Here is your reminder that the new season of BAKI is out on Netflix. The story is that the greatest fighters in Japan are all super bored, so they clone the greatest samurai of all time Miyamoto Musashi in a secret lab under the Sky Tree so they can try to beat his historical ass

"It wasn't me"

Yes.. Open more Hard Offs... Yes! mainichi.jp/english/arti...

Inherently perfect, down to the choreography based on the harpoon throw and the dizzys at the end. Dying

At the ALGO Arcade in Kobe, there are TWO four-player Spikeout stations, and there's a giant stack of Model 3 boards and harnesses on a wire rack because they wouldn't fit inside the cabinets they're using

I'm wrapping up my playthrough of the Rika Suzuki (Hotel Dusk) game DARK AUCTION, a game that would make any WWII historian poop blood.

Why is the new Muppet Show just a one-off and not a whole new season!? Arrrgggghhh it's SO GOOD

Fighting game character designed peaked in "VS" (Polygon Magic, THQ), an American-reskinned version of the Taito game "Fighters Impact" that features an evil Street Mime who does Aikido

It's cold AF so let's load up the shopping bike with 30 liters of kerosen! Weighs less than our foster kid did but a very sloshy ride

I wonder how many dudes you would need to take on this challenge, I feel like this is an absolute metric ton of food given the cheap prices and big portions

Grabbing this at Game Tanteidan in Osaka for the bonus CD, aw yisss

If you are at a 7-Eleven with the fancy new latte machines, I highly recommend jamming on this button right here

RAVE RACER ON ARCADE ARCHIVES FEB 26TH AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

It's over! The retro game floors in Nara's legendary CUE arcade are history. Buncha locals showed up to play until midnight. For the final 15 minutes me and another dude jumped on the two Tetris The Grandmaster machines and tore it up until they kicked us out, and we rode our dad bikes home.

I'm playing DARK AUCTION, and I love Rika Suzuki games and the fact that this even exists, but oh man the vibe of this scene feels like they're bidding on an NFT generated by Stable Diffusion 1.0

It's mildly Boozy Lipton Iced Tea! Sure, I'll drink this!

OHHH IT'S THE THEXDER DUDES

Tenten has claimed the kerosene heater as his domain for eternity

1996

RIP Monte Carlo in Osaka, perhaps the last place in town you could play 50 yen Tetris The Grandmaster 2. Pic on the right is happier days in 1999 (Dead or Alive 2's arcade launch date)

Me: "Man, the Surugaya stock never changes no mat--WHUUUUUUUUT IS THAT"

I keep having a recurring dream where emulators don't exist and the only way to play old games is to play them on the original hardware. I freak out and I'm like "Just write an emulator!" and people are like "a what?"

Sometimes you can find really great new old stock at places like Yamada Denki, but 99% of the time you get what's on the left. (On the right is the 100 yen Hard Off junk section.) Sometimes I wonder if anyone is actually in charge of their game stock, or if it's a broken algorithm from 2003

Check out our two foster cats, Jojo and Fuku. We're giving them the most chill environment possible and they are on the road to snuggles.

The Wilhelm Scream of explosions

Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers

Nara's legendary Amusement CUE is getting rid of its retro games in February, so let's take a look at what we're going to lose. This place is open until midnight! In Nara, everything shuts down early. Except CUE.

Unless I'm reading this wrong, it looks like Amusement Space CUE in Nara is getting rid of all its retro games and a ton of other stuff on 2/1. This absolutely sucks; A lot of the games had price increases to 200 yen/play, And I'm sure that went as well as you'd expect.

Well, that's about it for the VR gaming industry, or at least for the huge-budget experiences like Batman and Asgard's Wrath. I feel like all of this stuff was intended to be a Very Expensive Carrot to get people to adopt the hardware, and then get addicted to Meta's Horizon Worlds ecosystem...

The secret to adopting cats and getting them to socialize is doing it in winter, and having a hot carpet. That's the new boi Tenten on the left, wife heard him yelling for help as she was driving to work. She leapt out of the car, threw him in a box, and went straight to the animal hospital

What!? No! Jesus Christ, no!

Elevator Action Returns: S-Tribute is on sale for $5.99 GO GO GO!

The best VR game of the year is MAESTRO VR, which is the best-feeling music game I've played in ages, definitely up there with Chunithm and Para Para Paradise (does anyone know what those ARE?). You can play it entirely hand-tracked without controllers and it feels phenomenal. 🧵

I don't know if it's on the US site, but Netflix Japan has a dating show called BADLY IN LOVE about a bunch of yankii and gyaru trying to find love, and it kind of rules. The best girl is named "Baby" and she learned kyokushin karate for the sole purpose of killing people

Here are my games of the year. As an Old Guy I find myself playing stuff that is not necessarily GOOD, but INTERESTING, and I'd much rather play some weird shit I than trudge through another AAA remake of something I played when I was in my twenties and much better looking. LET'S GO

It's not that I don't believe you, it's just that I can't believe you

Oh shit someone else at my arcade has cleared Virtua Fighter 3. Who is FIP, do you think we could be friends

Wife was driving to work and heard a kitten yelling for help by the side of the road. She jumped out of the car, put him in a box, and drove straight to the cat rescue. 2 months later he's all vaxed and healthy and is officially handed off to us, sleeping under the kotatsu purring like a motorboat

Nobunaga's REAL ambition is for all of you to have a holly jolly Christmas season

I'm drawing a line in the sand: Glen Kennedy is a buckwild animator and the Kennedy Kick Dance is the craziest shit and it rules. And he does it everywhere! In every show! It's BS Warner never gave his studio Batman episodes because just imagine Bruce Wayne doing this in the background

Today's music pickups at Game Tanteidan are some real sicko shit

If you want to build a throne out of second-hand copies of DK Bananza, here's your chance There's a "return to monke" joke here but I'm not able to find it

Whenever our @colinwilliamson.bsky.social submits work-in-progress cutscenes, he voices them to make adding audio easier. Personally, I think we should ship these as is! 😸 Guest starring Big Matsu, who badly wanted his dinner. #gamedev #indiedev #AWAYSIS #gaming #cat

Tonight I went to Book Off, bought a bunch of random Japanese jazz CDs, went home to have a beer and listen to them on the Good Speakers, then realized I have become my dad @chetwilliamson.bsky.social

Playing the Mortal Kombat Kollection, I remember visiting my mom's second grade class to talk about life in Japan, and one of the kids asked me if Mortal Kombat was popular in Japan and I said no, not really, and one of the kids said "THAT'S BECAUSE THEY WORSHIP RAIDEN"

My buddy is making this cool as hell game and I have plans to play it on a CRT. If you have a King's Field itch I guarantee this will scratch it

Fuck Spotify, I carry all my legally purchased music on a 1TB microSD like an utterly deranged person, and my UI looks like THIS

Amazing how you can screw up your pricing so badly that I'll throw away +20 years of software proficiency to re-learn a free equivalent with a wack interface (Blender)

1997 PS1 FMV game where the live action sequences were directed by the guy who made RE-ANIMATOR? Sign me up baby