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The revelation that the blobby scientist has given me may be a big deal. But consider that we also finally are able to get into deeper, more ancient areas and find THIS there? Wonder what happened to make it in the 1000 years…
#Timespinner#retrovania#Lunar Ray games#Chuckle Fish#Adventure#Metroidvania#Platformer#2D#Science#Indie#Female protagonist#Pixel Graphics#LGBTQ+#GOG#steam#time travel#magic#fantasy#retro#letsplay#youtube#Youtube
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So I just got my kickstarter backer’s Steam code for Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon and gave it a spin.
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*ahem* It is an excellent time. Something to hold me over until Ritual of the Night is finally out. It reminds me heavily of Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse/Akumajo Densetsu on the NES and Famicom. Especially the soundtrack. They seem to have used the same sound system that was used in the Famicom version of Castlevania III and it is excellent.
#retro#retrogaming#bloodstained#curse of the moon#iga#castlevania-inspired#retrovania#gothic#horror#gothic horror
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Sticker of the Day! Full Color on White Vinyl! 6"x3" Square/Rectangle Cut! Digitally Printed! #stickeroftheday #stickinittothemansince93 #stickerguy #fullcolor #whitevinyl #retrovania #nintendo #castlevania #custom #digitalprint #vinyl #shoplocal #renonevada #stickertheearth #sticker #squarecut #rectangle (at Sticker Guy) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1Hkxfhha8V/?igshid=4quolvfewqh1
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That time a fantasy hack & slash platformer jumped the shark into Gieger territory.
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Screenshots from the bootleg NES fighting game Kart Fighter (1994), mostly taken from these two reviews:
http://retrovania-vgjunk.blogspot.com/2015/01/kart-fighter-nes.html
http://randomacc.net/system/funlicensed/kart_fighter.shtml
Part 2 of this post | Bootlegs tag | Kart Fighter tag
#kart fighter#nes#mario#bootlegs#gaming#games#pixels#my posts#my uploads#my uploads (jank)#hummer team#luigi#donkey kong
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Nothing Sez “Student Game” More Than The Dinosaur Evening News (that’s a good thing, btw)
The above is Mediazoic, which takes place in an alternate reality in which dinosaurs have come back to rule the earth and they've hired you, puny human, to make sure their televised broadcasts are dino family safe.
You moderate comments left on message boards, censor full frontal dino nudity, and so on. It's a student game alright, and one of my top picks from the NYU Game Center Student Showcase2018!
I was also fond of Dreams For Your Computer because CRTs, magnets, and cats...
... Here's what it looks like in action, btw.
Though the one game that I liked the most, and which would actually fare well on the marketplace, would have to be Static...
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And honorable mention goes to an updated take on Flight Simulator, which recreates a 6 hour long commercial flight as a passenger...
... The best part was the look on Stephen Totilo's face, who kinda didn't get it.
When was the NYU thing btw? Over two weeks ago, and it’s been even longer since the last update. Sorry about that. You know the deal: a million, billion things going on. As usual.
Hence why it’ll take not just one, but two bursting at the seams posts, to cover the second half of May! So onto part one…
Please, please, PLEASE let these Game Center CX Blu-rays have an English language option (via miki800.com)...
Not a day goes by in which I don’t wonder how that guy who appears in the instruction manual for Bomberman B-Daman is doing these days (via videogameartarchive & videogameartarchive)...
I really love the “are you for real?” vibe that Samus gives off in the instructions for the original Famicom Disk System release of Metroid (via nintendometro)...
If you’ve ever wondered what a pair of bosses from Mega Man 9 & 10 would look like with 8’s 32-bit sheen, well here ya go (via mendelpalace)...
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A print ad for the Famicom adaptation of Akira that wasn't all that hot (via videogameads)...
Though whenever anyone hears the words “Akira video game”, this is basically what immediately comes to mind. Anything else is a disappointment, no matter what (via aaronkraten)...
Welcome to the rabbit hole that is the Memorex VIS (via @ColinWilliamson)...
Is the soundtrack to some ultra-obscure home banking software for the Mega Drive worth a listen? You goddamn right it is (via mendelpalace)...
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… The accompanying article is also totally worth a read.
It’s the Battletoads X Blue Swede mashup that you can’t believe hasn’t been done yet (via SiIvaGunner)...
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Replace Link with myself & Navi with my iPhone, which I use as an alarm clock, and you have earlier this morning in a nutshell (via nintendometro)...
“So where you going?”
“Down a road. A low poly road…”
“Where you headed towards?”
“Whatever’s at the end of this street. This low poly street...”
“If you look up, what do you see?”
“Low poly buildings, under a low poly sky. Who knows, maybe there’s some low poly birds up there, behind those low poly clouds…” (via pmpkn)
From looking at low poly skies to soaring high above them, but what a difference an arcade board makes huh (via kazucrash)...
This is what Metal Max 2: ReLoaded on the DS looks like, at its normal resolution...
And this is what it looks with the resolution bumped up (via gaucheartist)...
Is this sprite of a BMX biker animated unusually well or am I just out of touch when it comes to 2600 software? Granted, it does come from a game made in 1989 (via segagenesisevangelion)…
According to the law: “NO JUMPING” (via vgadvisor)
“Hi guys.” (via beowulf-ultra)
Such a heartwarming scene (via @PicturesFoIder)...
This is what VR looked like many years ago, which is basically how it still looks today as well (via peazy86)...
It’s Yuji Horii, from way back in the day, presumably before he had created Dragon Quest (via videogamesdensetsu)...
Why yes, I have heard of the Ocelot Arcade System, by virtue of it being Quality Simon Carless content...
... BTW, “Quality content” is in reference to this. Moving on: yes, I've also heard of VecFever. It plays games that you might be familiar with, since it emulates old vector MAME titles...
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Meanwhile, am only just learning that Tiger released their handhelds in Japan under the Game Vision label (via segacity)...
The Sega Dreamcast: it's thinking... about you, cuz it cares about you (via posthumanwanderings)...
"Wait… was he always there?" asks the official Sonic the Hedgehog Tumblr (via sonicthehedgehog)...
And the final nail in the coffin for this gag came courtesy of the official Sonic Tumblr as well (via sonicthehedgehog)...
"Good news everyone skyrim has been ported to the Bethesda offices carpet"
"Who the fuck designed support pillars to obstruct a quarter of the hallway?"
"Bethesda" (via mysteriouslypeculiar)
Yet another "it's funny cuz it's true" (via highlandvalley)...
So annoyed that I only find out about this Games Glorious shirt on the very last day of kylefewell‘s Japanese extrusion (via miki800.com)...
Not a fan of the game (don’t hate, I just don’t find it very enthralling), yet for whatever reason, I REALLY want this vintage Mappy sweatshirt (via namcomuseum)...
When video game attire looks plausible IRL (via @cvxfreak)...
Much like with regular attire, with cosplay, sometimes it’s all about the accessories (via frankiebalboa)...
Don’t think I’ve ever seen this piece of Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter art before (via segacity)...
For those who dig POC, as well those who dig VF, and also those who dig FV... that last one's Fighting Vipers, BTW (via fightersmegamix)...
It’s a crying shame that Fighting Vipers is such an unknown commodity these days (via kazucrash)...
Virtua Fighter vs Virtua Fighter… Kid (via segacity)...
It’s a crying shame that Fighters Megamix is such an unknown commodity these days (via segacity)...
So hyped for RPG Time, based solely upon the headline image used for this 10 ten list of BitSummit games (via @indiegameweb)...
Please enjoy yet another thing that I originally posted on a Saturday late at night, whatever time it might on your end right this second (via contac)...
Been a while since I’ve seen the handiwork of Joe Bleeps, largely since it’s been a while since I’ve been collecting Game Culture Snapshots; the man has certainly stepped up his game (boy mods) since way back when (via kotaku.com)...
Am also very much impressed by the Game Boy Macro, though once again, am super irritated that GBA games do not rest flush with the DS Lite’s body...
An example of function over form I guess (@gamesyouloved)...
Familiar with Line Wobbler? Ever wished you could play it on the go? Are you into demakes? For the Game Boy Advance? (via @diskmem)
Today’s corrupted GBA boot up sequence is (via corruptionasart)...
Can anyone tell what Famicom game we’re seeing that’s all glitched out? (via mendelpalace)...
My fave part of this NES 2 print ad is how, in order to truly drive the message of “EVOLVE OR BECOME EXTINCT” home, whomever felt it necessary to include a little picture of a dinosaur (via nintendometro)...
Was this an ad for the SNES? I ask because it’s considerably more sophisticated when compared to what you usually encountered in gaming rags at the time (via nintendometro)...
This ad for the GoldStar version of the 3DO, hailing from Korea, makes me so proud to be (half) Korean, you have no idea (via notablegamebox)...
This Space Invaders tribute piece is like the cover art to some 80s heavy metal record (via shmups)...
Meanwhile, the album art for the Metal Black soundtrack feels more Pink Floyd-ish than anything else (via reportal)...
As amazing as it would have been to attend a ZUNTATA concert 20 years ago, I desperately wanted to see them perform various Darius cuts live just the other week (via miki800.com)...
This cover art for a tribute album celebrating 25 years of Mega Man is still quite good, 31 years after the fact (via rnn-draws)...
My recommended reading this time is a comparison of all the various Mega Man sprites that have been, including a few that you may not be familiar with (via retrovania-vgjunk.blogspot.com)...
Apparently there was a Mega Man boss that was part arcade machine, but he only appeared in some mobile game, for f's sake Capcom (via mendelpalace)...
Guess now’s a good time to share another random game canter pic (via gogopri)...
Pathos at the game center, even among Sailor Scouts (via funnysailorm00n)...
A pride & joy of my personal collection is both the original retail Japanese release of Jet Set Radio & the available via Sega Direct only edition: De La Jet Set Radio (via videogameartarchive & videogameartarchive)...
Here's an alternate take on it’s alternate cover star (via @Drooling_Demon)…
Putting together the necessary gear to properly grind the streets of Tokyo-to (via kiroziki-cosplay)...
JSR tales place in a fictionalized, idealized interpretation of Japan, whereas this gif is a very realistic take, yup (via dehtyar)...
Meanwhile and elsewhere, somewhere in the United States of America it would seem (via behexagusthegreat)...
There's still dinner time in the future (via kirokazepixel)...
My contribution to #WorldGothDay (via it8bit)…
From dark & dreary, to warm & fuzzy, yet still black & white (via this old post from a few years back)...
Old photos of a Japanese school kid obsessing over the Famicom are somewhat dime a dozen, but the PC Engine? A very rare treat (via gamingremembrance)...
From black & white photographs of Japanese 80s kids playing consoles, to a full color animated gif of US 80s kids at the arcade (via tvneon)...
Time to wrap things up by touching upon something that kept me awfully busy over the past few: Death By Audio Arcade X Dreamhouse II. Here's a rather mysterious image that appeared on the FB event page, and which was utilized in my promotional push...
... Did it work? You’ll have to find out in my part 2 of my Attract Mode X Tumblr: May 2018 recap! Due tomorrow. Maybe.
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Well, Jesus Christ, for my obscure character fanart of the night, here’s the nightmarish Witch from the BBC Micro edutainment game Granny’s Garden. Or, at least, my larger-scale rendition of her unsettling nightmare face that would pop up at you every time you lose. Which was often.
It’s fascinating how the game she comes from is considered a classic of educational gaming in the UK, but outside of such is generally unknown and; as I discovered upon researching it; a fucking baffling fever dream of a game.
That’s the fascinating thing about UK gaming, it’s kind of it’s own isolated bizarre island ecosystem of gaming culture that grew up around things like the ZX Spectrum and the Amiga, that produced all sorts of experiments.
It’s interesting to examine; to be sure; flawed but fascinating...
For those who want to know more, @vgjunk has a great article on the game here: [retrovania-vgjunk.blogspot.com/2018/04/grannys-garden-bbc-micro.html]
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Narita Boy, un pixelado juego de acción y aventura de desplazamiento lateral, estará disponible el 30 de marzo
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El editor Team 17 ha anunciado que Narita Boy, el primer proyecto del equipo de desarrollo barcelonés Studio Koba, se pondrá a la venta el 30 de marzo con versión para PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch y PC mediante Steam. Ese mismo día el título también estará disponible mediante la plataforma Xbox Game Pass (consola y PC). Además de la fecha de lanzamiento, tenemos un nuevo tráiler del juego que nos permite apreciar mejor su propuesta. Narita Boy es un título de acción y aventuras de desplazamiento lateral de gráficos pixelados, sabor retro, elementos “RetroVania”, inspirado… Leer noticia completa y comentarios »
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Hi! Love your blog. For sure you hear this question very often, but what are your favourite video games of all time? Or at least Sega Mega Drive/Genesis games. Thank you!
I wrote a couple of articles on this very topic: http://retrovania-vgjunk.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/vgjunks-favourite-games.html
http://retrovania-vgjunk.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/vgjunks-favourite-games-part-2.html
As for the Megadrive, my favourite MD game is Shining Force II.
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This “future” time we're in is pretty grim looking, if you ask me. City lights are nice, but from the sound of it, Winderia hasn't been doing so good in this trade deal with Lachiem. What with all the murder.
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#Timespinner#retrovania#Lunar Ray games#Chuckle Fish#Adventure#Metroidvania#Platformer#2D#Science#Indie#Female protagonist#Pixel Graphics#LGBTQ+#GOG#steam#time travel#magic#fantasy#retro#letsplay#youtube#Youtube
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Ken Sei Mogura: Street Fighter
© Capcom / Togo / Sigma 1994
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Bet you didn’t know this thing existed.
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Screenshots from the bootleg NES fighting game Kart Fighter (1994), mostly taken from these two reviews:
http://retrovania-vgjunk.blogspot.com/2015/01/kart-fighter-nes.html
http://randomacc.net/system/funlicensed/kart_fighter.shtml
Part 1 of this post | Bootlegs tag | Kart Fighter tag
#mario#bootlegs#nes#gaming#games#pixels#my posts#my uploads#my uploads (jank)#hummer team#kart fighter#donkey kong#peach
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Undefined Behavior Is My Famicase Game Of The Year 2018
It's that time of the year, in which METEOR throws an art show featuring fictional Famicom cassettes.
Now, I'm a somewhat hard to impressive individual, though I was able to find a record number of carts (about 20) that I not only found pretty to look at, but which also got me wishing that they were playable. A self-produced requirement that may seem silly to some, but hey, that's just me. Anyhow, here's the rest of the bunch...
BTW, a bonus mention for @brent_ashe's entry, for also designing the packaging...
It's also that time of the week, in which I go over all the stuff I tweeted the one before. So! Sticking with fake games for bit; Ikea is finally publishing games for the PS4 and the names alone sound a lot more interesting than their offerings for the Xbox 360 (via @campbellbird148)...
I wasn't joking about the 360, cuz case in point; hopefully Grand Theft Alex improves upon Grand-ma's Auto’s flaws (the load times were atrocious; via kotaku.com)...
Anyone else remember that Genesis game that would have starred only the female members of the X-Men? (via segacity)
Sticking with old game mags, we've got another cover to cover tour of an entire issue, courtesy of Chris Alamio at Classic Gaming Quarterly. And this one's a good one; Nintendo Power #7, the one with Mega Man 2 on the cover...
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... It's a great watch; Chris makes the same observations and asks the same questions you have also also made, back in the day (and have since long since forgotten). It's also perfect for a lazy Sunday. You know, how video game magazines used to be?
Yet another thing I miss about game rags are the ads. The sillier the attempt at being shocking, the better (via oldgamemags)...
Today’s recommended reading is a survey of all the times Mortal Kombat graced the cover of game mags during the 90s (via retrovania-vgjunk)...
Behold the IRL inspiration for Allen Snider, from the forthcoming Fighting EX Layer (via mysterious0bob)...
I REALLY wish Fight Zone, a mid-90s UFC rip-off) had lasted long enough to at least spawn a really bad tie-in video game for the Jaguar CD (or Nuon via lordmo & lordmo again)...
Forget dragon punches, forget hurricane kicks, forget fireballs… none are as effective as the most devastating blow of them all: heartbreak (via newkidsonmycock31)...
For perhaps obvious reasons, I try to avoid anything related to politics, but as someone who is part Korean, this image strikes a serious cord (via basedsatan)...
It’s funny how I’ve never even come close to thinking about what it'd be like to have a real deal shield from Legend of Zelda, until getting a decent look at one, and then all of a sudden (via retrogamerblog)...
It’s practically summer weather here in NYC, which is the perfect weather for some Flying Power Disc (aka Windjammer) action + related attire... tho going outside & not playing video games is also an idea I guess (via miki800.com)...
I want… no... I need this Astro City shirt from GAMESGLORIOUS (via miki800.com)...
They also have a Mega Drive shirt featuring some sexy girl, which I’d be more into if it was someone I recognized… like Tyris Flare, Blaze Fielding, or Amy Rose (via @GAMESGLORIOUS)...
As someone with a brain crammed full of ultra obscure Sega knowledge, I still had zero idea about the existence of their Video Driver system...
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Meanwhile, did you know that Chuck E. Cheese's origin is grim af? (via @topherflorence)
A fresh coat of paint always does an indie cab good (especially if it’s been in a DIY space for several years; via @DBAArcade)...
Cuz it’s been a while since I posted random arcade pics (via duchamp-is-innocent)...
It’s Virtua Fighter 1, 2, and 3 (well, technically, it’s 3, 2, and then 1; via gaijira)...
Not sure what the games are in this instance (the one on the right is something for the Neo Geo, that’s all I know; via b0mbass)...
"vaporwave arcade" (via alext)...
Hey, arcades in the US can be pleasing to the eye as well, make no mistake (via sadboyxclique)...
That feeling you get when you come across an assortment of arcade machines, and you realize The Simpsons is included (via gamefreaksnz)...
Nothing fills me with such unbridled joy like arcade pics circa the early 80s (via retropopcult)...
Another snapshot from the golden age of gaming in the United States (via tvgame)...
Meanwhile in Japan; Space Invaders was insanely popular everywhere, including the US, but in its homeland, it was on a whole different level (via videogamesdensetsu)...
I’m a sucker for any “detailed” interpretation of what the Space Invaders look like… I also love buttons based upon shmups (via miki800)...
Not that anyone has asked, but if I had to choose my fave shmup ship design, I would have to the SA-77 from Silpheed...
... That last image is from videogamesdensetsu, BTW/FYI. Also BTW/FYI: my affinity for Silpheed's SA-77 naturally means that I wouldn't mind a miniature replica on my toy shelf.
Like this one (via my homepage, fort90.com)...
Or this one (via dannychoo.com)...
Am not as into the SA-08, aka the ship from the very first Silpheed (the Sega/Mega CD version is actually a remake), yet this model is neat nonetheless (via @musuke_twit)...
Revisiting that old blog post of mine, to get that Silpheed model pic, reminded me of others based upon Radiant Silvergun & Ikaruga that I’d also love to get my grubby mitts on...
I also still need to get my hands on this transformable Vic Viper from Zone of the Enders, even if I’ve never been super fond of its ship form (a moot point given how I’d probably keep it in its mecha form; via zakgaigar)...
I believe I’ve highlighted this R-Type kit not all that long ago, but when you repost pics as much as I do, it’s easy to lose track (via shmups)...
So all the pics above, of ships that soar among the stars, engaging in wars, were all tweeted on a single day. May the 4th to be exact, due to the fact that I didn't have anything directly related to Star Wars Day handy. With this Star Fox gif being the most popular of the bunch (which again I might have shared already once, a long time ago; via k-eke)...
This past Friday also marked the grand re-opening of The Rodney Shop!
And also making a grand return was the man who redefined what's musically possible on a Game Boy, who came back to redefine what's musically possible on... a calculator? (via @Nullsleep)
Time for a bonus track: if there was an adaptation of the film Escape From New York on the MSX-2, this is what it would sound like...
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Please enjoy this pic of a Super Nintendo controller covered in vaseline for whatever reason (via kotaku.com)...
And last but not least, a question: is there enough background info on the game Alien Solider to justify a near 20-minute video? The answer: yes...
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Let's Play Infernax |12| Storming Azazel's Castle
That's right. With Necronomicon in hand, I can bring peace to this land. Not by summoning more demons, mind, but by opening a pit to Hell and bringing the fight to Azazel!! Wait, that's not Azazel.... #infernax #letsplay #retrovania
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