It’s our favorite time of year: Tokyo Game Show! A cavalcade of special guests pop through to talk about everything we saw at day 1 of the show, including Marvel Tokon, Onimusha, RE9, Yakuza Kiwami 3, Age of Imprisonment, Ghost of Yotei, Dragon Quest 1&2, and lots more! 8-4.jp/podcasts/202...

🌒HADES II v1.0 is OUT NOW!! 🌘 Battle beyond the Underworld in our bewitching sequel to the godlike roguelike. Go Kill Time! Nintendo Switch 2: supergiant.games/h2switch2 Nintendo Switch: supergiant.games/h2switch Steam: supergiant.games/h2steam Epic Games Store: supergiant.games/h2egs

Whoa, The Legendary Axe fan art from snakepixel! Not expecting that. It's true - enemy designs from old games have an unhinged "spark" and I love seeing a skilled redraw. I always thought the auto-charging strength meter in this and Astyanax/The Lord of King (great name) was interesting, too.

Earthion is so great 🥲 Totally worth the wait these past couple years

Whoa

Earthion is launching September 18! 🎉 Nintendo Switch, PS4/5, and Xbox One/Series X|S, with the Steam version already available. A brand-new side-scrolling shooter that captures the golden age of late-80s to early-90s arcade shmups. Dive in and enjoy!

I love that Akihiro Kimura is still quietly making his Emerald Dragon sequels: m.youtube.com/watch?v=InwA...

This convo I had highlights the difference in what "respect your time" means in games. A lot of players want to trade time for in-game progress. It's purely transactional: 1 hour = 1 progress But I want to feel like my actions matter i.e. what I do with time creates progress, not time itself.

Yesssss

UFO 50 (buy it!), Mina the Hollower demo (try it!), Neorude (look it up!), Phantasy Star IV (dust it off!), Off (turn it on!), and a whole messa news (listen to it!) 8-4.jp/podcasts/202...

I just beat this for the first time today! It’s quickly become a new unexpected favorite of mine in the PS1 library. Love the puzzles, short length, and overall pleasant vibes from start to finish.

Had a good time playing through Salamander III with @jpengine.bsky.social earlier. There’s not a ton of variety in the stages and it feels a bit “safe” overall but it looks and sounds great and the intensity is pretty nuts. Just wish they’d have let their hair down a bit more. 7.5? 8.0? Good stuff

Oops, all games! The Adventures of Elliot, Rematch, Mario Paint, Lunar 2, Earthion, Shin-Chan Summer Vacation, Shinobi, Ninja Gaiden, Dyson Sphere Program (the game, not the vacuum), and news! 8-4.jp/podcasts/202...

🍒 Whoa, what's this?! UFO 50 is available right now on #NintendoSwitch! #UFO50 #IndieWorld

Happy World International 8-4 Day from Tokyo 🎉 Ultra busy wrapping up a dream project over here so no time to play stuff for “fun” at the moment but if you’ve got the time and the inclination, why not play some video games today? ❤️

I released my little game on Steam last night...for the first time in my life! It's a super retro roguelite shooting game, heavily inspired by classic games such as Space Invaders. If you're a fan of simple games from the 80s, please check it out! store.steampowered.com/app/3720960/...

Mark returns to hawk Lumines Arise and talk about ‘Jima’s latest, Death Stranding 2; also, Blue Prince bingo speed runs, all that :gestures: Xbox stuff, and obscure Famicom and PC Engine games (because JP). 8-4.jp/podcasts/202...

It’s HERE!! The incredibly talented and passionate team here @17-bit.bsky.social have been working for years on the ultimate physics-based dungeon brawler, inspired by the aesthetics of Japanese action-RPG classics of yesteryear. An amazing partnership with CULT too!

新チャプター、楽しんでいただけていますか？ 開発チームは現在、進行不能バグやクラッシュなどのあらゆる問題の報告に目を光らせており、すべての問題をできるだけ早く解決できるよう、すでに全力で対応に当たっています。可能なかぎり早いタイミングでパッチをリリースしますので、もう少々お待ちください。

Share the last 4 games you’ve played and expose your gaming habits.

After years of hard work, our retro-inspired shooter Earthion finally has its own home online. Dive into the world, watch the new trailer, and hear a track made entirely with the Megadrive’s YM2612 sound chip. Now viewable in English and Portuguese: earthiongame.com

データイースト #ドット絵

More journalists need to talk about this the way Japanese articles do

SMAAAAAAASH that C-Button and join our chat all about (what else) Switch 2. Mario Kart! Donkey Kong! The Duskbloods! Pricing! Region-locking! Jorts! 8-4.jp/podcasts/202...

DELTARUNE Chapters 1-4 will be released on June 5th as a launch title for Nintendo Switch 2! It's also coming to Steam, Switch, PS4, and PS5 the same day! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDzg...

Sure, we may have recorded before yesterday's Nintendo Direct, but that just means we had more time to talk Xenoblade Chronicles X: DE, read up on the latest Monster Hunter Wilds news, and get a 10-minute two-minute history lesson on the origins of the Metal Max franchise. 8-4.jp/podcasts/202...

The next chapter... of my friend Gigi's visual novel, SOUL OF SOVEREIGNTY, is out! Me, Gigi, and my friend @albasoup.itch.io (from the Homestuck days) collaborated on the soundtrack. Part of the first chapter is now free, so if you're an adult, now is a great time to check it out!

🌆『改造町人シュビビンマン コンプリートコレクション』🌆 💫💫通常版パッケージ💫💫 🚨同封物 ⚡️ゲームソフト 🚨永久封入特典として ⚡表裏ジャケット ⚡ストーリーブック スパデラ公式ストアで予約するとスパデラ特典も👀⁉️ ✅予約はこちらから👀 superdeluxegames.jp/collections/...

Tri, 3 Ultimate, 4 Ultimate, World, Iceborne…and now Wilds! Hope everyone’s having a great time. Proud of the crew that worked on this alongside our long-time pals at Capcom. ❤️

Enjoy the final pod before we go Wild on the new Monster Hunter with…well, MHW review talk! Also solid chatter on some older and / or semi-obscure Japanese gems because, hey, it’s us. 8-4.jp/podcasts/202...

I finished Metal Max (Famicom) last night! I feel completely blindsided by how great it was. How did it take me this long to give it a go? Anyway, one of my new all-time favorite RPGs. Can’t wait to check out MM2 and MM Returns!

Faxanadu is so good!!

Time to introduce my top 14 favorite PC-FX games! Why 14? Because that's how many fit on my shelf! Scoring system: Head + Heart + JP Bias. Head: Quality of game design and overall polish (out of 5). Heart: Vibes or impact of story, music, art, etc. (out of 5). JP Bias: Arbitrary bonus points! 🧵

We've barely recovered from our New Year's hangovers, but we're already back and hard at work for you, dear listener, with a brand new ep, recorded live and in person in the year of our lord 202—what’s that? We're out of space? Uh...special Q&A ep—enjoy! 8-4.jp/podcasts/202...

A PC Engine chiptune to get you into the holiday spirit:

REMEMBER: If you're giving a game console as a gift this Christmas, open it up BEFORE Christmas morning, plug it in, install all the required updates, THEN buy and install Tetris Forever, THEN put it back in the box and wrap it up

PC-FX #NEC #ドット絵 #pixelart

Happy 30th birthday to the PC-FX! (Released December 23rd, 1994)

Don't mind me. Just checking how these look...

NEC wishes you a happy holiday season! (A very thoughtful co-worker recently gave me this Bazarre de Gozarre plush!)

New Mario Kart 8 alarms added to Alarmo!!?! Biggest video game news of the day!

Ho ho ho, favored listeners: next week we will pre-record our final show of the year, the annual 8-4 Play holiday spectacular—which may or may not be any diff from a normal ep apart from the inclusion of A) a sprinkling of holiday cheer, and B) YOUR QUESTIONS! So fire away! 🎅🏻📥

Spreadin' the Hudson love 😎 youtu.be/PI9RicWGLXY?... (@minnmax.bsky.social brought up Kita E on their podcast last week.) (Also, here's the original 8-4 Play episode where I talked about it: bsky.app/profile/84pl...)

You can’t hold me down!!! (The stars aligned, and they somehow let me talk about PC Engine, PC-FX, Game Arts, AND Alarmo…all in one episode?!)

I talked about things again!

Glad to be a part of this amazing project. Huge thanks to @jpengine.bsky.social and @johntv.bsky.social! #TetrisForever #テトリスフォーエバー

Twitter account officially deleted! (Or it will be in 30 days, after the deactivation period, anyway…) A shame it had to end this way, but it feels good to be free!

Finding all your old Twitter follows here is very fun, like it's Final Fantasy 6 and you have to go around getting your friends back together because the old world got destroyed by a sociopath with bad jokes

Play Tetris, my friends!

Congratulations to @digitaleclipse.bsky.social on the launch of Tetris Forever! VGHF provided some of the historical materials you can find on the game's interactive timeline