Nicole Express

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I playtested this English fan translation on original hardware from start to finish and I highly suggest playing this. Once you experience it you'll understand why Nintendo has locked this up and pretends it doesn't exist.

New blog post! As the #CamelForth RetroChallenge project continues, I test it on real hardware and solve a long-standing bug. All building up to an exciting Halloween ending! www.leadedsolder.com/2026/10/27/c... #retrogaming #sega #forth #retrocomputing #retrochallenge

Famicom in 1983: This isn't even my final form. Famicom in 1985: Just need the disk drive now! The Family BASIC Pack (1984) enabled the Famicom to live up its name and evolve into a home micro. Quite a few type-in and hobbyist games were released that took advantage of it. 📖: BEEP, March 1985.

Apple IIGS Confidential: The lowdown in '86. 📺: Apple IIGS Welcome Tour

Concept design for Count Pacula, a canceled video game/pinball hybrid arcade game from Bally Midway.

How to Become a River Raider: Hints & Tips from one of the First Ladies of Video Games herself: Carol Shaw. You'll see her credited as the first female video games designer, but I feel it's fairer to call her the first (recognized) female console game designer employed within a company.

Name a fictional character death you haven't gotten over

Happy brithday, us :D

got the alice in wonderland pinball machine up and running today after the move; it had not been giving balls at the start of the game, turns out that was just because the balls had been jostled out of their compartment during the move, they all fell on the floor when I took the playfield out lol

It Came From the Desert on the Turbografx-16 was a game so disastrous, it destroyed Cinemaware, one of the big developers of the late 80s. Not that it could do that on its own, of course, it took years of missteps and bad management decisions to set things up... youtu.be/7OZQtEiUU1A

It's been awhile, but a new blog post! Mahjong Bakuhatsu Junjouden-- it goes by many names, and my copy might be technically undumped? nicole.express/2026/mahjong...

The Apple IIGS can produce mind-boggling effects

thinking about sudoku game with gun rn

man it's so weird to hear the original music, i'm so used to the genesis port

Because eMudhra is in the news, I am sharing a screenie of a footer of an email I once received from them in reply to my query about my PAN card (a government-issue tax identity and card).

Super Mario Bros. 3 felt like pure magic as a kid, and to celebrate its 38th anniversary I made another dress in my gaming series! 🍄🥳 Initially released in Japan on October 23, 1988, Mario 3 subsequently arrived in North America on February 12, 1990!

4️⃣🫡 (idea by @freyja-lynx.dev)

"Whether you like it or not, child, you DO see a cave and you WILL go into it." -Granny's Garden, BBC Micro, 1983.

What, these old things? Already got 'em 🥱

Toaplan should put out a cereal called Fiber Shark

A lost Rieko Kodama illustration of the original Phantasy Star cast is kind of a big deal, all we have are magazine photographs of the trade show demo ROM. I hope the real thing is sitting in an attic somewhere and surfaces!

ahh i'm bummed i missed this stream, i love lost forest

nicole express is a static html site but i feel like by the end of this evening that's probably going to be exploited somehow too

actually, 4 is a very hard to guess number, and is secure from modern attacks

Nicci has a problem :( anyways look forward to these showing up on the blog, which is how I justify my impulse purchases :p

Purrtable Computing

"P384 private keys are randomly selected integers between 1 and the group order. The 8 impacted keys all used integers less than 256. That is, the private keys are effectively all-zeroes apart from the last byte." 8-bit security? retro-computing has gone too far bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi...

New blog post! With the sound chip out of the way, it's time to introduce Forth to the awesome complexity of the TMS9918A, starting with sprites. Put a smile on your screen today! Do not taunt happy fun smile. #retrogaming #forth #retrocomputing #retrochallenge www.leadedsolder.com/2026/10/20/r...

Justin Bailey ☄️ #samus #samusaran #metroid

Expanding my collection of 90s Japanese PC games released in English, here's Graduation for Windows 95, technically a port of the second game. From Mixx Games, the same folk behind Tokyopop. It's the first anime game to hit American Shores!!!

Uhmmm, no comments on my desk setup.

Considering dishing out the worst insult possible for a game: "The level design is like an Amiga platformer."

utterly amazing

walking to work feels great; that's because in the ancestral environment homo habilis programmers had to walk to the office, since cars hadn't been invented yet

From the ashes of their predecessor's schemes: NEOGELDRA rose to fulfill its dream of world domination! I *love* the cinematic vibes for this arcade flyer for 1991's Rolling Thunder 2.

When setting up shelves for video games, it's the Neo Geo that's usually the limiting factor due to its height; even moreso than the Tower of Power (note: my Tower of Power is a Model 2)

China’s snack tech has LEAPFROGGED that of America, Japan, and Europe. They have turned Kit Kat into a Toblerone, and nothing—nothing—will be the same again

Genji Tsuushin Agedama is based on a TV show all about how great NEC products are and how you should buy them. The game, on the other hand, is surprisingly good with a complicated attack system. youtu.be/fo99MZnUAPU

I do so love a girl with a big disk.

japanese indie games circa 2002