And ready now for everyone is this piece on Compile's FDS shmup, Zanac! It's unique, and reactive, and incredibly ambitious - and the end result is a somewhat vague and isolating experience: kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2026/02/09/z...

Here's a new article for all Ko-fi supporters! The Chaos Engine is a fascinating slice of the early '90s UK gaming scene; accomplished and confident and either unaware or unbothered by the fact the rest of the gaming world was happily moving on without it: ko-fi.com/post/The-Cha...

This was described in my stream chat as "the least competent fighting game PC port in recent memory" but the PS3 version *also* had bad netcode... I hope this promised patch does fix the netcode, 'cause this game's pretty interesting and deserves decent online play!

Filling some gaps in my Guest Character page for a future update, and I completely forgot that Final Fantasy characters (and special guest Slime from Dragon Quest) showed up in another Mario sports game, Mario Sports Mix. ... I *think* this is the right aspect ratio for Wii widescreen. Maybe.

The stream went well. Acclaim, what's with this cabinet? Explain. www.twitch.tv/tepidsnake/c...

Tonight on the Gaming Hell Stream, we're reading comics again, but... Did you even know there were Killer Instinct comics from 1996? From Acclaim Comics?? Let's learn what it means to have the instinct together! www.twitch.tv/tepidsnake

And everyone can now read this piece on Softstar's Sword and Fairy 4, an admirably thoughtful RPG that dares to question and then challenge some important narrative pillars of the genre: kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2026/02/06/s...

Got a new article for all Ko-fi supporters! PC RPG Legend of the Sacred Stone (based on Pili's Taiwanese movie of the same name), does an admirable job of capturing the film's spirit in both its original and later EX forms! Come read all about it here! ko-fi.com/post/Legend-...

This week's Arcade Archives release is Top Speed / Full Throttle, Taito's 1987 drive-em-up and predecessor to Chase H.Q.. Make it through the multi-route stages within the time limit, and use the nitro speed boost to blast through! Dreamwidth post! tepidsnake.dreamwidth.org/36615.html

To go with the Rave Racer rerelease news today... Here's a few shots of Hornet, Car #41 from Daytona USA, making a guest appearance in Ridge Racer (Vita). As well as the car, you also got Ridge Racer (USA Mix), a Hiroshi Okubo remix with Takenobu Mitsuyoshi lyrics! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj1E...

Also, not in the international Direct, but Konami is also releasing a Ganbare Goemon collection only in Japan (in addition to the Super Bomberman collection that's coming out worldwide), with the Famicom, Super Famicom and Game Boy games youtu.be/zH0vjUf3M1o

Arcade Archives: RAVE RACER will be arriving on February 26th!! Additionally, Hamster will start releasing Console Archives games, starting with Cool Boarders (PS1) and Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos (NES). Other titles teased include Doraemon (NES) and Sonic Wings Special (PS1)

Run Little Girl... #Darkstalkers

My Dragon Quest VII Reimagined article's now live on @pcgamer.com! After decades (!!) of being put off by the game's infamous length, I was not just grateful for, but also thoroughly enjoyed, this more streamlined new take: www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/im...

My work (and myself) relies on your support! So if you enjoy reading in-depth articles and fresh takes on all the games you already know and love, and plenty more on others I hope you will by the time you've finished reading about them, please consider subscribing! ko-fi.com/kimimi

For #OSThursday.... This week's Arcade Archives release, Full Throttle / Top Speed, has absolutely scorching hot jams courtesy of Hisayoshi Ogura of ZUNTATA. This is just the opening stage and it goes *so hard*! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NVn...

Tonight on the Gaming Hell Stream... Operation Night Strikers initiated! Rescue all hostages! We'll be playing Operation Wolf, Operation Thunderbolt and their home ports included in this collection! www.twitch.tv/tepidsnake

Retro Pals streams return tonight at 7 pm CT with a multiplatform collection of games that have the word "fun" in the title! They have to be fun, it says so on the box! twitch.tv/retropals

(For those unaware, Puzlow Kids is a full English localisation of GG Puyo Puyo, afaik only accessible by putting a JP Puyo cartridge into an EN Game Gear)

After 9 months here's another video of the cancelled TAITO racing game 'VERTEXER' in HD. No ROM available, so probably the player have one of the only PCBs in existence or have access to it. Still is great to see more footage in high quality of this game. youtu.be/I6ZHunXVSrA?...

BREAKING: Popular Japanese art commission platform Skeb announced plans to support integration with Bluesky! which they have only posted about on twitter for some goddamn reason!! but still, cool, since this is one of the main things still binding JP artists to the platform

The Game Boy app on Switch Online's got two new games- Nintendo R&D1 & Pax Softnica's Balloon Kid (scrolling platformer follow-up to Balloon Fight) and Game Freak's Yoshi (critter-dropping puzzler). Get the Japanese app for the Game Boy Color version of Balloon Kid, Balloon Fight GB!

I've included an additional image gallery here too - I couldn't bare to leave these illustrations unseen! ko-fi.com/i/IH2H41TJ97A

Got a brand new post here, exclusively for Ko-fi subscribers! This three-part Virtua Fighter manga's a real visual treat, encompassing everything from dynamic, accurate recreations of famous moves to a cartoonish Pai using a Saturn as a weapon: ko-fi.com/post/Virtua-...

Stop playing games when you're done with them, whenever that may be: "Although there are plenty of 'good' reasons for dropping a game[...]I’m also allowed to put a game down for no reason beyond simply having had my fill of it." kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2026/02/02/l...

New article for all Ko-fi supporters! Zanac is an astonishing, and also deeply lonely and unsociable, shmup: ko-fi.com/post/Zanac-A...

Here's a vid of the extra suits for Saburouta in GunValkyrie's Challenge Mode, documented in the game's Perfect Guide Book and nowhere else on the internet AFAIK 1st: Standard 2nd: Hold L/R, press Up, X, Right, X, Down, X, Left, A on 'Send to insertion point?' prompt 3rd: As above, replace X with Y

Here's a vid of the extra suits for Saburouta in GunValkyrie's Challenge Mode, documented in the game's Perfect Guide Book and nowhere else on the internet AFAIK 1st: Standard 2nd: Hold L/R, press Up, X, Right, X, Down, X, Left, A on 'Send to insertion point?' prompt 3rd: As above, replace X with Y

Cover illustration for the Saturn version of Sengoku Blade, by Jun Tsukasa.

Before cellphones, we had VMU clocks, baybeeee

I don't normally post when the YouTube archive of my stream goes up, but I think this one is maybe worth a look! I talk for 5 hours about undumped, non-existent and lost arcade games, and despite some tech glitches I don't think I did a bad job~ Sources, too! www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0aB...

Just a heads-up everyone, no Gaming Hell Stream tonight- that last one wiped me out a little~ The stream will be back on Wednesday next week with some Taito games, so take care everyone!

This week's Arcade Archives release is Quester, Namco's 1987 take on Arkanoid with a few different gimmicks, like self-replicating blocks and speed-up blocks. No UK release for this one, sorry! Dreamwidth post! tepidsnake.dreamwidth.org/35896.html

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Richter Belmont #Castlevania #悪魔城ドラキュラ

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Bell Service~ 🔔

Everyone can now read this new article on Alien Breed SE '92, a thoughtfully made and finely crafted game that decides to chuck every bit of goodwill it's earned out the window at the last minute: kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2026/01/30/a...

"Sword and Fairy 4 is a wonderful, and rather brave, RPG. It dares to paint those who would typically embody the series' traditional heroic ideals[...]as not just its biggest villains, but then also ask if there's ever been any real point to their practices anyway. " ko-fi.com/post/Sword-a...

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Not only that, in a truly galaxy-brained move, every release of Amagami has actually advertised the FM soundtrack as a supported system-level "feature" on the box in the same area you'll find a game's player count, etc. listed. The Vita release even has a bespoke icon for it, which is super cute.

The FM synth soundtrack actually already exists for Amagami as a semi-secret menu option! Noriyuki Iwadare was hired to rewrite all of the music for the PC-98, which he did on authentic hardware, and you can actually enable it in-game at any time from the options menu in every version of the game.

Hey! I run an amazing website covering ancient classics, modern hits, and everything (seriously, ~everything~) between! Best of all, it's completely ad, affiliate, and sponsor-free too - just you, me, and loads of incredible games. Come take a look! kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com

I don't normally post when the YouTube archive of my stream goes up, but I think this one is maybe worth a look! I talk for 5 hours about undumped, non-existent and lost arcade games, and despite some tech glitches I don't think I did a bad job~ Sources, too! www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0aB...

Tonight on the Gaming Hell Stream, we're not playing any games! Instead, we're pawing at the screen and looking at pics and videos of a selection of undumped, unproduced or otherwise lost arcade games. What awaits us in the Arcade of Despair? www.twitch.tv/tepidsnake

Did I ever share this video of Takenobu Mitsuyoshi signing the Virtua Fighter 2 soundtrack? He loves this stuff haha.

Ko-fi subscribers, this is just for you! Clocking in at over 1000 pages and weighing as much as *checks* an armful of hamsters (?) Monster Hunter 2's official guide is a brick-sized tome that packs every last page with useful information: ko-fi.com/post/Monster...

While announcing the launch line-up for Virtual Boy - Nintendo Classics on Switch and Switch 2, Nintendo casually revealed two extra games coming later in the year- Zero Racers and Dragon Hopper / D-Hopper, previously unreleased and lost games for the system. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVva...

And available now for everyone is this extended (11000+ word) look at Resident Evil Village, covering everything from weapon feel to character assassinations of varying types and the pointlessness of decorative corpses: kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2026/01/26/r...

"What's to be gained from spending even more time with something I already stopped enjoying, just to see a conclusion I'm not that interested in? Who is benefiting from this unwanted toil?" New article for Ko-fi supporters! This one's about how we interact with games: ko-fi.com/post/Let-It-...