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I've been batting around ideas for this for like a year now, but I finally decided to gather a lot of my thoughts about arcade gaming and why it has such a tight grasp on me these days

time is healing these wounds when it comes to looking back on these games, retrospectively, but i do think it's the right move to avoid incorporating continues as a default functionality if you're shooting to make a new "arcade design" game for home release

I had to go on Twitter to confirm this was real because Ship Awesome Games In A Weekend having a hand with six fingers was so on the nose I was about to pass out

This shit just writes itself at this point. Just the name "Epic AI MegaJam" is a joke that best describes what is going on with these companies.

Played through the demo of PC-98 horror game "Dead of the Brain" and would like to share why FAKKU's version is more than just a port but rather easily the most definitive version of the game as it provides a lot of cool technical features.

To be clear: I am coming from a place of strong certitude that we CAN do something about all of this. That we can not only resist but fight back and win. I am interested in winning against the AI capitalists. I have no patience for doomerism, I have faith in our ability to win.

Get real! The nostalgic idea of indie games that you're trying to defend and protect was always fake! It was just commodity fetishism. It's 2026, we're putting aside our comfortable illusions and facing with sober senses our real conditions of life.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjtk... learning about some japanese powervr pc games

reacquired the Strania 1CC today. EX version, so Normal mode has the TLB (a change for the better imo) what a sick game! really gotta get Side Vower cleared eventually

i did it at the tail end of 2024 😎 anyway it's the absolute best video game of the entire 1980s and everyone that likes action games should give clearing it an honest shot

1991 fan art of Jimmy

In other 'Taito only published it & it's actually a Seta game' news: I wonder if this guy will roll onto Arcade Archives anytime soon? Hamster have been liking their unconventional controller games of late🤔 Here's hoping (hopping) as it's a fun like memorizer

I can confirm that this client runs like shit.

Got the Hishouzame 1-All again today, up to area 142. What a tense game, lol.

win by doing nothing

today's 1CC reacquisitions were Gradius and Darius, both real fun to revisit. Darius is kinda fucked with that Laser weapon being a downgrade though, lol

CALL ME COWGIRL THE WAY IM RAIDEN HER?

right off the rip: Batrider! directed at M2 by the ex-Cave employee formerly known as Shootaro, dontcha know

this article is really good with a lot of well researched interviews and perspectives and context as to what was going on in the studio. but sometimes. sometimes there's really only one sentence that speaks louder than all the others

we now know the actual meaning of Battle Garegga: Raizing, welcoming YGW to their team: let's name the next project "our own Recca" in japanese; waGa no Recca > Garecca > Garegga the "Battle" part was added later to sound cooler source: x.com/PKAnzug/stat...

I like seeing the argument "without AI these ports would not exist" and here's my actual response: I actually would rather not see them exist for an extremely simple reason: They're absolutely USELESS. And I would say that emulation has always allowed similar improvements the entire time.

today's 1CC revisit was Contra, jacked little game! also genuinely thought I got the Sengoku Ace clear but when trimming it realized I actually started that run from a practice saved state lol. Had to grab a clear post-stream and upload it

vibecoded pc ports are karmic punishment for playing N64 decomps in 16:10@120hz

i don't imagine there are news outlets that would be interested since it only affects twitch streamers and we are lower than dirt, but the new AI "content warnings" that twitch has introduced for sponsored streams are crazy. it monitors what you're saying and pings you if you say a word like "beer"

re-got the Battle Bakraid Normal Course scrubclear today

today's 1CC reacquisitions, Deathsmiles and Deathsmiles II. Finally played the collection, it's pretty good!

re-acquired 1CCs in Golden Axe and Chelnov today

Full video: youtu.be/Vh3C09uYCGQ Pouet: www.pouet.net/prod.php?whi... Demozoo: demozoo.org/productions/...

Soukyugurentai fairly fuckin rules huh

Whenever I write about old software, it still strikes me how absurd it is that it’s easier to run software from the 90s and 2000s on a modern computer than it is to run an iOS app from 15 years ago.