When you hire a hitman to kill the person who hired multiple hitmen to kill your doppelganger, but failed. 🦙🔊🎵🏔️🏔️

The pack has now been moved to the Internet Archive, I've added the revision framework which allows changing the fov and finer control over mouse sensitivity and brightness archive.org/details/deus...

A GREAT BIG BUSHY BEARD!

Just playing a few rounds of Star Control II Melee mode in 2025 with my 8 year old daughter, a typical Saturday morning activity of #msdos of gaming. We are both use Gravis gamepad pros thanks to a PC Gameport Party

Sorry, can't reply to your email, busy playing ASCII Doom

Today, I celebrate 38 years as a professional Game Developer! It's been a crazy roller coaster, but what a ride it has been. This summer also marks the 40th anniversary of our family getting an Apple ][+, which started my game dev journey. Thanks for playing and/or working alongside me, folks!

For the unfamiliar, here is the original. Super Mario Bros. Special (Sharp X1, 1986):

Why is it gonna take me an hour to get home today? Because the President is in town. Fucking hell.

Because "highest usage" isn't an actual measurement, and is vague enough to make a record. Kind of like "organized political violence". Sure, these are all words that mean something, but in that combination they could be describing a wide range of things. Big enough to fit *whatever* when needed.

"Highest usage of Full Motion Video in a videogame franchise"? 🤔 That is one of those total bullshit Guinness World records if I ever saw one.

🟧🔵🔺 Electronic Farts™

This is a pretty good way to experience the map designs of Super Mario Bros. Special by Hudson Soft without bothering with anything else from that particular game. 😅

Look at them go! 🔊🎵 #DOSGaming

Oh, those 90s multimedia CD-ROMs. 💿

Did not expect an Ace Attorney Trilogy update after more than half a decade, but just look at all these extras! youtu.be/h80JKnkgRA4?...

"Which is your favorite/definitive version of the original Prince of Persia?" 💾As promised-- after 35 years, here's a proper blog post with my thoughts, and the story behind Prince of Persia's multiple 1990s ports. www.jordanmechner.com/en/latest-ne...

Me when I see a DOS game

"Your system is correctly configured for playing WAV files." A welcome speech sample for Sierra Online game fans of the early-mid 90s, hoping their sound card was a-okay with their latest release.

Test Drive by Accolade. Out now for ‘IBM compatibles’… and available in EGA mode. This takes me back. 🚘🌴☀️

It's weird to see a DOS game from 1999, but it has such a unique style. Specially the textures, it's an interesting mix of pixel art and digitized photos.

Honestly, what the fuck did you expect to happen? 🤷‍♂️

Thirty-two years ago today, Myst was released. Happy Birthday, little guy! 🎂

"The point is I was defending the fantasy genre with terminal intensity, when what I should have said is "Dad, you're right, but let's give Krull a try and we'll discuss it later."" Spaced is amazing, and you can, and should watch all 14 episodes on Tubi: tubitv.com/series/30000...

Well, there is is.

Without hesitation, easily a top-ten game of all time.

That he is a lost soul, bent on revenge.

Being raised a pampered rich brat has been linked to turning into a greedy egomaniac with no regard for others. When will the President and the Secretary of the Department of Health announce that? They've seemingly already competed their research.

My mother was a big fan of paracetamol, so I guess I have nothing else to do, but to thank her. 🤷‍♂️

If I had a time machine the only person I'd go back in time to kill would be the one who first started saying "casted" in regards to film casts.

Good night.

And now a 43 year old sound chip on a 30 year old emulator: 🔊🎵

"I paid my sister $100/hr to play Daggerfall... it went horribly" youtu.be/LRRDFR9BtMw?...

Here Tim Cain tells the story of not taking credit on a reissue of a CGA game on which he was tasked with adding VGA support by hex-editing the executable. No game or company was named. I saw only one good theory in the comments, but unfortunately it doesn't quite fit. youtu.be/5enqUghXMv4?...

Are you or someone you know skipping GDC (or considering doing so) because of worries about coming to the US/San Francisco in the current environment? If so, I want to hear from you for a piece. DM me here or kyle DOT orland AT arstechnica DOT com. Please spread the word

Are you feeling it now, Mr. Krabs?

crapture

I love the fact that people are still writing about SimCity 2000. arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...

Madden NFL 97 (High Score Entertainment, Stormfront Studios/Electronic Arts, 1996) #DOSGaming

The Iomega Tower of Power Zip + Jaz + Ditto

WinGroove, a software MIDI synthesizer for Windows 3.x 🔊🎵

Project #reverseengineering / porting the 1995 #MSDOS game Whiplash/Fatal Racing github.com/FatalDecomp/... #retrodev #retrogaming #retrocomputing

🛒 Grab a copy of System Shock remake on Steam at 65% off until September 27! store.steampowered.com/app/482400/S...

Videogames actually don't need a lot to be *cool*. Like, here's the intro from DOOM 64. Tech-wise it wasn't particularly impressive even when it was brand new. But it was cool. And even now, more than a quarter of a century later, it's still kind of cool.

This person has been fixing up "Trespasser" (1998) with quite a few fixes and new additions for over a year now: www.moddb.com/mods/zeno-tr...

🔊🎵 PASSPORT.MID

I'm starting to get texts about this now so I guess I need to say something: There is a fundraiser going around about a "preservation disaster" raising money right now that I highly advise you to stay very far away from. A particular British tabloid is running with it unquestioningly. Thread: