In the very first Beatmania arcade game, during the song "jam jam reggae", there's a background image with a very subtle "Fuck [Konami logo]" underneath "Gradius Forever"

They represent the intended audience's irl experience

Nagi

#voidstranger Bee

ok now my birdcage opinion is valid

im insufficiently able to provide context

after months of research i've compiled the definitive timeline of the magical girl genre. be sure to show all your friends who like magical girls

cif void stranger...

Dori!!! Dori!! Dorriii #zeroranger #systemerasure drawn to celebrate my WV 1.3M run, yt link below! (background taken from SE's shmupfest 2023 artwork!)

凪さん☀️ #瑠璃の宝石

Really loved this moment in BIRDCAGE. Really tested my Media Literacy. Which answers did you guys give to the questions? 😃

Play Sylvie Lime

BIRDCAGE Review

This game is kind of mediocre youtu.be/FeXC8dQjLVc

Birdcage final boss you will never be her

Something Acerby something #art

I wrote more words about how it feels to be a translator watching the games press report on AI and labor, coming from a field that's fought these battles for decades. It may look like I'm beating up on one outlet, but it's not about them; I've been trying to write this for me and my peers all year.

magma

This is a very good comment in this screenshot Something I would add onto it is So much of the sex-negative feminists you see online that fell for a right-wing psyop a decade ago Do not realize how many of the stuff they complain about in anime... was made by women as self-expression

Horse friends

For whatever reason, people in Japan like this shit, even though it's a button-masher. (Camera zooms out and I'm playing Tower of Druaga stretched to 16:9 on a laptop)

ESP. Ra. De by Cave. Promotional art by Junya Inoue.

ZeroRanger . . . #zeroranger #illustration #drawning #shmup #commissionsopen #漫画 #イラスト #mangaartist

was lookin for new games but ended up just playing zeroranger again oops

that moment when she's yapping passionately

遊ばれるニャローテ

Can we get a single developer that actually likes beat em ups to make them

amused that the discourse over this Miyamoto quote misses how he ignores emulation existing, laments games going obsolete over time... Then dreams of a world where Nintendo grows to a multimedia brand that all first graders will desire anything from (English is wrong see note)

to the cute plastic girls... TAP IN!!!!!! #kig

"Why do people get upset with remakes? It's not like they replace the originals" Capcom execs: We replaced the original games, why re-release them?

저는 뇨무로가 정말 좋아요.....

Evil Tetris

oh hey, sweet. [oc]

ignore this

whoosh ~

the girl in your bathroom

kittyplush

When will graphics get better than this

emulator filter called gameboy advance at night which looks like this

this is probably the weirdest fucking boss i've ever seen in a game from a purely technical standpoint lmao

date night

Attack of the killer robot