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Sega CD Pride Month @32mbit.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

folks are writing a lot of words about what the reputation of anime was like in america back in the 90s, but this sums it up.

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 17/05/2024

The most tsundere of DOOM Quit to DOS messages.

"Go ahead and leave, see if I care!"

(Press Y to Quit to DOS)

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Raiden-ing out onto your feeds: some Japanese PC eye candy. The FM Towns has such an interesting design with its narrow tower and CD drive - reportedly the first computer to come with one as standard.

A photo of a Fujitsu FM Towns PC with keyboard, monitor, mouse and tower with tons of CD games in front of it in piles and Raiden on the screen.

Photo source: Resetera.

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Timeproof Games @timeproof.games · 18/01/2026

Light Bringer / Dungeon Magic (Arcade, Taito, 1994)

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 01/12/2025

A random youtube video just reminded me of a pair of genuinely great freeware gems - Vacant Ark and Iwanaga, a pair of very Treasure-inspired experimental freeware shmups from a developer known only as Buster who just kinda disappeared from the scene. They are both very cool and hold up great today

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Retro Computers @retrocomps.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

The Memorex VIS: It's CD-ROM ON YOUR TV!

An ad from the Tiger Electronics Catalog demonstrating the Video Information System's "32 Bit technology," promising a complete game console and 20 game titles free for $99.00. The image on the right shows Links, a then popular FMV golf game, but the list of games on the left is nearly total eduatainment.

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Consumer Time Capsule @consumertc.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

McDonald’s ashtrays through the years…

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Vinícius Medeiros @vinimedeiros.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

There's now only 3 executables where you launch it for your derised aspect ratio

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Vinícius Medeiros @vinimedeiros.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

I decided to revisit this one as recently I found a way to make the game scale at any aspect ratio and resolutions without making the HUD small, it's now updated. archive.org/details/Mort...

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Vinícius Medeiros @vinimedeiros.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I haven't posted this here yet, but I also made a repack of the game Mortyr, a forgotten Polish FPS from 1999. It's working on modern systems with widescreen patches and CD music included. I just uploaded it on the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/Mort...

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

"I made a catalogue for you guys!" Classy PS1 eye candy from 1999 with the cover of this gorgeous Japanese brochure for PlayStation periphs. I tend to associate the PocketStation with the PSOne as the design matches so well, but it was released a year and a half before the PSOne appeared.

The cover of a Japanese PlayStation brochure with an OG grey PS1 and dual shock on a desk surrounded by classic things, a tobacco pipe, gold spectacles, with the starkly white in contrast Pocket Station in between the off-angle controller and PS1

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Phalanx! Y'know, the game with the old guy playing a banjo for the cover of the Super Nintendo release. Here with the Sharp X68000 (🥵) version, there's some hella intricate classic sci-fi artwork.

A full-page poster ad for Phalanx's X68000 version. Gorgeously detailed artwork of a space fighter undergoing maintenance and refuelling in a hangar.

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

From Amiga Format's Annual 1993, released at the end of 1992: AF's vision of the Amiga of the Future. Inspired by the then-recent release of the A600, this portable Amiga sports an LCD screen and a CD player. The specs for the miggy of 95? 030 processor, 2MB of RAM, AGA, and PCMCIA and IDE.

An artist's impression of the Amiga of the future (1995) from AF's 1992 perspective. It's somewhat like a big laptop, just with the AMiga's usual form factor with the sloping keyboard, a clamshell CD cover that I presume lifts next to the keyboard and a flat LCD screen. There#s a somewhat awkward hollow in the black plastic next to the screen to house the CD player cover when the lid is pulled down.

It's somewhat halfway between a true laptop and a luggable.

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Go! Go! アンディロボ! @gogoandyrobo.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

This is a Snow Bros repro i got on etsy years ago. Just a chip glued to a cheap board. I got it to play once, and the chip fell off.. Garbage. This def would have fried my system. Later, I bought a repro that was an official sega game now with an SB eprom on it. Just be careful buying repro carts.

Exhibit A: it may be hard to tell from the photo, but this plastic looks and feels cheap. Sticker isn't on well..

Exhibit B: the back looks even worse. The screws aren't even real. Took no effort to crack this thing open.

Exhibit C: the chip that was poorly glued on. I assume it was shaken up in transit. But yikes. Look at that terrible pcb. My system would have totally caught on fire.

Exhibit D: Comparison to the better repro i bought. Knowing that cheap boards produce the incorrect voltage, it's good to see the person who made this used a real sega board replaced with a snow bros pcb.

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

The Game Genie is here! Didn't have one of these back then (nor Action Replay) but it's neat being able to punch the codes these days into our X5 Everdrive. 📖: Computer & Video Games, Jan 1993

An ad for the Game Genie, very in your face with zigzag borders and early 90s energy. Infinite Lives, Jump in the higher, run faster, skip levels, etc.

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Consumer Time Capsule @consumertc.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I’m not saying that Batman Returns had the best cups that McDonald’s has ever offered (...although I'd entertain that argument), but the FRISBEE BATDISCS are inarguably the greatest drink lids of all time. (1992)

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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

TOM AND JERRY now have a live 24/7 YouTube channel to celebrate their 85th anniversary — available worldwide. Sounds like it may be only this month, so watch while you can. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDFK... #TomAndJerry #FilmSky

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🔴 LIVE: Tom and Jerry | Classic Full Episodes! | 85th Anniversary Celebration | Warner Classics

YouTube video by Warner Bros. Classics

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Alma K. Rowan @almakrowan.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

NEW YEAR, NEW BINGO CARD!!! 🥳 ✍️fill it with your art goals (what drawings you want to make this year, what do you want to practice!) 🥇for every bingo you get you're entitled to a treat 🏆for scoring all fields you're entitled to a big treat!

an empty 5x5 bingo chart with text on top: "2025 "I wanna draw..." bingo, template by almakrowan, art plans by (empty)", and text on the bottom: "for every bingo you get you're entitled to a treat, for scoring all fields you're entitled to a big treat".
The background is filled with drawing of green leaves.

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Vinícius Medeiros @vinimedeiros.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Remember the game Kiss: Psycho Circus? That FPS featuring the Kiss band running on the Lithtech Engine I've made a repack of the full game with fixes to run it on modern PCs, just install and it's ready to play, no extra tinkering required: mega.nz/file/KaZnnQJ...

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Wacky Lesbian Hour @wackylesbianhour.com · 01/01/2025

www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sso5...

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Wacky Lesbian Hour

YouTube video by Keith Stack

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 11/08/2024

From a Sony ECTS 1997 promo pack that we also managed to get our mitts on last year: a lovely hi-res (for the time!) .eps image of a full Net Yaroze setup. Net Yaroze... Those charcoal PSX's are so cool. I have one of the pads but not the console yet - still on the bucket list!

A photo of a late 90s beige PC with a tv and a PS1 Net Yaroze next to it

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𝔰𝔞𝔩𝔢𝔪 ☾ @w0lfertinger666.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

this is how it feels to not draw consistently everyday

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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

You can never be too careful.

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Retro Computers @retrocomps.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

From mere months to over 13 years later, the final official game of every console can be an all-time classic... or a weird relic of the world in which the console operated.

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The LAST GAME Released For EVERY CONSOLE

Nofruit (YouTube)

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Dungeonbuster @dungeonbuster.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

A 1994 ad for Shadowrun on the Sega Genesis by BlueSky Software, an adaptation of FASA's Shadowrun tabletop RPG where magic and cyberpunk collide in a dystopian 2050s Larry Elmore's cover for Shadowrun's 2nd edition was also used on the cartridge case for "the ultimate psycho-cyberpunk fantasy!"

The hardcover copy of Shadowrun's 2nd edition with cover art by Larry Elmore (originally published in 1992)

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✨ Star @ LBX ✨ @thestarfishface.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Webcomic tip of the day: Some word balloon basics! Read more in my book How to Webcomic! thestarfishface.com/products/how-to… #art #webcomics

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

"Super consoles" of the last few years were on the menu of Bad Influence's Christmas 1994 episode - plus some tantalizing glimpses of the ones rolling out in Japan: Saturn and PlayStation. It's telling that they were already seen as going to 'take over' from the 3DO, CDi, and Jaguar. #VideoBytes

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💫Juicy💫 @juicyartz.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

merry christmas everybodyyyyy

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

(Super) Joy (Card) to the world... 🎶 While Super Joy Card sounds like something Ashens might review in a POP Station vid, it's in fact a pretty nifty Super Famicom pad. Hudson Soft and Nintendo were pretty close in the 90s, so Hudson reciprocated the big N's favour with some quality periphs.

A photo of the Super Joy Card Super Famicom pad with its turbo buttons and cartoon bee on the shell.

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Pedro Soares @peachflavor3d.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

The artwork of #Gradius Gaiden by Yoshihiro Hashizume used on the cover of the Japanese #PlayStation release. Just a small upscale with a slight retouch since the original source was already pretty good. A big thanks to @ovga.bsky.social and the owner for sharing this piece!

Gradius Gaiden clean artwork by Yoshihiro Hashizume used on the cover of the Japanese PlayStation release.

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Tabbeigh Cat 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @tabbeigh.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

RIP Raul Julia. I love that even as bizarre and terrible as this film is, he did it for his kids while battling his failing health This film is fully in the "so bad it's good" column alongside Super Maro Bros

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a man in a military uniform says " for me it was tuesdays "

Alt: Raul Julia as M. Bison says "for me it was tuesday"

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Ultima @ultimashadow.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

HAPPY 30TH ANNIVERSARY TO THE STREET FIGHTER MOVIE

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 21/04/2024

📖 Bytes of Game Ads 📺 For keeping a low profile with your Game Boy in 1990 - the Case Boy from Konami! Looks like quite a swish little thing. Tactical Game Boy Action! (Cat not included)

A yellow magazine ad from Famitsu with a ginger cat looking up paw raced at a snazzy grey pouch with cut outs for the dpad, screen, and buttons.

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

A Langrisser by any other name would still play just as sweet. ⚔️ The original Langrisser game released for Mega Drive was localized as Warsong outside of Japan and was one of my early experiences with Japanese tactical RPGs.