This week's #RandomGameSaturday is Zool for the Mega Drive! This port of the ST/Amiga game features a short comic in its manual.

gathered together some of my old games that had fallen off the internet smestorp.itch.io/lots-of-mich...

In a number of Heavenly Sword's cutscenes, Kai seems to be staring at something that isn't there. Originally she had a small blue 'sprite' that would fly around during her gameplay segments. It was even in some early versions of the cutscenes, before being removed entirely. youtu.be/XVlaIoYSerc?...

A couple of games for #RandomGameSaturday! NHK Tensai Bit-kun Gramon Battle and Graffiti Kingdom. The latter is the sequel to Magic Pengel: The Quest for Colour (which wasn't released in Europe), the former is based on the Japanese TV show Tensai Bit-Kun, and uses the same character-creation tech.

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It's #RandomGameSaturday time! Here's Snoopy Concert for the Super Famicom. This Japan-only release was designed for the SFC's mouse peripheral, and is a collection of sub-games and minigames where you mostly control Woodstock directly, and use him to give orders to Snoopy, point-and-click style.

It's #RandomGameSaturday. Looney Tunes Space Race for the Dreamcast!

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Steam Scream IV is now live, so you can pick up The Sirena Expedition for 99p, which is probably cheaper than a Mars Bar these days! Check it out on Steam and Itch: store.steampowered.com/app/1957300/... giraffecat.itch.io/the-sirena-e...

It's been two years since the release of The Sirena Expedition on Steam, and to commemorate this, the game will be 80% off in tomorrow's Steam Scream IV sale! What better time to pick up the game that the most recent Steam reviews have described as 'Nice' and 'deu mais raiva que vontade de jogar'?

It's #RandomGameSaturday! Did you know the Japanese release of Jumping Flash! 2 came with a second disc containing the European release of the first game? I didn't! I also can't find any reference to it online. Was the European release so different from the JP one that it warranted re-release?

Looking for a party game that combines social deduction with the pleasant absurdity of rating animals, films, and the weather on a scale of ★ to ★★★★★? And it's just a simple deck of cards? AND it's live on Kickstarter now?!?! Guess what, STARFRIENDS has launched! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bra...

I'm away from my games collection at the moment, so here's a photo from my phone for #RandomGameSaturday: Croc 2! This one fixed a lot of the original game's control issues and introduced larger stages, but ended up being more punishing, in spite of (or perhaps because of) giving you infinite lives.

This #RandomGameSaturday is the Mega Drive port of Corporation. I've not played this version, but I played it on Atari ST a lot as a kid. It was ahead of it time, but kind of in a bad way; a first-person-shooter with weird mode-switching controls for movement and shooting that felt really clumsy.

Hey! The Sirena Expedition is on IMIRT's Steam curation list of games by Irish developers: store.steampowered.com/curator/4145.... Lots of really cool stuff on there!

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#RandomGameSaturday. It's OutRun 2 (and OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast)! I'd been looking forward to Sumo's port of the arcade sequel for a while, and I was super into it. It felt like the first game to make Ridge Racer's drift mechanics feel more friendly, but still rewarding to pull off well.

After over 2 years cooking in Steam Early Access, Mars First Logistics 1.0 is finally here! Engineer your little rover and deliver lots of silly stuff!

This week's #RandomGameSaturday is R:Racing for the GameCube. Which means it's also Pac-Man Vs!

This week for #RandomGameSaturday, it's the Patapon trilogy on PSP!

Apropos of nothing, here's a thread of some Charlie Kirk highlights

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

I feel like I'm going insane; Kirk was a fringe right-wing commentator (or at least he was fringe a couple of years ago, not so much any more), why on earth does Starmer feel like he has to issue a weepy statement about his death?

It's #RandomGameSaturday, and here's Tech Romancer for the Dreamcast! Classic Capcom fighting game, with big mechas.

This week's #RandomGameSaturday is Panekit, a Japan-only PS1 game where you build modular vehicles in order to complete tasks. Similar to Mars First Logistics, but 24 years earlier!

itch.io has been nothing but supportive of LGBTQ+ work since the beginning. it pains me to see the community turn on them like this and so gleefully spread misinformation about them without even giving them a shred of benefit of the doubt. journalists too...

It's the last of my old Atari ST games for #RandomGameSaturday: Midwinter! I had both this and its sequel Flames of Freedom, and much preferred the first game. FoF was just too ambitious for its time, and ran incredibly slowly, whereas Midwinter felt smooth and zippy by comparison.

Hooray! For all y’all new players on Switch: We’ve been doing A Year of UFO 50 since the initial launch, a weekly book club podcast, one game/episode per week. We’re almost at the end, but you should start at the start! Here’s our intro episode for the series: eggplant.show/ep-a-year-of...

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

"Öoo" the bomb caterpillar exploration puzzle platformer, is out now! 🎉 Dive into an adventure packed with discovery and clever puzzles, we hope you enjoy it! 👇 store.steampowered.com/app/2721890/...

I'm back in the UK now, but #RandomGameSaturday is another of the Atari ST games from my Mum's attic; Captain Blood. Probably the most French game I own, I was so fascinated by this game's exploration and dialogue system.

5 of 6 x @giraffecat.bsky.social - I Used to Ride a Bike. Not sure when we made this. Probably around 2003?

x is the everything website in the same way that sewage is the everything smoothie

I made the chiptune version of the Team Fortress 2 music for the original release of Gang Garrison 2, the TF2 demake. Just kind of knocked it out in an evening without thinking too much about it!

visa and mastercard deciding what games are allowed to be sold is an apocalyptic level threat to the games industry. phone calls are the highest impact way to help. this is an all hands on deck situation. the enemy got results with 1000 phone calls. we can beat them phone numbers and a script:

I'm in Ireland, so this week's #RandomGameSaturday is something from my Mum's attic: Space Rogue for the Atari ST. I picked this up on holiday in Coventry in 1994, found in the back of a stationery shop for £2. A year before I got a copy of Frontier: Elite II, this game really took me by surprise!

Scavenger was created by author of Nebulus, John Phillips, showcasing an phenomenal shadow effect unlike anything seen before on the #AtariST and #Amiga. The collapse of Hewson saw John move to The Bitmap Bros, resulting in its cancellation. gamesthatwerent.com/2021/02/scav...

Apple is delisting Wheels of Aurelia from the App Store, because it's... "obsolete". Our statement:

over 20% of the global game dev force was laid of on the last 3 years and absolutely none of it was because of piracy

This week's #RandomGameSaturday is actually a whole load of games: Sega 3D Fukoku Archives 1-3. Several of the games in these collections got releases on the 3DS eShop, but only the second volume got a western release. Details of the games in the Alt Text!

ONE MORE WIN Ridge Racer Type 4 Fanzine Digital / Physical Coming soon

Hohokum is 50% off on Steam!

#RandomGameSaturday this week is Afro Dog: The Puzzle for the PS1. This game was part of the Simple 2000 series, a line of Japanese budget games that sold for ¥2,000, and a lot of which were released in Europe by Midas, Agetec or 505 GameStreet.

Delighted to have partnered up with @uk-resistant.bsky.social stant.bsky.social for the Summer Steam Sale. You can pick up the Axyz X Vaporwave Pinball Bundle w/ a 25% discount! Bundle link can be found below! 🌴💾🏛️ store.steampowered.com/bundle/55880... #indiedev #majorupdate #vaporwave

InFlux Redux is on sale, 50% off, biggest discount yet. Exchange some of your money for one or more copies!!!! It's Steam deck verified and pretty as hell (and also good, so they say) store.steampowered.com/app/867150/I...

The Sirena Expedition is 75% off in the Steam Summer sale. That's £1.24, so if you've got exactly £8.76 worth of games in your cart already, you can round it up to a nice even tenner! store.steampowered.com/app/1957300/...

This week's #RandomGameSaturday is G-Surfers for the PS2. Not a good futuristic racer by any measure, but the track editor was surprisingly powerful, and allowed you to build tracks anywhere in the world.

This is an incredible document of an absolutely wild time in games history; imagine (hehe) having a camera crew around to try and build hype for your game, and instead having them capture one of the biggest failures in games up to that point. SO glad this exists!

More game manuals* with comics in them, please. * actually more game manuals would be a start.

Random game Saturday! The Japan-only PC Engine release of Populous comes with a manual that opens with a lengthy comic explaining the game's mechanics