I feel like American game magazines were much better at preserving their legacy than UK equivalents. I’m fairly certain this would all have been chucked in a skip at Future Publishing the moment a mag was shut or moved, or more space was needed

Just in time for the long weekend: we've added the next 100 CDs to our collection of press assets from GamePro magazine! Check out the original marketing art for games like Ape Escape, Sonic Adventure, Soulcalibur, and more gamehistory.org/gamepro-cds-...

The OG Red vs Blue

In 2008 I impulsively responded to a kinship leader’s recruitment message in Bree chat in LOTRO. We’ll have been married ten years this November.

It was early in the morning when he rode into the town Right away he was impressing when he pressed a button-down If your oxford shirt is rumpled Or your trouser crease lacks drip Then you come and find the ranger with the big iron on his hip Big iron on his hip

excited for destiny 3, every story arc will sit on a roll table and once a month the dev team will delete one at random

Ken Williams writes about his wife, King's Quest designer and fellow Sierra co-founder, Roberta Williams, and her desire to push the technological envelope. Source: InterAction, Fall 1994.

this probably takes the cake for the most "Are you fucking stupid" videogame ad of all time

I think perhaps too frequently about how Sony made a "fan blog" posing as someone who really wanted a psp, which was actually run by Sony marketing. This oddly catchy-bad "viral" video was part of that campaign. It's been stuck in my head for like 20 years, now it can be in yours too.

Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes (1989) is a turn-based RPG by Nihon Falcom that debuted on Japanese PCs and later ported to systems like the TurboGrafx-16 CD. As a prince whose kingdom was wrongfully usurped by a greedy baron, you must find allies and take revenge! (a get my throne back thread)

One of my biggest gripes with how we tell video game history is how we erase cool stuff like this - usually because it's "local" or isn't "a real game" So much of 90s and 2000s gaming was just derping around with freeware, browser & Flash games, emulators, and these sort of weird independent games

It's FunFactor Fuuuuuuuuuuuuesday! Join @aidanmoher.com and @tyschalter.com as they explore the Xbox launch, ponder whether Halo is the first GREAT console FPS, gag on Max Payne's O face, and review Official Xbox Magazine's huge review of Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee.

Holy shit Plex. (I paid $91 for this pass less than two years ago.) www.plex.tv/blog/new-lif...

The second spread of this staff recruitment ad from Square from April 1996 just casually dropped a concept art of Xenogears' Fei Fong Wong, over 1 year before the game was even announced (it came out in Japan on February 1998).

i was able to find pre-installed (so no chance for the demon drivers to be inflicted) pre-cracked versions of the games i was joking about, but this is good intel that i'm sure someone here will find beneficial for the sacred christian duty of playing a tragicomically buggy console port from belgium

Lolllllll #birdCalls #EDM

Absolutely gorgeous way to set expectations at the beginning of a project

Nintendo issued a formal apology for a controversial 1997 GamePro ad calling readers fuck faces if they didn’t play Donkey Kong Land III. paletteswap.site/dif...

Speedrun xkcd.com/3246/

So? In high school we made windows fuckin look like this

I dunno why but I get the feeling they drew the Tyris frames first and then traced them for the remaining characters when doing the back turning poses in the endings for the PC-Engine version of Golden Axe

Over the last six months, I've written histories of the 26 games to have reached #1 in the UK charts during 1986: superchartisland.com/timeline/#1986 Here is a thread on what I learned, with links to each post!

DC-UK is fondly remembered as one of the best Dreamcast magazines. Lewis new deep dive uncovers the tragic story behind its sudden cancellation, with insights from the original team, plus the release of four reviews from the unreleased issue 21! 👉 www.thedreamcastjunkyard.co.uk/2026/05/the-...

there is no greater hero in the modern world than the "no commentary gameplay 4K" uploader

We're currently on a hunt with @katewillaert.bsky.social to identify the earliest 3D, pre-rendered cutscenes in home games. Our current contender is the famous fly-over of the Cryo Interactive Dune. Do you know of earlier ones? youtu.be/QL8hQm91P7Q?...

Do you ever think about the fact that the designers of General Midi were tasked with coming up with the 128 most important instruments in the world, and one of the answers they came up with was "Goblins"

We love DOS games, don't we folks? How about 3D DOS games with their crunchy pixels and low-poly worlds? How about fully destructible environments and ancient Egyptian sci-fi flight combat? This is Gremlin Interactive's Sandwarriors: The Battle for the Sun Throne: youtu.be/_5W3qEeq1MA

Hey #ScanlineSunday and #CRT crew! We’re planning to create an ad campaign for video game preservation using some CRT photography as key imaging. Any of you have a nice #retro setup you’d be willing to photograph or let us photograph for the cause? If so, please get in touch! 📺

Gratulerer med dagen, Norge! 🇳🇴

What a treasure trove this issue is! Since it's January 1, 1985, it's really a snapshot of where Japanese gaming culture was at the end of 1984. Family Basic, Super Punch-Out!!, The Black Onyx, Devil World...

As we mentioned, the Chinese version of Oblivion Mobile included music, unlike the known English versions. This was a MIDI version of Reign of the Septims, the main theme of Oblivion, which in-game plays as this 16bit-esque rendition of the song. Please enjoy!

WHY DOES THE TOUR DE FRANCE GAME GO SO HARD well I mean the answer it this is 2002 Konami BUT STILL

Speed Bay (Moto Racer, PC-PS1, Delphine Software, 1997) Video recorded and sent by @sharkabytes.bsky.social Thank you so much! As always, if you're interested in retro video games and anime, I can't stop recommending her account.

“Yo, N-Cube, the sweet N³, Grand Master Miyamoto takin' the big N into the next generation.” (Yes, this is a real cover)

This is the author of the Retro365 blog, you should follow him so maybe he’ll start posting here again.

Mods are asleep, post disapproved names for the Game-CUBE

19 years ago today, Atlus RPG #EtrianOdyssey was launched in North America on the DS! This challenging title features engaging exploration and mapping systems that make for a rewarding dungeon crawling experience. Read our review below! Review: www.rpgfan.com/review/etria...

Going to make everyone mad by labelling Tower of Druaga the original metroidbrainia

Internet, I need your help. I am looking for the complete manual, and a non-cracked floppy disk image to the MS-DOS game "Continuum". It is the US localized release of the Infogrames released "Alpha Waves." I cannot find any information on it other than some cracked copies, which are incomplete.

October 1997's U.S. PSM magazine has an important question for everyone: 'Will Cloud return in Final Fantasy VIII?'

finally, some good news

New winner for most insane arcade cabinet. An entire fucking Ridge Racer room, at full scale, with a ginormous screen. It weighs over 3 TONS! It cost over €175000 to install in 1994 money. That's more than a house cost back then. Not anymore tho 🙂 #chosting

did you know @play.date recently got a full-speed Game Boy emulator on its store and the community is ROM hacking some games to add Playdate specific features and updates? 🤯 (video by @bb.wavelengths.online youtube.com/shorts/xAXg7...)

every post about bluesky and twitter is just some guy's opinion, so here are some numbers. we post the same things to the same accounts (it's all automated) every day, and look at the difference in follower count

Missed Forgotten Worlds issue 7? You can read the main article online - How Japanese video game aesthetic from the 80s and 90s helped imagine the online world 👉 www.forgottenworlds.net/videogames-t... #Japan #VideoGames #Vaporwave #Aesthetic #RetroGaming #Showa

only following accounts which talk about Sega platformers starring dolphins that's right, I'm creating an Ecco chamber