incidentally I tried to use libretro for a project a few months ago and it was... you know how people say "it's the worst option, except all other options", what they usually mean is "the problem space is inherently hard". This one felt like the worst by default, because there simply WERE no others

Me: Can we get a PS2? Mom: We have a PS2 at home. The PS/2 at home:

i'm seeing people say "you don't need discord, you don't need emoji, you can just use irc", and uh, does irc not support multibyte unicode characters? because unless you're going out of your way to filter it, good unicode support brings emoji for free! it's actually a nice thing about emoji

Kind of a fun map; interesting that I'm not actually very close to the Retro Computing clusters... I guess I'm hanging out with the "pros"

why we stop making computers look fresh

decided to search for a company that put out a stupid ad. search engine gave me a much better recommendation on how to spend my time

This is the Casio #WQV-1, the world's first camera watch. Originally you would sync via an IR serial dongle on Win98, but most of the IR pods are long gone. I made a device that syncs, converts, and mounts as a USB drive to get your photos!

Thou nosey users with peering eyes, Readers of this file, I despise, I'll create a curse of fear and dread, Hackers, I do not like," Chris said...

i heard you were looking for an illustration of Olive Oyl using her nintendo famicom, with the tv-net modem peripheral plugged into it, so she can use "daiwa my trade", and make trades on the japanese stock market, with the help of popeye. well here you go

"Kaneda" by Groogy (2024), a gorgeous recreation of the iconic bike slide from Akira on the ZX Spectrum in its standard graphics mode.

There's something incredibly funny about ugly American Mega Man being on display at a museum

Commission work done for @dogemario12.bsky.social Tiffany makes a devastating blow to Morrigan #fanart #pixelart #spritework #anime #manga #Boxing #punchout #crt #CAPCOM

was that an ad telling me to watch an ad; man we have really taken advertising to an extremely high level of... something

I love video games

Spent the better part of 3 hours trying to get an old Pentium 3 dell to work. I failed. So I'm buying a Compaq Presario with a 1GHZ AMD Athlon with Enhanced 3DNow!™ Technology instead.

“The choice is made. The destroyer of worlds has come.” “Whoa! Whoa! Nobody 'choosed' anything! Did you choose anything?” “No.” “Did you?” ... "Cloud?" "I tried to think of the most harmless thing. Something I loved from my childhood, something that could never, ever possibly destroy us:"

New blog post! How did Jaleco adapt their Mega System 1 hardware to the needs of mahjong? And the plot of this game is... what? Mahjong Daireikai! nicole.express/2026/spooky-...

blasting jock jams as i turkish ice cream man this little brat himejoshi-style

Today's #randomgamesaturday is this scuffed box of Rescue on Fractalus from LucasFilm Games for your Commodore 64 or Atari 8-bit. I wonder if this game was the reason I didn't understand the hype about the new 3D of PS1/SAT/N64 gen cause we always had 3D games as far as I knew. Want to play again

The Oregon Trail predates Rogue by 9 years, therefore all roguelikes are technically Oregon-likes

i'm not gonna sugar-coat it — your intuition is absolutely correct, the sega master system release of Shanghai (1988) definitely released after Sega was actively working to utilize AI into their ecosystem.

because Random Stranger is completely correct about Shadow of the Beast, I will choose a random game that is a good Master System game: Shanghai The fact that this never got a Japanese release, despite having an FM soundtrack and Japan loving Shanghai, really shows what a flop the SMS was there

man I've got to say if I were a horrible person who inherited a brutal dictatorship from my father I'd have had a way better taste in video games. like when the people rise up and righteously burn down my palace in anger they'd be destroying irreplaceable arcade machines and prototypes

The world has 8.3 billion people… And most of them live in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

for whatever reason, the boss before rubas is two giant pogging lion faces. i had thought these might be two separate objects, but as is typical deadly towers surprises: it is just one, manipulating its 17 other friends

watch the old jerry beans cm real quick before you scroll by

I think if I'm reading an article and you pop up a thing for the newsletter, and then do it again when I open another article even though you could've saved the fact that I hid it last time, your web designer should have to be sad. like maybe watch a sad movie or something idk

TFW it's 1982 and you gotta find the Dragonballs

STREETS OF RAGE SEGA 1991 SEGA GENESIS

Which mahjong alignment are you? 🀄

I much prefer the significantly dumber PS2 version of V.I.P.

QSound Chips have been developed by QSound and incorporate QSound's proprietary QSound sound enhancement technology.

arcade mahjong games only let you win so they can smack you down harder later; i didn't even know sanrenkou (三連刻) was a thing before getting hit with it

My New Year's Resolution is to be late with everything.

logging on

rational brain: Unaltered Yagi Double Sega Logo is probably a one-off fluke, it can't hurt you the Unaltered Yagi Double Sega Logo:

Space Ava is now in Smash Bros

Another of the PC-98 to Mega Drive conversion artworks from the slideshow I snapped e... a.... *Sasha bluescreens looking at it again and HER* 🥵 Sapphic feelings intensifying!

Finally, aluminum electrolytic capacitors for women.

ready to feel old? the great pyramid was built 35,000 years before the great pyramid was even built

There is an actual argument that this curse actually worked.

here at google docs, we decided it'd be cool to replace 2/3 with ⅔ automatically. isn't it cool, it's a dedicated two-thirds emoji what the hell is "february 3rd" (or "march 2nd", for those in that cultural region), sounds like a myth to me

another "I removed the lead from this song, you can probably still tell what it is". it's only one of the best songs on the MD/genesis, after all

This sort of design ethic really fascinated me, especially with the Batman games where more influence was taken from the comics instead of the movies. Batman: Caped Crusader, for example, made comic panels the playable area and overlapped them when entering a new "room".

Celebrating 30 years of Garegga with a Glow Squid double KO (somehow more fitting of the occasion than if I had stayed alive a few more frames and cleared again tbh). Here’s to another 30 years of rank control and medal chaining!