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[terramosh]

Ten Songs that make me happy:

In A Big Country by Big Country

Everything You Do is a Balloon by Boards of Canada

Cactus Cat by Look Blue Go Purple

Strawberry Letter 23 by The Brothers Johnson

This is the Day by The The

Run Runaway by Slade

Red Barchetta by Rush

Alright by Guided by Voices

Delirious by Prince

Werewolves of London by Warren Zevon

I’ll tag @crewneck @quelana @sonic06apologist @nemesissy @videomessiah @unbornwhiskeyy @joanofarc @restless-specter @sonypraystation @radicalhelmet @onpyre @marlsborohaven @strayanima @sarkos @kickerofelves @tertu-m @milfgoddess-og @6o3o9 @mendelpalace @tsaiming-liang @iaiamothrafhtagn and anyone else who might want to do one too.

Have a nice day. 🫶

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@radicalhelmet

eroticism of the machine doesn’t apply to iphone….iphone is like a 25 year old instagram model living in LA who practices preventative botox….conventionally beautiful but ultimately sexless. unable to express any form of desire for fear of shattering a delicately crafted facade….iphone is the kelloggs cereal of machinery

[mendelpalace]

Depends, is there a Max Headroom videogame?

Doing a quick bit of poking around, yeah. Speicifically there’s a ZX Spectrum/C64 action-adventure game based on the 20 Minutes into the Future pilot episode. Not sure how good it is, but the C64 version has some sweet tunes!

Also, I feel compelled to post this little gem from the Monster Party: Let’s Go Again rom hack:

[tookalittlejourneytotheunknown]

radicalhelmet replied to your photoset: wow, i hate this

The Final Nora, Nora Who Death Forgot

I am like weirdly offended on Final Pam’s behalf that she’s being compared to this creature i’ve created tbh

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@radicalhelmet @mendelpalace

Show up at work like hi boss sorry I'm late my I was helping my mother track down one specific 90s dungeon crawler for the purposes of obtaining a muffin recipe the developer hid in the files

[attract-mode-collective]

It’s Still (Pixelated) Hot Dog Legs Season

Fall should officially be in full swing by now, yet here in NYC (and many other parts of the US), it still feels like summer. Which I’m not thrilled about, though at the very least, I don’t feel so bad for sharing the above (by Robert Penney) so late into September.

On that note, time for a way overdue game culture round up! It’s been a while, and a LOT been going on. And not to be a downer, but the chaotic weather has been in the news, obviously.

Here’s a pic from Gamer Geek Nation on Facebook, who shared the aftermath of the Hurricane Harvey, along with: “… This is a time when we collectors need to remind ourselves that ultimately, this is just stuff, and our lives are more important. And make sure your collection is insured properly.”

Elsewhere in the world, the Tokyo Game Show just wrapped up, and not to repeat the obvious, but yes… the biggest, most exciting news was the Sonic X Hooters collab…

Though the one between Hello Kitty and Game Center CX is far, far better (photo courtesy of Kotaku)…

You also have this comically large Rockman doll, which apparently was available on Amazon but is now out of stock…

Though I mostly wished I had been there to pick up some primo looking attire, like this Mega Drive track jacket that miki800 gave the heads up on before show time (there was also a Dreamcast hoodie that I personally don’t think looks as nice, hence why I’m skipping it)…

I also really like this Pac-Man shirt…

This Galaga shirt as well…

Also taking place in Japan was an exhibition held by the JARGA (Japan Retro Game Association); miki800 was there and captured some interesting bits of hardware, with the highlight being (IMHO) this Mega Drive clone that resembles a perfect mix of the model 1 MD and the original Wondermega…

There’s no preview of the music yet, though may as well share the recently unveiled cover to the third (and final) installment of 8 BIT MUSIC POWER…

Meanwhile, according to Original Sound Version, Mitch Murder has released yet another soundtrack to another game that never existed. In this it didn’t come out for the Mega CD and doesn’t involve mecha…

Remember that Jet Set Radio figure I showed a while ago? Well, it's finally available for pre-order! Alas, it's not cheap, at least over at Big Bad Toy Store...

BTW, videogamesdensetsu shares with us what Beat looks like, sans-cel shading…

Sticking with VCD for a tad bit; here’s what Pulseman looked originally looked like, and he sure was cute!

Whereas NiGHTS looked goofier… as well as more menacing….

Am confident most people will not give a rat’s ass about seeing hand drawn Virtua Racing track designs, but as a massive fan of the series, oh man, oh man, oh man...

Two never before seen Saturn prototypes that must be: “[taken] with a grain of salt!”

Apparently Looney Tunes X The Matrix was actually a thing? Somehow this does not surprise me…

The work of Hideaki Kodama was recently highlighted, which was also recently auctioned; I wonder how much this painting of various PC Engine hardware went for?

Yet another Kickstarter mention? Yup. And this one is Jed Henry's third crowdfunding campaign: this particular variant of the Ukiyo-e Heroes concentrates on boss battles, with perhaps my fave piece being his depiction from The Breath of the Wild...

Am particularly fond of this image from the Street Fighter 25th Anniversary art book that grease-howard spotted, of old Chun Li chumming it up with her younger self...

Any and all BoJack Horseman fans out there may want to pick up this piece by Jude Buffum...

legendofnes reminds of that time Batman visited New Donk City…

It's just a bunch of cyber kids, all just hanging around, by sanigo...

Speaking of the gang, here we have the kids from Persona 5, by @aranciart…

Apparently, if Jedah (from Darkstalkers) ran a juice stand, it wouldn’t be the best, according to dreaminerryday…

The individual who runs SPLENDID LAND describes SLN-003 Gacha Man as a: "vendor robot who dispenses toys. even he doesn’t know what’s inside the capsules, so he always gets excited to find out"...

Meanwhile, here’s official artwork of Mario and Peach, courtesy of the thevideogameartarchive’s catalogue of the Mario Golf N64 manual; am pretty sure I’ve seen images of Mario looking distressed, though never to this degree…

The above is something Super Mario Broth would normally deliver, and speaking of, may as well share some recent faves on that end! Like these photos from a promotional campaign with a Japanese sports drink when promoting Mario Sports Superstars…

Instructions found on the arcade cabinet for Vs. Super Mario Bros (which I remember so distinctly, and fondly)…

From some Japanese video guide for the same game (am assuming the home Famicom version this time)…

A greeting card (am assuming a Valentine’s)...

Mario without his hat, as he appears in a Game Boy controller test cart that Nintendo service reps used to calibrate buttons on a the handheld…

And he we have a shortcut in SMB3 that I had no idea existed, and it’s a safe bet that most don’t either: “In Super Mario Bros. 3, the rock between the path to the first fortress in World 4 and the Spade Panel can be destroyed with a Hammer item, allowing the player to bypass the fortress. There is no obvious indication that this rock is destructible, as it is surrounded by decorative rocks. In fact, many guides for Super Mario Bros. 3 do not mention this shortcut.”

As for Super Mario Broth’s counterpart, Sonic the Hedgeblog has seen plenty of action as well… largely pinpointing all the obscure references found in Sonic Mania, So head over for that if that sounds like fun to you! Otherwise, there’s also the Mario Bros having a Sonic Panic…

A reminder of how Sonic looked at one point as he was being prepped for the Dreamcast; it would appear that at a certain point, in Sonic Adventure, he was going to look a lot more realistic…

And this issue with EGM featuring a sneak preview of Sonic 2 is the very first video game magazine that I ever picked up!

Meanwhile, oldgamemags recently posted a page from an issue of GamePro, circa 2000, on a peripheral that allowed the Game Boy to play mp3s. Am sharing it cuz I really want a GB-looking mp3 player…

So someone on Twitter (who has since protected his account, so I’ll have to refer to nintendolife they snagged the pic before it was locked down) cracked open a electrocardiogram measurement instrument and found... a GBA? It’s theorized: “perhaps earlier revisions of the unit had different screens, and once the supply chain dried up MiE was forced to source the next best thing?”

vice-s-assistant sez: "OK Guys, I’m ready to hack."

According to bunney: "i was working at a convention arcade this weekend and some guy cosplaying ryu was playing street fighter with a blunt in his mouth"...

Can anyone tell what's being played here? At the very least, it's a nice shot (via rekall)...

Much like Arcade Crusade, I have no idea what’s going on, and I agree that whatever it is, it looks intense...

If you’ve ever wanted an artist’s rendering of the Raspberry Pi, then look no further than the work of retronator…

rasec-wizzlbang states: “those square cross sections of the human skin layers you always see in biology books but as like, a minecraft block”…

Courtesy of Arcade Crusade once again comes a very tender moment…

Is it just me or does this promo image for Food Fight sure does look like a Norman Rockwell painting? As seen on thedoteaters...

Here we have a flyer for a really old SNK arcade game (we’re talking really old; almost a decade before the Neo Geo was a thing) that looks like it was made with today’s sensibilities, doesn’t it?

Also via obscurevideogames is a moment of pathos from Hacchake Ayayo-san 4 - Sexy Olympics - Ayayo’s Live Affection. It’s… pretty obscure alright…

Yup, that's Hieronymus Bosch-styled Tetris all right (via freeindiega.me)...

crashcarnival presents: "true facts of the Ice Age"...

Hey, it’s the Ninja Turtles playing Pong (via rewind01)…

Behold, Fighters Megamix version 2017 (via lonelyfrontier)…

Yup, that is definitely a Chu Chu Rocket skirt  (via radicalhelmet)...

For those who have ever wondered what their Sonic character’s political leanings are, in relation to the rest of the crew (and can’t be bothered to sift through DeviantArt; via erratticusfinch)…

Face to face (via futureisfailed)…

It’s been out for a while, though it’s not too late to pick up this Xenogears tribute zine, right?

Just a friendly reminder of how bat-sh*t insane Sin & Punishment is (via n64thstreet)...

Zimmerit.moe has everything you need to know about a game by Square involving mecha that you’ve probably never heard of. And no, am not talking about Thexder; it’s even more obscure than that (am talking about Cruise Chaser Blassty BTW/FYI)...

Meanwhile, Michael “Kayin” O’Reilly discusses the “Barrel Distortion” look that emulators use to recreate the look of playing something on a CRT display and why it’s total crap…

And… that’s  it! You’ve made it to the end! Enjoy a cool, refreshing drink with Pac-Man (on the behalf of arcade-crusade)...

Don’t forget: Attract Mode is now on Medium! There you can subscribe to keep up to date, as well as enjoy some “best of” content you might have missed the first time around, plus be spared of the technical issues that’s starting to overtake Tumblr.

[lunaticobscurity]

so when steel battalion came out, with it’s military crate packaging, and giant incredibly specialised controller, it instantly got my imagination going. what if you had a small room in your house, into which you put this game, and built it into a mecha cockpit? just a very small room, like an unused closet, or the cupboard under the stairs. military vehicles aren’t really known for their roomy interiors, are they? and the more i thought about it, the deeper this idea got: what if you marathonned the game, took ebay-bought military rations and clothing in there with you and made a day of it?

total immersion, if you weel. i’ve never been able to do that, unfortunately, having never owned either a house or a copy of steel battalion.

over time, i started thinking more about this, on a less drastic scale. this lower level version of the idea is done by simply taking a few hours watching/playing/listening to certain groups of things. the time/space thing to which i referred in my “03:22″ post is just that we’re disregarding exact release dates and broadcast times and regional availability, choosing mood creation over historical accuracy.

for example, you could wear some torn jeans, a band t-shirt and have a plaid shirt tied round your waist, and then spend a night listening to grunge while playing doom, then watching an episode or two of ecw hardcore tv. for full effect, this would be best done after sunset on a hot summer night, with ecw starting at no earlier than 11pm  you could also throw in an episode of mtv’s headbanger’s ball, too, and the torrent site myspleen even has episodes with the ad breaks intact, for extra realism!

there’s similar combinations of 8-bit console games and japanese tv shows from the 70s to early 90s. when i got my pc engine last year, it was because i was specfically after an 8-bit japanese console with a rectangular controller and two action buttons. it could have been a famicom or an sega mark iii, but the opportunity to get a pce at a decent price presented itself, so that’s what i went with. it works out pretty well, since i now have a pc engine cd-rom2 unit too, a system i’ve associated with 90s anime, since there was a lot of stuff about it in the first anime magazine i ever saw, when i was like 9 or 10?

there’s even more minor things, that are probably specific to me, but i strongly associate the mega drive with bright and sunny early summer mornings, and ps1 rpgs with overcast autumn afternoons.

really it all just boils down to creating a mood using videogames and other things and it wasn’t really worth mentioning tbh

sorry

@mendelpalace @radicalhelmet @terribadass

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@mendelpalace @radicalhelmet

A few months ago I dragged out our old family computer and realized the little guy has feet that look like PAWS ! his name is DOG-E

[guilelessmonk]

radicalhelmet

 Favorite Abandoned Mechanic

Part 1 of 143312415, you say? Well, at the rate of one entry per day, I’ve confirmed that you should be able to get the whole series wrapped up in about 392,637 years, give or take. Good luck!

The first 100 years are going to exclusively be about PS2 RPGs.

[mendelpalace]

Twitter thread with my @radicalhelmet regarding AdventureOS, a 2D adventure/platformer that generates levels based on the files/folders etc. on your computer. I’d mentioned it to them before, but forgotten what it was called. 

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@radicalhelmet

Facebook starting out life as a trendy place for college students to see who's dating who feels supremely alien now, like learning how TGI Friday's started off as a cosmopolitan single's bar so trendy it had a red rope queue out front

[radicalhelmet]

Hi! I’ve just wanted to let you all know that I’m now going to be writing on +10 to Fire Resist! My first post is going up soon.

I mean, really soon.

Like, in-a-few-hours soon.

This is the header image. We weren’t able to fit the full version of it into the space at the top of the post, so I thought I’d post the full version here instead. Can you guess what it’s about? Go ahead, guess!

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@radicalhelmet @mendelpalace

Happy Pride Month, everyone! For this year I went retro and made a DOS program called VGAPride. It'll show a wide variety of flags on any DOS-compatible computer with a VGA or compatible video card.

It's open source, and you can download an EXE here (it'll work in DOSBox if you don't have a Packard Bell 486 handy)

Some examples, shot on a Pentium-60:

It also includes some regional pride flags, like the Brazil Gay Pride Flag:

And at least one flag I just made up, the Cool Crab Pride Flag:

[king-co0pa]

Hey so if you guys aren't following Extra Credits on youtube, you should be.

They talk a lot about game design and theory, as well as recommendations and gaming culture (and why there's problems with it) - essentially they're really cool

[mendelpalace]

Hello, Mark. I don't know if you're still up, but I'm sending you a virtual hug. I'm sure you've already been told a million times by now that you have a wonderful aesthetic eye, but it just has to be said. Frankly, I'd like to pin a photo of your bulletin board to my bulletin board. But beyond that, and more importantly, I think you're a good friend. I think you're a wonderful person who deserves to be happy. You've come a long way, and I'm proud of you. Be brave. I hope your dreams are sweet.

Thank you, really. I’m still up and I very much appreciate how many of these I’ve gotten. 

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@radicalhelmet @mendelpalace

Happy max headroom incident day