>4 hits does this technically qualify as a happy birthday

me: heh the current Umamusume Family Mart collab is cute, but honestly I don't need any of the promoted items that come with the bonus I'm gonna save my money and- also me:

IT BEGINS

finally, the flowers are here

Bursting forth to blaze one last time in 1993: The final production model of the sexiest Japanese computer: the Sharp X68030. Especially in Titan Black. 🥵 Beefed up to a 25 mhz processor and double the base ram at 4MB - a little too late to keep Sharp in the game for the Japanese PC market.

Behind-the-scenes secrets: ・Using tweaked parameters on crt-hyllian-glow as a custom preset ・I've intentionally blown out highlights a bit so they withstand Bsky compression / mobile viewing Fun fact: the creator of crt-hyllian-glow, Hyllian, is also the author of the xBR interpolation algorithm!

happy almost-anniversary to probably the best/worst Mario Kart World headline I've ever had the pleasure of reading Mario Kart World's Cow Shows Off Breasts. What a Reward

appealing to the Genius Bar vote by explaining that macOS is technically a UNIX system and that they should put vim instead of emacs on their next ballot

'Sword Art Online is like, one of the biggest series right? Everyone was watching it in 2012...' - me, as i begin to turn into dust and float away

System Prisma and Cladun fans, assemble It's time to wish upon a star for a port of Legasista to modern consoles once again. For those unaware, Legasista was made by pretty much the same staff as the Cladun (Classic Dungeon) games. I view it as System Prisma's swan song. A banger of a final game.

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the word shame shouldn't be crossed out here i am definitely ashamed

Every time I stay late in the office for overtime「甲賀忍法帖」plays in my head because of the silly BASILISK TIME meme I hope desperately that at least one person here knows what I'm talking about

Just Konami using TwinBee and Fujisaki Shiori on their login page as anti-bot measures Konami, I...

Question: how would you translate "nouryoku"（のうりょく）? You, constrained by the mundane limitations of the Japanese textbook: "ability"（能力） or, alternatively, "brainpower"（脳力） Me, a scholar and armchair green tea expert: "dark green"（濃緑）

Day eight of posting a random game I own every day. Today's game is Falcom Classics on the Sega Saturn. I don't know if there's anything to recommend this version of Ys 1 over the PC-Engine or Chronicles version, but it was my introduction to the franchise, and comes with a nice port of Xanadu.

The first 60 seconds of Kaze no Densetsu Xanadu contain what may be one of the coolest transitions into a JRPG prologue cutscene ever 風の伝説ザナドゥ / Kaze no Densetsu Xanadu (The Legend of Xanadu) 1994, PC Engine SUPER CD-ROM² Nihon Falcom

what if playground games were also dystopian sci fi?

It's hard to exaggerate how important of a resource vndb was to me in my formative years when I just started exploring the medium. And how much it still is. My condolences at Yorhel's passing. I wish the team the best in preserving vndb for the future.

Yorhel has passed away He was known for running vndb, a website he created back in 2007 The moderation team is working to preserve the website but cannot provide details at the moment

One of the 25 launch games for the Game Boy Advance in Japan was Play Novel: Silent Hill. This turned Konami's horror classic into a text and animated graphic based visual novel, which manages to retain the spirit of the OG.

my D&D character just died and I'm holding a funeral you're invited but you have to bring your own drinks

Reader's Land is a fanletter submission column in the magazine PC Engine Fan（PCエンジンFAN）run by a mascot character named Madoka. Sometimes she acts as the reader representative for other purposes, too: here, she's dressed up in a Ripple-inspired outfit to celebrate the reprint of Magical Chase on PCE!

on second thought, I don't think you guys are ready for this one

Carbuncle speech in Madou Monogatari I:「意味不明」 "meaning unclear" Carbuncle speech in Madou Monogatari II:「解読不可能」 "impossible to decipher" glad to see that in between the first and second games, they've taken accountability. it's not that Carb's speech is meaningless; it's a failure of comprehension

This game has the most Metal Gear-like bosses I've ever seen 😂

I have an ongoing feud with US-based payment processors who hilariously think they have any say in whether I buy anime smut with my own hard-earned cash Anyway, I'm headed to the conbini ATM to fill my barcode kessai balance Placing an order on Suruga-ya for a bunch of items with shiny 18+ badges

Found the soundtrack to the 2005 CAVE shmup Ibara, listed as: (フィギュア付)（フィギュア欠品）／ "(includes figure) (excludes figure)" yea sometimes it's like that 😔

🧹⭐⭐🌃 Magical Chase (PC Engine, 1991 / TurboGrafx-16, 1993)

Spending the night shopping for PC-98 games, as one does, and saw a familiar title show up: It's Birdy Soft's CAL, a game whose sequel I actually own on the PCE Super CD-ROM², oddly enough. Photo of my copy of CAL II for proof. Somewhat amusingly, it's currently the only PCE(-CD) software I own.

葬送のフリーレン第11話見終わったところ うん、いいアニメだ。 今どきのアニメは絵が綺麗だな でもやっぱり一番強い印象を残したのは声優さんたちのボイスワーク 台本に基づいた鮮やかで活発な演技がとてもいい

me: "heh, that's one way to describe those small rectangular plastic bags for storing small items" no they're /literally/ tea bags like actual tea bags that were (at one time prior to the year 2000) intended for brewing and consumption you could drink the Resident Evil / Biohazard herb glorious

Current mood: B&W photo of Yodobashi Camera West Shinjuku flagship store (yes that is a mood, it's just very specific) This is a photo from a long time ago. It has to be at least a week or so old. 📷 𝑓/1.9 🐇 1/3534 (𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑓𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑏𝑛𝑢𝑢𝑦) 📏 6.81mm 🌤️ light clouds

"Chances of a local release, sadly, look dim." who's gonna tell them 📰 PlayStation World (PSW) Australia - September 2002

Playing SOUND VOLTEX ∇, I noticed in the new charts for イガク that the lasers make a formation shaped like the famous ユ！ from the music video. It shows up in sync with each time the ユ！ plays in the song. But only MXM gets the exclamation point! Rhythm game charting is absolutely an art form. #SDVX

Spotted in the wild: The Asciiware Resident Evil/Biohazard PS1 controller. Pistol grip on one arm, knife handle on the other, and a button layout tailored to Resi/Biohazard games. Plus a little nub of a trigger on the back.

I don't think I'm being unreasonable when I say I want every single Bemani game to contain the entirety of Sota Fujimori's discography from now into posterity It's just common sense

New shop alert: Yume Ari Ya in Kanda, a short walk south from Akihabara. They specialize in anime and game character goods from 1990s-2000s. Lots of VN stuff like Tokimeki Memorial and Sakura Wars. My buddy @akasaka_spk says it has the vibe of someone selling their collection.

Since I moved to Japan, I've refrained from returning to CD collecting thus far. But this was the one that broke the spell. It's the excellent soundtrack to Studio Trigger & XFLAG's anime film Promare, composed by Hiroyuki Sawano. A powerful soundtrack to match such a wonderfully bombastic movie.

𝗚𝗜𝗥𝗨𝗚𝗔𝗠𝗘𝗦𝗛 😃👉 has been a permanent part of my vocabulary for over a decade because of Sakura-Con

personally, the only artistic liberties I'd relinquish to my GPU involve rendering 3D PlayStation games at 1080p

Not really a beach, but I wanted to show this game and its beautiful pixel art.

Okay, I mentioned it, so now I HAVE to talk about some of my favorite game typography. This is the ESTIMATE DLC for DJMAX RESPECT V, rocking a powerfully elegant aesthetic for its main menu. Extreme serif stroke contrast. Bold fills and negative space. Flaunting a champagne-colored, strict beauty.

Instead of Heracles, this time you play as a boy who was the only one to answer the Queen of Nana's summons to go and kill the demon lord, Cronus. This involves freeing him first, which is a terrible idea, and goes about as well for her as you could expect.

you think I am joking, but I assure you good sir, I am most certainly not in busy days like these, one must make time for Literature

List four video game series you want to finish during your lifetime! 🥰☺️😍 Here's my list: ・Redump ・TOSEC ・MAME ・VNDB, just everything on VNDB hashtag gaming backlog hashtag bemoaning my limited mortal coil, incapable of realizing the heights of my ambitions, o woe and cacophonous silence e'ermore！

petition to add a progress meter overlay in VNs like the playback bar in Bemani games or I guess the "estimated time left in chapter" thing you get in e-readers, but that's a much less fun comparison

Today I released my second MIDI album (of a planned trilogy) and I would love for you to listen to it! Like my previous album, it was made with the trial version of FL Studio, a cheap MIDI keyboard and a hearty helping of human ingenuity. It's free! But you could also buy it on #bandcamp. 🧵 1/2

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