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Enjoy Game Japan @enjoygamejapan.bsky.social · 12h

Masahiro Sakurai built a fighting game with Mario in it, after Mario's creator had already said no. What would you build if you stopped waiting for permission? #retrogaming #classicgaming museum.enjoygamejapan.online/en/sto…

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Enjoy Game Japan @enjoygamejapan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Atari wouldn't put his name on his game. So he hid it inside. What are you making that will never carry your name? #retrogaming #classicgaming museum.enjoygamejapan.online/en/sto…

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Enjoy Game Japan @enjoygamejapan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In 2001, people called ICO an empty game — you mostly just held a girl's hand. What are you building that people still call empty? #retrogaming #classicgaming museum.enjoygamejapan.online/en/sto…

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Enjoy Game Japan @enjoygamejapan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yu Suzuki built a whole town. Critics said nothing happened in it. What are you making right now that the world calls too quiet to matter? #retrogaming #classicgaming museum.enjoygamejapan.online/en/sto…

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Enjoy Game Japan @enjoygamejapan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In 1996, a game about farming — no enemies, just crops — looked like a bad bet. What are you growing that no one thinks is worth it? #retrogaming #classicgaming museum.enjoygamejapan.online/en/sto…

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Enjoy Game Japan @enjoygamejapan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Katamari was just rolling junk into a ball. Nobody at Namco could see the point. What are you still rolling up that everyone calls pointless? #retrogaming #classicgaming museum.enjoygamejapan.online/en/sto…

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Enjoy Game Japan @enjoygamejapan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Daisuke Amaya spent five years building Cave Story alone at home, around a day job nobody would call glamorous. What are you making that no one asked you to? #retrogaming #classicgaming museum.enjoygamejapan.online/en/sto…

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Enjoy Game Japan @enjoygamejapan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Toru Iwatani built Pac-Man for people who didn't fight — and even his own company thought it was too soft to sell. #retrogaming #classicgaming museum.enjoygamejapan.online/en/sto…

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Enjoy Game Japan @enjoygamejapan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Alexey Pajitnov typed Tetris on a computer that couldn't draw a picture, just for himself. #retrogaming #classicgaming museum.enjoygamejapan.online/en/sto…

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Enjoy Game Japan @enjoygamejapan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

When Death Stranding launched, the whole internet laughed — a boring delivery game where you mostly just walk. #retrogaming #classicgaming museum.enjoygamejapan.online/en/sto…

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Enjoy Game Japan @enjoygamejapan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

On the Sega Master System, the hero was a teenage girl — but her creator's name was hidden. #retrogaming #classicgaming museum.enjoygamejapan.online/en/sto…

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Enjoy Game Japan @enjoygamejapan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Your Pokémon Crystal knew what day of the week it was, even with the Game Boy switched off. Is the clock in your cartridge still running today? #retrogaming #classicgaming museum.enjoygamejapan.online/en/sto…

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Enjoy Game Japan @enjoygamejapan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Months before GoldenEye 007 shipped, one programmer wrote its four-player mode and told no one. What are you quietly building right now, with no one watching? #retrogaming #classicgaming museum.enjoygamejapan.online/en/sto…

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Enjoy Game Japan @enjoygamejapan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Everyone on Earth has played Tetris, yet almost no one can name the man who made it. #retrogaming #classicgaming museum.enjoygamejapan.online/en/sto…

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Enjoy Game Japan @enjoygamejapan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Game Boy wasn't the best handheld, and Gunpei Yokoi knew it. What are you still using that someone else already wrote off? #retrogaming #classicgaming museum.enjoygamejapan.online/en/sto…

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Enjoy Game Japan @enjoygamejapan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

You never played this Super Nintendo game. It was finished in 1995. We keep the quiet human stories behind the games at EnjoyGameJapan Museum. #retrogaming #classicgaming museum.enjoygamejapan.online/en/sto…

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Enjoy Game Japan @enjoygamejapan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

You thought this was Nintendo's most famous failure. You held the wrong story. #retrogaming #classicgaming museum.enjoygamejapan.online/en/sto…

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Enjoy Game Japan @enjoygamejapan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The man who made Final Fantasy never planned to make another game. He wanted out of games. Forty years on, he's still making them. #retrogaming #classicgaming museum.enjoygamejapan.online/en/sto…

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Enjoy Game Japan @enjoygamejapan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The man who made the worst game ever had just built two of Atari's biggest hits. What they buried didn't stay buried. Neither will yours. #retrogaming #classicgaming museum.enjoygamejapan.online/en/sto…

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Enjoy Game Japan @enjoygamejapan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Before Nintendo, one engineer was told he could not build the swap. He was told he couldn't. You held his answer. #retrogaming #classicgaming museum.enjoygamejapan.online/en/sto…

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Enjoy Game Japan @enjoygamejapan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Every ninja in your Mortal Kombat cartridge was only ever one man. Who is still fighting in your cartridge tonight? #retrogaming #classicgaming museum.enjoygamejapan.online/en/sto…

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Enjoy Game Japan @enjoygamejapan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The Pokémon you grew up on almost missed what its maker called the last train. What are you still holding, sure your last train already left? #retrogaming #classicgaming museum.enjoygamejapan.online/en/sto…

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Enjoy Game Japan @enjoygamejapan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The Nintendo 64 once made a child choose before their hands could ever buzz. What did the buzz in your hand once cost a child? #retrogaming #classicgaming museum.enjoygamejapan.online/en/sto…

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Enjoy Game Japan @enjoygamejapan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The Nintendo 64 once made a child choose before their hands could ever buzz. What did the buzz in your hand once cost a child? #retrogaming #classicgaming museum.enjoygamejapan.online/en/sto…

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Enjoy Game Japan @enjoygamejapan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The man who made Devil May Cry once built a game he was never allowed to finish. What are you still waiting for permission to finish? #retrogaming #classicgaming museum.enjoygamejapan.online/en/sto…

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Enjoy Game Japan @enjoygamejapan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Ben Cheese hid a second computer inside the Super Nintendo cartridge you never knew you held. #retrogaming #classicgaming museum.enjoygamejapan.online/en/sto…

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Enjoy Game Japan @enjoygamejapan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

When you opened your NES box, something not a game stared back. Who did you pretend to be to get in? #retrogaming #classicgaming museum.enjoygamejapan.online/en/sto…

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Enjoy Game Japan @enjoygamejapan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Your Nintendo Zelda cartridge holds a name you forgot. Is your name still waiting where you left it? #retrogaming #classicgaming museum.enjoygamejapan.online/en/sto…

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Enjoy Game Japan @enjoygamejapan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Millions played DOOM, but almost no one played its co-creator's version. What is the thing your hands keep working on, even after you're told no one wants it? #retrogaming #classicgaming museum.enjoygamejapan.online/en/sto…

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Enjoy Game Japan @enjoygamejapan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Your friend's Game Boy showed green, but yours glowed color. Whose batteries died first, so your screen never does? #retrogaming #classicgaming museum.enjoygamejapan.online/en/sto…

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Enjoy Game Japan @enjoygamejapan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The shape in your hands was almost a gripless slab. We keep the quiet human stories behind the machines at EnjoyGameJapan Museum. #retrogaming #classicgaming museum.enjoygamejapan.online/en/sto…

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Enjoy Game Japan @enjoygamejapan.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

You blew into NES cartridges. Breath never saved it. We keep the quiet human stories behind the machines at EnjoyGameJapan Museum. #retrogaming #classicgaming museum.enjoygamejapan.online/en/sto…

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Enjoy Game Japan @enjoygamejapan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Dragon Quest feels warm, but its designer called the machine cold. What feels cold to you may just be unfinished. #retrogaming #classicgaming museum.enjoygamejapan.online/en/sto…

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Enjoy Game Japan @enjoygamejapan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

You chased Pac-Man's yellow circle for years, but never knew who drew it. Your hands loved his maze. They never learned his name. #retrogaming #classicgaming museum.enjoygamejapan.online/en/sto…

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Enjoy Game Japan @enjoygamejapan.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The man who made Metal Gear never set out to make a game about hiding — he wanted you to shoot your way through. #retrogaming #classicgaming museum.enjoygamejapan.online/en/sto…

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Enjoy Game Japan @enjoygamejapan.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Tomb Raider's studio wanted a nude Lara Croft in the game — its creator never signed off on that. #retrogaming #classicgaming museum.enjoygamejapan.online/en/sto…

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Enjoy Game Japan @enjoygamejapan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

You never owned a Dreamcast, but you use its idea every day. Being early and being wrong wear the same face for a while. #retrogaming #classicgaming museum.enjoygamejapan.online/en/sto…

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Enjoy Game Japan @enjoygamejapan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Space Invaders shipped with a flaw its maker refused to remove. What you can't fix may become your signature. #retrogaming #classicgaming museum.enjoygamejapan.online/en/sto…

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Enjoy Game Japan @enjoygamejapan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Donkey Kong ran on code that Nintendo never wrote. Your name can be left off. Your hand can't. #retrogaming #classicgaming museum.enjoygamejapan.online/en/sto…

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Enjoy Game Japan @enjoygamejapan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Kirby was a placeholder a 19-year-old refused to delete. What placeholder in your life outran the plan? #retrogaming #classicgaming museum.enjoygamejapan.online/en/sto…

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Enjoy Game Japan @enjoygamejapan.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Pokémon ruled a world its maker couldn't. What feeds the world once couldn't feed him. #retrogaming #classicgaming museum.enjoygamejapan.online/en/sto…

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Enjoy Game Japan @enjoygamejapan.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Pong's machine stopped, but nothing was broken. What are you treating as just practice? #retrogaming #classicgaming museum.enjoygamejapan.online/en/sto…

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