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"Just a few things to get out of the way before Myst becomes your world..." Happy Birthday, Myst. 💜 Released on 24th September 1993 for Apple Macintosh. The PlayStation would be my first version, a few years later, and was an experience of such mystery and wonder.

Funny Number ✅ Nep ✅ Life's too short to not fall in love with a 69/100 game. I recommend all of these titles! Special mention goes to Battle Princess of Arcadias, an awesome game I'm convinced only I remember. I want to change that. PSPo2 is a wonderful timesink and a personal favorite as well.

think my rec algo's a touch overtuned (if you're familiar with any of the artists, you know their collabs make this a perfect, infinite circle) good albums though listen to yuanfen especially, it's 24 carat gold in audio form

stayed up late last night to play more Picross it's been a few months since I've done something like that, and it was some nice respite from an otherwise exhausting week I'm glad the funny square game holds the key to my simple joy in such a way

TGS wishlist: 1. GUST siphons all that Atelier money into reviving Blue Reflection; the "this is the end of the franchise for now" letter from the developers was all just a convoluted ruse 2. SEGA siphons all that RGG/Yakuza and Persona money into picking up support for the original PSO2 again; th-

Mario's Picross on GB continues. Easy Picross is almost done! "Just one more puzzle" quickly becomes "just one more row of puzzles." Also, Mario--I'm gonna be real with you. That's not a faucet head, that's a boxy camel with a propeller mounted on its back. Trust me, I'm an expert on this stuff.

repeating this under my breath in between sniffles and sobs while I pump another ¥900 into the DoDonPachi machine

Doctor Mario's out of the office, but Archaeologist Mario is in. Picross is one of my "I could play this forever" puzzle games! I have a personal goal to fully complete every officially-released version of the clever grid puzzle game. マリオのピクロス / Mario's Picross (1995, Game Boy) Jupiter, Ape Inc.

日本語投稿時間帯イエーイ (´ｰ`)✌ んまぁ特に話したいこととかはないんすけど ただ帰ってピクロスやりたいだけ エネルギー切れだけど後でスクショでもうｐしとこかな

Speeding through midnight streets in '05 as the Ridge Racer series enjoyed a brief dalliance with Xbox. 📺: Ridge Racer 6, Namco, 2005 (Xbox 360)

accurate representation of what it's like to play Super Bullet Break at an advanced level imagine a game with so few guardrails that it rewards resourceful players and clever play with letting you break it via "I can't believe the game let me pull this off"-tier strats youtu.be/FscSTb96wDs

📷 𝑓/1.9 🐇 1/740 📏 6.81mm 🌥️ overcast 📝 belated edition of "Lete Goes Outside". Bellesalle Akihabara (ベルサール秋葉原) event venue with prep for this year's 30 Minute Label FES in full swing. Was a stormy day with a few moments of overcast calm, like here. #秋葉原　#アキバ巡り

LRP: Happy 35th anniversary, Dangerous Dave in "Copyright Infringement", a playable piece of gaming history. May your smooth scrolling continue to impress, all these years later.

The day is September 20th, 1990. John Romero has just played John Carmack's Dangerous Dave in “Copyright Infringement” demo in all its smooth-scrolling glory. It was here where everything changed. Romero's blog and the demo itself have been carefully archived here: web.archive.org/web/20141231...

"princesses have tiny biker versions of themselves hidden inside" don't we all

As extension of my life's calling, I must inform you - they did it again - the madmen, they did it again - this one's also free (also BALANCED FOOD CalorieMate FOR GAME CREATORS - JELLY MISSION - is the most over-the-top sequel title, I cannot believe it) store.steampowered.com/app/3956500/...

It took Automaton's article on this for me to notice the one of the little tidbits in the screencap: Bond level cap has been raised! The UI shows level 12, and currently (pre-patch) the max is 10. Maybe they'll do a nod to Rune Factory 3 and raise the limit to 10,000. One can dream.

Returning from hiatus, it's Super Bullet Break! I'm back with a vengeance for the post-game extra dungeons, reminding me just how much fun this anime spin on Slay the Spire is. Tonight's achievement is my first Princess Stage! clear. Love that feeling in your gut when you know "this is the run."

Update: I'm seeing these things show up in stores + on Amazon now, and I'm quite tempted to pick one up. I just /know/ the keyboard is gonna break in a couple months, though. I can just feel it. I'm still sort of in disbelief that this controller actually exists, so I may try to find one on sale…

this is an actual line of dialogue, by the way

分かる。心が痛むほど分かる。 リアルの都合で（まさに「大人の事情」）ゲームの完成もプレイ時間も減ってしまった。仕方ないって分かってるけど、どうしようもなく悔しい。 主体的な社会人になりたいけど、ヤダ。

Call me a dactylifera enthusiast because I'm excited to see this date! Horrible pun aside it's so cool to see a confirmed date for Wii RA support. It's no exaggeration that achievements have helped me stick with more games for longer, and have fun all the while. Awesome community, awesome chievos.

his full name is Hokuto no Kenneth but nobody will tell you that

if I had a nickel for every Toki Asako song I had stuck in my head I'd have a steadily growing number of nickels contributing to my burgeoning love of nu-city-pop

Rolled credits on Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma! Main story took me around 55 hours at a leisurely pace. I really enjoyed my time with the game and will stick around for postgame, since there's plenty of stuff I've yet to still do. It felt like the right game for me at the right time. Wonderful.

The moment I mention having fun with underleveled gear, we're hit with a duo boss with a jump of 5 levels. That's okay, there's a simple solution: namely, literally more than doubling my attack stat. I played through half the game the un-upgraded Platinum Sword, see the gear list as proof. #RFGoA

I want an xbox 360 just so I can use this. 🥺 It's also blowing my mind that i've held onto this for years and just now realized the artist for the game is the CEO of Shift Up, Hyung-tae Kim, which makes it all the more cooler to me. 😭

my laptop PSU keeps overheating while I try to play Rune Factory and I'm just channeling 電話猫 as I ask the universe why it has to be this way

oh sweet, DJ class reward just popped (runs at lightspeed to the shop to purchase a literal PNG for 2500 points)

The best part about going purely off of the katakana spellings of Umamusume characters (or rather the racehorses they're based on) is failing to parse them correctly and coming up with my own totally incorrect romanizations such as: Ado Mai Yabega Mejireau Ardenne Daii Chillby

maybe the cutest train driving game ever?

Watching Ahoy's new video on Peter Molyneux and the very moment I saw this photo of the Bullfrog Productions team, I immediately thought of the legendarily silly id Software team photo.

Day 160 of posting games I own. This time, Cyber Troopers Virtual On for Sega Saturn. Spent a couple hours playing this for the first time today. I'd been meaning to for awhile, but it's a bit of a pain setting the twin-sticks up on my desk. I wasn't good at it, and got killed a lot, but had fun!

メロンブックス主催のAKIBA NIGHT GALLERYに行ってまいりました。 今回は【WORLD GALLERY COLLECTION】第19回展「WGC by としぞう ～fallen heaven～」です。 としぞう先生の素晴らしいオリジナルイラストが展示されていますので、ぜひ開催中にご覧ください。 #秋葉原　#アキバ巡り

Reposting in celebration of the news.

A.B. Cop grabbed my attention right from Mission 1 and I ended up playing through (see: credit-feeding) the entire game. Got kinda difficult in the end but I had to see it through! Also, with a name like "A.B. Cop" I know it's staring at you from the top of your MAME list, so just give it a shot!

Tokyo is currently undergoing rain and thunderstorms heavy enough to stop the Keihin-Tohoku and Yamanote lines in their tracks I happen to have a bag full of doujinshi from Suruga-ya on my person, and paper is famously not waterproof Nature itself has taken up issue with my purchasing decisions

Watching a friend of mine play through EYE: Divine Cybermancy for the first time steepling my fingers like an evil villain going "excellent... it's such a wonderful game, isn't it?"

Day 159 of posting games I own. This time, Amagami for PSP. Been working through this one off and on over the course of this year. The format with lots of short scenes that you select from a grid made it pretty easy to pick up and put down. Still a bunch of mahjong content to go back to sometime.

Whoa, so I'm not the only one who remembers 戦律のストラタス! It's a mecha action game by Steel Battalion duology co-developer Nude Maker, who you might also recognize from Infinite Space on the DS. The "hot guy with katana" theme returns in Senritsu no Stratus with mech and on-foot sections. Fun combat!

Racehorse Haru Urara has passed at the age of 29. Through a career of 113 straight losses Urara proceeded to win our hearts instead. I am glad she was able to receive such love both in Japan and from new overseas fans as well. Rest in peace to a legend. news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/b0d...

⏯🔂「Time- 現実過去未来・Time- 見たい見たくない」 週末のちょうど真ん中にぴったり。

Giant metallic "X" with blue flames making the cover art looking like the most metal PSX demo CD on the planet. I bet it'd even has a Spyro: Year of the Dragon demo on it with dev video interviews. Anyway, nostalgia-fueled delusions aside, I always found PS ports of PC games fascinating. Very neat.

I love that the way I find out KMNZ is still active is by finding one of their more recent songs in Chunithm, playing it out of curiosity, and then getting utterly blown away at some of the best music I've heard this year No joke, no punchline, this song is just that damn good

It's been around eight years since I've gotten a new desktop GPU, having filled the gap around the halfway point with the modest 3050-Mobile powering my current laptop. As life approaches something resembling normalcy again, I can finally start looking into building a new-... oh. ohhhh. oh boy.

this spaced-repetition shit actually works

Akihabara through the eye of Google Maps Streetview - C64 edition, courtesy of the C6 Maps program on our WiC64 modem. Still not entirely sure how this works, but it's always neat peeking around with it and seeing what the fidelity is like.