We return with another amazing tale of video games past! This time: The international story of Taito. Learn about the colorful Ukranian founder, the origin of the modern crane game, and how a peanut vending company redefines the world of video games. www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2025/11/p...

Haven't archived anything like this in a while. Here's a rarely-seen PC version of the 2012 advergame Crabs & Penguins by Coca Cola, made as a direct tie-in to the similar ad campaign they were running at the time. archive.org/details/cap_...

There are some real gems in these archives.

We've added 100 new CDs to our collection of press CDs from GamePro magazine, with thousands of pieces of game art, screenshots, and more So, what's the GamePro press CD collection? We put together an explainer

Valkyrie no Densetsu #ワルキューレの伝説 #fanart

STOP THE PRESSES. The ROM for the unreleased Famicom RPG Splatter World has been released (in a thread on 4chan, of all places). I've tried it myself, and it does seem to be genuine. If it's a fake, it's a damn good one. Expect (more) coverage on West Mansion soon. @hg101.bsky.social

#9 - Vaporwave This is LoFi, a chill Bubble Dragon bringing the best beach vibes! (fr this was hella fun to draw omg) #zomboniarts #prompt #october #vaporwave #bubblebobble #lofi #oc

Calling all #pinball and #arcade fans! Please enjoy a new issue of Quarter Up, the free online pinball magazine. nantucketlit.com/quarterup-8 #nantucketlit #quarterup

note the legals: LRG's using Japan's arbitration system for orphaned games to reissue Little Samson—if you can demonstrate that you've made a genuine effort to contact/identify a potential rights owner to no avail, you can legally commercialise an old game by paying royalties to the JP govt, which…

If anyone cares, I actually will be here tomorrow.

I kinda insinuated this on Twitter, but this is a game literally made for nobody. Part of the charm of the original was how it was a total shitpost made with duct tape and broken dreams, and trying to keep that aesthetic with much more powerful hardware doesn't work.

Cave Story 97 (SNES) Added

Rouge as a witch is a good concept. :3 So I drew Rouge as a witch. Took some inspiration from the Halloween costume she had in SA2.

A Spinelle :)

Who here loves obscure characters? I do :)

Bub and Chack'n recommends you to go touch some grass. 🌿🫧🐉🐤 #bubblebobble #puzzlebobble

The Fairyland Story is a platform arcade video game developed and published by Taito in 1985. Gameplay has been compared to later Taito platform games, such as Bubble Bobble and The NewZealand Story.

She was pretty big a couple of years ago when she got a limited edition full size 1.76m tall standee to coincide with the Japanese Taito LD Collection😉 In a bizarre turn of events though, they used Reika dressed as an air hostess, which was advertising for Top Landing, rather than her own game✈️

Bite sized Elphelt

Kid Dracula

y'know what. for the taito/bubble bobble fans that are sick and tired of seeing trolls around. i have a solution (until bsky takes action with the offending accounts of course) I am the one behind this blocklist which you can check out here. bsky.app/profile/did:... #taito #bubblebobble

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It's too late. I've already depicted you as the sad cat creature trapped in a bubble and me as the intellectual Not Bub.

Goth Lilith

meanwhile, in ms paint world: it's her birthday in japan right now, so the worst girl is rocking that weird mascot character drip (Riamu Yumemi from THE iDOLM@STER: CINDERELLA GIRLS)

wonder if he's friends with Knight Boy

I am 22 years old now

Cirno Day

The beast, pictured inside of her place of residence:

Dream Library account acknowledges director's role in making software for Taito's D3BOS motion cabinet, which was later ported to the LaserActive x.com/Dream_Librar...

I don't know what everybody's talking about, they seem absolutely IDENTICAL.

The US marquee of the arcade game The Fairyland Story is now here to haunt your nightmares.

影山雅司 永眠のお知らせ We are deeply saddened to share that Gimmick! composer Masashi Kageyama has passed away.

First thought

Fairy Queen of Ripple Star Sketch ✨🧚 (*For whatever reason. I just suddenly wanted to draw her.) #art #fanart #kirby #kirby64 #nintendo

its Mikus bday! good excuse to repost this, i should remind myself to draw her again someday. #HatsuneMiku

Popful Mail~

mega man

A flawless re-release of an old shmup that actually lives up to the hype, "...the perfect marriage of technical skill and awe-inspiring flair": kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2024/04/22/p...

wip

namco museum

Sweetness, it means I drew them all on Wplace in time! 💖 Pop'n Pop 🎈 Catch the heart, happy 72th anniversary Taito! 🩷

Drew some characters from Taito! #taito #bubblebobble #fanart #cartoonart #characterart #digitalart

okay fine i'll play the new Cotton game

In case y'all were wondering, yeah I got Cotton Reboot High Tension. Just played through it. It was absolutely peak. I'll probably explain more after I sleep but I think it's probably my favorite of the new Cotton games.