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Under the Surface of Classic Sonic @classicsoniccode.bsky.social · 3h

A technical dive (😉) into Sonic 3's water palette swapping!

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Weasel ⛳🏌️ @wildweasel486.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

By way of example: there's a certain famous series of adult-oriented Mahjong games from Seta, called "Super Real Mahjong." This series has had ports to almost every major Japanese computer, most of the early CD-ROM consoles, and Super Famicom. What does TOSEC call this series? "Superior Mahjongg."

Screenshot of a file listing of TOSEC-v2007-08-22 of several Sharp X68000 disk images of "Superior Mahjongg PII & PIII" and "Superior Mahjongg PIV."

Box shot of "Super Real Mahjong PII & PIII" for Sharp X68000 and X68030, from GameFAQs.

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Nicole Express @nicole.express · 12h

I feel like an annoying thing with video games unreleased in the west is that sometimes the title that gets used is either translated or transliterated Japanese seemingly at random, makes searching for things a pain

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Game History Association @hernihistorie.cz · 18h

🏓 We’ve published an article about a rare Czechoslovak TV tennis prototype by TESLA-VÚST! Unveiled at this year’s ByteFest, the prototype’s history and inner workings are explored by Jiří Bernášek. 🗞️ Article: buff.ly/LL98KaV #pong #retro

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Arcadian Rhythm | Blobmarley @arcadianrhythm.com · 27/09/2026

One of my favorite bits of disc space trivia is that Super Mario Galaxy 2 is only ~1.2 GB, and almost 3/4ths of that is uncompressed music

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Gaming Alexandria @gamingalexandria.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Wonder Boy III – The Dragon’s Trap for the Sega Master System has been scanned in high resolution. Enjoy! www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2026/09/w...

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Nicole Express @nicole.express · 27/09/2026

- I love Nicole!!! - CANCEL NICOLE she is the WORST i hope she NEVER comes home - oh my god nicole is back!!!!! i'm so happy cats, you know

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Berry 🍇 @nyamukoneko.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

namco museum 2

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Nicole Express @nicole.express · 26/09/2026

i want a cursive typewriter i have literally no use case for this why is my brain like this

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lete lyre@C108乙 @letelyre.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

𝗜 think 𝘆𝗼𝘂 should play Warlords, the classic arcade game from Atari. The early 80s had so many incredible arcade games, and I consider Warlords to be up there among my faves. It's real-time battle action for up to 2-4 human players (version dependent) with wicked cool medieval fantasy style.

The Operation, Maintenance, and Service Manual for Atari's Warlords, document TM-175. It features a cool illustration of a dark knight on horseback, encroaching upon a tower that shoots flaming stone projectiles, looking like red-hot meteor. The manual scan is sourced from the Internet Archive, kindly uploaded by user snorkasaurus.

Screenshot of the starting demo-play screen for Atari's Warlords arcade game. The onscreen text "4 PLAYER, 1 CREDIT PER GAME" confirms this is a version that allows up to four human players to battle at once. This feature could be found in the cocktail cabinet versions of Warlords, as opposed to the standing cabinet versions that allowed up to two human players at once.

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Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @bvigeant.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Cat mode is one of the most difficult in pinball

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Nicole Express @nicole.express · 25/09/2026

if your antivirus is written in Rust, then the extra iron content will also help keep away the fey

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OmniRabbit @omnirabbit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Koki Ito is so brilliant. He's the anchor holding so much of city pop together, and he makes complex grooves flow so smoothly like they're nothing. I was torn trying to pick a song to show off his stuff, but I think his work for Meiko Nakahara is super good! www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMZR...

youtube.com

Fantasy

YouTube video by Meiko Nakahara - Topic

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The V.R mecha-girl of your cyber-dreams. ⚡💚 📺:Cyber Troopers Virtual-On, Sega AM3, Sega Saturn, 1996 (RGB SCART, Mavica CD-400)

A crt tv screen photo of the character select from Virtual-On, with the pink and white femme-coded robot Fei-Yen poses coyly with her stands of Hand Beam, Bowgun Beam, and Heart Beam displayed.

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Maybe Miri @mirimiri9999.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Why aren't there combo wine and ice cream shops? A nice red wine pairs well with a sundae.

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New Super Mario Bros. Wii contains unused Hint Movies where the players play badly and then die. While these were likely recorded before the levels were changed so the inputs don't match up, it is humorous to imagine them being actual intentional hints on what not to do.

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Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Brb, taking the Voight-Kampff test.

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Christine Love @christinelove.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Play Ladykiller in a Bind. Tell Discord that you're playing Ladykiller in a Bind. Tell your friends that you're playing Ladykiller in a Bind. Start a Ladykiller in a Bind book club. Let Discord use fuzzy analytics to determine that you must be an adult because your book club is too busy to ever meet

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ISAiAH💿 @ez3fm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Not too long I ripped some stuff from my DJ Chaos. For context, the DJ Chaos is a knock off beatmania BEMANI pocket made by MGA (yes, that MGA. The people who made Bratz!!) It still shocks me that the people who made Bratz made a knock off bemani pocket. Anywho, here's a little animation from it!!

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Maybe Miri @mirimiri9999.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Still the best Columbo character ever to be written.

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Nicole Express @nicole.express · 22/09/2026

it's such a stupid policy to announce a feature like the account status checking and then don't let people actually do it at random it's just such a bad user experience, end users don't care about your gating infrastructure

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Nicole Express @nicole.express · 22/09/2026

email opt-out that requires you to write your email address, doesn't auto-fill your address, isn't listed as an email field so it won't autofill, and then has a confusingly-worded yes or no option underneath we need engineering ethics in frontend web design

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Nicole Express @nicole.express · 22/09/2026

I imagine most of my followers know this about me already, but ZZT, most definitely ZZT

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If you see 'Super Mario Bros 0.3' among some shareware and demos on an Apple II GS hard disk image, then it's something that must be immediately investigated. And oh yes, it's as cursed as I hoped it'd be.

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Dynamic-Gaming-Twinz @dynamicgamingtwinz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

🌄 Good Morning It comes as no suprise the Internet replaced CD-i technology, leaving it somewhat redundant, however did you know that the #Internet actually had a home on #Cdi, 30 years ago in 1996? Yes, with a Modem, keyboard & some clever software, it was possible! #GamersUnite #RetroGaming

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Nicole Express @nicole.express · 20/09/2026

going to exclusively call it "the sega master system of interactive video entertainment" now

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Nicole Express @nicole.express · 19/09/2026

fun fact: the sega master system was not manufactured, they just appeared in stores one day, a bit of the universal video game technology field fluctuating and producing console hardware except in brazil, where they were made by tectoy

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

the space tablet, print ad, imagery (1982) archive.org/details/byte...

prominent text: welcome to the third dimension
underneath: an image of a kinda george lucas-lookin' mf (wearing a black cape), using a very small space shuttle on a space table to co-ordinate the 3d image on his apple II screen in wire frame. he is looking back at you intensely (away from what he is doing), giving the whole image a twilight zone vibe.

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Nicole Express @nicole.express · 19/09/2026

for the authentic ender's game experience, when you're playing it you think it's a virtual pinball but then after you lose your last ball it's revealed it was all real

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DevMsg.txt @devmsg-txt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If there are any **attractive** female hackers out there, drop me a line

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nicole✨ @renaryuugu.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Old 3D Zelda games are like Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask right? Breath of the Wild is still pretty new...

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m1kerochip.bsky.social @m1kerochip.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

For @nicole.express. I was looking around, for a list of Arcade Card Pro enhanced games, and, saw your blog post. So, here's two photos I came across on a forum. I figured you might be interested. For everyone else, it's an open Arcade Card Pro! Open Super System Card 3, for comparison.