How's twitter doing these days I hear you ask? Well, in Cyber-Lip related news, a middle aged Scottish dork on bsky is out-performing SNK's own official, paid for account's Cyber-Lip anniversary tweet, despite them having a six-figure follower count Saudi blood money can't buy CLOUT like this😉

If you like games & have reading comprehension then you too should be following this a/c, as they write about games & then you can read about them There's lots of pictures too incase you can't read, not that this sentence will mean much to you then I guess

Cyber-Lip boss room patterns: There's 4 random patterns where you fight previous bosses, get a weapon reload and fight Cyber-Lip, the last boss. You must know the patterns if playing for score or if you want an easier clear. 1/4

After his insain-ness was cured by several grenades to the mouth, Konami purchased Cyber-Lip's remains & put his pneumatic teeth to use in Surprise Attack's space fortress🤔

Can everyone please wish a happy 35th birthday to our definitely not insain but slightly evilly reprogrammed toothy overlord Cyber-Lip, who 1st appeared on the Neo Geo MVS back on November 7th 1990🎂

Just to say, this game's as addictive as hell. Especially the Caravan Hi-Score Mode is unusual as it implements a scoring system that's not in the arcade game, where it was just number of kills / win or lose. It's not explained but I assume it now factors in accuracy, destruction & deaths too?

I'll assume this trending ACA is either some US politics or baseball pish I have zero knowledge of or interest in but if it's about Arcade Archives Tokyo Wars, then that is a good thing Play some Tokyo Wars. It has tanks in it

It might be Tokyo Wars day but tomorrow's Famitsu reminds us of other recent ACA releases, Midnight Landing, Gee Bee, Battlantis, Joyful Road & Scion An eclectic selection of games spanning genres & never before ported games from the 70s to the 90s. There's something for everyone

The controls may be the same but the stats appear to be a little different

If it does not happen at some time I will buy a hat & then eat it Dweeb will appear on our screens in the future. I am sure of it🙏

When Tokyo Wars was showcased at the AOU Show, Namco hadn't found a voice actor yet, so snuck an employee in behind the players to shout the game's lines Unfortunately, with 4 screens to cover at once he soon lost his voice & suffered a mental breakdown🫡

Learn to drive #トーキョーウォーズ #アーケードアーカイブス #アケアカ #ナムコ

Mitsurugi would prefer if you don't explode him with a tank shell so he can put in his own appearance on ACA someday

And here's the Japanese print advertisement for Tokyo Wars Honestly, between the running tank battles in the streets & Godzilla & his chums stomping about, I'm surprised there's much of Tokyo left

This weeks Arcade Archives release is 1995 Namco tank game 'Tokyo Wars' War is hell but not when Namco's in charge. See you on the battlefield tonight #トーキョーウォーズ #アーケードアーカイブス #アケアカ #ナムコ

If you'd not noticed already, West Mansion is on bsky now, so give them a follow for all your Splatterhouse needs In related news, here's some 1991 Rick fan art from Gamest🔪

youtu.be/ioRrU0VdxyQ?... You'd think by now every sound imaginable would have been created & heard but then you hear this & go 'hmm, maybe not' A couple of classics but the vast majority of the tunes here are under a week old. Many styles, many sounds

OG Virtua Fighters with Barcodes where instead of moaning about input lag or bad net code you could have had a future where FGs players only moaned about not having the correct tin of Heinz soup or w/e in order to win Evo

When I did a bit of Deadly Sport coverage a few years ago I was able to show that even the best magazines could get confused and featured the wrong pics in their Deadly Sport & Survival Arts previews Then a dev rocked up to confirm he was the afro wig monk in Survival Arts, as one does

It would seem that baseball is a thing that's happening somewhere in the world again today If no-one's being killed by a monkey, then I don't need to know about this sport

If you often find yourself forgetting to luxuriate in the wind, just carry the case to Kaze no Notam with you at all times as a reminder

youtu.be/kvqRGEgHJ6g?... A scary selection of tunes for spooky day🎃🔊👿🔊

Hamster listened

In today's marginally spooky pre-Halloween fact: did you know that the Woody Pigs from Ghosts n Goblins / Makaimura are the angry spirits of pigs that have been cooked? They hate garlic & their weapon is not a spear, it's a leek / green onion

In Scion you need to battle through many layers of a large planet to defeat the core. An idea later used by a rather more famous Taito shmup. It wasn't called Layer Section in some of it's guises for nothing

Print adverts with more info & pictures. Seemingly the game has 999 levels of difficulty / rank to challenge even the best shooters

This weeks Arcade Archives title is Seibu's 1984 STG 'Scion' #サイオン #アーケードアーカイブス #アケアカ

Apparently something baseball related is going on based on scrolling down my feed for 30 seconds & 90% of it seems to be baseball? Remember, your team sucks unless they're the Orix Buffaloes, who have been playing the Sky Kid March since the 80's Namco All-Stars irl🎺🥁

I'm going to do 10 games that aren't for computers or consoles 10 of the best ever imo that me + my brother / grandparents / friends had bitd

youtu.be/9pMjeOKDk9s?... Not a 1CC but I'll upload any improvements I make going forward in either TGM 1 or 2 as I'm still having a blast playing them

youtu.be/o-5Q6n3hrn8?... A new 1CC - not too hard once you get the hang of things but far from easy too. Probably not the most exciting of watches but it's definitely worth playing for yourself

HOLY SMOKES!

Keeping with the horror theme is the Red Rum banner you can see when Kuroko's stage is zoomed out. I'm pretty sure this is well known though Perhaps less well known is that you can see his face for a single frame if you can get him to split into two with an attack

Kuroko's stage in Samurai Shodown 2 features art copied straight from the The Evil Dead film's Necronomicon Ex-Mortis book

From prototype changes by RQ87 to some lesser known(?) things in the game you might not know about from me Different title screen items are shown on each day of the week Sun - Sakura petals Mon - Maple leaves Tue - Hanafuda cards Wed - Confetti Thu - Snow Fri - Sakurasou flowers Sat - Feathers

It's the dawn of what Taito would ultimately do with the Densha de Go series. They are much more complicated but also provide much more information, so they're easier to get into & see what your decisions are altering Just know that each press of a direction is having an impact, & go from there

www.famitsu.com/article/2025... Remember the huge tome Namco did for Druaga's 40th anniversary, well now it Valkyrie's turn Everything under the sun relating to the series including unseen art & new dev interviews + The Glory of Valkyrie phone game on CD + OSTs, art cards etc etc

jk, this is Akira Iwai. I tricked you all & in no way did I just link the wrong pic before due to being some sort of idiot. Not that at all🤔

Who's this guy? He's Akira Iwai, the main man behind Midnight Landing, seen here in 1987. Tomorrow he's appearing on Hamster's livestream to talk about the game👨‍✈️🛬

Wonder if this guy will be taking part in the Caravan Mode?👨‍✈️🛬

If you believe what you read on the internet about arcade games then you'd think Jaleco's Super Strong Warriors is a Japan exclusive boxing game🤦‍♂️ Of course it never released & it's a wrestling game. The only pics in existence online are the 3 from the flyer Here it is, playable at the '93 AM Show

Why employ nobodies when there are actual knowledgeable people out there who know what they're writing about & will do an infinitely better job that other people will want to read They will click. They may accept cookies. They may even turn off ad blockers for the privilege of not reading junk👇

FUCKDOG is clearly no match for Bin Cat but in this day & age you have to take what you can get If you want a game where you can hit people that will be better than this, the PS version of Tekken 3 is out on PSN. Or buy the OG Double Dragon which is a bit of a shambles but has 11/10 music & Bin Cat

youtu.be/zKh4pcrwW18?... Sometimes you find yourself with 10mins until the new ACA game releases & you have 10mins of tunes in your head that should go together. 2 x Rave Racers, my fave breakbeat & an Indian gypsy And no, I've not been drinking, this is just my brain a lot of the time

For absolute bangers which demand to be maxed at all times Rave Racer - Jazz Mission & Blue Topaz Power Drift - All Galaxy Force II - All Border Down + BD Remix - All Dai Ou Jou + all later DDPs - All

Yes, this is Top Landing related rather than Midnight Landing but it involves Reika & Taito air hostesses, so I don't care & am reposting it for the good of humanity

The Midnight Landing advert from Gamest which shows off the extremely cool cabinet for the game The Blombiest of planes

Taito's 1987 flight / landing simulator Midnight Landing touches down on Arcade Archives this week🛬 #ミッドナイトランディング #アーケードアーカイブス #アケアカ

If you see this, quote post with a vampire who isn't Dracula🦇

www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4cC... Seeing BBH playing Boxy Boy for Push to Reject reminded me to make a public service announcement The game is absolutely broken for scoring purposes & you require 0 brain power to counter-stop it, so there's no need to ever play it. Fortunately BBH knows