Up on my site for a comfy read: a new 'Adventure Log' featuring Starflight for Sega Mega Drive/Genesis! Join Captain Sasha McAuliffe and the crew of the ISS Roger Wilco as they take their first voyage from the planet Arth in search of adventure, creds, and mischief. Hope y'all enjoy reading it. 💜

So for those wondering about the hoo-ha there is a well meaning campaign to boycott Youtube channels running ads for ICE, the American department of disappearing. Unfortunately we can't really control that, the pictures attached represent all our control short of turning off ads and views -> 0. 🧵

📖 Bytes of Game Ads 📺 Captain Olimar and a new form of strange life - one keeping a good eye on the tin of salmon being carried away. What a cute ad for Pikmin 2.

I've had new peeps following lately (thank you <3), and I haven't done a #PromoSky in a while. So! 💜 I post daily bits of old tech, game mags, video game and anime history 💜 I produce a regular digital 'zine: Between the Scanlines 💜 I'm working on my first Kickstarted physical magazine 1/2

I did say I was cooking. COOKING UP A NEW ARTICLE FOR IN RETROSPECT! I decided it was finally time to spread the good word about Cooking Guide, the digital cookbook for your DS! Hope you enjoy the article, please share it around if you can! #InRetrospect #NintendoDS #CookingGuide

#Infernulls has been out a month and I'm sitting around 70 copies sold which makes me quite happy! If you've bought and/or read it, I'd love to hear what you have to say! Thank you for the support, I appreciate it.

A fresh heads-up that my partner and I put out a regular digital retro gaming and anime 'zine, Between the Scanlines, that not only aims to capture the spirit of those of the past but also preserve anecdotal memories. Plus, it's a cosy read. 💜 betweenthescanlines.itch.io

Aww, Kit and I just finished Salt and Sanctuary, playing it co-op with me as the sellsword. Kit played it in the past on the Vita, but this is her first time playing it all the way through. Wonderful 2D Souls-like with such a compelling plot and world.

The 🏁 flag waves over the #SplashWaveRacing Sega Rally Challenge! Let's head over to the podiums for the final standings! NTSC MT 🥇 TheSEGAHolic 🥈 @masterwho.yase.world 🥉 @yreval.bsky.social NTSC AT 🥇 @six-is-dead.bsky.social 🥈 @playsushiuk.bsky.social 🥉 @kirbi-lumini.bsky.social 1/2

Okay, let's have a current standings update for the #SplashWaveRacing Sega Saturn SRC time attack challenge! Since the last update, we've added @tjwolf26.bsky.social's time, @six-is-dead.bsky.social shaves off some more time, and that cat of speed, @shiropurrs.bsky.social has joined the pack!

Okay, let's have a #SplashWaveRacing Sega Rally Championship time attack challenge current standings update! Since the last update, @playsushiuk.bsky.social, @fellwraith.yase.world, myself and @kitnibbles.bsky.social joined the pack! Runs until next Tuesday!

Howdy folks, hope you've been having fun kicking up the sand with this decidedly bottom heavy beast, whew - it's been a been difficult for me but here's my own entry for the current #SplashWaveRacing challenge, a time of 2:49.34 for the PAL AT category!

Tiny mimics: a hazard for woolly kits

Let's have our first #SplashWaveRacing Sega Rally Championship Challenge current standings update! @masterwho.yase.world takes a one-second lead on 3 laps around the desert in NTSC MT, with @six-is-dead.bsky.social holding a wider lead in AT! And over in PAL, @madfoxtimmy.bsky.social leads!

The 🏁 flag waves over the #SplashWaveRacing Ridge Racer 4 challenge! Let's head over to the podiums for the final standings! NTSC AT 🥇 @six-is-dead.bsky.social 🥈 @elly.social 🥉 @archangel2147.bsky.social NTSC MT 🥇 @weirdguy.bsky.social 🥈 @overthere.banginsummer.love 🥉 @yreval.bsky.social 1/2

Okay! Here we go! The Kickstarter campaign for the first issue of Scanline Artifacts, a physical A5 magazine featuring a juicy selection of features and articles from the first 32 issues of our digital retro gaming and anime zine, Between the Scanlines, plus brand new material, has gone LIVE!

Coming soon to a Kickstarter page near you: Scanline Artifacts: Issue One. A physical magazine bringing together a selection of articles from the first 32 issues of Between the Scanlines - plus some new content not seen before! Pre-Launch page going live now - launch SOON!

The next issue of SCANLINES, our retrogaming zine, has rolled out! This issue: guest contributors @videogamebeach.bsky.social shares her passion for sun, sea, and sand, and @diane-v.bsky.social waxes nostalgic about Polish VG and anime channel Hyper! betweenthescanlines.itch.io/issue-thirty...

A new article has gone up on my Scanline Artifacts site! Join me as I gush about and take you on a tour of one of my favourite RPG-ey board games that has a Tabletop Simulator implementation: the 1987 Games Workshop edition of DungeonQuest! Enjoy. 💜 scanlineartifacts.co.uk/2025/04/05/2...

The next issue of our 'zine, Between the Scanlines, has hit e-shelves! Issue 31 comes with a retrospective on Link's Awakening, plus community features on @sidpoke.art's WIP tech-repair game and one on The Longest Journey from @johnbunday.bsky.social! betweenthescanlines.itch.io/issue-thirty...

After a week delay to hit some pretty hefty gaming anniversaries, the next issue of our retro gaming (and sporadic anime!) 'zine, Between the Scanlines, has rolled out! Main features: PS2, Chrono Trigger, and Panzer Dragoon anniversaries! Enjoy 💜 betweenthescanlines.itch.io/issue-thirty

Phew, here we go! The next Scanline Artifacts feature has rolled out: CRPG and adventure game clue books! Join me as I showcase some of my favourite examples and deliver a few broadsides of critique at Chief Scallywag of the Clue Book Racket, Strategic Simulations Inc. Reskeets appreciated. 💜

The next issue of our retro gaming and anime zine, Between the Scanlines, has rolled out! Features on Monster Hunter on PSP and 3DS, the Nomad Soul, handheld Zeldas, and piratical Amiga adventure await! betweenthescanlines.itch.io/issue-twenty... Reskeets and support are super appreciated <3

Good Morning everyone! Welcome to Sunday! We're just getting assembled for day two of #GameBlast25 where we are raising money for the lovely @specialeffect.bsky.social you can read up about what we're doing here on our team page: www.justgiving.com/team/finalin...

Our stream for #GameBlast25 is now underway at www.twitch.tv/monolithx66 where we will be giving away copies of Spellsword Studios TRRPGs when we hit donation goals! www.justgiving.com/team/finalin...

A new issue of Between the Scanlines, our retro gaming (and sporadically anime) 'zine has just hit the usual shelves at itchio! We crammed in a couple of pages of the edutainment memories peeps shared with us and we've got a bumper feature on RPGs! betweenthescanlines.itch.io/issue-twenty...

One of the cat shelters we periodically support, Kitten Rescue (Los Angeles), has had new little fluffs in and we're checking in on them on the webcam. What a pile of squish.

OPENING TWO MORE SLOTS SO I CAN BUY TASTY FOOD AND PS2 GAMES~ Stills are $25 and animated Gifs are are $45 and fully stylized MP4's $55! :D hmu in dms as it's first come first serve~ Credit for Character here: @sharkabytes.bsky.social! (Go buy her zine it's great!)

Phew, after two evenings of tap-tapping away, my new Adventure Log (think pre-YouTube Let's Plays) on MicroProse's 1992 RPG and sandbox simulation of a dark fantasy 15th Century has gone up on Scanline Artifacts. The adventures of Sasha, Ragna, Hans, and Gretch await...

Okay! The first 2025 issue of our digi-zine, Between the Scanlines, is rolling out after a wee bit of a delay! Issue 27 is now available on Itch and packed with passionate tales of lands fantastical and transmitted from the Final Frontier. betweenthescanlines.itch.io/issue-twenty...

Late last night, I published a new half-retrospective and half-pre-video Let's Play on the Scanline Artifacts website. I've given it a few editing tweaks so I'll give a fresh yell about it. Join me as I lead four adventurers into a spooky barrow in the Commodore Amiga-exclusive HeroQuest II.

Been burning the midnight oil late tonight on this, what turned out as half retrospective and review and half old-style Let's Play (the ones before YouTube LPs) Hope it's an enjoyable read as I lead four adventurers into a spooky barrow in the lands of HeroQuest II. 100% more hero-ey and quest-ey.

I've not yet done a #Promosky and I've had a bunch of new peeps following and becoming new moots, so I'll intro myself. Hi! I'm Sasha and I'm into a whole bunch of geeky stuff. I also produce a digital retro gaming magazine and blog regularly. betweenthescanlines.itch.io scanlineartifacts.co.uk

"Where monsters rampage, I'm there to take them down!" A deep dive into our experience with the PC-98 Slayers game has gone up on my Scanline Artifacts site! We also ended up going on a different kind of journey too, into the depths of an old Japanese website from the 90s... Enjoy. 💜

'Tis the season to be jolly and joyous~🎶 Merry Christmas, ya all - hope everybody seeing this has been having a wonderfully festive time so far! Sharing my own little pressie here, courtesy of my sweetheart @sharkabytes.bsky.social being a wonderful creature - a Luminasta figure of Holo! 1/2

Don't forget to save your kit's progress to memory card

Phew, it's been a busy day, part of which was consumed with finishing this deep dive on my Scanline Artifacts site into a lovely CRPG from 1994. But now it's up! So, grab your neutron cape and anti-radiation tights and join the Superhero League of Hoboken!

A new issue of our fortnightly retro gaming and anime digital 'zine, Between the Scanlines, has rolled out! This issue: DS and Sega Saturn anniversary coverage, spotlight on two new Amiga demoscene prods, and we'll take you To the Moon! betweenthescanlines.itch.io/issue-twenty...

To all the lovely (new) peeps kicking around with us on BlueSky, my partner and I produce a fortnightly retro gaming and anime digital 'zine: BETWEEN THE SCANLINES! Now on our 25th issue, each one is stuffed with retrospectives and community features! Check us out! betweenthescanlines.itch.io

Okay! A day later than usual, but a new issue of our retro gaming 'zine, Between the Scanlines, is out! Memories of all the feels from game music, a feature on @infernulls.bsky.social's 80's/90s-inspired light novel, and Space Hulk on the Amiga! betweenthescanlines.itch.io/issue-twenty...

Ah, it's just about to the hour for ONE WHOLE YEAR since the first issue of our fortnightly retro gaming and anime 'zine, BETWEEN THE SCANLINES, first rolled out. 🎉 Want to get in on the action with our £1 digital zine, knowing there's catch-up sale bundles available? betweenthescanlines.itch.io

Ahh, our Wipeout Futurism book arrived! Feels like forever ago now that @kitnibbles.bsky.social ordered this. What a gorgeous creation, decked out in our favourite team's livery: FEISAR! 🚀

Cats are cute but when they yawn, they look so terrifying, I love it

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