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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

For Your Amusement Life: GAME FREAK! GAME FREAK (Yep, that one) started off a life as a hand-printed arcade game tips and strategies zine in the early 80s. 📖: Game Freak Encyclopedia, 1984

A scan of the Encyclopedia issue on Internet Archive (Tiffany Yeatts) inside page with Game Freak in big calculator text and a drawing of an anime girl with short dark hair sitting on the ground with the tagline. She's wearing a Honey House t-shirt and pants,

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sheika 彡★ @sheikocat.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

digital artist 🎨🌐🌴 animated version! #vaporwave

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(PEPEGR∆PHIX) 📺✨ @pepesalot.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

PERFECT SANDWICH📺🎮💕 My appreciation for the community behind the #MisterFPGA project. Celebrating accuracy and preservation of computer and video game hardware from the past. Available on my prints store. Thank you! 🤓 www.inprnt.com/gallery/pepe...

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Not only will they safeguard Mega-Tokyo in 2032, the Knight Sabers will now prevent screen burn-in on your mid '90s CRT monitor - Bubblegum Crisis: The Screensaver! 📖: Animerica, July 1994

A photo of a full page ad for AnimEigo's bubblegum crisis screensaver and video program. Priss in her hard suit poses stoicly to the right of the page

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IvyArcade @1vy64.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Thanks @blackscreenrecords.com for the merch of my favorite game! The Vinyl skips few times but its still great!

2 Vinyl, them game on the switch old, the pin and tshit

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

From a nifty demoscene prod released in 2024: PETSCII Samus for the anniversary. 💜

A photo of a petscii art demo running on a C64C and crt TV with Samus in her iconic power armour, crouched down and arm cannon raised, surrounded by crackling lightning and techie elements

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Happy 40th birthday, Metroid! The OG released on Famicom Disk System ran, jumped, and spun into Japanese homes on 06/08/1986! The foundation of a genre-blending franchise that remains one of my favourite Nintendo ones to this day. 💜 Have you played the OG, peeps? Or its Zero Mission remake?

A very cool Japanese ad for Metroid with Samus stood in her power suit in the centre and almost wireframe smaller samuses in trails of mid-run and jump all across the screen as if they're slow-mo frames of movement.

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

She's so Number Nine… Two years after it first aired in Japan, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex received its Adult Swim broadcast on November 7th, 2004. Not sure if it got delayed from a July slot as the ad here seems to suggest it was due for. 📖: Electronic Gaming Monthly, August 2004

A snap of a Stand Alone Complex ad with the Major, a Tachikoma, and Batou standing dramatically against a city backdrop, with a little flavour hype text about the series and who it was made by.

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

One of the sibling Lodoss series: Legend of Crystania. Set on a different continent in the world shared by this, Lodoss, and Rune Soldier, it too has a background in Replays of tabletop adventures.

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Today's cool Newtype cover: Newtype USA's GITS: SAC Kusanagi cover from June 2004. 🔥 She's incredible math... 🎵

Newtype USA June 2004 cover with Major Kusanagi posing on the front, pistol raised.

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Arrow Flash is a decent little shmup for the Mega Drive (and quite pretty too!). In the game's Japanese release, it has some sweet anime/manga-style cover art from Takashi Akaishizawa, who did a couple of other covers for Sega: Burning Force and Phantasy Star Adventures for Game Gear.

Arrow Flash's JPN release Mega Drive case cover with the blue-haired gal protag delivering a confident smile at the camera and dressed in a pink, gold, and lilac armoured flight suit against a spacey orbital backdrop with a mecha head and a scifi installation

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🌐TORI.PNG🌐 @toripng.com · 11/07/2026

Commission for @mellana.bsky.social !! I loved finally doing some more rhythm gaming oriented art 🎶 #art

Mellana and Mellana's sona dancing on a Stepmaniax cab

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Marker @markerdotnet.standingintheodds.com · 11/07/2026

art fight attack for @/rainynebula.bsky.social

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IvyArcade @1vy64.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I have a poster of it! OMG!

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Man/Machine Interface: A fine bit of manga M. Kusanagi in a GITS gallery from the cover disc of Spanish anime magazine, Anitype. 📀: Animedia CD, 2002

A Windows 98 screenshot with one of the Animedia multimedia CD-ROMs gallery of images/scans grabbed from the internet and included. Shirow illustration Motoko in skimpy bodysuit and leggings surrounded by cybernetic machinery and cables

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System ST91 @systemst91.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

#gits #ghostintheshell #fanmade #music #ps1 #techno #old #works "MindHacker - ZERO - Friendly Black Market Server"

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System ST91 @systemst91.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

#gits #ghostintheshell #fanmade #music #ps1 #techno #old #works "MindHacker - ZERO - Neo Tokyo servers Breach"

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System ST91 @systemst91.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

#gits #ghostintheshell #fanmade #music #ps1 #techno #old #works "MindHacker - ZERO - New identity forms"

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PlayStation Park @playstationpark.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Did you play the awesome 'Ghost In The Shell' game on PlayStation?

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

“Plug into the excitement and adventure of this cyber offshoot.” The cyberiffic cover of this 1993 issue of V.Max - The Anime & Manga Journal. Originally published as a newsletter before being brought under the wing of R. Talsorian Games as a quarterly. The long boi UMD, she's got there.

A scan of the issue from Internet Archive (AnimeVHSCollector) with a busty anime girl with long hair that's got circuitry superimposed on it in green. She's holding a long cyberpunk-ey encased CD in her hand.

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IvyArcade @1vy64.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

You mod you 3ds and then you can install it in the hshop

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IvyArcade @1vy64.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I finally got my dream Gameboy! Made by @mizucat.bsky.social Artwork by @melinskii.bsky.social

Gameboy dream after many month~~
My tattoo is based by Yars rising

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

“In the near future, electrons and light flow freely, and corporate computer networks eclipse the stars.” And Motoko Kusanagi continues to kick ass. 🔥 As of last year and a new visual novel with action elements, now also on GB & GBC. 📺: Ghost in the Shell GBC, avalentine1996, 2025 (GBC/GB)

A GB DMG screenie of pixel art of Motoko Kusangi in her long, padded shoulders looking jacket with the sleeves rolled up, sitting with one knee casually raised up and arm resting over it, against a city skyline.

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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Planet Anime's movie-edit ads are a little treasure. 25% off domestic tapes and 20% off domestic DVDs all the time! 📖: Protoculture Addicts, July 1999.

A Matrix movie poster style ad for Planet Anime, with the Cowboy Bebop crew's heads edited onto Neo (Spike), Morpheus (Jet), and Trinity (Faye). Ein can be seen too, though it's just Ein.

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(PEPEGR∆PHIX) 📺✨ @pepesalot.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Character design and illustration for @maccy.me. 🖥️🖱️✨ I'm very happy to collaborate with one of my favorite creators.

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SKETCHWAVE 🔜 Tipped Off 17 @sketchwavefm.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Agent 8 in Deepsea Deco 🐙✨ This print will be available when I reopen my shop! #Splatoon #Sketchwave

An Illustration of Agent 8 from Splatoon 2, surrounded in items found scattered in the skies of the Octo Expansion missions (boomboxes, keyboards and cumpter mice, cd cases, neon signs, etc.). The background is a dreamy deep blue night sky, with shining cyan stars

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Critical Kate has a bunch of videos on Metroid influences and also charting Metroidvania history, picking out these unexpected and often accidental early examples of the latter. Will recommend checking those out.

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Samus Aran Origins: Metroid's Influences Beyond Alien | Hardboiled History (Hidden Influences)

YouTube video by Critical Kate (of A Critical Hit!)

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Alpha Chrome Yayo @alphachromeyayo.com · 12/05/2026

I'm getting LUDICROUSLY excited for the new Ghost in the Shell Whipped up this fuchikoma in picoCAD 2, and a cover of the OG theme to match

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IvyArcade @1vy64.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Yars Revenge sequel Yars Rising is amazing! And the soundtrack such an ear candy! (*￣▽￣)ノ~~ ♪

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

📖 Bytes of Game Ads 📺 “If you weren't already afraid of the dark… you will be…” With Fusion already bringing the spookiness to Metroid on handheld, it was the GameCube's turn to get a dollop of horror marketing for its next Prime instalment.

A magazine scan ad for a gloomy, horror-themed ad for Prime 2: Echoes, with Samus illuminated in a crouched, wary posture with fleshy biohorror tentacular and giger-ish stuff behind her obscured in shadow

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

From the pages of Nintendo Power 165 and ready to be stuck onto your GameCube memory cards in 2003: the front line of Nintendo's first-party heroes.

A scan of a sticker sheet featuring vari-sized sticks featuring logos of Metroid, Game Cube, Nintendo Power and Nintendo logos, and character poses, and screenshots of Metroid Fusion Prime, and Mario & Yoshi, and Wind Waker.

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

People love machines in 2029 A.D. A treat of some Motoko Kusanagi for your feeds snapped from an Amiga demoscene disc from 1997 opened up in Deluxe Paint IV.

An Amiga IFF HAM image coverted and opened up in Deluxe Paint IV. The major sits, one hand casually over her knee, in a blue military-esque tunic with padded shoulders that spills down into a long loincloth. She also has thigh-high stockings half cut off the bottom of the image, and sports black aviator-like shades and cables from the back of her.

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ChocoPudding :P @chocopudding31.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

homeko / windows xp home tan :3

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Stephen Maurice Graham @smgdraws.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Inside the zine every page has bespoke illustrations, here's one from the Metroid article, Samus is getting a cake power up!

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IvyArcade @1vy64.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Played it! It was fun to skate around but I got lost pretty fast :) still I love the vibe

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Just shy of a month after its Japanese release, Super Metroid made its way over to North America. Happy 32nd birthday (again!), Super Metroid. 💜 Worth celebrating twice (and in the summer, thrice) one of the GOATS.

A crt tv photo of the Super Metroid title screen of a lab with a Metroid inside a tube, and glowy computer screen either side.

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IvyArcade @1vy64.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Watched the whole Serie and I loved it! Best OST serie ever :)

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IvyArcade @1vy64.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Recently I had my head deep in Retro games for a few years but today I discovered fake GBA and I was deeply disappointed in my discovery that my favourites is a fake ones. Guys be safe and please think twice before buying :(

Fake Metroid Zero mission even it says "Nintendo" doesn't mean it's fake! The black blobs are indicators those are fake

A fake sonic advance game 3 (the black blobs shouldn't be there!)

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▞▞▞ 𝖕𝖊𝖕𝖕𝖊𝖗⛧𝖓𝖈𝖈𝖎𝖓𝖎 ▞▞▞ @ Sprinkle Trinkle Town 7.0 @pepperonccini.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Artwork I illustrated for @merenotilde.bsky.social new single. Out today! I locked in drawing those Lil icons in pink...

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

📖 Bytes of Game Ads 📺 "Urgent Order! Space Warrior Samus Appears!" The strongest space warrior, Samus Aran, rises to stop the Metroid proliferation plan and save the galaxy! Love this ad and the little glowy wireframe sequence of leaping and running Samuses; makes me think of the old Epyx boxes.

A Japanese ad for the original Metroid release on Famicom Disk System with a large illustration of Samus in the armour as it appeared then standing in a pillared corridor with smaller wireframe and pale blued Samuses (Sami?) running and leaping

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Johan Peitz - Icy Tower is coming soon! @johanpeitz.com · 19/03/2026

I went to planet SR388, and not I have this thing following me around. What gives? #lowpoly #3d #metroid

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Dropping in from space to Japan 32 years ago today: SUPER METROID. Its arrival was heralded by promos like this, which looks like it uses a photo of a Samus Aran figurine. Very cool stuff that emphasies the forbidding horror aspect. One of the Goatiest GOATS. Share your love for it, peeps <3

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

“People love machines in 2029AD” Majors and Tachikomas for this week's #ScanlineSunday entry from me, with snaps from the eroticism-charged intro to Exact's Ghost in the Shell game for PS1. 🔥 📺: Composite on LG KE-15FA9SX

A crt tv screen photo of a close up of Major Kusanagi's face while she was all wired up in a vr headset, hands raised to lift it off

A shot of the Major in a skin-tight bodysuit obscured by glow, sitting medatively on a soft blue cushion chair, cables, and wires connected to her. A heavy belt-fed machine gun with sticks out of the side, the belt curling around her

A tachikoma multiped tank, in a fiery building, arms extended

A shot of one of the tachis;'s rolling out of a fountain, water clinging them in a wave

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