My write up about ligatures and this broken joke from 2020: glennf.medium.com/dont-coffin-...

Personally I love when other systems' graphics limitations stick around on a new platform that can do better, and EGA-on-PC Engine definitely satisfies that

This post made me think of the one segmented LCD golf game I have on Golfshrine right now, a Radica World Class Golf from just about the turn of Y2K, and how weird it is that this game actually has an on-screen swing meter. Because there are a lot of segments on that meter.

New blog post! A smaller one, taking a look at some LCD games and how the segmented LCD game declined over the course of the 1980's. nicole.express/2025/gentlem...

Oh fuck yeah!

I made a joke in my main Discord server about DOOM E1M1 being in a major key and @abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com actually made it. Jesus fucking Christ listen to this hahahaha

I love this Famista commercial too much. Turn on the sound if you don't understand why.

what do you mean "the near-complete source code to Princess Maker 1 and 2 was quietly uploaded to GitHub a few months ago and nobody noticed" github.com/ritsuro/Prin... github.com/ritsuro/Prin...

You have no obligation to match the tone that marketing materials used to describe old media. Instead of "Sonic and Tails battle across Angel Island to once more defeat the nefarious Doctor Robotnik," try "We live in a fallen world. But I am soothed when animal boys traverse the colorful maze."

High frame rates and sharp, untextured polys: when technical limitation transcends into an aesthetic. 📺: F/A-18 Hornet, Graphic Simulations, 1993 (Apple Mac)

Ah, the Mexican prototype forger returns! This is the latest in a series of similar forgeries that rip off game collectors around Mexico City. The scammer peels labels off retail games to make them kinda look like prototypes to the untrained eye. www.reddit.com/r/retrogamin...

They're back and the Cookie's Bustle posts are still up; good on Bluesky staff

Today's random game Saturday is Madou King Granzort for the SuperGrafx! The spiritual sequel to Keith Courage in Alpha Zones, this has got to be in my top 10 for the SuperGrafx. ...wait a second, I'm being informed of something

Happy anniversary to the Phantasy Star series! ⭐ I just wanted to redraw that title screen.

Not basic enough? How about one of several LCD game articles I've written this year instead? There's some clever "sprite" reuse in here too, allowing for larger bosses to appear. kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2025/07/23/f...

this was one of the funnier changes they had to make to the newer versions of sa2b no vmu or gba to connect to so all the options they had for those were gutted and now there's just a chao garbage chute in every garden

Finally did a silly little digital preservation bucket list item: scanned the actual CMYK plates used to print a video game box using an oversized film scanner, and combined them in Photoshop to make a "perfect" digital version.

🔊 Quartet Theme ➡️ By Katsuhiro Hayashi 👾 Quartet, 1986, Sega [ vgmrips.net/packs/pack/q... ] #DinoArcadeTunes

NOSEGAY is a word

PicoCAD model No. 2: Neo Geo candy cab. I’m having a lot of fun approximating elements via pixels. Bonus points if anyone can identify any (or all!) of the mini marquees.

This computer is art

The most highly anticipated Saturn translation has arrived! Yes, Airs Adventure is out in English, just in time to liven the holidays!! Credits: @hitomi2500.bsky.social - Hacking @snowyaria.goodorevengreat.games - Translation @nichetopic.bsky.social - Graphics @blueskyrunner.bsky.social - QA

the Cookie's Bustle nonsense continues ... the blueksy account @romhack.ing got suspended over it this time

The AI em dash discourse has caused me to notice a weird habit in my use of dashes-- I tend to only place a space after the dash, rather than on both sides or on neither. Wonder where I picked this up... guess I should stick with it since an AI probably won't do it

Did you know? They called it "Final Fantasy" because they hated video games and wanted it to be the last one ever. But when it sold super well the name just stuck

Service Games "Complex"? I find it quite simple,

I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.

Did you like my post on Sorcer Striker? Then you'll probably enjoy Kimimi's post on the sequel, which is a really unique game in its own right

👾 Genpei Tōma Den (1986) ➡️ By Namco [ youtu.be/54JEkmE3Pns ] #DinoArcadeGifs

CATS/KITTY3.GIF

Thanks, google. Calling Chlorine Pentafluoride an 'irritant' sounds like calling a chainsaw an exfoliator. Water? Fire. Sand? Fire. Asbestos? Fire. Gold? Fire. CHLORINE PENTAFLUORIDE WILL OXIDISE FIRE ITSELF AND SET NORMAL FIRE ON FIRE. 'irritant'

Latest Atari Archive site update features Othello! Programmed by Ed Logg of Atari's coin-op division, this marks Atari's final text-label release and the company's last foray into translating board games to video ones.

This should've been there from day 1 (at least a single about:config option rather than a whole bunch), but I'm glad Mozilla seems to be responding to the backlash at least

Aww, a package arrived from a dear friend, and one of the things inside it was a floppy disk with photos of Machida and Akihabara taken this year with a late 90s Floppy Mavica. 💜 Will post more below. @letelyre.bsky.social

There’s a very small restock of Undercover Shot, my NES game, available over on homebrew factory right now. usa.homebrew-factory.com/nes/138-unde...

Man, I initially parsed this "holiday tuna tree" as a set of tuna sushi roll pieces bound into a tree shape by a roll of nori and thought, "hmm, not bad", so once my brain fully resolved the details it was QUITE a comedown

gamehistory.org/segachannel/ Back in early 90s at SEGA of Japan, we did not have a chance to see SEGA CHANNEL in operation so this article and the video is absolutely fascinating...!

The slender continental noodles and abstract squishiness of a Game Boy world map. 📺: InfoGenius Systems Productivity Pak: Personal Organizer and Phonebook, 1991

It took a LOT of doing, but at long last I got both Snatcher and SD Snatcher with full SCC+ expansion audio running on my new MSX2! (Also Metal Gear 1 and 2, naturally, those were such a breeze by comparison 😮‍💨)

"ATARI's PAC-MAN, which differs slightly from the original..." Raggin' too hard on the original Atari 2600 port of Pac-Man is old hat, and we can see here in this '81 VCS catalogue that they're pretty upfront with what it looks like. Even so, I still had a chuckle at their wording here.

Honey on the Road is one of those games that is worth playing even if it's debatable whether it's a "good game", this video is a good summary

“try water fox or ice weasel” try chill penguin. install flame mammoth. you just download bubble crab. literally just use boomer kuwanger. sting chameleon has a search bar, use it to find toxic seahorse.

Not Christmas related, but I love the shimasen version of Moonlight Densetsu and now I wish to share that with all of you youtu.be/bKQp5zHMwC8

C.G. Gallery 1 Elan // Team Z&3N // PC-98

the all time greatest me and who

A longstanding Frogger mystery resolved! For those who don't want to visit twitter: Leader (Director): Takeshi Hara Programmer: Takeshi Hara, Takahide Hoso, Keiichi Miyoshi (part-time) Graphics: Unknown Sound: Takahide Hoso, Hirokazu Fujinaka, Shigeru Fukutake, Masahiro Inoue

It's pretty nice that so many people are excited about The Outfoxies getting an ACA release. This happened with the 3D Namco rereleases too, so I hope it gets people to check out some of the other Arcade Archives rereleases. Arcade games kick ass! Play arcade games!!