Once owned by WKGC, this notable Casiopea album is mine Jazz Fusion was a big inspiration for Japanese VGM artists in the late80s. And this is one example youtu.be/AHU74oGbXzU the last track, “Space Road". should be recognizable to fans of classic @sega-west.bsky.social games youtu.be/omx_RsqibB0

this boss sucks #Tekken6

"fun" fact: the actual Steam client has been ENTIRELY 32-bit for years, despite constant requests to update it to 64. in terms of how badly this will affect retro computers. they ALREADY broke downloads on Windows 7 like 6 months after the last supported version. github.com/SteamRE/Depo...

COME ON DOWN TO THE 𝓈𝒶-𝟣 𝓉𝑒𝓈𝓉 𝒸𝒶𝓇𝓉𝓇𝒾𝒹𝑔𝑒 we got 1. Kirby versus Pac-Man ghosts 2. The 𝙢𝙤𝙙𝙚 7 𝙯𝙤𝙣𝙚 3. Music from Marvelous - Another Treasure Island that isn't used at all: www.youtube.com/watch?v=94E0...

the recently revealed Retro-Bit cart releases of "River City Fighting Legend" and "River City Basketball" are entirely new translations of the two games, despite an English version already existing from the Double Dragon & Kunio-kun: Retro Brawler Bundle. pnpgamesonline.com/product/rive...

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....DS? this seems more influenced by console ADV/VN games to me.

"BackUpThisFolder_ButDontShipItWithYourGame" is a set of debugging & code files generated by the Unity engine. despite the name, quite a few developers would mistakenly leave the folder in their game's data. with @xpaw.me reporting that over 111 Steam depots contained it back on May 14th 2021

Pro-tip: If you see a handbag like this 𝗱𝗼 𝗻𝗼𝘁 open it! That bee icon is no joke, these Gucchi® bags really do contain an entire beehive in them~

Nintendo in 2052: we are pleased to announce “Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir” will be coming to the Nintendo 3DS Nintendo Classics application, pre-orders for the cursed book accessory (required to play the game) will be launching later today. #NintendoDirect

....i was NOT expecting Devolver, who's founder previously created the "John Romero" ad for Daikatana, and crashed The Game Awards by having a bunch of guys raid the stage in chicken costumes to try sabotaging GTA6's release, but here we are. Rockstar mercifully hasn't used "AAAAA" to describe it.

the Nintendo Switch Online version of Magical Drop II (released May 26th 2021) is notable for being a previously unreleased US localization of the game, including period accurate translation errors. "shatterd" #NintendoSwitch

that FREAKING idol that i HATE

reminder: #GoomyDay is on July 4th! This soft lil slime friend is 𝗳𝗮𝗿 better than Bidoof~

just saw the funniest Youtube thumbnail of all time.

Today in "absurdly specific trivia questions Wikipedia can provide" What game is so obscure that 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 was a much needed addition to an article?

cool video @sudomemo.net

Wow! what a perfectly normal National Geographic licensed game on the Nintendo DS, i wonder what it's credits are like? 𝒐𝒉....

Everyone knows that the actual originator of the genre is the 𝟭𝟵𝟴𝟵 game Sweet Home, which RE was originally intended to be a remake of. and before that, there was "Nostromo", which was released on the PET 2001 back in 1981. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MArH... (Sony later rewrote the text)

watching the Twisted Metal series the way Playstation intended. #PSP

OMG NO WAYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!! 😱 THEY BROUGHT IT BACK! 🎮 #UrbanChampion2

Playstation All Stars Battle Royale: The Gun™

“A 🄻🄴🄶🄾 game is one of the best looking titles ever.” wasn’t something i was expecting to happen in 2021. But here we are. #BuildersJourney www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p71...

www.gematsu.com/2025/08/high... "i sure hope more developers are given access to Switch 2 devkits." Nintendo for some reason:

I reviewed Shuten Order for @nintendonwr.bsky.social! I did not like it! I also did not like the transphobia in it! www.nintendoworldreport.com/review/72270...

alternatively you might the recognize the funny rectangle from Super Meat Boy, which released *checks notes* ....15 years ago. 🤔🤔🤔

Power Pro Kun Pocket 4 has one of the wildest stories ever implemented into a video game, much less a sports one.

🏈 congratulations to Travis Kelce for being the only person in history to get MARRIED as a result of indirectly reviving the Backyard Sports series. 🏈

wow he doesn't even say "I'm-a tired" when he's falling asleep????? Nintendo has lost its way. selling my switch 2 and buying a steam deck.

Did you know that Luigi, world famous 𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻 Mario brother. Jumped ship to Disney after Mario's disappearance on March 31st?

the PS2 Cowboy Bebop game which spawned this notorious image now has a fan translation. github.com/SONICMAN69/B... (ALLEGEDLY, this is from a newspaper article)

i think the best thing about Steam Deck is the fact it led to a resurgence, and increased general interest in software tinkering there used to be a whole bunch of heavily customizable devices like this. Like the GP2X and the Openpandora. With reasonably powerful specs

Mortal Kombat FINALLY managing to get Jean-Claude Van Damme is truly something, considering the whole series initially started as a licensed game starting him. it turned into a new IP after another company got the rights to his likeness. (video from episode 52 of G4's "Icons")

Pretty bold move from Ubisoft, collabing with Shaun White to make 𝑻𝒐𝒎 𝑪𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒚’𝒔 𝑷𝒓𝒐 𝑺𝒌𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓 a real game.

apparently Humble Bundle has gotten so skittish about the existence of DRM-free content, that even a music bundle filled with MP3s has to be described in vague terms. (they actually experimented with distributing non-game music back in 2012, but it never went anywhere)

"from MicroProse & Ron Gilbert" would have been one of the wildest gaming reveals of all time if it happened during the mid-90s, most likely in the pages of Computer Gaming World. #OpeningNightLive

Not sure how i feel about this series of games. 🤔

I can't believe Todd Howard used the billions of dollars earned from the Microsoft acquisition to buy 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐝 games.

is this...... Famiboards?

another (rather unexpected) pitch document from those emails, for The World Ends with You: Final Remix. Nintendo did actually publish this remaster outside of Japan surprisingly, one detail not shown in this snippet is that the Anime adaption was originally meant to release Fall 2020.

slides from an internal Nintendo presentation for the PokéBall Plus (codenamed Palma) accessory, taken from a leak of internal iQue e-mails. original filename: Palma_first_180201_OL.pdf

Tired of video games? Why not buy 𝒶𝓃 𝒶𝒸𝓉𝓊𝒶𝓁 𝓈𝓌𝑜𝓇𝒹?

slow news day? @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social

Finally, here is the full list of Virtual Console titles Nintendo was considering but never released. Surprisingly large amount of Rareware stuff. There's also some early .dol executable files for what seems to be the N64 emulator.

Did you know?: Nintendo was planning to make a Pedometer for the DS as early as 2006. An SDK was made then, and the project, released under the name "Active Health with Carol Vorderman" in 2009, was being developed by FUSE (makers of Mario Pinball Land) A precompiled ROM for testing also exists.

One surprising find is the script of an Internal Meeting about Brain Age. "脳タイトル会議（1105）会議メモ_051107" Containing notable info such as... 1. The truth about Stock Shortages 2. The reason why Sudoku was added to the western version 3. Blackmail

Making games fully compliant with Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection was hard, as the developers of Pogo Island and GoPets: Vacation Island learned. Setting things up to allow external accounts to connect to the DS required a bit of back and forth with Nintendo. #gigaleak

one of the e-mails Tomohiro sent, containing a proposal to add Zapper support for the Wii Virtual Console. it would take until the Wii U for it to be finally be implemented, over eight years later. source: バーチャルコンソール200602.txt (Febuary 14th 2006)

Alright, so what did the 2021 Nintendo Gigaleak have relating to Virtual Console? 1. 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘺 internal documents for everything from submitting games to manual templates. 2. Bug reports, including a few demo videos. 3. Lotcheck documentation. 4. Emails, including a few by Tomohiro himself.