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Maybe my favorite photo from this collection is the booth for Shenmue at Tokyo Game Show Autumn 1999 It's a forklift. It's just a forklift.

I have now decided that Fortune’s Weave is one of the very good Fire Emblems, with my only real gripes being a softer difficulty and that there might be too much of it. Everything else about it is pretty great though, including one of the best Treehouse localisations in recent years.

Mircosoft continues to be rubbish. I mean, Obsidian. Really?

Super Space Invaders 91 is still awesome. Just thought I’d throw that out there.

Pneumatic Hammers / Amstrad CPC / Firebird / 1987

That there Hori Arcade Classic Pro stick looking Very Desirable. So much so that I had to capitalise those words.

Again, the PC gaming collective really needs to talk up platforms other than Steam at this point.

Kicking off September with an eye-opening interview between Shigeru Miyamoto and Satoshi Tajiri from 1993! The conversation is mainly focused on the newly released Star Fox and Miyamoto's ideas about polygons, shooting games, and CD-ROM media. shmuplations.com/miyamotoxtaj...

what zelda will look like in 2026

Sneaking beneath the current Discourse to say that there realistic art style would be *great* for a creepy, dark fairytale-style MM remake. Less so an OoT one though.

Been watching various streams of folk playing The Big Walk and thinking to myself ‘I’d really like to play The Big Walk.’ Kind of need to rope someone in to join me though. Maybe in time!

Hold my calls.

DariusBurst - Thousand Knives #STG #shmup

[reading the preview writeup on duskbloods] oh so it's like kirby air ride city trial but for bloodborne ok cool

*pops head out of Bluesky outage* Vibe-coding continues to be a bad idea.

*looks at random cool mech* I should get back into Mechwarrior 5 again.

Huge fan of this Titanic Lance (from darius gaiden) model at Wonderfest. Long guy

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Once again finding myself thinking about this ad for the combination low-cost N64 devkit/VCD player/ROM loader, the Doctor V64, which may be the single greatest work of advertising known to man

Id Software and Obsidian suffering layoffs as well? Bloody hell.

Would honestly be stunned if the PlayStation and Xbox brands weren’t smouldering heaps by the end of the decade.

Would honestly be stunned if the PlayStation and Xbox brands weren’t smouldering heaps by the end of the decade.

(Psst. Anybody who says the game industry isn’t in the midst of a crash right now is either a liar, daft or both. Wouldn’t be surprised if you knew that already though.)

Thinking about Kram. Wish I understood why. youtu.be/Tlu0wdm7BOk?...

Looking like the PS5 will be my last Sony console if their AI plans are anything to go by. Ho hum.

Why would anyone even entertain the idea of an Xbox at this point.

can we please take a moment to think of prototype whomp

Kinda wish Sony took the money they threw at something like Until Dawn 2 and used it to make 5 smaller games. Just saying.

Had an exciting finish of Marathon’s first season with my first ever Compiler encounter and *almost* kill with two matchmade randoms. Cool fight, but I was dramatically betrayed by my crew when things went south and locked out of the escape airlock and left to die with that S’pht. It was awesome.

Bungie ending support for Destiny 2 marks the end of an era: aftermath.site/bungie-sony-de...

Spending a bit of time with the 54FPS ‘Arcade’ patch on on Raiden Fighters Remix Collection now and, yeah these games do feel better to play now. Which is good. The Raiden Fighters games are awesome STGs and you should play them.

Things I’ll say: - Destiny really should have earnestly ended with The Final Shape (though, perhaps thankfully, it at least did spiritually). - Building and maintaining two live-service games at the same studio is a bit of a fools errand. - Jim Ryan really had no clue what he was doing.