RIP Tomonobu Itagaki, visionary behind the Dead or Alive series and reinvigorating the Ninja Gaiden franchise - passed away at 58. DoA3 and Ultimate, plus Ninja Gaiden, were key reasons behind me picking up an Xbox again several years ago.

JUST WILD BEAT COMMUNICATION - and Endless Duels in the year After Colony 195. A solid Gundam fighting game that would be followed up by two PS1 sequels. 📺: Shin Kidō Senki Gundam Wing: Endless Duel, Super Famicom, 1996

📖 Bytes of Game Ads 📺 A computerized master strategy game - the Quest For The Rings! I've always found these early attempts to fuse board gaming/role-playing with computers fascinating. Here in 1981 for the Magnavox Odyssey²: a hybrid computer and board game where battles are fought on the TV.

FPSing in 48k: The Dark Redux on ZX Spectrum. First created in 1997 by Oleg Origin for Russian ZX Speccy clones, it was revived two decades later and polished up. It's limited in terms of weapons and enemies, but it's genuine free-roaming FPS action on 1982 hardware.

Session six or seven of our Alundra playthrough, and we're once again greeted by Alundra's raring-to-go sprite on the load screen.

The cinematic flair of Wetlands (Hypnotix/New World Computing, 1995). It's something of a cinematic rail shooter so far in our dig into it, with some great presentation and an art style that reminds me of LucasArts' The Dig and Full Throttle.

Endless Duel and Sailor Moon Another Story were the reasons I really got into emulation back in the day haha

JUST WILD BEAT COMMUNICATION - 1994/4/7 One of the ads that, if they weren't already glued to Newtype and gunpla mags, would have let Gundam fans in Japan know there was a new show in town: GUNDAM WING! #VideoBytes

This one cuts kinda deep. DoA3 was one of my favorite fighting games growing up, and even though I was (and still am) ass in Ninja Gaiden, I still love that game and would pick it up again in a heartbeat. RIP Itagaki. Thank you for all the fond memories.

JUST WILD BEAT COMMUNICATION - and Endless Duels in the year After Colony 195. A solid Gundam fighting game that would be followed up by two PS1 sequels. 📺: Shin Kidō Senki Gundam Wing: Endless Duel, Super Famicom, 1996

RIP DoA 2 and 3 were the first fighting games that *felt* good to play for me, plus nobody blinked an eye if I played as a blonde girl in elegant european dress swish-punching her opponemt through a stained glass window. Thanks for the gender feels, Itagaki-san.

A fascinating oral history with no ads. This feels like something too good for modern internet. Check it out!!

Dead or Alive was a solid as a rock 3d fighting game series that was easy to get into even if you weren't good at such games. Other fighters in the style always had one wierd control that was off putting or limiting of the 3d space. .

Such an unfortunate thing to wake up to this morning. I had the privilege of speaking with Tomonobu a few times on Facebook, and he was always gracious and insightful. He will be deeply missed. Tomonobu's legacy and ideas will continue to inspire many others.

Part 1 of my favorite video project that I've done all year drops later today at 4pm EST. I'm equal parts excited and nervous to see what you all think. 😬🙂

Late-night rumbling with an Xbox launch game that's still astonishingly good-looking for a console rollout title. 📺: Dead or Alive 3, TeamNINJA/Tecmo, 2001. (PAL60 RGB Scart)

RIP Tomonobu Itagaki, visionary behind the Dead or Alive series and reinvigorating the Ninja Gaiden franchise - passed away at 58. DoA3 and Ultimate, plus Ninja Gaiden, were key reasons behind me picking up an Xbox again several years ago.

CODEC call! Weekly Famitsu had one of the most adorable game covers for its September 11th 1998 issue. Plus some hot scoops on Sonic Adventure, Echo Night 2, and FF VIII!

I need some help in paying back the university so I can re-enroll and finish my undergrad degree, so I can actually have some agency in my life and be able to support myself. If anyone is able to assist or share, I would really appreciate it! www.gofundme.com/f/help-emily...

With Windows 10 now out of service today, a quick reminder: If you need Windows but don't want to update, you can switch to Windows LTSC. It's an official, stripped down Win 10/11 without forced ai, apps, or bloatware, and will continue to be updated. Link: massgrave.dev/windows_ltsc...

One of the loveliest music videos that Hoyo/ZZZ has done so far. Going to be an earworm listen for a while. 💜

256 colour VGA 1989/1990 sports cars 💜 Fine eye candy from Test Drive III: The Passion. Released in 1990 and published by Accolade who bought development in-house, former TD developers Distinctive Software sought pastures new with Electronic Arts and a new driving series: The Need for Speed.

FPSing in 48k: The Dark Redux on ZX Spectrum. First created in 1997 by Oleg Origin for Russian ZX Speccy clones, it was revived two decades later and polished up. It's limited in terms of weapons and enemies, but it's genuine free-roaming FPS action on 1982 hardware.

Ablaze with promise and some top-notch production values: Demolition Man for the 3DO. A new article has gone up on my site, delving into one of my favourite games on the console. Hope you enjoy checking it out. 💜

Digging around in one of the Spanish language anime/manga magazine Minami CDs from 1999 and came across an issue of 'Adamzine', a little multimedia fanzine that I've seen on DOKAN discs too. What sweet MIDI beats and slice of ESP anime fandom 💜

🕹️ Bytes of Gaming History ⌛ The NES that could have been: The Advanced Video System. Boxier (and more dated-looking!) controllers, a slimmer main console, and various peripherals, from a keyboard to a cassette player. (left) Summer CES 1985 prototype, (right) Jan '85 prototype.

🕹️ Bytes of Gaming History ⌛ Before the NES there was the AVS: Advanced Video System. Had this initial prototype, displayed only once at the Consumer Electronics Show in 1984, entered production, Nintendo of America would have entered not the console market but the home computer one.

📖 Bytes of Game Ads 📺 One of the most amazingly intricate pieces of artwork for a game with a striking artwork style of its own: Elemental Gimmick Gear, aka EGG. Inspired by French artist Mœbius, something you'll often hear with exotic Japanese science fantasy of the early-mid 90s.

The PC Engine is Capable of Miraculous Super Visuals! Reportedly, the first PC Engine commercial to air in Japan. 🔥 #VideoBytes

From adventurous trios on the cover of MSX FAN magazine (shared earlier today) to now this, a most knightly sonic in wooden form for the cover of BEEP Mega Drive in 1992. A new phase of Mega Drive, the issue proclaims! Konami entering the Mega Drive market, Sega CD, Sonic 2, and Landstalker.

The cinematic flair of Wetlands (Hypnotix/New World Computing, 1995). It's something of a cinematic rail shooter so far in our dig into it, with some great presentation and an art style that reminds me of LucasArts' The Dig and Full Throttle.

📖 Bytes of Game Ads 📺 Take a Deep Breath... I'd never heard of Wetlands before, a 1995 DOS game from New World Computing, who were most famous for the Might & Magic games. Here, they're turning their hand to publishing Hypnotix's Wetlands, a cinematic game with a style similar to Fear Effect.

Yesterday was very bad, got hit with extra charges, overexerted myself, cramped and strained through the night, now having trouble walking or standing as my legs are like jelly Need help

WE STREAMIN' Gonna hang out and play some ghoulish retro games for the halloween season! We'll be starting with DEcap Attack for the Megadrive! Come and hang out for a bit if you need some good vibes! www.twitch.tv/yunanoire

Ablaze with promise and some top-notch production values: Demolition Man for the 3DO. A new article has gone up on my site, delving into one of my favourite games on the console. Hope you enjoy checking it out. 💜

"Where's the start button?" *snicker* "He doesn't know how to use the three seashells." *Smashes glass and grabs a 3DO controller from the Museum of Video Game History* "This is how we did things back in the 20th." "John Spartan, you are fined two credits for vandalism of..."

Ahh, this is great news: standalone DOSBox PURE. I've used the PURE core on Retroarch for a few years now, and it's taken a lot of the fuss out of running DOS games. It autoconfigures an appropriate PC spec for a particular game correctly the vast majority of the time.

Let's get on, let's get on Fight the fire, come on now We gotta put it out quick That's what I'm talking 'bout 🎶 Follow-up to '96's PaRappa the Rapper, and the left hook of a one-two punch of challenging rhythm games alongside Vib Ribbon that same year. 📺: Um Jammy Lammy, NanaOn-Sha, 1999 (PS1)

You versus the plate of shellfish he tells you not to worry about

Good morning/afternoon, y'all. <3 Hope the week is treating you kindly so far. 💜

One of my favourite pieces of music in a game bursting with memorable, atmospheric compositions by Guido Henkel. Third game in the first trilogy of adaptations in the 90s of Germany's Das Schwartze Auge (The Dark Eye) TTRPG and 'Adventuria' campaign setting. 📺: Shadows Over Riva, 1996 (DOS)

Oof. Seeing this early preview of Descent to Undermountain (1998) in PC Gamer's November 1995 issue makes me wince after all I've heard about its development. Even at this early stage, Creative Director Michael McConnohie is reporting challenges in retooling Descent's engine into an RPG.

As cold and unforgiving as a Moscow winter, Cryo's atmospheric and bleak-humoured adventure game from 1992: KGB. Also known as 'Conspiracy' on DOS PC where it received a CD release with FMV cutscenes starring Donald Sutherland. You'll notice similarities if you're familiar with Cryo's Dune game.

"He who controls the blast processing controls the universe!" RTS-ing on a three-button controller - Dune: The Battle for Arrakis on Sega Mega Drive. A superbly implemented port of the Amiga/DOS RTS. Snappy cursor movement and a minimalistic UI that served as a testbed for Command & Conquer's.

Six months before Ghost in the Shell's Japanese and UK premiere in Nov/Dec 1995, Anime FX published a lavish feature on the movie that would further stoke the burning flame of international anime fandom. They also provide some handy BBS addys to gush your excitement on the early WWW.

Fancy a snack? Anime FX magazine in late 1995 has you covered with some sweet-themed treats - and a bit o' of-the-time UK convention scene action. Plus a Puma sister! 🐱

You versus the plate of shellfish he tells you not to worry about

New video is dooooone! Checking out this absolute gem by Sonic Team for the Sega Saturn! Burning Rangers! Go check it out, leave your comments, likes and sub if you haven't already! Shares would also be super appreciated!! youtu.be/3j9yV5UOkgw

In this clip of a 1995 Computer Chronicles, we not only get some lovely showcases of the PS1 and Saturn, but also brutal honesty from Stewart as he considers console vs PC gaming. "It's nice to know when you come home from the store having just spent $50 on a new game, it'll work." #VideoBytes