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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Spooktober Game Release! Exire: The Fire Will Find You is available now! Friends break into an abandoned house only to learn the rumored hauntings are true. What voice is begging you to stay? Honored to be a programmer on this dev team of 20 very talented people. rakumaroo.itch.io/exire-the-fi...

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Exire: The Fire Will Find You by Rebecca Mondry-Zanaglio

This house is haunted, and we need to escape— but whose voice is compelling me to stay?

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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Massive Final Fantasy VII Revelation display at Tokyo Game Show along with a Sephiroth display and box art.

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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Tending: The self-care game for those with C-PTSD. Submitted to Hack for Humanity Summer 2026. It's based on real research on C-PTSD. It has 5 activities like Grounding and Self Check-In. Feel free to try it out and let me what you liked or what could be improved. iyasustudio.itch.io/tending

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Tending by iyasu

A grounding and self-care app for C-PTSD

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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Final Fantasy Unlimited, the Final Fantasy anime series from 2001, had a mobile game and a PC game. The mobile game, Unlimited with U, was released on i-mode, a Japanese mobile service, in 2002. Some screenshots still exist around the internet, but the game itself seems to be long gone.

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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Reality Away is out now free on itch.io! A young boy is suffering from the mysterious fever. Experience being trapped in the realm between dreams and suffocating reality. Fully voice acted and all original art. I handled programming. iyasustudio.itch.io/reality-away #gamedev #indiegame

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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The Final Fantasy X 25th Anniversary popup was better than expected. They had a big space on the 1st and 11th floors of the Tokyo Daimaru. If you spend over 3300 yen, you get a random cup marker that isn't sold anywhere. The FFX section was about 1/4 of the space. The rest was Square Enix items.

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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The ASCII Entertainment Software Contest had some interesting games. The 10,000,000 yen Grand Prix in 1995 went to a 17-year-old with the game Cock-A-Doodle-Doo. It's an RPG about a rooster whose owner is busy with his part-time job at a bar, so the rooster quests for him. youtu.be/-AXt28ucR-s

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【PC98版】クック・ドゥ・ドゥル・ドゥー (Cock-A-Doodle-Doo) 動画 Gameplay

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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I finally did it. I beat 7th Saga for the SNES. What a brutal game. I did not have the patience for it as a kid. My team was Esuna and Valsu. The battles are slow, but at high levels you're untouchable. The secret to this game is to just watch something on a second screen while grinding levels.

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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

ZONe Energy, for when you just got home from a 12 hour shift, but still want to grind a few levels on Dragon Quest VII Reimagined.

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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

That moment when you reach for a can of coffee and the Dragon Lord is on it. Boss Coffee x Dragon Quest collab for the Dragon Quest I-II Remakes

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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Final Fantasy IX pop-up cafe near Shinjuku, Tokyo station. Stumbled into this place today. Reservations are required, but the food looks good and the FF9 collectables are some of the best I've seen.

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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Metal Gear Solid pop up store in Shibuya, Tokyo right now to promote MGS Delta. My apologies to Kojima for sharing this.

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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Rydia did end up getting some MTG Final Fantasy cards. Just gleefully wiping out her enemies with a Mist Dragon.

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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Afternoon of Angels: Part III Bangaihen "What are you going to do, wait until she turns around?" This game was one of the first Japanese VNs that got a IBM-PC release. Because IBM-PCs were popular in South Korea at the time, this allowed it become very popular there. MSX Magazine (1990/02)

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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Before IMDB or Letterboxd, we had Flicks! 30,000 movie reviews could be yours for just one payment of $59.95 ($133 adjusted for inflation). Electronic Games magazine (1993/7)

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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

"This is the Vidkid hotline, the world's hottest free video game tip hotline. Are you a Vidkid? No? I'm hanging up now. Goodbye."

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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

yo, stop hogging all the Donkey Kong cereal Electronic Games magazine (1983/8)

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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Play arcade games in the middle of a jungle like a true gamer! Electronic Games magazine (1983/3)

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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

What color is yours? This Nintendo Game Boy ad is so 90s. EGM2 magazine (1995/4)

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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Lord of the Rings: Return of the King for PlayStation 2. This looks like original art. I don't see it in any of the film advertisements. Computer Gaming World #232

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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Get your PhD in RPG by playing Wizardry: Knight of Diamonds on the NES. Video Games and Computer Entertainment magazine (1992/8)

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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

A Grand Theft Auto mobile game (not really). But based on this advertising, how many people bought it thinking it was? Gangstar: Crime City by Gameloft Edge magazine (Brazil) issue 8

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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

"It'll become your word processor, it'll become your computer. It's your must-have intellectual book." (Ascii magazine 1983/9) #retrocomputing #retro #japan

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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Do you even have a satellite in your living room? "The Compunication" LOGiN magazine (1982/12) #retrocomputing

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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Really liking how the MTG Final Fantasy cards turned out. One character I'm surprised didn't get a card is Rydia. She was a key player in FF4's story. A card with her summoning Mist Dragon or Titan has tons of potential.

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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

80s Japanese salaryman workplace computer training Ascii magazine (1981/3) #retrocomputing #retro #japan

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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

The Xerox TALK 570 makes printing fun again. Ascii Magazine (1983/11) #retrocomputing #retro #japan

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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

State of the art computing at Computerland Japan Ascii Magazine (1980/10) #retrocomputing

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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past Nintendo Power Issue 32

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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Final Fantasy 9 was unique in the tying an Eidolon's strength to items in the party's inventory. For example, Shiva has a base power of 36, but gains 1 power for each Opal the party has. You can quadruple her strength when holding 99 Opals.

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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I would have expected the Death Stranding 2 release trailer to break the 2 hour mark. I wonder how many editors it took to talk Kojima down to 10 minutes

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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

A forgotten Legend of Zelda game? I found this advertisement in the German language Club Nintendo magazine (Dec 1998). A couple of people on Reddit mentioned that it was a unique Zelda browser game, but it's vanished from the internet. Archive has basically nothing saved for it, too.

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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Last year, I made this video with the intros of all games that Squaresoft published, 120 in total, before it merged with Enix. It's the most complete list of their games I know of. It includes the Satellaview, PocketStation, and mobile games. The art focus started in game one. youtu.be/IrTs7gxzpyQ

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EVERY SQUARESOFT GAME (120 Total) - 全てのスクェアのゲーム

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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Finally completely this mysterious game after many starts over the years. As a kid I always thought Illusion of Gaia shared some secrets of the universe in it. And maybe it's true.

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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Zelda II: The Adventures of Link Nintendo Power (Issue 4) Feb 1989

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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings games Nintendo Power (Issue 160) Sep 2002

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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Glad to see Nintendo is calling it the Switch 2. I legit thought the Wii U was an edutainment add-on for the Wii at the time so didn't look more into it. Although, the 'Super Switch' also has a nice ring to it. www.nintendo.com/us/whatsnew/...

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Nintendo Switch 2 to be released in 2025 - News - Nintendo Official Site

First-look trailer introduces Nintendo Switch 2 Nintendo Switch 2, the successor to the Nintendo Switch system, will be released in 2025. Today Nintendo offered a first look at Nintendo Switch 2 in a ...

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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Super Gambling Maid Battle! メイドでおゆうぎ　Maid de Oyuugi P-Mate (Issue 18) #retrogaming#レトロゲーム

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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Plumbers Don't Wear Ties for 3DO (1994) I had no idea that this game was advertised anywhere. EGM2 Vol 1 Issue 10 (April 1995) #gaming #retrogaming

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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Wario World (GameCube) Game Pro - Issue 179 #gaming #retrogaming

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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Hana Monogatari - Natsu （花物語・夏) Windows (2000) Dengeki Hime 電撃姫 (Issue 9) June 2000 #retrogaming #gaming　#レトロゲーム

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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Touhou Kenbun Roku (東方見文録) by Natsume. Famicom ファミコン (1988). Famitsu ファミ通 magazine (2 Sep 1988) #retrogaming #gaming ＃レトロゲーム

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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

The most 90s teen fashion on a gaming magazine cover ever. Models: Kate, Leanne, Fiona, Mim Planet Game Boy (Issue 2) #retrogaming #gaming

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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Air Fortress NES ファミコン (1987) Family Computer Magazine (Issue 12) #retrogaming #gaming #レトロゲーム

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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

The Simpsons: Bart's Nightmare Sega Genesis (1993) Die Hard Game Fan magazine (Issue 11) Oct 1993 #gaming #retrogaming

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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

VIPER RSR - (2002) by Sogna for Windows A crazed RPG with some of the best hand-drawn battle animations that exist in gaming. Dengeki Hime (Issue 11) Dec 2000. #retrogaming #gaming ＃レトロゲーム

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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Rockman 4 ”Justice, it never fades.” ”Recruiting for the Rockman 4 Boss Character!!" Famitsu ファミ通 (19 Apr 1991) #retrogaming #gaming #megaman　＃レトロゲーム

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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Golgo 13: Top Secret Episode Released in 1988 for the NES. Image: Nintendo Power - Issue 2 (Oct 1988) #retrogaming #gaming #videogames

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Iyasu @iyasu.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

SD Snatcher "A case where even your dreams are deformed. Cyber strategy, a new RPG." A chibi, RPG version of Snatcher released in 1990 for the MSX2. MSX Fan magazine (May 1995) #retrogaming #gaming ＃レトロゲーム

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