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Newsdee @newsdee.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Star Trek Discovery might just be the Harry Potter of the Star Trek universe

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Newsdee @newsdee.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

"Running Boy: the secrets of Star Soldier" (1986) is bad, obviously an ad for Hudson Soft... but it's so bad it's good

anime boy saying he wants to be a programmer when he grows up

brooding emo programmer doubting his skill

bropding programmer with a glass of wine and worried supportive wife

brooding programmer lamenting he is out of ideas for his next shooting game

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Newsdee @newsdee.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Behold the China Special Tower of Power! - Lava Pro FC with HDMI output and "G" revision PPU/CPU - Wi-Fi enabled Game Genie clone - LCD 4:3 screen powered by the cart slot - Gameboy adapter cart (seems to be a repurposed super gameboy)

A Famicom clone with several attachment on the cart slor

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Newsdee @newsdee.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

In honor of International Transgender Day of Visibility, I'd like to remember the late Danielle Bunten Berry. She was best known for being the creator of M.U.L.E. (1983), but also designed my favorite Apple IIe game: Robot Rascals! (1985) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniell...

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Danielle Bunten Berry - Wikipedia

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Newsdee @newsdee.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

I made a ROM hack/patch for Gunhed on the PC Engine also (a.k.a. Blazing Lazers), increasing the overall volume of the music, SFX, and voice samples. github.com/Newsdee/pce-... as a bonus, it includes a utility to inject your own voice samples, if you want to customize yout game further!

title screen of Gunhed, a game for the PC Engine, showing copyright information and a robot with a cool pose

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Newsdee @newsdee.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I made a ROM hack of Tenseiryuu - Saint Dragon (PC Engine) to silence the obnoxious noise when you fire your weapons. We can hear the music now! github.com/Newsdee/pce-... Thanks to @randomstranger.bsky.social for the inspiration

in-game screenshot for Tenseiryuu - Saint Dragon for the PC Engine

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Newsdee @newsdee.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I nominate Nim as 1901 Game of the Year (and it is videogame related 😁) Nim is an ancient matchstick game; the modern form had a complete mathematical theory published by C.L. Bouton of Harvard University in 1901... which later was used in the first electromechanical and computer games!

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Newsdee @newsdee.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

I made a new free game for the PC Engine / TurboGrafx-16. Trtly it out on your favorite console, emulator, or FPGA! newsdee.itch.io/kex #gamedev #pcengine #turbogragx16 #homebrew

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Kex - PC Engine / TurboGrafx-16 by Newsdee

new homebrew game for the classic NEC consoles!

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Newsdee @newsdee.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Do you know how your videogames relate to the ENIAC? Here's a family tree of all computer systems created until 1970, compiled by late Dr. Martin H. Weir Jr. (1922-2007) Yellow branch on the left is PDP mainframes, that evolved into Unix, micro computers, arcades, and consoles...

a 1970 diagram of known computer systems since the 1945 ENIAC, highligjting the branches relevant ro the evolution of today's computers

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Newsdee @newsdee.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Do you remember Dopewars/Drugwars, a trading game that was super popular on calculators? (buy low / sell high) It was based on "Taipan!" from 1979 (TRS-80), later released on Apple II (1982) and documented in a book with source code to type in. Give it a try on your favorite emulator!

the title screen of Taipan! for the Apple II, showing an Asian merchant ship of the 1800s

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Newsdee @newsdee.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

It's kind of sad that as a species we can't get our crap together and collaborate to capture these interstellar rocks for deeper study

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Puke is already a Halloween Name @puke.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Japanese TV commercial for the New Famicom, a top loader NES launched in December 1993. The SNES was out! It also sells its AV port and redesigned the controller. The craziest part though? This new design retailed for $50. Sharing that for no particular reason :) #gaming #retro #Nintendo 🎮

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Newsdee @newsdee.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I don't listen to podcasts but I could ask back the 5 games that impacted their lives...

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Newsdee @newsdee.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

I'm curious, what is your main beef with console "generations"? They are ill defined, are very skewed to the US experience, and many systems straddle between them. But they are still useful to classify things by broad strokes. What would you use instead?

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Newsdee @newsdee.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

MSU1-enhanced games for SNES are cool, but I'd be really impressed if there were homebrew games/ports made for the (rare but actually released) SuperGrafx+CDROM combo

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Newsdee @newsdee.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Reminder that there is a whole world of videogames outside of the English sphere that often get overlooked... go explore!

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Newsdee @newsdee.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

If you want to make old-school computer music, I can wholeheartedly recommend Furnace Tracker: tildearrow.org/furnace/ There's a bit of learning curve (tied to your target chip) but there is so much you can do with it. And it's FOSS too!

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Furnace - the chiptune tracker

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Newsdee @newsdee.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Share the last four games you've played and expose your gaming habits... No game is too old or too new to be enjoyable!

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Wobbly Polygons @polywobble.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

And a not-so-miserable pile of early internet legend was born. Trivia: “What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.” was first used by French minister and novelist André Malraux in 1967. Though given the 18th-century vintage of Alucard's adventures, perhaps André was quoting Dracula!

A CRT screenie of Symphony of the Night's infamous "What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets." scene with Dracula on our lil Panasonic TV

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Ubisoft Brasil's marketing team deserves an award, they evoked our passion for tokusatsus to make this fantastic ad for the game: youtu.be/89bztUO2JuE?... Yes, that's official! And has Edu Falaschi lol

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Assassin’s Creed Shadows - Guerreiros das Sombras (Feat. @EduFalaschiOfficial) Homenagem Tokusatsu

YouTube video by Ubisoft Brasil

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Newsdee @newsdee.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I love dungeon crawlers - here's a great list of suggestions if you want to try modern ones!

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Newsdee @newsdee.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I finally got myself 1941 Counter Attack, to complete my SuperGrafx exclusive games collection! (Darius Alpha doesn't count as exclusive... I just pretend it doesn't exist 😅)

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Newsdee @newsdee.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Free options for your DOS setups (DOSBox, MiSTer, etc...)

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Forgot to mention, the book can actually be downloaded for free at the MITPress website: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon... If the link doesn't work, the Internet Archive has a mirror to all the MIT Press Open Access books: archive.org/details/mit_... There's lots of good stuff there!

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The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist: Why We Should Think Beyond Commercial Game Production

The precarious reality of videogame production beyond the corporate blockbuster studios of North America.The videogame industry, we're invariably told, is

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NFG @nfgworld.com · 21/11/2024

This thread has some great memories in it. I really wish I'd taken more pictures of what was really great about Akihabara from 1995 onwards. But I didn't want to look like a tourist, and now the cool things are gone. Ahh, regret. Here are some I took: nfgworld.com/a-view-of-ol...

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A View of Old Akihabara

Akihabara ain't what it used to be, but what is? Here are some then and now photos.

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Bowl of Lentils @bowloflentils.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Tengai Makyou II for the PC-Engine CD was one of the most expensive video games ever made when it was released, featuring incredible production values for 1992. Its creation was considered such an achievement that a TV drama was produced that depicted the game's development. 🧵

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Newsdee @newsdee.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Got some new controllers for my living room #MiSTerFPGA - this joystick is a lot of fun with the Atari 2600 core

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Newsdee @newsdee.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

So glad I picked up a modded FDS drive, I had a disk of Castlevania that had been overwritten (with Ice Hockey, of all things) and was able to fix my disk using the translated game!

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 05/11/2024

Deep inside Internet Archive is a grinder. It has not been grinding in any meaningful way since October 10th. It is now grinding. It has three weeks of back-grinding to do, and then will keep grinding. There won't be anything obvious on the outside but this is the moment Archive came back alive

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Newsdee @newsdee.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

I've been really into checking the Nintendo FDS library recently, so projects like RndStrager's Year of FDS have become some of my favorite Youtube content: youtu.be/Khb0KLG95WA?...

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The Year of FDS Part 0 - Introduction

YouTube video by RndStranger

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