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.

Neat discovery by @downchasm.bsky.social: Homage(?) to Crosby, Stills & Nash in Fatal Fury's Duck King Stage #TracingTheInfluence samderboo.com/tracing.php?...

Here's a quick one cause I already had these guys lying around: Metal Morph for the SNES. Another one where the center figure is still a mystery. #TracingTheInfluence samderboo.com/tracing.php?...

There's this company called Domikey that makes exchangable keycaps and they have a design with a key labeled POOR GUY (no idea what the Chinese characters say)

For years I wondered what the dead boss in Monster Party for NES was meant to be. The manual says it's a giant spider. Except it's not. It looks like a lizard. Well, today I stumbled upon this: bogleech.com/halloween/ha... The 1980s Gegebo Majuu (ゲゲボ魔獣) toy figurines by Bandai.

Cowards demand games be given 100% exact translations even if it means all context & nuance is lost on a non-native audience I simply demand that Taito writes all video games

Entry no. 50 in the (new) #TracingTheInfluence database comes from the same publisher as yesterday's Thunder Boy and unsurprisingly goes back to the Frank Frazetta well. This one seems like it's painted a bit more free-handy though, at least with the female character. samderboo.com/tracing.php?...

Last night, I showed off the really impressive "G-Zero" for the #Sega Genesis, which featured Mode-7-like #SNES visuals Today, I want to show you another demo from 2022, with a similar goal. But this time for the #NES "Kart Racer '86" blackbirddev.itch.io/mariokart86 #retro #homebrew #retrogaming

Merry Christmas! If you'd like to spend 45 minutes celebrating video game history with me, we're about to debut The Untold Story of the Nintendo Entertainment System. I worked on his ALL YEAR, and I genuinely think it will reshape how we all think about the system. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJvp...

I also added a randomizer to the #TracingTheInfluence page now! Each time you open this link (or press the "Random pick" button), it takes you to a different entry: samderboo.com/tracing.php?...

Thunder Boy takes from a lot of different Frazetta paintings (and probably other sources) as well, but luckily for me a lot of them are repetitions of things I already cut out. #TracingTheInfluence samderboo.com/tracing.php?...

Getting nearer to unveiling my #pixelart secret santa piece for this year 🤫 In the meantime here's what 2022, 23 and 24 looked like!

New images for my Video Game Forklift Museum: Pit-Fighter (taking the spot of the oldest game on the list - wonder if I'll ever find an '80s forklift) and Cyberpunk 2077. samderboo.com/forklifts.php

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

This one took a while cause it combines so many Frazetta paintings across multiple screens, but my page for the fantasy strategy game Duel is up now: samderboo.com/tracing.php?... Only the guy in the center is from a Spanish mag called Cimoc - doubt that's the direct influence. #TracingTheInfluence

I think I'm gonna belt out screenshots like this one every time I catch wind of genre-name discourse on my feed, because y'all aren't ready for how *I* categorize my games

Terror at 20,000 Feet

Oh my, kinda major breakthrough on this: The guy getting hit, the kneeling woman and the guy getting lifted up on the Ikari III cover (two quotes down) are all from this black-and-white drawing by Frank Frazetta! Gonna make comparisons for #TracingTheInfluence when I have some time.

Dunno about the main poses here, but the guy getting his head kicked in to the left is a frequently imitated pose (pictured: Duel, center panel) and the kneeling woman at least also appears on the cover of Thunder Boy. Both are heavily associated with Frazetta, but I haven't found either original.

Holy shit. @shmuplations.bsky.social translated a massive thread of old tweets from Hideo Yoshizawa that goes deep into the NES Ninja Gaiden's development, including finally confirming the Castlevania influence shmuplations.com/ninjagaiden/

A couple of new ones from the past month. Im having more fun in 3D than ever before

空手道 #ドット絵

Detective Instinct is NOW AVAILABLE in all regions (on 15% launch discount for the next two weeks)! Thank you all for supporting us. We did our best to craft a story we can be proud of, so we hope sincerely hope you enjoy it 🫡 Check it out on Steam or Nintendo Switch!

We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.

I misread this image so badly that I can only really hope to illustrate what I saw. ( Also a good excuse for an #art study )

Totally random, but I really feel like the head of this snake in Haunted Castle (1987) was inspired by the lizard in Frank Frazetta's "Jongor Fights Back" painting (1967).

Time to school some demons!

Misread sprites in video games. This is Wang with his bo staff in Yie Ar Kung Fu (MSX/Famicom), or as I've always seen him: a big head with legs!

🎬 Behind the Scenes From greenscreen to in-game sprite. Every character in Call of Saregnar begins with a real actor filmed on greenscreen, then turned frame by frame into an in-game sprite. #CallOfSaregnar #CRPG #BehindTheScenes

Y'all, I know two hours is a big time commitment, but this panel I arranged and hosted last month is one of the most important things I've ever done for video game history. The launch of the NES is a crazier story than most people realize, and my guests were extremely generous with their memories.

please look at the cow from Hard Drivin’

Commissions are open! Open like they've never been opened before! They're the best commissions. Unbelievable really. We've never seen commissions like these before. They're saying my picture of Durin is the best picture of dwarf that's probably ever been made.

Finally, a personal request: I've been bedridden for the last year with medical issues, and I'm just now finally getting set up with a surgeon to get them fixed. I'm not able to work in this condition, so if you can spare a few dollars, that'd really help. ko-fi.com/fooneturing

for some reason back in 2017, I decided to make a website to make fake video game screenshots. This was a good idea and made a lot of people laugh. Here's to the Death Generator, eight years and 270ish games later! deathgenerator.com

I'm redrawing NES Metroid once again...

The costume

it feels awesome to like sit down and just make a feature then be done

One more for the #TracingTheInfluence album cover collection. Rainbow's Straight Between the Eyes in arcade shoot-'em-up X-Multiply, discovered by @nullspace0x00.bsky.social samderboo.com/tracing.php

Seeing the MERCS portion reminded me that I saw this tweet recently... as it turns out the merchant was in fact traced: it was sourced from the cover to a Victor/JVC catalogue from the period (model isn't named) x.com/mega_dra/sta...

Here's another interesting video game one

Never would have guessed that the murderous driver on the Carmageddon cover comes from this old Clive Barker comic. I think it's also my first comic book reference that isn't a Marvel one. @hg101.bsky.social told me about this one. samderboo.com/tracing.php?... #TracingTheInfluence

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