or want a higher % of the funds to go to me. gofund.me/79ffdd8df

Restless at work for a bit, give me a game title that was announced but never came out from, let's say 1993-1999, and I'll dig into some of our unprocessed material to see if we can shed any new light on it.

Up today in the @hitsave.org press materials archives: All Points Bulletin, Arx Fatalis, Dark Souls II, DOOM IV, Dead Rising 2, Fallout Tactics, MGR: Revengeance, Berserk Musou, Rumble Roses XX, and OutRun: Online Arcade. Please enjoy! archive.hitsave.org/press-material

Today in the @hitsave.org press materials archive, it's all Dead or Alive! Covering 1 through 5 Ultimate. Less volleyball than you'd hope for. Enjoy! archive.hitsave.org/press-material

Here's a quick aspect ratio correction of @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social's recent find! Here's hoping the full tape turns up one day!

Please enjoy this nearly three seconds of footage from the original Mother 3, newly captured off of a tape we're working with

The crowdfunding campaign for @gametank.zone's open-source 8-bit video game console is live now! Check out our YouTube channel to see the interview we did with Clyde and learn more about what it takes to develop a retro console in the modern era! www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qtP...

Putting this feature together, I kept thinking back to this wonderful talk that @amandafarough.ca held at @indiedevday.bsky.social 2024 about game preservation and the important work of her and colleagues at the wonderful @hitsave.org. I learned a lot from it! mobilesyrup.com/2024/10/04/v...

You can use the new URL retrogamecabling.com starting today! It still needs work, so please let me know whatbyoud like to see :)

Have a retro gaming setup but struggling to map out the mess of cables? Our director @jonasrosland.bsky.social just launched a webapp designed to plan out pathways for composite, S-video, component, SCART, VGA, and HDMI! Give it a try and feel free to leave feedback! retrogamecabling.onrender.com

Today in the @hitsave.org archive, press materials for Baten Kaitos, Skies of Arcadia, Solatorobo, Sonic 06, Sonic Colour, Sonic Generations, Sonic Mania, Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, Super Mario Galaxy 1 & 2, and Super Mario RPG. Please enjoy! archive.hitsave.org/press-material

Thanks to your donation dollars we can do important data recovery work, like uncovering the print art used for Generations Lost on the Sega Genesis, revealing two abs that were thought to be lost due to cropping

We hope you all enjoyed our 12 Days of Hit Save holiday event! Here's a recap of the what we were able to accomplish:

Your 3D scanned keshi today is the Unicorn enemy from Ghosts 'n Goblins! This is from a set of 10 keshi figures called Famicom Superheroes Assemble (ファミコンスーパーヒーロー大集合), which Takahashi released in or around 1986. Download here: archive.org/details/kesh...

"Point-and-click" started as a camera phrase that was adopted by authors to refer to using a mouse. Suddenly in August 1989 two different magazines described two different games as a "point-and-click adventure."

A few people have said my latest videos are the first time they ever heard the term "platform adventure," which admittedly used to be a lot more common than it is today. But it got me thinking about where these various adventure spin-off terms came from. Here's a thread. 🧵

At long last, it's the final day of the 12 Days of Hit Save, and the last present in the pile is a trailer for Wakeboarding Unleashed featuring Shaun Murray! Watch the full trailer below!

heard the RAM shortage is getting bad so I've been trying to stock up🤞

The extent to which Games Done Quick has helped to steer the larger speedrunning community - one of the most hardcore video game enthusiast subcultures there is - into becoming something so welcoming, inclusive and supportive astonishes me

It's Day 11, everyone, and today we're battling evil Nazi forces with a trailer for the Xbox port of Return to Castle Wolfenstein!

Thank you so much for the shoutout! My version was sourced from Dorimaga DVD Vol. 3

There's definitely some differences from the final game. The combo counter looks different (the final game doesn't leave your previous hit count on screen like that), the boss health bar is backwards (normally the black bit is on the right side) and some of the voice clips are different.

Murai's voice clips also differ here compared to retail, sounds kinda like fiend form from way later in the game. The inferno art had this circle on hand that seemed different (not super sure) The vfx for the fiend's digging looked lower res but maybe that's the just video quality

P sure it is cause: -The health bar color is off vs retail game on both ryu (starting at monestary) and murai. -The forward stab OTG's here but doesn't on retail I don't think -The way ryu revived looked like the talisman but without the animation entirely -The nunchuck seemingly does more damage

And of course there's the colorful cast of characters @gamingalexandria.bsky.social This year, Hubz celebrated TEN YEARS of doing this - what a guy. www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2025/11/g... I have always loved helping it grow and shaping it into a wonderful, welcoming place.

The professional nexus for video game history is undoubtedly @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social archive.gamehistory.org We work with them on so many things and it's always a delight to see that's coming up from the crew. Support them if you can to be close to the action!

Happy Day 10, everyone! Today our community unwrapped a gift that seems bland at first, but could end up being very special: a Tecmo tape holding Ninja Gaiden (2004) footage...dated October 2002! That predates release by a year and a half, meaning this could be beta footage! Watch the video below!

Today in the @hitsave.org archive, press materials for San Francisco Rush 2049, Sea of Thieves, Shadow of the Colossus, Shadow the Hedgehog, SMT Strange Journey, Silent Hill 2-4, SimCity 4, and Sin & Punishment Star Successor. Please enjoy! archive.hitsave.org/press-material

Happy New Year and happy Day 9, everyone! Today's present is a sales reel for X2: Wolverine's Revenge that varies substantially from the version already online! Watch the full trailer below.

I’m actually going to try to make some progress on this on my Twitch stream tonight! Not doing any transfers yet, still troubleshooting a bunch of equipment in the pipeline, starting with the fan on the Black Magic Capture card! 8:00 EST tonight if you want to see! twitch.tv/kazoodac

It's time for retrospection! I got a LOT done in 2025 and it's vitally important for folks like us to always keep that in mind. So let's do the sweep - in multiple parts - and pat ourselves on the back a bit. For this thread, it'll be my own accomplishments. 🧵

It’s Day 8 of the 12 Days of Hit Save, and the next present has been unwrapped! This time we’re serving up a 4 minute extended trailer for Ninja Gaiden…but we’ve been served a slice of humble pie! Read on to see why!

It's Day 7 of the 12 Days of Hit Save, and the Discord votes are in: the streak of Activision tapes has been disrupted by a Digibeta tape from Vivendi Games containing trailers for Crash Tag Team Racing and Spyro: Shadow Legacy! Watch the trailers below!

Day 6 is upon us! Which tape has the misfortune of having to follow yesterday’s big reveal? Thank you for your sacrifice, Soldier of Fortune II Xbox Trailer. We salute you! Watch the full trailer below, and learn why this is more interesting than it may first appear!

It's day 5 of the 12 Days of Hit Save, and our Discord picked a real doozy this time! Today’s tape is Activision: Secret Weapon: XZXT 5124 “Jersey.” If you're as utterly mystified by that name as we were, read on to learn more and watch the video!

Day 4 is here, and our Discord community picked present 1 to open, narrowly beating present 3 after a close race! What's inside this time? It's a trailer for True Crime: Streets of LA! See below for the video!

In Zelda 2, a woman appears in each town, beckoning Link into her home. They disappear inside and Link's health begins to refill. One reddit user recently asked if this scene was *intentionally* suggestive. While that seems very unlikely, I thought I'd look into it.

Having a video go viral is a chilling reminder that there are humans out there just choosing to stumble through life with zero curiosity and a lot of anger. I'm really thankful to have found (and/or founded!) communities that try and leave the world in better condition than we found it.

It's Day 3 of the 12 Days of Hit Save, and our Discord community has chosen the next present to unwrap: a trailer for Pitfall: The Lost Expedition! See below for the full video!

Benj @benjedwards.com also pointed out the article where Iga mentions Super Metroid as an influence (and Ethan @playhistory.bsky.social found one of the other mentions). Next time someone tries to tell you SOTN contained no Metroid influence, here's a handy little image to refute that, lol.

Attention new users! I've made a starter pack of Japanese game devs, something a lot of folks miss from Twitter. Please flow and re-share! And if I'm missing anybody let me know! go.bsky.app/5R1tEtT

Our first gift has been unwrapped: Trailers for Tenchu: Return from Darkness! Both trailers call attention to the Xbox Live features, but the real highlight here is 30 seconds of dog ninja action! See below for the videos, and check out our Discord if you want to vote on which present to open next!

📖 Bytes of Game Ads 📺 "Free demo." Still one of my favourite game ads. xD A late release for the N64, with a Wii release I've still yet to dig into.

Merry Christmas! It's that special time of year again where we celebrate the holidays with yet another yuletide collection of prototypes! This time we have a couple of Sonic prototypes just for you courtesy of Santa and @lastminutecontinue.com! hiddenpalace.org/News/One_Bad... Enjoy!🎄🦔

Merry Christmas everyone! We've got presents for the game preservation community this year: under the tree are 11 professional Betacam tapes from Activision, Tecmo, and Vivendi! We'll be opening one per day starting tomorrow, so join our discord if you want to vote on which one to open first!

Merry Christmas! If you'd like to spend 45 minutes celebrating video game history with me, we're about to debut The Untold Story of the Nintendo Entertainment System. I worked on his ALL YEAR, and I genuinely think it will reshape how we all think about the system. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJvp...