#Retrovideogames

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Have you ever heard of the lost Jet Set Radio typing game?

Developed by Sega in 2001, this Jet Set Radio spinoff, known as "Typing Jet," was released for Japanese mobile phones. Today, it’s considered lost media.

The game was part of a collection of Sega spinoffs created for the Japanese J-Phone series. "Typing Jet" was a simple typing game where players typed words to help the onscreen character, resembling Jet Set Radio’s beloved character, Beat, perform tricks and jump over approaching obstacles.

Here are a few of the only known images from the game.

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Famicom Salamander

[britemune]

10 Must-Play GameCube Games That Prove 2000s Gaming Was The Best

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A friend of mine made a donation to the library today! Worth the hour drive to pick it up! #PackMan #OneUpArcade #VideoGame #VideoGames #RetroVideoGame #RetroVideoGames https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl9Or53OP31/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[retroafternoons]

Insane retro gaming action like you've never seen it!

Hyper Flutes, 16-bit tornados and one epic 80s montage? Retro gaming has never been so loved! The dawn of a new era in The Retroverse is upon us! It’s been two years since SynthR was ripped from reality and forced to play horrible retro games. And it’s about to get a lot worse with access to in-person Gaming Guides; expert gamers sent to help (or hinder) their assigned player.

[caroqueen96]

[ Worship me or perish ]

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ACTUAL FACTUAL FICTIONAL PLAYS: a Newsletter

Reading: White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson, How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix

Finished Reading: Limberlost by Robbie Arnott

Podcast: Dungeons and Daddies Season 2

Playing: The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind

Making: Fictional Play (Original Term do not steal!!! jk, use it as you like)

Writing: Project E

Word Count: 165487

TLDR: Showing is showing and telling it telling. Fictional Plays are incoming. 3D modeling and you. RAMP 2024: David’s Existential Nightmare

First, I’d like to talk about something I’ve struggled with and have seen MANY writers struggle with as well. Show don’t tell. Sometimes this isn’t necessary, but the problem usually isn’t whether the writer would LIKE to use this rule, it’s recognizing the difference between showing and telling.

I’ve come up with a pretty good description that I think is a useful litmus test. Showing will feel like a scene unfolding before you, almost cinematically. This can still be hard to sus out. Telling, however, is often quite easy to hear if you read out a given section. Telling will sound like someone who read the book TELLING you what happened, not just reading out a section of the book to you. If it sounds like a synopsis, you’re telling, not showing.

I have a project I’ve been working on, nightly, for over a week now, chipping away slowly. I’ve been playing The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, for the first time in two years, and journaling about my experience. This journal is being written, however, from the point of view of the character I’m playing. As well, I’m supplementing this with screenshots which I include in the compiled copy on my Google Drive. My thoughts are, for this to feel like a daily journal with included sketches from my character. Sort of a travelogue, sort of an old-fashioned Let’s Play (like the ones from Something Awful). This is what I’m calling a Fictional Play. (A joke based on Actual Plays, where folks play TTRPGs and record those sessions, live.)

After I’ve finished playing as this character, my plan is to play as other characters in other regions of Morrowind and build up a little collection of adventures.

To help give me plenty of things to see (for potentially hundreds and hundreds of hours of gameplay) I’ve installed a few mods. These range from mostly visual to massive expansions. I’ve installed Beautiful Cities of Morrowind, Morrowind Interiors Project, Amazing Balmora Expansion, and last but DEFINITELY not least, Tamriel Rebuilt. Tamriel Rebuilt alone will add an almost unthinkable amount of gameplay and land to explore. There are many optimizations and fix mods I’ve installed, but I’m not going to list those here.

When I’ve finished a good chunk of writing and had a chance to go back and edit it, I’ll start uploading it here and on my Patreon as a free download.

I recently downloaded Blender… I’m not sure if I will use it. I have so many grand ideas. So many things I want to create. Right now, I’m finding it hard to make any good quality claymation because I lack space to have my things set up and ready to go. Any time I want to film, I have to set up and pack up each time and I normally only get small amounts of time to film. If it takes longer to set up and pack down than I get to film then I just don’t do it. I’ve had Claythulu made for so long. He’s just sitting there… He has probably hardened and can’t be used anymore 😅 

Anyway! So, that’s why I decided to download Blender. There’s a lot I need to learn and it seems impossible right now… I will possibly upload pics if I manage to make more than a vaguely clay-looking square. I will also be doing it with a laptop touchpad… no mouse… no pen or draw pad… wish me luck!

RAMP 2024 is officially over, with more than 300 maps (sorry David), and I’ve managed to create one map for the project this year. This year did not pan out as I’d hoped, as I had a second map in the works, but life has been very hectic, and I’ve had to pick and choose where I’ve spent my time. Below is a playlist of the three maps I’ve submitted to RAMP this year and last. Of note: Fell Delivery broke about halfway through David’s playthrough, but in the final build of RAMP 2023, it’s fixed.

Here is a link to RAMP 2023 for you to go download and play for yourself!

My maps are 157 (Tiny Tek), and 251 (Fell Delivery)

Support weird. Support yourself, because no one else can make the things you want to make.

[superpotionlabs]

Silent Hill 3 featured alternative costumes for Heather after completing Silent Hill 3 at least once on any difficulty.

Some codes can be found in-game, some have been released by gaming websites and magazines (exclusive to the PS2 version of the game), and some can only be found after fulfilling certain circumstances. 

The following were outfit collabs with gaming magazines/publications where you would have to find the code via the print magazine or website respectively. 

1 - Game Informer

2 - GameSpy.com

3 - PlayStation Magazine

4 - IGN

5 - Official US PlayStation MagazineOfficial UK PlayStation 2 Magazine

6 - Game Reactor, a Scandinavian gaming magazine

7 - GamePro magazine

8 - GMR magazine

9 - G@me Network, an Italian cable network

10 - Play magazine

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Stays Krunchy in Milk Episode 529: I'll Stare a Hole in a MF

A total eclipse is coming to Ohio and Team SKiM, well most of Team SKiM, is preparing for it. The youth are preparing to vote in Ohio in spite of the lawmakers’ trying to stop them. Ohioans are preparing to grow some dank cannabis now that it’s legal in the Buckeye State. You ever have a perfect item from a fast-food spot? Ant did and we discuss the phenomenon. We also take a deep dive into White People Taco Night. Why kids want to eat the boring and most bland versions of foods? Box and Tee once again crossed the boarder and headed up to Canada, this time to Windsor and share their adventures and misadventures in the great white north. We then head on over to Reddit and the subreddit AITA before wrapping it up for our entertainment recommendations of the week

Thanks,

Team SKiM

Alternative Title – I'd eat her Poutine

Links

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Reddit

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AITA for telling my wife it’s weird that she and her mother share location 100% of the time on their phones?

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Am I the a**hole boarding the plane and leaving without my wife?

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AITA when my husband doesn’t tell me what he is doing all the time?

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Retro Games vs. Modern Games: What Has Changed Over the Years?

Retro Games vs. Modern Games, the blog explores gameplay dynamics, technological leaps, and cultural shifts that define the transition of the gaming industry.

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Retro Game Of The Day

50 cent Bulletproof

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Quake Remastered: Why Quake Is Still Peak Id Software Design

Fast forward to 2024 and the "boomer shooter" reigns supreme. Graphics that looked dated only a few years after release have been renewed with aesthetically charm . Gameplay which was seen as basic in a time when people were making the first stealth and immersive sims now feels free and exhilarating. Ironically, with Doom Eternal leading to a rise in popularity for old school shooters, Quake feels more current than ever.

Until recently the game has required a bit of modding to get running on new computers. You would have to patch in the excellent (yet extremely unsettling) ambient soundtrack by Nine Inch Nails yourself for instance. But a recent release of a remastered addition, compiling all the additional content with some of the best fan-made mods created for the game, have made it accessible again for anyone who’s not a dedicated connoisseur of old school PC gaming. 

This was a kind of last hoorah for John Romero, who designed the blueprint for Quake under extremely difficult circumstances. You can read about the making of the game in books like “Masters of Doom,” but it’s safe to say it had a troubled development. You can still see elements of different kind of games sort of spliced together; the levels have a very medieval feel to their textures, but then there is the hellish influences of Doom and the modern tech dystopia element thrown into the mix, all because it was difficult to stick to a coherent design while the artists were waiting for John Carmack to finish the engine.

As such, Quake feels assembled at break-neck speed by a team of level designers at the height of their powers. Limited in scope yet all the better because of the conditions in which it was made.

Somehow, someway all the apparently clashing designs meld together into something very unique. Quake is scarier than most horror games, it’s faster than most racing games and it’s got better exploration than most adventure games. There doesn’t seem to a be one stitch of padding over the games four distinct campaign routes.

The Quake engine and it's successors would be used in other games over the years, like the Dark Forces/Jedi Knight, Thief and Medal of Honour series to name just a few.

This new remaster contains the ability to use fan mods on console, and is probably the best way to play the game on those machines if you've never played it before.