it is July 17, 2026 and i still firmly believe Clubhouse Games is one of the best games on the Nintendo Switch console

Surprise! I actually translated TWO stories from Kozy Watanabe's 1999 Game Kids. This one is the first in the book, sets the tone for the whole series, and definitely isn't relevant at all to today, no buddy, not even a bit

i successfully argued for Doom to be among the 25 most influential works of American art.

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If you haven't yet played the Boku no Natsuyasumi 2 English patch, consider starting your playthrough on August 1st. I recommend playing an in-game day every day so your playthrough syncs up with the real calendar. You won't regret it. Link to the patch here: www.patreon.com/posts/boku-n...

For the record, I absolutely support the fight to keep physical media around as long as possible, but at this point for me the real battleground going forward is increased digital media rights. My latest for @pcmag.com www.pcmag.com/opinions/im-...

This is a really cool site that compiles Japanese station melodies, and profiles the musician who made some of the most famous ones. The 1989 ones really brought back memories. sheets.works/data-viz/bel...

i'd like to present my argument against digital-only

I promise you are not the first person, or the smartest person, who has ever thought critically about a video game. This space isn't some uncivilized continent.

Plante's point here is great, it really ties into this idea on humility toward games writing I wrote a really angry outline about, an idea I may still do something with

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I uploaded scans for Famicom 4koma Land: Super Mario & The Legend of Zelda, 1993, Keibunsha. Find it here: archive.org/details/4kom... Hiroshi Aizawa (Moga) 愛沢"モカ"ひろし is the first artist for #Mario #SMB- he's done comics for several Zelda strategy guides.

"One Take" @jasonschreier.bsky.social highlighting in today's video that game development is about solving problems and can never be as consistent as software. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMpM... In all my studying of this topic, interviewing people from the 50s to today, this remains true.

Finally get to give credit to the original uploader - I knew they had to be around BSky somewhere! Seriously, check out the incredible content :D

In 1981 IREM would downsize its main office from a high-rise office to.....a warehouse office? They stayed here until 1985. Meanwhile, Kenzo Tsujimoto, after leaving IREM would establish CAPCOM in 1983....in a warehouse office space also? I'd like to get some insight into these Osaka spaces. 1/2

I want to echo her sentiment that 70s coin-op (and even home) games operating with TTL logic are extremely cool and among the most endangered for preservation and historical purposes. Anyone doing this kind of work deserves their kudos.

so some good news for people who were upset about the rpgmaker forums closing down... some awesome people are archiving the ENTIRE forum and building a new forum on top of that archive! 🎊 rpgmakerchat.com

Help trapped in Blade Runner, please assist

For the past couple months I have been working on compiling a list of Shigeru Miyamoto interviews that are lost, may or may not exist, are incomplete, unscanned, and/or untranslated. There are over 200 on this page, maybe you can help in some way: spritecell.com/shigeru-miya...

🚨Paging all fans of Barbie and shoujo manga!!🚨 I'm thrilled to share the first of three chapters of the long-forgotten "Barbie" manga by Rene Kiyohama that was serialized in Hitomi from 1982-1986. Tune in tomorrow for the second installment! Read it here: sailorfuncomics.tumblr.com/post/8214193...

A fascinating anomaly inside a circa 1981 Chuck E Cheese. An electro-mechanical horse ride with a gun hooked up to an Atari VCS playing the game Outlaw. Apparently you could aim your gun and shoot at the target - not sure how! A fascinating, weird kit bash.

If you're sitting there wondering "how did we get here? How did the games industry get like this?" Cringe as it is to plug one of my own videos, I made a 40-minute video essay detailing exactly this. Labor has been a struggle since the dawn of time. Our sitch is not unique. youtu.be/g1rlCfaRT1I

All Windows users who accidentally hit Win+G are now Xbox users

Life at Xbox post-ActiBlizz merger: Jan 2024 - 1,900 layoffs May 2024 - Arkane Austin, Tango Gameworks and Alpha Dog shuttered (Tango eventually saved) Sept 2024 - 650 layoffs July 2025 - Microsoft cuts 9,100 jobs, including significant number of Xbox staff July 2026 - 3,200 roles torched

An article on the Japanese consumer market from 1981 to 1983. _Nintendo was already dominating this market by 1982 in terms of revenue with its consoles and Game & Watch. _Sega released more games for the SG-1000 than Nintendo did for the Famicom in 1983. buggy-popper.doorblog.jp/archives/154...

Choose between a regular rectangular joypad, an insane triangular joypad, and an actual gun. — Camerica wireless joysticks print advertisement, 1990.

I feel this is a very Anglo-centric view of the site, additionally. Not that Japanese twitter hasn’t shifted more to the right, but it’s far more than just friends and famous people. It remains, for example, a main emergency response I agree, English Twitter, bad place, but it’s not the only use

My in-person panel from Vancouver Retro Game Expo is now up on YouTube. The Q&A section at the end gets very interesting! www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgyy...

Sorry to lib out but I guess my thought on the Fourth is that if it wasn’t possible for this country to really be an egalitarian multiracial democracy someday, the most disgusting people alive wouldn’t be trying so hard to foreclose that possibility

Even after all these years I still find the fact that something like *this* was on the official soundtrack of a version of "Sid Meier's Pirates!" incredibly amusing. Only in the early 90s. 🏴‍☠️💿🔊🎶

'SIMILAR TO NINTENDO'

Good day in Suzuka, and saw tourists for the first time! Folks going just to Kyoto or the like are missing out. Japan seems swept up in the anti-foreign fever sweeping the world, but my hope is that when the fever abates more people can resume visiting smaller, off the path places like this.

Sony is putting an end to physical PlayStation games, and perhaps unsurprisingly, the ESA doesn't really have anything to say about it. https://kotaku.com/video-game-industry-esa-digital-ownership-2000712263

Save the Games. July 29 and 30. Rochester, NY. Worried about our all-digital future? Want to know how researchers interact with game history? What the challenges that game studios are facing? All that and more, just weeks away. www.museumofplay.org/save-the-gam...

Sengoku (Neo Geo)

Hayao Miyazaki pitches a video game to Miyamoto, 1992. Source: Family Computer Magazine (Famimaga) #MiyazakiQuote, #MiyamotoQuote www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5zM...

Instruction Cards from Funco / Funcoland for Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo video games archive.org/details/func...

Shameless stolen from @pauljnadeau.bsky.social - Do not normalize the right. Also, if you think this is about America…well, you’re right. But also click through and realize how global this truth must be.

Oh man what a blow at the end of Pride this year.

Recently posted to the Archive thanks to @gamingalexandria.bsky.social: “And Thus, Microcomputer”, the Tokyo University Microcomputer Club’s magazine from 1981, cover illustration by Akira Toriyama archive.org/details/and-...

the PS2 can produce mind-boggling smooth and rounded players

I keep clicking on video game retrospective videos thinking I'll learn something new about the development of a beloved classic but no, it's just some guy describing a game they played once I desire something greater. Tell me what coffee the devs drank. I wanna know if they used tabs or spaces

This is our goal at the MADE too! Instead of a CRT filter and someone talking about how cool the graphics look, we want to help transport you back in time by providing context with the hardware and software. How did it feel to be a consumer -and- a dev in those times?

I mean….-Now- I will!

Also Happy Pride, who wants to come check out the D-Pit with me?

Bonus old Tokyo spot: cigarettes and medicine baby, the two essentials 💯

Had a chance to visit the new location of BEEP in Akiba yesterday. The new store has barely been open a month, and it’s so much better. Those that went to the old location know how cramped that basement was. The new one is not only closer to the station but near a cool retro game bar spot.