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Syncoplay Retro Gaming @syncoplay.bsky.social · 8h

Thanks! Yeah I didn't have any good scans before but @west-mansion.bsky.social had some great stuff on their site that they let me tap into

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Syncoplay Retro Gaming @syncoplay.bsky.social · 9h

With the help of @west-mansion.bsky.social, I have upgraded the standard review layout for Splatterhouse: Wanpaku Graffiti to a custom two-page spread! Same review content, FAR better presentation. This upgraded review will go into Beyond the NES when it goes into print later this month!

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Syncoplay Retro Gaming @syncoplay.bsky.social · 10h

This game reminds me of playing Half Life on my old Voodoo 3 and I'm all here for it

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Syncoplay Retro Gaming @syncoplay.bsky.social · 10h

Mawatte Mucho! is exactly the kind of wildly experimental (but doesn't quite work) game that you expect to see on PS1. Imagine The Tower of Druaga but you (and enemies) rotate tiles to change the maze. Worth a try, but keep expectations in check. @sirdrpanda.bsky.social youtu.be/DZkTkxUn4MM?...

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Syncoplay Retro Gaming @syncoplay.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Excuse me, Mr. Wayne. Your batsignal is showing.

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Syncoplay Retro Gaming @syncoplay.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Excuse me, I'm looking for NAKED Batman please

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Station58 - Wishlist on Steam! 🌲 @station58.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Meet #Station58, a cozy puzzle adventure about rebuilding a national park scattered across the sky. 🌌 Play as Starla and her giant robot companion Shorty as you explore and restore Barcadero National Park, solve alien puzzles, and uncover its mysteries... #IndieGame #CozyGame

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Syncoplay Retro Gaming @syncoplay.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Playing a cute little indie game called Adventurous Slime tonight. Simple, easy, and short Metroidvania with XP-based leveling and a freeform map that reminds me a bit of Castlequest in its openness (but a much better game).

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Syncoplay Retro Gaming @syncoplay.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A Short Hike is basically a 3D platformer without enemies, where you find items, play minigames with NPCs, and level up your flying skill so you can climb the mountain. Only takes about two hours to complete, and it's cute and simple.

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Syncoplay Retro Gaming @syncoplay.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Thanks! We're having a blast with it so far

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Syncoplay Retro Gaming @syncoplay.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Did you ever play A Short Hike? It has a built in potato mode that is very charming. Also today I learned about a new indie shooter called Derelikt that gives me vibes of running Half Life before I got a Voodoo 3 accelerator.

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Syncoplay Retro Gaming @syncoplay.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I wonder what it would look like if we dropped the resolution to 240x160 and ran in potato mode?

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Syncoplay Retro Gaming @syncoplay.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Guys! Guys! GUYS!!!! My new game was just announced!!! Go check out Station 58 on Steam - wishlist it, join the playtest, DO ALL THE THINGS!!! store.steampowered.com/app/3757660/... (I'm the creative director, with @dustwrites.bsky.social as project lead)

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Station 58 on Steam

Piece together a national park scattered across the sky in this cozy puzzle adventure. Play solo or couch co-op as Starla and Shorty, a park ranger and her giant robot friend. Solve alien cube puzzles...

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Syncoplay Retro Gaming @syncoplay.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Will do - I'm setting up my Superstation One today and planning this to be my test game, I'll let you know how it goes

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Syncoplay Retro Gaming @syncoplay.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I saw an ad for it in Famitsu and thought it looked worth trying

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Syncoplay Retro Gaming @syncoplay.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You guys should watch the Convergence Games Showcase at 2:30pm ET: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWiO... I can't say "exactly" why, but there's at least one part of the show that is... relevant to my interests :)

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Convergence Games Showcase OCTOBER 2026: LIVE!

YouTube video by Convergence Games Showcase

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Syncoplay Retro Gaming @syncoplay.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Apparently Bluesky moderation decided the squatting Japanese Ken doll was "Explicit Sexual Content"

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Syncoplay Retro Gaming @syncoplay.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A nice change of pace from the other game I'm breaking it in with

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Syncoplay Retro Gaming @syncoplay.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Gives me something new to play on the Superstation One I'm setting up right now :)

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Syncoplay Retro Gaming @syncoplay.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Wow, it's rare to find a PS1 game I've never even heard of. Gonna have to check this one out

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Syncoplay Retro Gaming @syncoplay.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Give me more games that look like this and I'm not joking

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Syncoplay Retro Gaming @syncoplay.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Mawatte Mucho - arcade/action maze game where you have to rotate the ground tiles around you to change the maze. youtu.be/DZkTkxUn4MM?...

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PlayStation - Mawatte Mucho! (1998)

YouTube video by The Video Game Museum

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Syncoplay Retro Gaming @syncoplay.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Plot Twist: That kid saved and saved his allowance for a year to buy Action 52, then swore off video games forever.

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Syncoplay Retro Gaming @syncoplay.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Mappy the Mouse Cop murdered my grandmother" is a sentence I just effectively used in a professional manner. I love video games 🤣

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Syncoplay Retro Gaming @syncoplay.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

walkthrough websites, from retro gear to kickass conventions - there aren't too many advertisers in the book (about 12 in a 330+ page book) but they're right on point and cool stuff I'm proud to help get the word out for. This community is awesome :)

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Syncoplay Retro Gaming @syncoplay.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

controversial companies and products. I set things up so that if gambling sites or other misfits tried to buy ad space I had first right of refusal. But would the cool stuff find my book in time? Yes. Yes it did. I'm crazy excited to include these creators in my book! From homebrew games to (2/3)

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Syncoplay Retro Gaming @syncoplay.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I took an interesting risk with my Beyond the NES Kickstarter campaign - I thought "since it's basically a giant magazine, wouldn't it be cool to have spots for independent creators to advertise their stuff?" It was a risk, because I didn't want to fill the book with junk ads, off-topic, or (1/3)

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Syncoplay Retro Gaming @syncoplay.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Just for fun: come up with your best Famicom game joke. If I like it, I might put it in Beyond the NES (with your permission/credit, of course!)

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Syncoplay Retro Gaming @syncoplay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Nope, "Umfamousy" is now the title of my next book.

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Syncoplay Retro Gaming @syncoplay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

How in the hell did Autocorrect decide "umfamousy" was a word? WHERE'S MY EDITOR!?! 🤣

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Syncoplay Retro Gaming @syncoplay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I think you're writing fan fiction. I believe my words were something like "the umfamousy TOSE" and changed it when you pointed out they made some hits in the era as well. But keep trollin'

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Syncoplay Retro Gaming @syncoplay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

During the Famicom era they were way more bad than good. We went over this 🤣

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Syncoplay Retro Gaming @syncoplay.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

TOSE is beyond "good" or "bad". They made so many games, of such wildly unpredictable quality, I might call them "Chaotic Neutral"

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Raigan Burns @raiganburns.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's really unbelievable how blithely ignorant a huge swath of gamedevs are about this -- they don't seem to grasp that the core of the fun isn't "getting the golfball into the hole", it's **being forced to do so only by hitting the ball with a stick**. (to very badly paraphrase Bernard Suits)

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Syncoplay Retro Gaming @syncoplay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Chivalry was the name of my childhood cat. She's dead now.

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Syncoplay Retro Gaming @syncoplay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Every frame of Donald Duck's movement is drawn by a skilled artist. Every inflection in his voice is intentionally created by a skilled voice actor. Donald Duck is more human than this soulless marketing gimmick.

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Queen's Domain⚔️ - DEMO OUT NOW @queensdomain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Queen’s Domain is launching OCT 30TH!! ⚔️ Excited to announce our retro-fantasy action RPG with brutal combat and traversal-focused exploration will be available soon for PC and Consoles. Coming to Steam, Switch 2, Xbox Series and PS5!

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Syncoplay Retro Gaming @syncoplay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's a great soundtrack, that games got style

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Syncoplay Retro Gaming @syncoplay.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You sure Sherry isn't what you've been drinking?

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