Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️

New pinned post and info sheet! I'm curious and passionate about a whole bunch of nerdy and cool stuff! I also publish a fortnightly retro gaming and anime 'zine and write on several blogs: Scanlines zine: betweenthescanlines.itch.io Main blog: scanlineartifacts.wordpress.com

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From the Mega Drive… closed-fist action: Bare Knuckle II, aka Streets of Rage II. 🔥 What a cool live-action commercial from Japan for one of my favourite brawlers. #VideoBytes

the world is cruel, come hang out in my low poly record room instead 💗

New guitar day! Broke it in with a playthrough of Natural Science for the first time in like 10 years. I still got it!

“This game has graphics and animation that makes Wolf/Spear (Wolfenstein 3D) look like Pong…” It's always neat coming across stuff like this in old archives: a BBS post from January 1993 of someone reporting on getting early first-hand experience of DOOM at CES and losing their shizz over it.

Sense a split second. Treasure the life. Have goddess on your wings.

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.

A couple of years before Carol Shaw started working at Atari, Joyce Weisbecker had already designed, programmed, and sold her first piece of video game software in 1976 for the RCA Studio II games console as an independent contractor, making her the first indie dev to boot.

Good news! I finally managed to get a video file to play on my PSP. Even adding subtitles is pretty easy actually.

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

Having my Whole Nintendo Switch 2 front Page filled with titles I worked on is so freaking cool.

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.

Delving into randomly-generated dungeons for snaps and a first-impressions experience article with Dreamforge and SSI's Dungeon Hack! A roguelike AD&D game from 1994. Ahlrik the fighter-mage seeks fame and fortune after being abruptly teleported to a multilevel dungeon.

I got curious what the first computer/video game to feature a skeleton as an enemy might be. And this may be one of the first (if not the first visibly so!) video game skeletons from THE DUNGEON, running on PLATO mainframes in 1975. crpgaddict.blogspot.com/2019/01/revi...

I remember finding an Atari 2600 in my Grandmothers basement hooked up to an 80's wood panel tv. This game was one of the very best in the collection. I don't often have a desire to play Atari games but that's such a warm memory.

The time sponsored by Lina Inverse is tick… tick… 🔥 💿: Slayers Digital Collection Vol 1, 1997 (Apple Mac)

Today's vibes: Madoka Ayukawa (Kimagure Orange Road).

"Yes m'lord." "Ohhkay." "We're under attack!" I have such a soft spot in my heart for Warcraft II, and the PS1 version in particular <3

Had to jump through some hoops but The IBM 5150 has a working Intel EtherExpress 16TP and is connected to the InterWebs ... OK, not the Webs, just the FTPs and Telnets. Maybe the Gophers. 🐀🐁 It connected to its first BBS! 20forbeers.com:1337 LEET!

Well it's done. It needed 11 memory chips replaced, one 74LS125, a few new tantalum caps, an XT-IDE, floppy drives cleaned, and a network card. Sad it's over. It was a great adventure but the IBM 5150 is functional again. Old Lunker. Makes my monitor look small. 🧐 I guess I'll just play a game.

One cool cover: Silent Möbius. Tokyo can't catch a break in either century from demonic invasion. But thankfully, the Attacked Mystification Police Department is on the case. 📖: Anime UK, Oct/Nov 1992

Now that we're into the final week of October, let's double up on the #spookyVGM! Two a day! The second one for today is the Spiderweb Island theme from the Shantae game that everyone mistakenly thinks is the best one This is a tune for dancing in your chair www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eSg...