Happy Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles release day! 🥳 Tactics is one of the finest Final Fantasy games. Square first released the title on PlayStation in Japan in June 1997 and in the U.S. in January 1998. 🧵 1/?

I’m excited about the Street Fighter movie set to be released next year! Of course, it makes me think back to the 1994 version, which I loved as a kid despite its silliness. I got this screening cassette at Portland Retro Gaming Expo’s VHS swap last year! I hadn’t seen a screening tape before. 🧵 1/?

Happy 40th birthday to Super Mario Bros., which was released in Japan on the Famicom on 9/13/85 🥳 This was the first NES game I ever played and beat. We took turns playing at my daycare (before I received it as a gift from my grandparents). We were only given one chance through until a game over.

Happy 36th Birthday to Captain N: The Game Master! 🥳 Link finally got his kiss (kind of) from Zelda in the Quest for the Potion of Power episode!

Happy 36th birthday to the Zelda cartoon, released 9/8/89! 🥳 I unabashedly love the 1989 Zelda cartoon and eagerly awaited it to air every Friday in place of the Super Mario Bros. time slot. Only 13 episodes that were roughly 15 minutes in length were produced because both were not renewed. 🧵 1/?

Happy 36th Birthday to The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! It first aired on September 4, 1989 🥳 I still have my childhood tape of “King Mario of Cramalot,” a parody of the classic King Arthur legend with a golden plunger rather than a sword 🤭 The show was based on Super Mario Bros. 1 and 2. 🧵1/?

On this day 34 years ago, North America got to play with super power for the first time! 🎉 The Super NES was released in North America on August 23, 1991, with Super Mario World, F-Zero, Pilotwings, Gradius III, and SimCity as launch titles.

I saw the original Ninja Turtles movie in theaters last weekend! 💚🐢

Ladies and Gentlemen. Drinking With Mario 2. youtu.be/zfbdgXmrpJQ

Before and after entering “JUSTIN BAILEY” followed by dashes at the password screen 😉💚 Happy 38th Anniversary to Metroid, released for NES in North America on Aug. 15, 1987 🎉 It debuted in Japan on Aug. 6, 1986. 🧵 1/?

The other day I flipped through an old Wizard magazine and smiled when I came across the “Kontest” to win a Mortal Kombat 3 cabinet that I entered in fall of 1995! I mailed my form, crossed my fingers, and…never heard a word 😆 🧵 1/?

I dressed as an elf for a Renaissance Faire evening event this weekend and it was amazing! There were fire performers, belly dancers, aerialists, delicious mead, and dancing into the night ❤️

I played the newest @square-enix-games.com 2D-HD game, Adventures of Elliot! The Action "RPG" is not quite what you think it is. My thoughts and discussion in this video! youtu.be/jB373jZcrDY

An NES port of Gauntlet was released 37 years ago, in July 1988! Atari 1st created the multiplayer dungeon crawler for arcades in Nov. 1985. This NES port was licensed by Tengen and players choose from Thor the Warrior, Thyra the Valkyrie, Merlin the Wizard, or Questor the Elf. 🧵1/?

As a kid, I spent most of my allowance on gaming merchandise. There was a comic shop down the street from my Dad’s house, and one day I was overjoyed to find Mortal Kombat comics. I couldn’t pass up Malibu’s ridiculous Battlewave issue featuring Shao Khan’s marriage to Sonya… 🧵 1/?

The Virtual Boy released in Japan 30 years ago on 7/21/95! I got to play one @retrogamingexpo! Virtual Boy was a portable console that released 22 games and was discontinued in 1996. It displayed 3D stereoscopic graphics through a binocular eyepiece and generated a red monochrome display.

Happy 34th Birthday to Final Fantasy IV! 🥳

Happy Birthday Final Fantasy X, released in Japan for PS2 on July 19, 2001! 🥳 If you haven’t played a FF and want to start, FFX is a fantastic entry point. Players guide an incredible cast of characters guarding summoner through the world of Spira to defeat a destructive monster known as Sin. 🧵 1/?

35 years ago, the first Final Fantasy game was released on the NES in North America! This early console JRPG was a huge hit and one of the best on the NES! We spent countless hours on that... Get YOUR retro fix at PRGE, tickets at tinyurl.com/3km56wbt #prge #prge2025 #retrogaming (pics via Moby)

Happy Friday! ❤️ Some Fridays I like to go up to my retro room to curl up and unwind with a favorite old tapes after a busy work week. That’s my plan for tonight! I keep my original Blockbuster card near my tapes, which makes me smile as I pick what to watch.1/7

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome was released 40 years ago, on 7/10/1985! I loved the Mad Max series as a kid, and in adulthood discovered Wasteland Weekend! WW is a multi-day fully immersive post-apocalyptic festival in the desert. I was lucky enough to be one of their original “Elite Guards” in 2011!

Happy 25th Anniversary to Final Fantasy IX, released for PS1 in Japan on July 7, 2000! 🥳 This incredible title returned to the “fantasy” roots of Final Fantasy and FF lead creator Sakaguchi has said it is “the closest to [his] ideal view of what Final Fantasy should be.” 🧵1/?

Nintendo Power launched 37 years ago, with the first issue releasing in July of 1988! Preceded by the short-lived Nintendo Fun Club News, it was branded as “THE Source for NES Players Straight from the Pros,” & was a source of secrets, strategy guides, and previews in the pre-internet era. 🧵 1/?

I still have this Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade game on floppy disk released in 1989 for MS-DOS, Amiga, Atari, and more! Players face puzzles and search for artifacts like the Cross of Coronado, Crusader’s Shield, and of course the Holy Grail. The plot is similar to the movie…🧵 1/?

Jurassic Park for NES released 32 years ago, in June of 1993! 🥳 Ocean developed the game after receiving early photos of movie set and dinosaurs, the script, & a sound effect tape. This released near the end of the NES lifecycle, so most are more familiar with the SNES and Genesis versions. 🧵 1/?

Happy 42nd Bday to Dragon’s Lair, released for arcades on June 19, 1983! My 1st video game memory is of Dragon’s Lair. As a kid in the 80s, my Dad took me to the mall arcade and I’d watch him win. I was in awe when he’d reach Singe’s Lair to see Daphne tell Dirk to slay the dragon to free her. 🧵1/?

As much as I love playing on original hardware, I am ecstatic about the Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection announced last week! My favorite @mortalkombat games are MKII and UMK3. I can’t wait to play them more in September, and see what kind of online scene emerges!

Earthbound released in N. America for SNES this week 30 years ago! It initially released in Japan on Aug. 27, 1994 as Mother 2. The game follows the quest of young Ness & his friends on a quest to travel across the world and retrieve 8 melodies to save the planet from the evil alien Giygas. 🧵 1/4

Prepare yourself for Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection, featuring: 🐉 Multiple games from the Mortal Kombat series 💥 Online multiplayer with rollback netcode 🎞️ A deep-dive documentary into the making of the legendary series Arriving this year: play.st/3ZErSi3

Mortal Kombat Legacy Collection just announced! ❤️

Final Fantasy Tactics Ivalice Chronicles just announced with a September 30, 2025 Release!!!!

The original Super Mario Bros. film released on May 28, 1993, 32 years ago. It has quite the history! Super Mario Bros. was the 1st feature-length film in America based on a video game story. An Oscar-nominated duo (Eberys and Joe) convinced Nintendo they could lead the production.

Happy 39th birthday to Dragon Quest, released for Famicom on May 27, 1986! Enix released it as “Dragon Warrior” in the US for NES in August of 1989, changing the name to preemptively avoid a potential IP dispute with the TTRPG by SPI. 🧵1/?

Odin Sphere released 18 years ago on PS2 in North America! It came to the U.S. 5/22/07 after being released in Japan 5/17/07. Developed by Vanillaware & published by Atlas, this 2-D side-scroller follows 5 playable characters across 6 compelling scenarios during a war between two fantasy nations.

No matter how many years it has been, I still love to make Mario Moonwalk every time I reach Super Mario Bros. World 4-2. As a kid, it was part of the neighborhood collective play pattern. Like blowing in cartridges and the Contra Code, it was one of those things that was simply “known.” 🧵1/?

The Final Fantasy Lands Locations Explained -- Final Fantasy I - Gurgu Volcano (Mountain) The party heads there after obtaining the canoe to defeat Kary, the fiend of Fire and restore the Fire Crystal! It depicts a party of a Fighter, Thief, White Mage and Black Mage! #mtgfinalfantasy #magic #mtg

Happy 36th birthday to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Nintendo game, released for Famicom in Japan on May 12, 1989! 🥳 It came to the US for NES in June of 89. The game, released by Konami’s subsidiary Ultra, alternates top-down and side-scrolling perspectives. 🧵1/4

Yoshitaka Amano has brought the gleeful madness of Kefka to life with an explosion of color! Look for this Borderless Artist card (and maybe some others!) in #MTGxFINALFANTASY Collector Boosters!

If we have Kefka drawn by Yoshitaka Amano, of course we're going to have Terra! #FF6 #MTGxFINALFANTASY

I had an amazing time at @pinkgorillagames.com last weekend! They had an awesome Fox McCloud statue from the 90s!

Happy birthday Tifa Lockhart! The original Final Fantasy VII manual lists character birthdays and notes her bday is May 3rd! Tifa is one of my favorite gaming heroines. I started cosplaying her in 2010 when I first started regularly attending Anime Conventions. 🧵 1/3

Castlevania released on NES in the US 37 years ago on April 30, 1987! 🎉 Konami initially released it for Famicom on 9/26/86. Game director Hitoshi Akamatsu approached game development with a cinematic eye, hoping to evoke the air of classic horror films. 🧵 1/?

I’ve celebrated the birthday of many games I love, but today it’s my birthday 😊 As a birthday treat, I picked up this cute Zelda dress! I love that it has the Master Sword and the Ocarina!

There are many Mortal Kombat anniversary releases in April! Today is Mortal Kombat 9’s 14th birthday! MK9 was a fantastic soft reboot of the series that retells the events and of MK1, II, 3, Ultimate, and Trilogy. When it released I got both the fight stick and bookend collector’s editions. 1/?

Happy 30th Bday Mortal Kombat 3, released on April 15, 1995! 🥳 It arrived on home consoles such as SNES and Genesis on Oct. 13, 1995. MK3 introduced novel features such the “run” button, but most notably chained combos, which allowed players to input sequences for powerful successive attacks. 1/?

One of the greatest games of all time, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, released 33 years ago in the US for SNES on 4/13/92! 🎉❤️ It released in Japan 11/21/91. ALttP expanded the mythos of Hyrule in an incredible way. It was riveting as a kid to study the manual. 1/?

Final Fantasy VII Remake released on PS4 5 years ago, on 4/10/20 🎉❤️ When announced in June of 2015 at E3, my jaw hit the floor & my eyes teared up with joy. Fan speculation of a remake had circulated over a decade by then, sparked largely by a FF7 PS3 tech demo that remade the intro sequence. 1/4

Double Dragon released for Famicom in Japan April 8, 1988–37 years ago! It initially released for arcades April 1987, and for NES in the US June 1988. DD is a side scrolling beat ‘em up where you can obtain weapons from some enemies, such as bats (always my favorite), knives, whips, and more. 1/4

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