EXIT 18: THE MOVIE review After about 25 minutes of jerky first-person camera movement and non-stop spinning around the main character, my wife was covered in sweat and had to leave the theater to vomit spectacularly. I will come back and see this later. SCORE: TBD

Tokyo Game Show can still be a damn good time

The STEEL BATTALION controller is a joke compared to the one used for PVKK, a missile defense simulator (located outside Hall 10). They trained me up and I was shooting down missiles within about 2 minutes. This game rules

I salute whoever owned this Dreamcast arcade stick

⚠️ NEW KEISHI YONAO CD ALERT ⚠️ Dude is the master of grimy rocking FM Synthesis (MAD STALKER for Genesis) and this new shit is HOT HOT HOT Grabbed it at RETRO TV GAME REVIVAL in Nipponbashi, support Osaka's last Famicom shops if you can!

There is a Venn diagram of "People who love Batman" and "People who do Karate at the strip mall" and it's almost a perfect circle

Check out my Blockbuster Virtual Boy display unit with the warning label I had to print out that it might BLIND YOUR CHILDREN.

This bananas-ass interchange is on my bike route, I love how it's total spaghetti on the car GPS

The best part about using world-class engines like Unreal is updating to new versions and finding fun surprises, like "the mouse cursor disappears randomly", then asking coworkers and they're like "haha oh yeah that happens to us too"

Questioning whether or not my personal copy of Steven Seagal's SONGS FROM THE CRYSTAL CAVE pulled out of a 100 yen junk bin has any value

🚨THIS IS NOT A DRILL🚨 2 Bros Pizza in Kobe now has a SLUSHIE MACHINE

The TV show "For All Mankind" is 100% my shit. It totally aligns with the NASA fanfic I was writing in 1984. For example, they just got a shipment of M16s on the moon and they're hinting that the Russian Buran space shuttle clone has weapons on it

COOL SEGA STICKERS ALERT, included with the latest issue of CG WORLD magazine!

I went to the Hard Off today with @allymobbs.bsky.social with the sole purpose of getting a classic beefy amplifier and decent speakers. This was there, 5,500 yen and in pristine condition. WELL THEN

I'm at EXPO 2025 Osaka and as much as I love Myaku Myaku, the best mascot here is NAURU-KUN, coincidentally shaped like the country of Nauru, pop. 12,000

Oh oh oh oh. Finally gonna crank this and see if @jeffgerstmann.com is justified. No bonus tracks on the Japanese release though, boooo

ANIMATION NERDS! Bill Kroyer (Ferngully, TRON, Rhythm & Hues) wrote an autobiography and it's awesome! Bill started doing 2D for Disney and was a huge CG pioneer, blindly keying in XYZ and rotation coordinates for every object on the screen in every frame in TRON like an absolute madman.🧵

If you are a Densha De Go sicko, I highly recommend BULLET TRAIN EXPLOSION, in which trains do things that trains should never, ever do (also please watch the original 1976 BULLET TRAIN with Takakura Ken and Sonny Chiba)

Beyond phenomenal work here. This blue guy was a superstar and people were snapping pictures all day long! THANK YOU @feltmistress.bsky.social !!!

I had the pleasure of designing the logo for @17-bit.bsky.social’s incredible new game Awaysis. A more illustrative approach than typographical the details were intended to echo Satoshi Matsuura’s amazing character designs (one of which @feltmistress.bsky.social has brought to life - see last pic).

IT'S BITSUMMIT DAY! Please play our cool dungeon brawler AWAYSIS, we're on the third floor in front of Nintendo! Four-player co-op stations and spectacular gachagacha prizes!!!

Uchida rules! Some of the most fun I've ever had playing co-op beat em ups. Dynamite Cop is one of my favorites.

<3 one of the greats <3

Sometimes I wonder where my old TH-29FB5 sleeps, and if it still dreams of 2002

I post this once every few years hoping someone can tell me what to do to preserve it somehow: This is a BitBoys Oy Pyramid3D card, casually given to me by John Carmack back on 1999 when I was interviewing him for Quake 3. I remember him commenting that it wasn't very good. (No drivers, obviously.)

Asking some serious spring cleaning questions, like "how many meters of TOSlink are you realistically going to need before you are six feet underground"

I have decided that modern video games are bad because they don't have enough pits Please reply with your favorite classic game that has pits, mine is Heinankyo Alien

BROOOOOOO

Here's AWAYSIS, the game I've been working on. Xbox/PS5/Steam/Win. The frog is the best.

Hey let's talk about THE CREATIVE BLACK BOOK! I found this for 100 yen at a Book Off, it weighs a TON, and it's 800 pages of the best artists/illustrators/photographers of the 1980s. Look, there's Atari cover artist Cliff Spohn for godsakes!!!

Attention sickos: The best Switch game, A-TRAIN: ALL ABOARD TOURISM by Art Dink, is uncapped and absolutely rips at 60fps on Switch 2 with maxed graphics settings

Hey!!! We're still around! We're a thing! Maybe!

Wut dis

I remember when it clicked for me that the guy who was writing Groo was also writing, like, every single episode of Garfield and Friends

Months ago @alexfkraus.bsky.social hooked me up with a MYSTERIOUS Saturn DB15 cable and today at the local Hard Off I found the corresponding hardware, an Imagineer Arcade Stick! (Both cable and stick were 500 yen junk)

Can anyone help me identify this weirdo piece of PS1 hardware pulled out of the junk bin? Has a RCA video coupler like a GunCon, a 6 pin connector, and is a SINGLE pedal, but there are little pegs on the right side that makes it look like you would connect it to something else. The pedal is clicky.

Before they were making Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar San Diego (Angel Studios) was making badass 1080p CG frogs for Peter Gabriel: youtu.be/3TPKEwKYjK4?...

In Japanese shops I tend to say "whaaaa how did this get here" a lot. (Yes of course I bought this)

Just a reminder that the Sega Astro City gachapon are now available! Find 'em with the gacha tracker here: gashapon.jp/products/det...

We saw legendary British jazz fusion band SHAKATAK last night; massively influential on Japanese game music in the early 90s. Compare the grooves here: youtu.be/ICcKcL2rZmw?... with vintage Sega: youtu.be/FJiCDlnSkv4?...

Happy birthday from McDonald’s Parappa, his girlfriend, and his girlfriend’s wife

At the Capcom exhibit in Osaka there's a section called "CREATING TRANSPARENCY IN GAMES IS HARD," and I was like YES! YES IT STILL FUCKING IS!!!

My favorite bakery has really good melon pan and a locomotive

IT'S A CHOICE!!! DON'T TELL ME WHAT I CAN'T DO

If hardware is language locked and I'm shipping a universal ROM, does that mean that I need to disable all non-Japanese languages for a certain subset of Japanese hardware? Like, deactivate the option for non-Japanese VO and turn off the menu option where you can change languages on the fly?

2025 continues to be a banger year by resurrecting the corpse of region locking

Digging into old issues of PLAY METER magazine and finding banger company names like STAMBOULI BROS and KARATECO

New mission: find and consume Japan's surviving Virtua Drink

Oh my God why would you call it that "It's fun to play" -- Someone, somewhere, presumably

TFW you get a game to the 90% completion mark, then the publisher makes you switch to a new platform, change from 1st to 3rd person, add Hollywood talent, switch engines, and strip out all the motion controller garbage they forced you to include. This is insane, the game looks basically DONE