Strabby is wildin out tonite!!!! #PS5Share #Bugsnax

Happy New Year! Back in 2020, ObscureGamers made a series of "Terareleases" containing tons of prototypes. here's a old small find from it. one of the builds of a random PS3 kids game, "Diggs Nightcrawler". Has footage of the devs testing it

oddly specific game genre on Steam: "What if we gave the Chicken a 𝗴𝘂𝗻?" store.steampowered.com/app/339710/C... store.steampowered.com/app/489610/C... store.steampowered.com/app/1084640/... store.steampowered.com/app/668790/C...

"i can't wait to research the audio in Comix Zone!" the diabolical sequence 5B:

the @frankcifaldi.bsky.social game preservation special

this Sonic Heroes trailer taken from a broken Sonic Gems Collection proto feels like a Youtube Poop.

for some inexplicable & horrifying reason, the May 16, 1996 build of Sonic's Schoolhouse includes this animation of a nightmarish unicorn/human creature. presumably taken from the period where it was meant to be an original educational game.

high on that Looney Tunes shit #Schüt

from the Goldeneye 360 port that got posted online several years ago. RARE took a random unofficial rip of the OST and used it here. Track Numbers and all. There's also references to old unused content still lurking around. Like the original name for the Klobb (skorpion)

139 hugs! See if you can beat me at the most non-violent game on the internet: Grandmas Big Hug 4 #gbh4 @vitaminwater.bsky.social web.archive.org/web/20191130...

Speaking of puns, I just discovered that Sunshine's entire plotline comes from the fact that to frame someone is 濡れ衣を着せる, where 濡れ衣. Who's the fucking scenario writer for this game I have to talk to him.

😱 Epic Taylor Swift Facts!!!!! 😱 (by @wikipedia.org , the free encyclopedia.)

early XMB icon and background for Heavenly Sword, dated September 2006 and buried in a unrelated bug report for "BluRay file-access". (this is the same origin as that full Source Code leak, it wasn't found in 2016 like Wikipedia claims.)

that isnt Tencent @playstation.com

DEVASTATING: this cool dog scrunkly is in a collector's edition exclusive to GameStop. a retailer that has caused decades of damage to game collecting and is currently run by an asshole.

odd looking snail.

of note, the theme for SEGApede itself would go to be used for SEGA Channel. typically for the main menu. a VHS recording from Michael Shorrock shows another build using the track, incongruously tied to a beach (1:06) archive.gamehistory.org/item/9cbfa5c...

absolutely spectacular "how do you do, Fellow Kids?" energy in this corporate Nickelodeon Style Guide. #DataDesign

good.

this Street Sign themed DS Kiosk would occasionally be used at various events in Europe, such as the Leipzig Games Convention in 2007. #DataDesign

Rock n Roll Adventures originally was titled "Elviz: Rock n Roll Adventure", the back of the final box still gives the main character this name. but it presumably hidden to avoid the wraith of the Presley estate. #DataDesign

no warioware :( #Gamecube #NintendoSwitchOnline

only buying games with this label now.

early concept for the box of Action Girls Racing, one of the worst kart racers ever made. #DataDesign

this is like when Free Radical Design made concept art for Battlefront FOUR even though they hadn't finished working on 3 yet (which itself was eventually cancelled)

an advertisement for the "HUMAN Creative School", a game development class whose students would go on to create notable projects like "The Firemen" and "Egypt". (Famitsu, issue 360)

finally, i can make Anime real #DataDesign

this is fucked up @akfamilyhome.com

.....shooting WHAT??? #DataDesign

31 seconds of an early (maybe internal? the Rhino Studios logo looks to be an older version) trailer for the PS3 game Afrika. not sure what happened to the rest of it.

in a document Nintendo provided to developers in preparation for WiiWare, it describes the service's notorious revenue sharing "👉 6,000 units if >16MB" "👉 4,000 units if <16MB" (US) the requirement of reaching a specific sales target led to NUMEROUS indie devs failing to make a cent. #DataDesign

someone at Heavy Iron Studios was having a SERIOUS issue working on the PS3 version of the Ratatouille game, and sent a ludicrous amount of screenshots documenting the issue to Sony.

in the mid-00s, Testsuya Mizuguchi saw the DS and PSP and said "okay, guess i gotta make one tall puzzle game and one wide puzzle game"

12 Years Ago Today @charliebrooker.bsky.social names Twitter as one of the "most important games ever made" on a Channel 4 special. (unfortunately, this isn't the only part of the special to have not aged well. 😶)

"No, no. Sweet Tooth is the name of the car. His actual name is Needles Kane! and the original setting for the series wasn't post apoc-" *I am thrown out of the Sony offices* variety.com/2021/tv/news...

screenshot of a PS3 developer environment.

this is the most liminal test video ive ever seen "We'll assume that you have some content encoded correctly for the platform on which you'd like to use the MoviePlayer (e.g. a PSMF file with a video stream and one or more audio streams created with the tools from the PSP developer's kit ). "

interesting note about Battletoads being added to the NES NSO app. it seems the Japanese publishing rights to the game have finally reverted to Microsoft, previously it was published by Masaya, which was acquired by "extreme" in 2014. they were doing their own re-releases for it as recently as 2021

the worst joke of all time.

death. #PS5Share

is this the Mackenzie guy i've been hearing so much about lately? #Metroid

Something doesn't belong here....

cool sports info while Chess only has ONE whole sequel, Golf has already reached it's fifth installment. certifying the sport as the most important recreational activity. store.steampowered.com/app/314340/C... store.steampowered.com/app/2151960/...

DON'T MESS WITH US BRAD PLAYERS we aren't good at the game :( #ps5share

"Hmmmm, i wonder how the Nvidia driver updater app is doing today." 𝘖𝘩.

from the 2020 Netflix documentary series "High Score". Rebecca Ann Heineman discusses her stint at winning the Atari 2600 Space Invaders championship in 1980, the first tournament of it's kind. as well as how video games helped her deal with gender dysphoria. (1963-2025)

“KAGE-008” once ran a blog devoted to preserving Japanese mobile games j2mepreservation.weebly.com While it hasn’t been updated in a while, they managed to rescue a solid 𝘴𝘪𝘹 games from oblivion. Including enhanced versions of Old Konami arcade games

more from the @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social library. screenshots & box art of the unreleased "Warhammer 40,000: Dark Crusaders" archive.gamehistory.org/folder/3c708... oddly the majority of images in the folder are mislabeled, actually being renders for the 1996 adventure game "9: The Last Resort"

since it doesn't seem to be in the @divine.video archives, now seems like a good time to reshare the highly mysterious video teasers Bethesda uploaded to Vine back in April 2013.