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Colin Williamson - 奈良番外地 @colinwilliamson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh my god check out this control layout from AZTEC (1982, Apple II)

Colin Williamson - 奈良番外地 @colinwilliamson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Okay y'all gotta get on this, available at Don Quixote. It's got a US "Nutrition Information" label on it insinuating you can buy these in the States as well...?

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Colin Williamson - 奈良番外地 @colinwilliamson.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Paging @dark1x.bsky.social for a future Digital Foundry comparison (Tass Times in Tonetown C64/Apple II/Apple IIGS)

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Colin Williamson - 奈良番外地 @colinwilliamson.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Becky Heineman's TASS TIMES IN TONETOWN source code just got dropped at Kansasfest, the big Apple II meetup. Contains source for C64, Apple II 8-bit and Apple IIGS. Contains a higher-res version of the "Becky getting decapitated" image in the IIGS source! archive.org/details/tass...

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Maytera Marble @mayteramarble.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

NEW FAN TRANSLATION: English Translation of "I Want a Room in Loopy Town!" for the Casio Loopy! Work odd jobs, buy furniture and decor, and celebrate holidays and the changing seasons. You only have one year until you... how wll you spend it? #CasioLoopy romhack.ing/database/con...

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Colin Williamson - 奈良番外地 @colinwilliamson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Regarding Sony's disc-continuation: What I will settle for in 2026 is a FREELY SHAREABLE LICENSE. There may be nothing on a Game Key Card or the majority of PS5 discs, but at least I can hand it to my friend and they can play the goddamn thing.

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Maytera Marble @mayteramarble.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

The Toaster has landed safely in America

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Colin Williamson - 奈良番外地 @colinwilliamson.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I've been doing some archaeology on 90s CG boards and I'd like to talk about the completely unhinged texturing of Virtua Fighter 3. VF1 was literally NO texturing; all detail was in flat shaded geometry. VF2 was beautifully painted textures (16-shade grayscale colored with a LUT). VF3 is this: 🧵

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Maytera Marble @mayteramarble.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

A lot of people think Mario’s full name is “Mario Mario,” but that’s not right. That’s the Japanese name order. Here, we’d call him “Mario Mario.”

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 19/06/2026

if you're not in the know, hourences leaving epic is the reddest red flag of all time

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Colin Williamson - 奈良番外地 @colinwilliamson.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Okay folks, I have checked my catalogs and I cannot find any indication of what the hell this stick is or what it once was. PS1 connector, The back is entirely custom squishy vinyl so I can't find a maker. The POPEYE is an obvious sticker. What IS this?

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Colin Williamson - 奈良番外地 @colinwilliamson.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

How is it that Bubsy gets re-releases and BOOGERMAN gets absolutely nothing

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Maytera Marble @mayteramarble.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

NEW THREAD of videos now that I got this installed and working! It's amazing! This is the mega-jackpot!!

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Maytera Marble @mayteramarble.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I found a weird object at the thrift store tonight about which nothing is online. It contains a Japanese CD-ROM from 1997. Let’s see what we can do.

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Colin Williamson - 奈良番外地 @colinwilliamson.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

NINTENDO PEOPLE HELP. I'm going through my DV tape rips and I found one of a Spaceworld presentation but I can't tag the year. We've got Yamauchi (???), Miyamoto showing off the original Celda trailer to polite applause, and Iwata talking about Pikmin. Is this '01?

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Colin Williamson - 奈良番外地 @colinwilliamson.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Yo I am about to transport +10kg of cat food and supplies to the cat rescue group leader lady who is in the city to the west of me. It's 18km but there's a mountain in the way. Mathematically my e-bike should be able to handle the round trip (49km range) but LETS SEE

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Colin Williamson - 奈良番外地 @colinwilliamson.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I'm calling it, the store brand beers you can get from Don Quixote are great. They're coming out of somewhere in Vietnam and deliver A+ cost performance.

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Colin Williamson - 奈良番外地 @colinwilliamson.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

So hyped to be working with Gamma Studios on AWAYSIS. If you're aiming for reference-level HDR implementation for your game across all platforms, I honestly don't think there's anyone better on the planet.

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Colin Williamson - 奈良番外地 @colinwilliamson.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I've been playing the heck out of the classic KING OF CHICAGO, and after growing up on the Apple IIGS/Amiga version, what in GOD'S NAME is going on in the original Mac version!?

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Colin Williamson - 奈良番外地 @colinwilliamson.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Oh my god, how is Unity's Shader Graph so incomprehensibly bad compared to Unreal / Amplify Shader Editor? I'm kind of in awe that it's this bad (switching back to ASE immediately)

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Colin Williamson - 奈良番外地 @colinwilliamson.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Got this Switch 2 vertical grip 3D printed in honor of Joe @gamesack.net , thanks for the splendid work @allymobbs.bsky.social!

3d printed switch 2 vertical grip playing Xenotilt

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Colin Williamson - 奈良番外地 @colinwilliamson.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Q: How to make katsudon tastier A: Cover it with ground meat

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Colin Williamson - 奈良番外地 @colinwilliamson.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I went out to buy milk but I wound up biking home with a 550 yen color CRT

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Colin Williamson - 奈良番外地 @colinwilliamson.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I am in Boston right now for PAX East and did a trip to MIT to explore; classic game company Infocom (among others) came out of here and it was awesome to see places that were referenced in games like Lurking Horror (like the Infinite Corridor)

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Colin Williamson - 奈良番外地 @colinwilliamson.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Time to go through crap in the basement and stuff it in a box to go to Goodwill! Here we go! Paging @jeffgerstmann.com who may remember some of this junk.

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Colin Williamson - 奈良番外地 @colinwilliamson.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Back in my day, 75% of video game marketing was talking about how polygonal boob ladies were going to kick the shit out of you, and I kind of miss it

An E3 marketing one sheet for Dead or Alive, showing Lei Fang in a leather outfit and the caption "She'll kick your ASS at E3 and beyond" and the word ASS is like 10x the size of all the other words

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RoBKTA 🎹🎮✨ @robkta.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

how dudes see themselves when they boot up Ridge Racer Type 4 for the millionth time It's me. I'm dudes.

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Alex Kraus @alexfkraus.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Background asset in a video game that you aren't meant to look at too closely

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Colin Williamson - 奈良番外地 @colinwilliamson.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Manhunter New York (1988, Sierra) is a game with an incredibly weird/oppresive vibe and I would REALLY like to reboot it. Pretty sure Microsoft has the rights. Come on guys, I will promise you Gaming Copilot integration or something, just gimme funding

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Colin Williamson - 奈良番外地 @colinwilliamson.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

All bangers #my9games , will be on deck if you need any of the more obscure ones rebooted

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Colin Williamson - 奈良番外地 @colinwilliamson.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Here is your reminder that the new season of BAKI is out on Netflix. The story is that the greatest fighters in Japan are all super bored, so they clone the greatest samurai of all time Miyamoto Musashi in a secret lab under the Sky Tree so they can try to beat his historical ass

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Colin Williamson - 奈良番外地 @colinwilliamson.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Inherently perfect, down to the choreography based on the harpoon throw and the dizzys at the end. Dying

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Colin Williamson - 奈良番外地 @colinwilliamson.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

At the ALGO Arcade in Kobe, there are TWO four-player Spikeout stations, and there's a giant stack of Model 3 boards and harnesses on a wire rack because they wouldn't fit inside the cabinets they're using

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Colin Williamson - 奈良番外地 @colinwilliamson.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I'm wrapping up my playthrough of the Rika Suzuki (Hotel Dusk) game DARK AUCTION, a game that would make any WWII historian poop blood.

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Colin Williamson - 奈良番外地 @colinwilliamson.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Why is the new Muppet Show just a one-off and not a whole new season!? Arrrgggghhh it's SO GOOD

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Colin Williamson - 奈良番外地 @colinwilliamson.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Fighting game character designed peaked in "VS" (Polygon Magic, THQ), an American-reskinned version of the Taito game "Fighters Impact" that features an evil Street Mime who does Aikido

Character select box for a gang member named "Mineo" whose job is STREET MIME and fighting style is AIKIDO and he looks like the Joker

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Colin Williamson - 奈良番外地 @colinwilliamson.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

It's cold AF so let's load up the shopping bike with 30 liters of kerosen! Weighs less than our foster kid did but a very sloshy ride

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Colin Williamson - 奈良番外地 @colinwilliamson.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I wonder how many dudes you would need to take on this challenge, I feel like this is an absolute metric ton of food given the cheap prices and big portions

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Colin Williamson - 奈良番外地 @colinwilliamson.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Grabbing this at Game Tanteidan in Osaka for the bonus CD, aw yisss

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Colin Williamson - 奈良番外地 @colinwilliamson.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

If you are at a 7-Eleven with the fancy new latte machines, I highly recommend jamming on this button right here

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Colin Williamson - 奈良番外地 @colinwilliamson.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

RAVE RACER ON ARCADE ARCHIVES FEB 26TH AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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Colin Williamson - 奈良番外地 @colinwilliamson.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

It's over! The retro game floors in Nara's legendary CUE arcade are history. Buncha locals showed up to play until midnight. For the final 15 minutes me and another dude jumped on the two Tetris The Grandmaster machines and tore it up until they kicked us out, and we rode our dad bikes home.

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Colin Williamson - 奈良番外地 @colinwilliamson.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I'm playing DARK AUCTION, and I love Rika Suzuki games and the fact that this even exists, but oh man the vibe of this scene feels like they're bidding on an NFT generated by Stable Diffusion 1.0

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Colin Williamson - 奈良番外地 @colinwilliamson.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

It's mildly Boozy Lipton Iced Tea! Sure, I'll drink this!

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Colin Williamson - 奈良番外地 @colinwilliamson.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Tenten has claimed the kerosene heater as his domain for eternity

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