can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

This week in "me talking about old games," we have another video about a TurboGrafx-16 shooter. It's Galaga ’90 this time, so yeah, you need to reset the Xevious counter. Obviously. youtu.be/8LzgKD6yFnU

Furious that the cowards at the NC DMV refuse to let us register a BITCHFIST vanity plate

Started watching The Expanse, since I've heard a lot of good things. So far, I'm enjoying the premise and the seeming commitment to genuine hard sci-fi! But for some reason I find its entire look incredibly off-putting... I can only describe the visual style as "Unreal machinima smoothed over by AI"

This was such a bewildering ad campaign. Why advertise a game that's been underproduced,is incredibly hard to find, runs on a machine that's been discontinued, and won't be reprinted? Maybe just... hang on to that part of the marketing budget for later

One week early for our Patreon subscribers: @jparish.bsky.social @stuartgipp.bsky.social & @pkrockin.bsky.social journey to the 90s in this follow-up look at Capcom's platformer legacy Sign up & listen here: www.patreon.com/retronauts/p...

It’s good to know that, when the occasion warrants, I can muster up my White Person superpowers to write SUCH a strongly worded letter

Corvids are extremely intelligent and they have excellent taste.

Heard some terrible Vietnamese pop songs while out for lunch today, and I have to admit that as much as the music grated on my nerves I admire whoever had the courage to create an auto-tune system for a tone-based language

Send help, I keep writing 3000-word scripts about TurboGrafx shooters

Goodbye at long last to this atrocious wall decor that I inherited for my office

Maybe the rudest thing I've ever seen on the internet

remedy opened a senior writing position-- best of luck, fellow weirdos gamejobs.co/Senior-Write...

Good news for people who like things that rule and are awesome: Turbo Works returns at last with a pair of absolutely incredible arcade conversions that blow their respective Master System and/or NES ports out of the water: youtu.be/W2IA8gUc7gk

As someone who never advanced to full Captain rank, am I allowed to eat these?

seeing the posts about visitors discovering that you can walk around most of our cities and just be yourself in a multicultural setting, discovering tailgating, starting impromptu block parties, my muslim mayor, etc. etc. it's corny to say it but that's our secret sauce. and it means something

It's a thing of beauty! Great work @jparish.bsky.social!

We've got a big one today. Almost 20 years after Maxis released Spore, we talked to eight people -- including Will Wright -- about the studio's big experiment.

We could have avoided all of this Doctor Who cancelation drama if only some courageous person had been willing to step up and record a new "Doctor in Distress" single before it was too late

Live on the free feed: @jparish.bsky.social @bobservo.bsky.social & @feitclub.bsky.social say "thank you Takashi Tezuka" as the storied Nintendo developer steps down from his post retronauts.com/article/2517...

“Jeremy (Blonde)”? The hell, man? I’ve never even been to your stupid bar

Not sure about this visual style, looks like Link acquired the Triforce of Precious Moments here

So let me see if I've got this straight: Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light ~begat~ Bravely Default ~begat~ Octopath Traveler ~begat~ Final Fantasy Resonance After all of that, my guy Asano just ended up right back where he started

Taking my usual strategic approach* for today’s Nintendo Direct *(doing something else, waiting for people to ping me here whenever the stream mentions something like Xevious or The Goonies)

Friends, I have shared another VHS rip of Game Tech Video. I'm pleased to confirm that it is every bit the surreal mix of weird puppetry and super-interesting dives into Japanese console gaming (a Famicom Disk Writer Kiosk segment!) that you have come to expect from GTV: youtu.be/HIbcplbf2Ek

Happy This One Weird Frog Day to you all

It’s Jadzia now, thanks.

Gee, I forgot to Self-Promote this week—I’ve put together a couple of videos to offer a shout-out to some notable 1980s proto-metroidvania works that I didn’t include in my book. Citations needed: Metroidvania The First Decade (Errata, Pt. 1) | Metroidvania Works Special 2 youtu.be/xaa2_7U2bUI

They’re packaging it like this so it looks like a shallow trend, but Gen Z has gone through two financial crises, a pandemic, rising fascism, active shooter drills since they were toddlers, and are now being told by the oligarchy they’re to be replaced by robots. Socialism is the logical conclusion.

What idiot called it “The Mandalorian and Grogu” and not “Friends With Boba Fetts”

Persepolis is an important, life changing work, not merely of the most significant graphic novels but also one of the best animated films ever made. Marjane Satrapi’s passing is a huge shock and loss.

Anyone want to play some Zillion? What? No, not the video game. You child. You simpleton. I’m talking about the REAL Zillion.

It's embarrassing how this website handles stuff but it's also embarrassing that you can get DMCAed for linking to a public website

I keep getting YouTube ad/partnership solicitation emails from a company called "CUKTECH", which seems like it's either a joke or a trap

It finally happened to me: Apple somehow managed to force an update to the "liquid glass" iOS onto my phone overnight, despite my best efforts. R.I.P. to a responsive interface and a lack of wasteful visual clutter

NEW: A group of activists have built an awesome new tool to help immigration attorneys and the general public know when an ICE flight is headed to their area. gillianbrockell.com/habeas-fligh...

I find it somehow upsetting that the TG16 box art for Fantasy Zone depicts a person inside of Opa Opa. I guess I can't quite convince myself that this is a mutually consented-to arrangement. Do love the 1970s watercolor vibes tho

RIP to the legend who saved and/or improved on a heap of classics - Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Godfather, and more

Pair with Jean Grey-Poupon

Cool fact: anyone trying to sell me a single-LP vinyl release for 40 bucks can go suck pigpen runoff through a twisty straw

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

There was some speculation on the Retronauts Discord that TwinBee: Rainbow Bell Adventures never came to the U.S. because Konami couldn't figure out how to market it in the screamoid era of ’90s game ads, so I took it upon myself to lead the way

Pretty sure that Fei Fong Wong’s pull-tab can of Soylent System grub is in the running for funniest action figure accessory of all time

This is how people solicited a meeting with Golgo 13 before the internet

We worked real hard and did a huge amount of quality of life stuff (mouse control, text logs), added New Game Plus, and a bunch of extra dialog bits for Demonschool. It's also currently the Steam daily deal at 30% off! Good time to grab it if you haven't.

This is a cool notion. My first encounter with this was a Dark Forces custom map where the modder redrew the Imperial officer you had to shoot at the end of the mission to look like Captain Picard, so that was 30 years ago, easy

I got shushed recently for suggesting that these things were just Hail Marys to make up for Wii U's crummy sales, but come on—the answer to the "why did Nintendo stop making mini consoles?" discourse a few weeks back was clearly "Switch hit big and they didn't need to bother anymore"

Just discovered that a cardinal family has made a nest in the hydrangea right outside our porch, with at least one hungry l’il guy in there screaming for food. And that rules.