Shadow Man: 2econd Coming is an underwhelming sequel. It ditches everything I love about the first one and turns it into a linear action game. Mike, Nettie, Jaunty got ugly redesigns. The story is lame. Music is still good. I want to like it, but it's rough.

Fun fact! In March of 1891 a group of wealthy victorians organized what could be the first sci-fi and cosplay con, the "Vril-Ya Bazaar and Fete", held at the Royal Albert Hall in London. It was based on the 1871 sci fi novel "The Coming Race". It had stands, people in costume, themed decor...

Blippo+ is a neat idea. A "non-game". It simulates channel surfing through wacky 90s cable TV from an alien planet. It reminds me of the acting in 90s videogames like Command & Conquer and Resident Evil, in a good way. It's nostalgic, even though I never cared much for TV except cartoons as a kid.

I'm a silly goose for laughing about this logo. DiC Entertainment I was talking with a friend about Sony MiniDiscs. I made a typo, "Minidic Player" and we started laughing. Then I was reminded of this clip. :P

That vegetable soup was a great idea. It was delicious and it lasts me for three days. I should make that more often.

I feel pretty good today. :3 Hope you're all doing well. I was kinda down recently. Didn't have much energy with the dull, dark winter days. But we've got a few days of sunshine coming and it really lifts my mood. I'll go on a walk. Later I'll play Parodius SNES with a friend.

Here's a folk revival performance of King Orfeo (Skoven Årle Grøn) by Danish scholars Thomas Bredsdorff and Anne-Marie Mai at a sing-around in Denmark in 2009. Many people don't like bagpipes. But they can be effective in the right setting. I love this recording. Sadly the tape ran out at the end.

This song fascinated me since I was a teen. King Orfeo or Skoven Årle Grøn is a folk song retelling of the Greek legend of Orpheus. It has verses in Shetland Scots and a refrain in Norn, the extinct Scandinavian language of Shetland and Orkney. Here it is sung by Kitty Anderson of Lerwick in 1955.

Folk songs, riddles, sayings and place names from Shetland and Orkney still contain traces of Norn, an extinct Scandinavian language spoken before the islands were pledged to Scotland by Norway in 1468–69. The Unst Boat Song is entirely in Norn. Here it is sung by Kitty Anderson of Lerwick in 1955.

Here's Ewan MacColl singing a traditional pirate ballad, Captain Ward and the Rainbow, in a recording made by Alan Lomax in 1951. Ewan was a ballad singer par excellence. A 10 LP series of Child Ballads, The Long Harvest, he recorded together with Peggy Seeger was my introduction to ballad singing.

Ewan MacColl (1915–1989) is one my idols. Born in England to Scottish parents. Theatre actor, socialist, folk singer, one of the originators of the 1960s British Folk Revival. Married American folk singer Peggy Seeger in 1977. Here's Ewan & Peggy performing "Johnny Sangster" live in Dublin in 1978.

Willie the Weeper is both a folk song and a jazz standard. I'm fascinated by it. One of the earliest, if not the first song about drug addiction. Willie smokes opium and indulges in strange dreams. Cab Calloway's Minnie the Moocher from 1931 is based on it. Here's a 1945 performance by Sam Hinton.

The reason I rarely upload and share files on the Internet Archive is the slow upload speed. I don't have the patience to upload several Gigabytes on a website where doing so takes an entire day.

Nightdive Studios' Shadow Man Remastered is an excellent remaster but not without minor nitpicks. A small number of graphical effects are missing, such as underwater red fog and the sun lens flare effect. I also noticed that zombies mumbling to themselves are barely audible now which is a shame. 🦊

Winter time is soup time 🦊🧡 I made a vegetable soup and it was a ton of work but turned out really enjoyable and it'll last me for two or three days. Hooray.

Shadow Man - A dark metroidvania Tomb Raider clone by Acclaim Entertainment from 1999 Version comparison: Dreamcast, N64, Windows PC, Remastered

According to the official British Nintendo Magazine System magazine, Panel de Pon was originally planned to be localized with Killer Instinct characters before being changed to the Yoshi-themed Tetris Attack.

In a moment of weakness I bought a Steam Deck OLED. It was collecting dust and I had regrets about buying "the same console twice". But now the beautiful display is growing on me. I'm using the LCD version docked as a PC and the OLED as a handheld. 🦊

It's Fox Friday! 🦊

I have this song stuck in my head after watching someone play a weird fangame called Jumbo Mario: youtu.be/xv5XjYJAwA8 It's a MIDI cover of Kate Bush - Army Dreamers from 1980 I like it because it has a waltz rhythm.

Star Fox 64 (N64) (1997) 1/2

DuckStation is an amazing PS1 emulator. It's so fast. Look at the framerate I can get in the notoriously bad Shadow Man PS1 port with overclocking set to 450%. It's crazy. I can make it run butter smooth.

An enhanced version of Shadow Man for Nvidia GeForce-256 graphics cards was worked on by Acclaim for a few months in 1999. It was cancelled. A WIP build was discovered in the Duffy Collection: hiddenpalace.org/Shadow_Man_(... By copying its data folder into the regular PC version it can be played.

It's my birthday 🦊 34 years of fox, incroyable! Thank you to everyone who accepts me despite my flaws and quirks. You make my life so much better! I'm happy. I'm glad to be here. 🧡 There's a place in the world, even for someone like me.

News: Akira Kitamura Recalls Mega Man's Famicom Disk System Era, Mario-Like Prototype www.rockman-corner.com/2026/01/akir...

The next #Nintendo64 classic has just hit the Sega #Dreamcast! Here's over a minute of #SuperMario64 gameplay, captured directly from my DC! To convert your N64 ROM into a DC image, follow the link to the web-based builder on the GitHub repo: github.com/jnmartin84/m.... #gamedev #retrogaming

The preservation aspect of something on the cusp of being lost forever fascinates me the most about folk songs. There are countless examples of songs written off as extinct that resurfaced from remote communities or ethnic minorities. From Appalachia, Newfoundland, and from Travellers and Gypsies.

The Wee Wee Man (Child 38) is an ancient Scottish traditional folk ballad. It can be traced back as far as the 14th century Cotton Manuscript. Only once has a tune for it been preserved. In 2001, from the singing of Stanley Robertson of Aberdeen who heard it from old people as a child in the 1950s.

Jump physics in the PS1 version of Shadow Man appear to depend on framerate. Overclocking the CPU in an emulator to make the game run smoother makes you jump higher. It enables sequence breaking and out of bounds exploration with little effort.

Shadow Man PS1 Exclusive Water Effect For all the blame this port deservedly gets it does have nice looking water in the Louisiana Bayou level. The effect is called vertex displacement. The water texture deforms to resemble the movement of waves.

Differences between Shadow Man on Dreamcast and PC Windows are minor. PC lighting is darker, textures look grainier. Dreamcast looks brighter, cleaner, water uses a different texture. The Dreamcast port suffers from audio delay. Voices play delayed in cutscenes. Mosquito swarms lack sound effects.

The 1999 PC version of Shadow Man got delisted from Steam when the remaster released. For shame. I just bought a 5€ Steam key for the delisted game. I was able to redeem it, it's now in my library. It runs flawlessly on Steam Deck out of the box. I'm happy. I think delisting games is bad practice.

3. Segasonic Cosmo Fighter This is a game meant for a kids ride, so it's over in a few minutes with nothing to it and I sure can't emulate the ride part at home either, but I played it because it has the funny Sonic voice They should bring this voice back imo

It's Fox Friday! 🦊🧡🎵

Chiptune on a 1959 computer! Pretty amazing how warm is the sound generated from it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wubk...

Extremely rare render of Kiddy Kong being created from a wireframe, seen in a 1996 Nintendo Spain product catalog.

Shadow Man N64 is a competent port. Its biggest flaw is low audio quality. Heavily compressed to fit full voice acting on a 256 Mbit cart. The PS1 version is terrible. A blurry mess, choppy like a slide show. It does have nice lighting and water ripples. The Dreamcast and PC versions are amazing.

Made a little dude.

I inherited a big box of Lego from my older cousin as a kid. When I was around 18 my mother gave them away to a neighbour kid without even telling me. She thought "I was past that age". I think of that sometimes when I see Lego mentioned online. I wish I still had them. :P

Fire 'N Ice Atari 8-bit port WIP youtu.be/kJg-z_SWrxc

A screenshot had recently surfaced of the unreleased Famicom game Heri Fighter which was set to be published by Nintendo in January 1986 with a retail price of 4,900 yen. It is basically a clone of the arcade game Tiger-Heli by Toaplan. It is still unknown why this went unreleased.

While checking out the newly released N64 prototype I started playing Shadow Man again for real. It's a cranky old game. Tank controls, labyrinthine levels, no map whatsoever, but none of that bothers me. It's carried by stylish presentation and soundtrack alone. I love exploring this dark world.

The last time we had that much snow was 2018. The ice crystal shapes are so pretty, and then they melt and disappear as quickly as they formed.

We got some snow today *brr* 🦊❄️🐾 The world changes with snow. It makes everything bright and calm. I find it uplifting and relaxing. The trees look beautiful, every tiny branch is lined with ice crystals.

Strangely, I feel great. :3

From the hag and hungry goblin That into rags would rend ye, The spirit that stands by the naked man In the Book of Moons defend ye, That of your five sound senses You never be forsaken, Nor wander from your selves with Tom Abroad to beg your bacon From "Tom o' Bedlam". 17th century anonymous poem.

I haven't touched Dinosaur Planet in forever. I'll stream it on the 5th anniversary of its release. February 20, 2026. 🐾

In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Hooktail eats 8 Toads to recover health. The game ensures these sacrificial Toads always stay in order to be eaten in the end. They are Mario's biggest fans, will always show up, and no action can make them leave.

There's some fresh Jumping Flash love going around, so I'll give my article on it and what makes one particular design choice such a genius move a boost. 💜