Today is also Bandcamp Friday, and I should note that quite a few of the Magica Riot songs are songs originally written by my band and I. You can find our output so far at crystalfurs.bandcamp.com 🥰

Famicom Hisshoubon - The Fighting Famicom Magazine! October 1987's cover with artwork from Takehiko Itō, best known for his mechanical designs in a myriad of mecha anime and video game character designs, plus the Outlaw Star manga! Dragon Quest III, Faxanadu, and Ultima await you, adventurer...

Always loved this kind of immersive music choice interface in arcade racers. <3 Lotus III: The Ultimate Challenge remains my favourite one.

A new issue of our digi-zine, Between the Scanlines, is now out! This issue: features on Jerry Lawson, 2000AD games on microcomputer, and the early days of id! betweenthescanlines.itch.io/issue-thirty... As much as we can spare from sales will be donated to the Black History Foundation.

When live-action footage meets CGI mecha in Old Tokyo - now the battleground for televised 'Scoot' battles. 📺: Phantom Crash, Genki, 2002 (Xbox)

Speeding along to deliver good morning and afternoon greets to y'all 💜

Video game intros and voice acting peaked in this moment

ICYMI, my post this week was on U.S. Gold's World Cup Carnival. Read about: - How they ended up with the World Cup licence but no game, and decided the only answer was to pull a con and call it "to the good of the software market" - How two years was a very long time in 80s Spectrum football games

Tune in next week for part two of "Chancellor Gowron's Glorious Guide to Dating Like a Klingon."

One of the most recognisable bosses of the arcade era: Dobkeratops. I always enjoy seeing how each port handles portraying this iconic enemy. And this one was a system seller, a stellar arcade conversion. 📺: R-Type, Irem, 1987 (1988 PC Engine port shown)

Okay so I did cut this out when I was younger. Tried taping two of them to make different sides. …. It did not work as intended.

It was likely a galaxy-scale inevitability that at least one Gundam Wing AMV with 3 Doors Down's My Kryptonite would be produced once that song dropped in Jan 2000. The Toonami Arsenal web address watermark is a nice little timepiece in itself.

Digging around in DOKAN discs again tonight and came across some prime early gaming meme x anime from 2000/2001 with Zero Wing x Gundam Wing. Now I'll be on the hunt for 0079 and All Your (White) Base Belongs to Us...

GOG did an AMA and they all but confirmed that they will continue using Gen AI. "AI tools are one of many technologies we test and try out, and in some contexts it genuinely helps us push the company (and the mission) forward". I mean, no way they could pay an artist like before, right?

Holy cow! Kyoto Xanadu actually has a reference to Computer Land Tachikawa, the PC store that Falcom operated when they were first established in the 80s. They even look the similar.

The wisdom of an owl greets you as you ponder this PC9801BX, released in 1993 as a cost-reduced version of the PC9821, the successor to the PC98. It's lacking the 256-colour graphics of its pricier kin, but it's still got the same sharp display (640x400x16 colours) much prized for visual novels.

"I am Hiro... The last of the Bladeknights." The first game I ever played where the influence from anime/manga was front-and-centre. A pretty neat action-platformer that sees you exploring an underground labyrinth. 📺: Switchblade, Core Design/Gremlin Graphics, 1989/1991. (ZX Spectrum)

"Free Demo." Always worth seeing again, especially on Paper Mario's 25th NA release birthday. Still one of my favourite game ads.

A cool way to play FPS games and arcade flight sims on PS2: The Gamester FPS Master. Works a lot better than you might expect, and has on-the- fly hardware button rebinding and analog stick inversion.

Time to break out the paper and pencils and go on an action-RPG journey across the Mushroom Kingdom: Happy 25th anniversary of your NA release, Paper Mario for N64! Have you played much of this series, peeps? Do you have a favourite Paper Mario game?

📖 Bytes of Game Ads 📺 Two heroes - one hope. Final Fantasy X. I quite like how this double-page spread ad is laid out. It has a feeling of visual splendour and wonder befitting FFX. 📖: PSM issue 55, February 2002.

While doing some late-night trawling of the Internet Archive, I discovered the Namco Museum of Gunpla: Gundam Shop Volume 1 from 1996. This multimedia CD (Macintosh) is a wonderful virtual Gunpla store and museum with photos of model kits, boxes, and info. Will drop a vid of it in action below.

Another of the PC-98 to Mega Drive conversion artworks from the slideshow I snapped e... a.... *Sasha bluescreens looking at it again and HER* 🥵 Sapphic feelings intensifying!

Taking a byte of an Apple II magazine this eve on big ol' floppy floppy disks: Softdisk! In the 56th issue of this sweet Apple II disk mag from 1986: an interview with Richard Garriott around the time of Ultima IV being released.

The announcement of Virtual Console as a headline feature for the Nintendo Wii (still titled Revolution) during E3 2005. For Iwata, it would redefine backward capability as not just hardware but also as software: multiple prior generations of console games all in one machine. #VideoBytes

The surprise announcement of the return of buy-to-own Virtual Console.

I'll tag some of the many peeps I appreciate and would happily hug. Thanks for being here. 💜 @innerspiral.lol @videogamebeach.bsky.social @barleybap.bsky.social @yunanoire.bsky.social @hereticalramza.bsky.social @lainwithtea.bsky.social @keia.me @mxabye.bsky.social @madfoxtimmy.bsky.social

PC-98 in the streets, Sega Mega Drive between the sheets~ One image of a slideshow prod of carefully converted artwork from their original PC-98 colour palette and resolution to that of the Mega Drive, which I popped onto our MD's Everdrive to check out. 📺: Possessioner, Queen Soft, 1994

Can confirm. This is quite literally me.

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Aura Battler Dunbine (1988) illustration of Sirbine by Yoshiyuki Takani.

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If you like drum n bass AND light jazz, have I got the exact Yugioh spinoff racing game soundtrack song for YOU. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFHS...

Visions of classic Warhammer 40K artwork lit by the cathode lumens of a cogitator screen; snippets of the evocative intro to Space Hulk: Vengeance of the Blood Angels. (PSX version) Still one of my favourite adaptations of the classic GW board game.

A long-lost father, the legacy of a slain demon; it's time for Latok to wield his blade once again on MSX in Xak II: Rising of the Redmoon from 1990. But first, before you insert a single disk, you're treated to some gorgeous box art from Kia Asamiya.

Still one of the coolest video game main menus I've ever seen. 📺: Macross Digital Mission VF-X, UNiT/Bandai, 1997 (PS1)

I wish I was in Carrickfergus Only for nights in Ballygrand I would swim over the deepest ocean The deepest ocean, my love to find 🎶 Dedicated to @videogamebeach.bsky.social 💜 📺: Endless Ocean: Blue World, Arika, 2009 (Wii)

Muppet RaceMania - One of those hiding in plain sight hidden gems, Traveller's Tales puts all their experience at failing to make good platformers or good racing games and somehow put together a right banging platform racing game. Obscenely content dense - far more muppets than you'd think appear.

Three years already since I started this project! Who would have thought it would last this long? Not even me, still many beaches to share. I can only express my gratitude for all your support. How time flies, doesn't it? But that's normal when you spend it surrounded by such wonderful people.

*taptaps in search* Cute Wii Disc Channel Animations For Cats To Watch

Sounds delicious! 🦈 Heading there right now.

Pressing PLAY on some humpday greets to y'all. Good morning/afternoon 💜

A gorgeous promo for the Super Famicom 1993 release of R-Type III: The Third Lightning. I love the mix of black lines and filled sections and the pale, almost eldritch teal. Goes so well with intricate ship artwork.

"Are you brave enough to battle dragons, to battle wicked monsters, to destroy the Sun Stone? - Introducing DRAGONSTIKE" One of my favourite old TSR D&D board games, in part because of the cheesy VHS! #VideoBytes

Tonight, in honor of #DatingSiMonth of the Community Game-Along, we're going back to to the glory days of the 1990s and playing the English fan translation of Tokimeki Memorial on the Super Famicom! Will love blossom under the legendary tree? twitch.tv/jewelryjelly

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The Anemone Feels the Heat was very sweet and cute! I'm so happy for these little gays!

Resonance... Awakening... Infection... Out Break.... If you planned to pick up a copy of Parasite Eve at the end of March in 1998, then NewType Japan and GameWalker had you covered with a guide - and a very cool gothic ad with an undercurrent of eroticism for it.

'protect your peace' and 'pick your battles' are good advice for most, but it's ignorant not to know it as privilege. some people were minding their business when the battle picked them; some people are the battle

A big deal for Mixx Entertainment, who would morph into Tokyopop as the year 2000 turned: Graduation for Windows 95. (1997) A life sim that casts you as five students' homeroom teacher during their last year of high school as they consider their lifepaths and further education.