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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

Now that right there is some quality album art (no, it's not AI, it's 2011!)

Highly recommending the BOSS Sweet Potato Latte

Playing some TGM2+ at Monte near Osaka station. Every time I come here I'm amazed it hasn't been closed. Check it out while you still can.

The Nara Hard Off just got a little more exciting

Let's talk about the late great Becky Heineman and some hidden easter eggs! I grew up playing her games (Bard's Tale!) and her impossible Apple IIGS ports (Out of this World, Wolfenstein 3D!). I remember getting to interview her when I was reviewing her IIGS remake of Ultima I...

I never thought I’d get this wish. Odd seeing eulogies before I expire

I've been playing Star Wars Outlaws on Switch 2 as my zoneout game, and was like "oh cool, cross-platform saves!" and got a second-hand PS5 copy for 10 bucks. After all of the drama of account linking, here is the punchline

At my local arcade there is an old dude who plays Super Turbo on the Vewlix every night from 10:00 p.m. to midnight and has his phone recording the whole thing. This is what strength looks like

Hi, CEO of I Made It Games LLC, here. We're looking for viral indie games with a cool aesthetic that have a proven gameplay loop, narrative hook, the interest of top 1% streamers, and are 80-90% complete. In exchange for 50% of your profits we'll let you put our name on the Publisher field in Steam.

Always check the unlabeled junk discs because you never know when you might strike g...oh never mind

A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE is pretty awesome (and accurate), but I'm not too certain that it sticks the ending. I absolutely adore Katherine Bigelow and can't get enough of thermonuclear nightmare fiction (my brain is broken). Tracy Letts delivers an awesome performance as the general.

Sexy House of Dynamite

NEO TURF MASTERS FINALLY ON SALE, THIS IS NOT A DRILL

Consider this your yearly reminder to watch CHINA STRIKE FORCE / SPY_N featuring 90s J-Phone model Norika Fujiwara and Coolio playing, yes, Coolio At one point Norika actually says "Coolio killed my partner." Also Mark Dacascos and Aaron Kwok!!!

It's rare to see things that are objectively perfect and yet here we are

I have come into the possession of the Yamaha PAS Crew, the King of Mom Bikes, which is capable of scaling the 37% grade of Kuragari Pass (the steepest public road in Japan). So on tonight's midnight test drive I totally rode this shit up the closest mountain. I barely broke a sweat.

RIP Drew Struzan. Watch the documentary about him, your jaw will be on the floor when you get to the part where he has to make last minute edits to the ADVENTURE IN BABYSITTING poster. Personal favorite: DuckTales.

OH SHIT this month's Japan McDonald's Happy Meal toys are Plarail trains, and one of them is mothafuckin 🟡 DR. YELLOW 🟡 the Shinkansen diagnostic train Also the decal sheet for this is a nightmare. Super skinny stickers and impossible to reaffix once contact is made Still, mothafuckin DR. YELLOW 🚄

If you can, flip a few bucks to game coding legend Becky Heineman (Wasteland, the Bard's Tale) to keep her cancer in check! gofund.me/eec1ee263 @burgerbecky.bsky.social

AW YISS I finally cleared normal mode on TGM 2 like the rank amateur I am, playing at Monte 50 in Osaka whose classic collection seems to degrade with every time I visit. Pretty sure machines that are 50 yen a play are not paying for their own maintenance. (Also there's a Neo Turf Masters!)

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