Extremely goated box art on this early Jeff Minter game.

We worked real hard and did a huge amount of quality of life stuff (mouse control, text logs), added New Game Plus, and a bunch of extra dialog bits for Demonschool. It's also currently the Steam daily deal at 30% off! Good time to grab it if you haven't.

A picture of the team behind Sega's 1985 arcade game Ninja Princess. From left to right: Makoto Oshitani, Rieko Kodama, ??, Yoshiki Kawasaki. via @gamingalexandria.bsky.social archive.org/details/beep...

Not sure what this is going to look like in-game...

This is Clash at Demonhead's bad ending in the Japanese version of the game. For some reason, it was removed for the U.S. release. 36 years later, it's still more relevant than ever.

After a bit of optimising (screaming at screen when it wasn't working, overjoyed when it finally was), here's WIP C64 Delphian running on a stock 1Mhz C64.😀 It's around 2-3 times faster than it was, and there's still more I can do... Should be pretty zippy on a C64U at 64Mhz, so will try later.🙂

Ganondorf in the Pyramid of Power for Super Zeldathon this summer @zeldathon.com made from bristol paper, cardstock, & sketchbook paper (+ micro LEDs)

It looks like Eric JW Lee did indeed reference this Dolph Lundgren still from Masters of the Universe for his Phantasy Star III illustration for GamePro!

Yesterday @reified-systems.itch.io pointed out that Basil's face from this Fawlty Towers VHS collection is nearly exactly The Expression from Disco Elysium, and my mind is blown. I genuinely think this may be the original inspiration! So many details match up

Here's an addendum to an older page. Aside from Michael Whelan, Clyde Caldwell and Frank Frazetta, turns out this cover also takes from Boris Vallejo and Larry Elmore, for a massive who's who of classic fantasy illustrators. samderboo.com/tracing.php?... #TracingTheInfluence

Haven't gotten all elements yet, but I think it's enough for a comparison now. Lots of elements from a Frazetta b&w illustration for an Edgar Rice Burroughs book, plus a weight lifter by Vallejo. Kicking guy and kneeling guy are still at large. #TracingTheInfluence samderboo.com/tracing.php?...

Paul E. Stinson frequently swiped Boris, so I was sure that was the case for the back box art for Marauder (Atari 2600, 1982). Was finally able to match this to Boris Vallejo's piece Nubian Warrior (1978)

Hey the Guide to Japanese Role-Playing Games is back in stock! www.bitmapbooks.com/products/a-g...

Thanks to @samderboo.com I knew that Metal Morph SNES referenced this Frazetta, but now I'm going back through Bruce Eagle's catalog and I see that Bruce referenced the same Frazetta for the dino in the foreground of his box art for Magic Candle III (which I'm sure has plenty more references within)

There's a little bit of Boris Vallejo in this cover, too! #TracingTheInfluence samderboo.com/tracing.php?...

Spear guy has been identified! Shouldn't have been so fixated on fantasy paintings... Not gonna make a new video, but it's updated on the page (might have to do a forced refresh if you've seen the first version.) #TracingTheInfluence

I'd like to post these more regularly, but well, sometimes the day job grinds me down, sometimes I get absorbed in other projects... anyway, here's Sindibad. The boy with the Spear seems also familiar, but I couldn't find a matching reference yet. #TracingTheInfluence samderboo.com/tracing.php?...

I've wished for Arab-made games about Arab mythology for so long, and despite assisting on the project I still can't believe there's one swinging for the fences this hard. House of Hikmah is something very needed in a time where the world would rather erase us. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZTu...

Transfer Point is now available! It’s a point-and-click adventure game about regret, forgiveness, and email. It was made in World Builder, a Mac app from 1986. You can play it free in your web browser. InvisiClues are available if you need a hint! robotspacer.software/transfer-poi... #MARCHintosh

When I was in high school, I was roped into editing the lit mag since I knew how to type. So of course I abused my position and stuck in a poem about Thunder Force V

The Missing People (1982) was technically "published", but it only sold one copy. It was rescued quite recently by the author from an old disk. I give the history behind the author (who I was able to interview) and play through the game. bluerenga.blog/2026/03/22/t...

Packy & Marlon, an SNES mascot platformer where you learn about diabetes through the power of elephants www.hardcoregaming101.net/packy-marlon/

🎉 picoCAD 2 is out! 🥳 Model, texture, and animate - in a single lo-fi, easy to use package.  GIF, GLTF, OBJ, and sprite sheet export.  Available now on Steam and Itch! Check it out! picocad.net Thanks for boosting! ❤️ 🙏

Never mind that DLSS5 nonsense, if you wanna look at cool before/after comparisons of game art, I've got the website for you. samderboo.com/tracing.php

Hello @samderboo.com, this illustration of Kyotaro Nishimura looks like it's lifted from photo. I tried to find but failed and it's bugging the hell out of me. Please take a looksee if such source exits whenever you got completely nothing to do. Thank you!!

I fucking love my job. #sounddesign #gamedev

@samderboo.com Here's one for Tracing the Influence from Idol Hakkenden (NES): Larry King

"The 45-second film, made around 1897, was the first appearance on film of what might be called a robot" HELL. YES.

"Underrated butts of videogames" [🧵1] Ninja Gaiden/Ninja Ryūkenden/Shadow Warriors Tecmo, 1988, Arcade

Not video games turning players into payers since 1977.

Blind Alley No. 419

@samderboo.com Another potential one for the traces... the Japanese boxart for OG X-COM's PS1 port has what is probably a Rambo trace for the dude on the left, and I swear I've seen the middle dude's pose on something else, but I'm not sure specifically.

Shout out to whoever at Taito was a fan of Boris Vallejo I guess

Draw on the Game Boy and share direct to your phone with a #QRCode! No extra hardware and without the internet. QR-Paint is a small paint program for the #GameBoy with a fun way to export drawings. bbbbbr.itch.io/game-boy-qr-... #GBDK #RetroGaming #PixelArt #GameBoyColor

Sled on a Scarf [Banjo-Kazooie] figure made from paper (bristol paper, cardstock, & sketchbook paper) joints pinned with brass tube and rod automata mechanism and base made from brass rod & 3mm plywood

Our journey into platform adventures before Metroid continues. Can I get my fellow Americans to care about UK computer game history? (If you stick with it, you’ll be rewarded with some Japanese computer games soon.) youtu.be/orrewVQYqzc

And everyone can now read this piece on Softstar's Sword and Fairy 4, an admirably thoughtful RPG that dares to question and then challenge some important narrative pillars of the genre: kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2026/02/06/s...

Before being hired by Taito to Chase HQ & go for a kill time in Crime City, Tony Gibson & Raymond Broady starred in their own TV show 'Manhattan Vice', as advertised in Full Throttle

Oh hey. It's me. I'm back. I wanted to talk to all the devs who took the war chest from their popular games (and YouTube careers!) and turned it into a publishing studio to find out what they're doing differently and if its working out for them. Turns out...yeah seems like its going good!

For some reason this article on FDS diving/ghost boob/alien plot twist game Titanic Mystery is getting a lot of hits today! Here's a link - maybe you'll enjoy it too :) kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2023/03/31/t...

i really love Fritz Lang, and i rewatched 'Metropolis' and 'Frau im Mond' relatively recently and was overdue for some other revisitings. i'm currently watching 'Die Nibelungen' (1924). which... well if you're like me then 'Die Nibelungen' already has your hackles up.

Proposal for an unreleased simulation game for Famicom and PC Engine called Monkey Trainer / モンキー・トレーナー, dated April 1988. xcancel.com/studiohazuki...

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Oh, this look amazing! store.steampowered.com/app/4285930/... Not only it's a RPG set in modern-day India, exploring their folklore & myths, it's also made by a team of Indians who have a channel of animated videos on Asian history: www.youtube.com/channel/UCpZ...

With David Rosen's death, bad information about Sega as a company is starting to re-emerge across the internet. I will try to give a very condensed version of the Sega corporate shenanigans here as to clear some of the air. 🧵

Boy, I tell ya. #pixelart

Bonus for all Patrons - The Guide to Retro Anime, a 90 page preview of a book we've been working on for quite some time www.patreon.com/posts/147339...

Oh this page rules. The compositing work is great. I got one for you. This billboard in Jet Set Radio, which includes this earlier version in the files, which traces its inspo to this promo art for The New Batman Adventures. tcrf.net/Jet_Grind_Ra...

@samderboo.com Here's one for you, immediately clocked one. Maybe someone can pick out the other two? Source is a Rick Rude WCW promo photo from 1992.