Unreleased Sega Technical Institute RTS ‘Dark Empires’ Dumped and Preserved www.segadriven.com/2025/11/unre... #SegaTechicalInstitute #MegaDrive #DarkEmpires #SegaGenesis #Sega #SegaDriven #Gaming #RTS

STOP THE PRESSES. The ROM for the unreleased Famicom RPG Splatter World has been released (in a thread on 4chan, of all places). I've tried it myself, and it does seem to be genuine. If it's a fake, it's a damn good one. Expect (more) coverage on West Mansion soon. @hg101.bsky.social

If you buy Midnight Landing on Arcade Archives this week, you'll receive a Biorhythm calculator at no extra cost! You can use it to measure your humors or whatever, I don't know. I'm not from the 70s. (Original find by Phil Bennett - see article for details) tcrf.net/Midnight_Lan...

Today I'm releasing an early prototype of Nintendo's "Joy Mech Fight" (FC), from over a year before its release! This build, then named "Battle Battle League" (FDS), was created for the 1992 Nintendo-Dentsu Game Seminar. Links are below! hiddenpalace.org/Battle_Battl...

It's finally here! archive.org/details/the-... The errata of The Ultimate History of Video Games by Steven Kent. Took me a few years (cough) but its many errors are now compiled for your perusal. I will update this, so let me know of any errors you spot.

I swear this is a real screen in the 2002 E.T. game for PlayStation. 32bits.substack.com/p/under-the-...

Something very special today from GTW - several #SNES prototype builds of Porky Pig’s Haunted Holiday (from 1993–1994), including 6 unseen subgames (PORKATHLON!), early sprites, and loads of content cut from the final release. Plenty to discover! www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/07/pork...

Getting into the groove of making articles again. Here's one for Strategy X, which was released on Arcade Archives a few weeks back. Includes version differences with the older Stern set, an unused enemy, and evidence for a possible older Konami set buried in Stern's version. tcrf.net/Strategy_X

Introducing our newest collection: The Craig Stitt art and design papers! Craig Stitt was an artist and designer for Sega and Insomniac, working on games like Sonic 2, Spyro the Dragon, and Ratchet & Clank. Read more:

About 5 years ago I started scanning Play Meter and have finished all of what I currently have on hand. 392 issues are now preserved on the Internet Archive and the magazines themselves have been sent to @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social for their library. archive.org/search?query...

Got a few interesting things for you today. First, a late prototype of Heavy Nova for the Sega Mega CD. It does not boot, however... (thread) archive.org/details/heav...

(TCRF-Adjacent Content??) Finally talking about something I've been working on for about 2-and-a-half years: Scans of 134 drafts from 100 episodes of The Simpsons, covering Seasons 1 to 16 (mostly the first 6). This was a big time sink. Hope you'll enjoy them. #Simpsons archive.org/details/@gol...

(TCRF-Adjacent Content??) Finally talking about something I've been working on for about 2-and-a-half years: Scans of 134 drafts from 100 episodes of The Simpsons, covering Seasons 1 to 16 (mostly the first 6). This was a big time sink. Hope you'll enjoy them. #Simpsons archive.org/details/@gol...

We've today uncovered 7 #NES prototype builds of The Addams Family: Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt (1993 Ocean)- including an early version with cut content and different room layouts. A fascinating glimpse at the game in development. www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/05/the-...

For this piece, @drewgmackie.bsky.social requested documents from the Capcom v. Data East lawsuit from the National Archives in the US... and donated his copies to our library! Thanks Drew! archive.gamehistory.org/item/937b31e...

jaia.jp/aou%e3%83%8b... Every issue of the All Japan Amusement Operators Association AOU Newsletter published between 1986 & 2004 has been officially scanned & uploaded Definitely one for the arcade archivist / history types that follow me

A clean video of Taito's 1993 futuristic arcade racing game VERTEXER has been uploaded to YouTube, showing a single course. The visual effects are a little eye-straining and flashy, so be warned! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P85...

Here you go, Bluesky, you get the notification a day earlier than twitter: New article up! Let's take a look at Capcom's Alien vs Predator for the CPS2 hardware and the slew of debug tools hidden inside. 🔗 sudden-desu.net/entry/alien-...

From Video Game Ephemera: Battletoads NES Rare Pre-Release Beta Footage www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mlzy...

Seems like the most appropriate day to post this: In Dragon Unit / Castle of Dragon (article to come) if you hold 2P Start and then insert 2 coins, the second player - usually a palette swap - will instead be a lady knight with unique sprites. This only works if the game's license is set to Athena.

This is a week late, but here's a TCRF article on Dead Connection that I made a few years back. Notable finds include a big debug menu, scrapped 4P support, a location test screen, hidden cameos from Zak and Mel of Pu-Li-Ru-La fame, and a mess of unused destructibles. tcrf.net/Dead_Connect...

There's a hidden question in SimAnt, should you force it to show a message for losing the tutorial: tcrf.net/SimAnt_(SNES...

I've made a bit of a big addition to my Arcade Archives spreadsheet- a list of Taito and Namco arcade games that shows what collections they've been in and which ones have Arcade Archives releases. I hope you find it useful! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

New article up! It only took 6 years but... the translation of the Tōki Denshō - Angel Eyes development diary is finally up! Go have a look at the constant trouble this game faced while in the shadow of Dead or Alive... 🔗 sudden-desu.net/entry/touki-...

I'm not sure why Peter Mount chose Valentine's Day to upload 2,000 arcade game manuals but here we are. archive.org/details/@pet...

Thunder Fox has one of those Double Dragon-style twists wherein after the final boss is defeated in a 2P game, both players are compelled by forces beyond their control to fight each other. Behold:

The Video Game History Foundation Library is now in early access. For free. For everyone. Wherever you are. Read more: gamehistory.org/vghf-library...

I'm going to try to explain how Thunder Fox's game clear score bonuses work. It's a little confusing and more than a bit buggy. This only applies to a 1CC game; otherwise, the player gets no bonus. 1. The player gets 400,000 points for each life remaining. The "100000PTS" text is incorrect.

Thunder Fox is coming to the Arcade Archives! Here's the TCRF article on the game I made like 3 years ago, which has an alternate, radder title, details on debug functions, and many, many alternate and unused graphics. tcrf.net/Thunder_Fox_...

Merry (S)NESMas, everyone! Presenting a collection of NES and SNES prototypes, courtesy of @frankcifaldi.bsky.social of @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social, Josh Hamblin of SideQuest Games, and Josh Byerly Tune in tomorrow for our second wave of releases! hiddenpalace.org/News/NESMas_...

@detchibe.bsky.social has been doing *awesome* work with scans, in particular those of Game-PIA and Gekkan Coin Journal, the latter of which is a gold mine of game center info/images. I actually found a previously unknown Sega game center in one, which I put on Retro: segaretro.org/Amusement_Pl...

Final Blow is out on Arcade Archives. There's a hidden image that can be triggered in attract mode that's a sly reference to similar images found in Taito Kumagaya Lab's games - see link(s) for more on that and other content. tcrf.net/Final_Blow_(... x.com/ZackmannX/st... #ファイナルブロー #アーケードアーカイブス

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