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Four of my favorite games released in 1989 🤩 What are yours? #RetroGaming #Populous #IndianaJones #PrinceOfPersia #FutureWars

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure (Lucasfilm Games)

Future Wars / Les Voyageurs du Temps (Delphine Software)

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Pictopix @pictopix.bsky.social · 19h

Creating levels in the #Pictopix editor is easy! 🧩 🖍️ Draw your image in color on one layer and the squares to be filled in on another. And publish it! ➡️ store.steampowered.com/app/568320/P... More than 4,000 puzzles have been created by players 🥳 #Nonogram #Picross #ピクロス #PuzzleGame #IndieGame

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Thomas Leroy @gamrok.bsky.social · 18h

Great! Does it feature the original cast?

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Thomas Leroy @gamrok.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Currently listening... 💀 🎊 🎶 ➡️ youtube.com/watch?v=-LcU... #NowListening #GrimFandango #PeterMcConnell #OST #Jazz #Swing #BigBand

Grim Fandango Remastered Original Soundtrack (1998, Peter McConnell)

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Thomas Leroy @gamrok.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I have to admit that it's pretty exciting to create achievements. It's even given me some ideas for creating Easter eggs and other secrets in Pictopix 😀

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Thomas Leroy @gamrok.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Did you know that you can play Pictopix on your smartphone or tablet? 😀 All you need is the Steam Link app! (available on iOS and Android) ➡️ Pictopix: store.steampowered.com/app/568320/P... #Pictopix #Picross #Nonogram #ピクロス #IndieGame #SteamLink

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Thomas Leroy @gamrok.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Et j'ai aussi retrouvé ceci : des Guitar Connection 🎸 ⚡️ (j'avais oublié le nom) Achetés par correspondance ? Je ne sais plus. Les jeunes de ma génération doivent s'en souvenir 🙃 Tout ça, c'était avant l'avènement d'Internet ! 🧵 3/ #Guitar #GuitarTabs #Rock #HardRock #90s

Tablatures des morceaux More than words (Extreme), Patience (Guns N' Roses), Walk this way (Aerosmith), Circles (Joe Satriani) et Wild World (Cat Stevens).

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Thomas Leroy @gamrok.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Les magazines en question 😀 Il y a du Guitar World, Guitar Part, mais aussi Guitar Classique et Guitarist Acoustic (j'ai lâché progressivement la guitare électrique pour la guitare folk/acoutisque). Je pense en garder certains. 🧵 2/ #Guitar #AcousticGuitar #Tabs

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Thomas Leroy @gamrok.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Continuing to clear out the attic... I found the guitar tablature books (and magazines) 😀 I really feel like relearning some of those songs and riffs 🎸 The one for Blood Sugar Sex Magik by the Red Hot is missing 😩 #Guitar #EricClapton #Aerosmith #GunsNRoses #JoeSatriani #JimiHendrix

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Thomas Leroy @gamrok.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Mr. Garrity and the Graves" really surprised me 😀 It's one of the few episodes of The Twilight Zone where I didn't see the twist coming! What's even crazier is that it's based on a true story 🧟‍♂️ 🧟‍♀️ #TwilightZone #QuatrièmeDimension #TVSeries #Undead

John Dehner in Mr. Garrity and the Graves (The Twilight Zone season 6, episode 32, broadcast on May 8, 1964)

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Thomas Leroy @gamrok.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Je ne connaissais pas cette édition ! C'est spécifique à la version Amstrad CPC ? Voici la mienne (qui reprend la couv d'On a marché sur la Lune, avec un bandeau bleu en haut) : bsky.app/profile/gamr...

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Thomas Leroy @gamrok.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Comment ai je pu oublier de citer Calvin & Hobbes que j'essayais de dessiner dans presque tous les sens ❤️

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Thomas Leroy @gamrok.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Fait aussi 😀 (et j'ai encore les dessins dans un classeur) Ainsi que du "Giger Caza", des Tintin, Spirou (façon Franquin), Son Goku et bien d'autres choses.

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Thomas Leroy @gamrok.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My game Pictopix is currently 30% off on Steam! 🧩 Feel free to share the news 🙂 #Pictopix #PuzzleGame #Nonogram #Picross #ピクロス #IndieGame

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Thomas Leroy @gamrok.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Peut-être en passant par un financement participatif ? (au moins tu seras fixé sur le nombre d'exemplaires à produire)

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Thomas Leroy @gamrok.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm really looking forward to playing it, but Ocarina of Time comes out five days earlier 😱 I'll play it after that one.

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Thomas Leroy @gamrok.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Powermonger, je n'y ai finalement pas beaucoup joué. Mais Populous, il peut m'arriver aujourd'hui encore de le relancer et d'y jouer quelques heures 😀

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Thomas Leroy @gamrok.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm not convinced 🙂 If that was Villeneuve's intention, I don't think the reference is that obvious. I'll have to watch the movie again to see if it's more obvious when it's in motion.

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Thomas Leroy @gamrok.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Are you sure about Dune? While it's obvious in the case of Prometheus, in Dune it's just a fairly common rounded shape.

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Thomas Leroy @gamrok.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Je vois un Pac-Man en forme de Shadok. C'est grave docteur ?

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Thomas Leroy @gamrok.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Currently listening... 🚀 🌌 🎶 ➡️ youtube.com/watch?v=VJ81... #NowListening #FTLGame #FasterThanLight #OST #BenPrunty

FTL Faster Than Light original soundtrack (2012, Ben Prunty)

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Thomas Leroy @gamrok.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Currently expanding and improving the church and cemetery in Graveyard Keeper 2 ⛪️ 🪦 🌹 I'm gradually replacing the wood with stone. And the next step will be marble structures 😁 #GraveyardKeeper2 #FarmingSim #PixelArt

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Thomas Leroy @gamrok.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Only the attic floor is insulated. So yes, it's full of cobwebs and dust. Some of my belongings hadn't been covered to be protected from that :(

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Thomas Leroy @gamrok.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

C'est une chronologie du développement qu'on voit au dessus ? Je serais curieux de voir la totalité car je ne me souviens pas avoir lu un article/dossier qui le détaille ainsi. Je sais juste qu'Eric Chahi a développé l'histoire au fur et à mesure du développement (ce qui est fou quand on y pense)

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Thomas Leroy @gamrok.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I also brought my Amiga 500 (protected in a bag) along with its power supply, a mouse and a large 512K ram expansion that can be plugged into the left side. I no longer have the monitor or the external drive. 🧵 3/ #Amiga #Amiga500 #RetroComputer #RetroGaming

I didn't remember that the mouse (and the top of the memory expansion module) had yellowed so much. Is it possible that the process continued while they were stored away from the light?

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Thomas Leroy @gamrok.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And I also found this MSX HB-75F Hit Bit 🦕 I have no idea where this machine came from and how it ended up in my attic. Yes, there’s a lot of dust... 🫣 🧵 2/ #MSX #SonyHitBit #RetroComputer #RetroGaming

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Thomas Leroy @gamrok.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

While sorting through the attic again, I found this Amstrad CPC 6128 with some floppy disks 😀 A coworker gave it to me a long time ago. When I have time, I'll plug it in to see if it still works. I don't remember if the floppy disk drive still worked. 🧵 1/ #AmstradCPC #CPC6128 #RetroGaming

An Amstrad CPC 6128 computer with a (color?) monitor and a 3-inch floppy disk drive built into the keyboard/CPU unit.

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Thomas Leroy @gamrok.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I watched "The Encounter". It might be the most intense episode of The Twilight Zone I've ever seen. Driven by a meticulously crafted screenplay and two outstanding actors at the top of their game. I was blown away 😵 #TwilightZone #QuatrièmeDimension #TVSeries

George Takei in The Encounter (The Twilight Zone season 5, episode 31, broadcast on May 1, 1964), two years before he starred in the Star Trek series!

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Thomas Leroy @gamrok.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You could draw sprites, background elements, and so on. Then you could design levels, waves of enemies, and so on. All without coding, if I remember correctly. Even though we couldn't create high-quality shoot 'em ups like Xenon II or Battle Squadron, it was still a lot of fun 😀

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Thomas Leroy @gamrok.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It brings back memories of Shoot 'em up Construction Kit on Amiga 😀

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Thomas Leroy @gamrok.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One of my favorite activities in Graveyard Keeper 2: upgrading and beautifying the church and cemetery to attract more and more parishioners ⛪️ 🕯️ ✨ (and money 😇) #GraveyardKeeper2 #FarmingSim #PixelArt

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Thomas Leroy @gamrok.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When I think that Edgar P. Jacobs first made his career as an opera singer (for 20 years) before turning permanently to illustration 😮 It was by becoming Hergé’s assistant that he honed his skills before creating his own comics. 🧵 3/ #BlakeAndMortimer #BlakeEtMortimer #EdgarPJacobs #Hergé #Comics

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Thomas Leroy @gamrok.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Blake & Mortimer featured well-crafted storylines that blended science fiction, crime thrillers, espionage, paranormal and esoteric 🌀 🔍 I still have just as strong a desire to reread them! 😀 🧵 2/ #BlakeEtMortimer #BlakeAndMortimer #EdgarPJacobs #BandeDessinée #Comics

Excerpts from volume 2 of The Mystery of the Great Pyramid: The Chamber of Horus (the 5th volume in the Blake & Mortimer series, written and illustrated by Edgar P. Jacobs)
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Extraits du tome 2 du Mystère de la Grande Pyramide : La Chambre d'Horus (5ème tome de la série Blake & Mortimer, scénario et dessin de Edgar P. Jacobs)

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Thomas Leroy @gamrok.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Blake and Mortimer series celebrates its 80th anniversary today ❤️ It was on September 26, 1946, that the first panel of The Secret of the Swordfish was published in Tintin Magazine. #BlakeEtMortimer #BlakeAndMortimer #EdgarPJacobs #BandeDessinée #Comics #Tintin

The first volume of the Blake & Mortimer series: The Secret of the Swordfish by Edgar P. Jacobs ("Le Secret de l'Espadon" in French)

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Thomas Leroy @gamrok.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Having fun playing Graveyard Keeper 2! 🥳 This game is kind of addictive 😅 #GraveyardKeeper2 #FarmingSim #PixelArt

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Thomas Leroy @gamrok.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In Europe, the games were released later. Silent Hill 2 came out on November 23, 2001 and ICO on March 22, 2002! Every year, I often feel like replaying these games around their release dates (it's been a long time since I last played them). 🧵 2/ #ICO #SilentHill2 #Playstation2 #RetroGaming

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Thomas Leroy @gamrok.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

J'adore Pratchett, mais les notes de bas de pages qui font des tartines et interrompent la lecture (surtout dans un roman), j'aime pas 😅 Je préfère que ce soit mis en annexe (avec une référence vers la page).

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Thomas Leroy @gamrok.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's Thomas Wilson on the right? (Biff Tannen)

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Thomas Leroy @gamrok.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Two of my favorite games are celebrating their 25th anniversary today: Silent Hill 2 and ICO! 💛 💚 🖤 Released on the same day in North America (September 25, 2001) #ICO #SilentHill2 #Playstation2 #RetroGaming

My copies of ICO and Silent Hill 2 (French editions)

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Thomas Leroy @gamrok.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It always makes me happy to read a review of my game #Pictopix in my native language 🙂 (translation of the French text in the image description) #PuzzleGame #Nonogram #Picross #ピクロス #IndieGame #SoloDev

"For all Picross fans (a name exclusive to Nintendo), Pictopix is a love letter. It’s incredibly generous—enough to put all the titles released by Jupiter to shame, given just how much there is to do here. Thank you for this game, which lets me enjoy some truly wonderful moments of reflection."

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Thomas Leroy @gamrok.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Première fois et dernière fois que je passe par #Fnac Reprise. Entre les photos de ma (?) console dégradée (alors qu'elle était très propre) et une offre de reprise très inférieure à ce qu'on peut en tirer ailleurs, je me suis clairement fait arnaquer 🙁

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Thomas Leroy @gamrok.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Merci pour avoir détaillé le contenu du livre ! Je sens que je ne vais pas regretter mon achat 🙂

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Thomas Leroy @gamrok.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

And it's impossible not to think of Operation Stealth when you get to that point 🤩 The visual style is almost identical on screens like this. 🧵 3/ #TheDrifter #OperationStealth #AdventureGame #PointAndClick

Screenshot from the adventure game The Drifter.

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Thomas Leroy @gamrok.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Moi il me met en plus Chants of Sennaar ! 💛

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Thomas Leroy @gamrok.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Bravo ! 😀 Pas de VF prévue ? (c'est pas indiqué sur Steam)

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