CAPCOM Arcade Stadium Vol. 1 pre-orders end at midnight ET! From Captain Commando to Strider and all the CAPCOM arcade classics inbetween, you won't want to miss out on owning a physical copy of this gem-packed collection! https://bit.ly/49n2lh6

I just helped my father-in-law set up TurboTax. It didn't just pester him multiple times to use the online version rather than the desktop app he had already paid for, it FORCED him to complete a mandatory survey to explain why he didn't want to use the web version before he could continue. Filth.

As a big fan of 1UP and Retronauts, it was delightful to finally pocdast with @jparish.bsky.social on the new episode of The MinnMax Show. youtu.be/RxlxyPWGsOo

Big props to Facebook for (1) alerting me that today is the birthday of an old friend (who died a couple of months ago); and (2) giving me an A.I. prompt to wish her "another year of life"... super classy and considerate work all around

You don’t realize appreciate how HUGE a hawk is until you look up and see one hanging out on your roof where the doves and sparrows usually congregate

TFW it's 1982 and you gotta find the Dragonballs

If you've been waiting to hear people spend nearly three hours musing about how brilliantly the first chapter of Final Fantasy Tactics draws you into the game and its world, boy do I have a podcast for you

I thought Mar-a-Lago Face was just for ladies, so it’s great to see Vance taking up the cause of gender equality like this

my important tomba creations (thread)

I was on... another podcast? A banner week for people who like the sound of my own voice as much as I do

I was on a podcast! Or rather, I was on a podcast that is not my own podcast. Don't let the thumbnail mislead you, though, we do NOT talk about Mario's genitalia at ALL in this episode

Excited for all of these incredible-looking Switch 2 games that I will buy and never have time to play

Me, trying to listen to some records: 🙂 This dry-ass winter air:

NES Works this week covers the excellent NES version of Shadowgate, a game that feels very much ripped from today's headlines, in that there's essentially no penalty for failure so you can keep doing stupid things over and over again until you win: youtu.be/56Dzv004W9s

About halfway through the latest episode, it dawned on me that this show is Game of Thrones' take on The Phantom Menace (confirmed by the final scene)

I have witnessed firsthand the horror of my wife's deep-fried NC cousins speaking Vietnamese. I don't even know Vietnamese but I can still recognize the sound of a language being utterly mutilated

My book *Shareware Heroes: The renegades who redefined gaming at the dawn of the internet* is available to buy again. Read about the rise of indie game publishing and digital distribution alongside stories of indie devs big and small making their way years before Steam existed. payhip.com/b/hbTL5

Well, this weekend's snowfall and subsequent melt-off have definitively answered the question of whether or not the previous owners of this house fixed the roof issue that caused the light waterstaining on the ceiling of my office up in the attic (no)

Every single other Fremen: "You did WHAT with all that water?"

I've posted a rip of the final issue of Famimaga Video, a bimonthly VHS “magazine” published from 1988-90. I've now posted the entire series! Tons of interesting content in these tapes, including segments hosted by the creator of Pokemon: Video Issue 12 [July 1990] VHS Rip youtu.be/TBZQazoXi2o

Tonight other dumb napkin cartoon…

Shout out to this absolute legend I saw in front of our house today, a magnificent maniac who saw two inches of snow and said “Hell YES I am going to ski down the 3° incline of this side street”

The folks who got mad at us for noting that Something Awful's forums were the origin point of our present-day American political dystopia in a recent Retronauts episode owe us a massive apology

Finally, the first good-ass snow I’ve ever seen in this town. None of that wintry mix crap with a murderous under layer of solid ice. Just fluffy crunchy quality. Hell yeah, winter, this is the stuff

Just in under the wire: my January bonus video for patrons. It's about some Atari 2600 games from 1988. Which are... good? Very, very good, even?! www.patreon.com/posts/januar...

Not to get political, but America is very pretty and has a lot of nice folks making cool things, and I think if we had a president who wasn’t actively trying to murder us, we could have a pretty good time

I don't know why we're still debating about the logistics of renewable power sources when we could just harness Chuck Schumer's loser energy and keep the grid lit up indefinitely

Currently in the final stretch of BSG and the show is not exactly working overtime to beat these allegations!!

Hey! Mr. Dendy! Hey! Mr. Joy!

Yourself but as a cartoon

As if things weren't bad enough already, here's a video about a genuinely awful NES game: The Uncanny X-Men. I had the good instincts to avoid this one back in the day based on screenshots alone, but incredibly enough, it turned out to be EVEN WORSE than I expected: youtu.be/wNQg6dUg4Dk

I’ve really gotta drink this stuff before it turns

Anyway, this is still the world's best, most comprehensive guide to the stuff you can newly play on NSO today: limitedrungames.com/collections/... Or you can fall back on the video version if that's your jam: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... (If nothing else, check out The Mansion of Innsmouth)

But I don't wanna make any more Virtual Boy Works videos

Aw, damn. R.I.P. to one of the true greats.

Th-thanks, YouTube...?

MARS? Weird swerve for Destro, but I'm sure there was some insidious Cobra-oriented reasoning at play here

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

Anyway, back on the middling-to-awful side of things, here is a video on two platonically middling games (good intentions, lackluster execution): youtu.be/l9TCGHDV69E

I've been covering a lot of pretty middling-to-awful NES games lately, so I am happy to inform video patrons that they can now watch a video about a very GOOD game instead: www.patreon.com/posts/nes-wo...

Life, uh, finds a way

Vindication for Gary Larson

I'm happy to hear that there'll be new Patlabor in our lifetimes, but something feels a little wrong about seeing the Labors as computer models rather than obsessively detailed cels illustrated by the hands of absolute maniacs

I cannot fucking believe this is real I think people need to like... actually read this, so they know exactly who every politician isn't spending every waking moment removing

Cat has been wanting to take me to “one of the world’s top 30 cocktail bars” for a few years and we finally managed to sneak it in at the end of our trip. Justifiable claim imo

Looks like this is the last weekend you can preorder the physical edition of Jaws from LRG. It's the cult classic NES game, AND ALSO it includes the new "Enhanced Edition" of the game which was designed by [checks notes] me?! limitedrungames.com/collections/...

Celebrity sighting for this trip: we had to wait in line to make our purchase at an antiques shop until the proprietor finished chatting over champagne with ultra-award-winning chef Alain Ducasse

I love when we duck into a random restaurant while traveling abroad and it turns out to be something tasty but totally unexpected. I mean, this place said “couscous” on the awning, but I thought that was a French term I didn’t know, not a restaurant specializing entirely in, you know, couscous

I'd like to offer a hearty "Screw YOU" to every American media writer and personality in the ’80s/’90s who tried to gaslight us into believing that France is full of prickly, snobbish misanthropes who hate foreigners. It is consistently one of the friendliest, most welcoming places I've ever visited