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SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2026

DEF CON Talk on Getting Started in IoT Hacking We're mostly games here at Set Side B, the whole "retro, niche and indie" thing ya kno, but what is a game really? This is to say, we're not against linking to other kinds of computer, and even electronic, entertainment. That's the excuse reason I […]

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SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

Strong Bad Plays Mini Golf in VR Once upon a time the types of people on the Internet skewed much smaller in number, and you could be reasonably assured that if you made, say, a Monty Python or a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy joke in forum company, nearly everyone reading it would get it, and […]

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SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

The Nine Endings of Star For Command This post contains spoilers for the various endings of Star Fox Command. Old... man? (Images in this post come from vgmuseum) The always-excellent Hardcore Gaming 101 is currently working through the Star Fox series, due to the well-received remake of (the […]

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SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

Promo sticker idea for Set Side B:

Pixel art image of a red monster eating the site name, SETSIDEB

SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

Steam NextFest 2025 Coverage, Part 9 www.youtube.com/embed/9YBoERIZS3c The ninth part of our (Josh Bycer's) coverage of Steam NextFest 2025 October edition. 00:00 Intro00:26 Curtains the Clown2:16 Archon Soul4:09 Homura Hime5:59 Malleus […] [Original post on wrestling.social]

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SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

Monster Maze on Unused Zelda Maps I started this post out intending to do a Multilink Monday, but within a few seconds of starting this video I came to realize, nah, this one deserves the spotlight all to itself. It's well made, seems to be constructed with a stable eye and doesn't seem hugely […]

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SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

Sundry Sunday: Needlemouse the Musical From Random Encounters fifteen years ago, it's a four-minute musical starring people dressed up as Sonic the Hedgehog characters, though a full minute of it is credits. There is no guarantee that this will entertain you, but then there's no guarantee that […]

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SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026

SGDQ 2026 Begins Sunday It's one of those two times of year again. Games Done Quick, the bi-annual week-long charity speedrunning marathon, begins at 12:30 PM ("Noon Thirty") Eastern Time on Sunday, July 5th, that's tomorrow. The day after today, the 250th occurrence of that particular US […]

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SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

1960s Navy Training Film on Computers Surprise! Today's post is about a video from Periscope Films from sixty years ago on the fundamental building blocks of computers from way back then. Right off we're told that computers no longer rely on primative things like electromechanical relays (gags) […]

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SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

Extra: Four Bluesky Image Posts, Sure It's a bit light, maybe, to be a day's sole post, so I'm throwing this in as an extra. I was looking through my saved post list on Bluesky and found a few entertaining images that speak to me. Largely they say, "@!#?@!", just like Q*bert does. Please enjoy […]

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SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

Ribbie: Real Baseball in 8-Bit Form We still mourn the end of Blaseball, which sustained some people's hunger for a sports-like communal experience during Covid lockdown, but can understand that without everyone staying at home it wasn't possible to sustain it. It's not Blaseball, but kind of […]

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SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

Games of NextFest 2025, Part 8 www.youtube.com/embed/hu8ej0EhAUo Part 8 of my (Josh Bycer's) coverage of Steam NextFest, October 2025 edition. 00:00 Intro00:20 The Doppel1:27 Terror Type Alchemy3:09 The Spirit Lift4:45 The People of Sea, Sun, and […] [Original post on wrestling.social]

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SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

High-Level Minesweeper Tactics by Mine Bouy Mine Bouy is a sporadically-posting Minesweeper enthusiast who posts interesting strategies sometimes, including one video about dealing with one of the most frustrating, yet sadly common, events in playing that game: "fifty-fifties," or, situations […]

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SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

Warp Point: A Webring for Gaming Things All the OldWeb is NewWeb again. This is just to inform you of warppoint.games, a new directory and webring devoted to game-related content! Set Side B is listed there, and there's a new link to it in our own sidebar. There's already a good number of links […]

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SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026

Sundry Sunday: Pizza Tower Music on Stepper Motors Submitted for your perusal: a version of classic game tune The Death That I Deservioli, the epic Lap 2 music from Pizza Tower that plays if you're cocky enough to ignore the exit gate and be transported to the end of the level to escape again […]

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026

RE: mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/1168222… If you don't want your Mullvad fees going to fund neo-Nazis - or MozillaVPN fees, which is rebranded Mullvad - cancel and get a refund immediately that's whose "free speech" the official account is talking about here, and that's where […]

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SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026

Youtuber Reviews Every Namco Museum Collection Namco, now the merged entity Bandai-Namco for some reason I can't fathom but oh well, has certainly gone back to the arcade collection well a lot of times. Many of their games are genuine pop cultural phenomena, either/both in their native Japan and […]

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SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

Nicole Express on Throwaway Arcade Games Now here's something fascinating I had not heard of before Nicole Express recently wrote about it. Because of a law in Japan it was (maybe still is?) illegal to sell an arcade cabinet without a game in it. When the market for replacement cabinets opene […]

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SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

The Famicom/NES PPU’s Pass-Through Graphics Capability It's not well known (but is becoming better known) that the NES's PPU graphics chip has an unutilized feature. It has a way to pipe graphics into it from another PPU, giving the two chips a combined output. The Famicom and NES both ground […]

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SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026

Gamefinds: Games Don’t Have To Be Good To Be Good sylvie's Games Don't Have To Be Good To Be Good is an interesting little browser game where the point is figuring out how to play, then what to do. It's really short! You can probably finish it in five minutes. The description calls it a […]

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SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026

Richard Garriott Getting Ultima’s Copyrights Back It's been going around the gaming bigsites (PC Gamer, Time Extension, Kotaku, Eurogamer and others) that due to a quirk of US copyright law Richard Garriott, who begin the Ultima series in June 1981, may finally be getting back the rights to his […]

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SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026

Next Fest Demo Showcase 2025, Part 7 www.youtube.com/embed/PSE4siith5s This is part 7 of my (Josh Bycer's) favorite demos from Steam NextFest, October 2025 edition. 00:00 Intro00:23 Servant of the Lake1:25 Painted in Blood3:47 Jackal5:28 Hold the […] [Original post on wrestling.social]

SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2026

Sundry Sunday: A Handmade Crank Organ Plays Mario 64’s Ending, and That Other Thing Two items this week. One is this simple yet charming video of someone who made a crank organ (festooned with plush parrots and a decorative octopus) and configured it to play the ending music, titled simply […]

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SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026

The CRPG Addict Plays The Original MUD MUDs, and their sibling games MUCKs and MOOs, now almost forgotten except among a rapidly-aging userbase, used to be the biggest gaming draw on the internet. When MMORPGs became big, it was largely by using the lessons of MUDs and applying them to a 3D […]

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SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

The Last Year of Animal Crossing I was just looking through Hunter S's video on the holiday glitches of Gamecube Animal Crossing (11 minutes). By "holiday," it means the winter holiday, and the various weird things that are possible during this season, like using snowballs to get pushed out of […]

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SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

Early Web Links If you've been reading us for a while, you'll know that I have an inordinate fondness for the early days of this here World Wide Web. I have become disenchanted with social media, the infinite scroll, and not just Web 3.0, but even Web 2.0. React.js and other frameworks. Gimmie […]

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SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026

Obscure Extra Lives in Super Mario World The Game Display tells us of an interesting kind of secret in Super Mario World that few know about. Once in a while in that game, a 1-up Mushroom just randomly seems to appear, flung into the air, sometimes in such a way as to seem to encourage you to […]

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SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026

More NextFest 2025 Demos www.youtube.com/embed/iH5TB2eKlaU More of my series looking at the best demos from Steam NextFest October 2025 edition. 00:00 Intro00:21 Repel the Rifts2:59 Reanimal4:28 Bloodright6:39 Lady Dracula8:17 Ambrosia Sky10:25 […] [Original post on wrestling.social]

SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2026

Multilink Monday 6/15/26: Indie Web, Apple IIs & GenAI Backlash As often happens, I find out about something cool right as it ending, and so it is with Good Internet Magazine. However its archives are still up at the moment! There's cool things to find there like Build The Web You Want To See. I […]

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SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2026

Sundry Sunday: A Wallace & Gromit/Legend of Zelda Mashup, Sure They can't all be winners here on Sundry Sunday, but sometimes I find something pretty darn cool, and that's the case this week with this spot-on Wallace & Gromit parody/Legend of Zelda parody. (4½ minutes) One of the most defining […]

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SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026

Who Owns Softdisk and Big Blue Disk Now? I've talked here before about my efforts to preserve and make available the archives of the long-lived disk magazine Loadstar. Please forgive me for linking to that once again, but sales of it help me obtain food: Loadstar Compleat. If you want to see […]

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SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2026

Declan Chidlow’s Rundown of Every Console Web Browser Over on the site vale.rocks Declan Chidlow has written up a complete rundown of every console web browser, and it's certain to spark memories in many of you. Including web browsers in consoles used to be a useful way for a company to […]

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ploum @ploum.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026

For many years, I’ve been using Debian :debian: but installing Ubuntu :ubuntu: for others, fearing that Debian was too geek. I spent hours "desenshitificating" Ubuntu. After the Nth failed upgrade, I reconsidered. Oh boy! The Debian 13 GNOME live image is clean, polished, easy and perfect ! […]

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SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026

The First Console RPG Proclaiming something for sure in the realm of vidyagaems is just asking to be challenged and possibly humbled. Yet it seems likely that the first true video RPG, as pointed out by -Eclipse14- in this video (10½ minutes), is the Atari 2600/Supercharger game Dragonstomper […]

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SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026

Notes on Nintendo Direct 6/9/26 Oh joy, it's another Nintendo Direct, full of games I don't have much interest in. In the past I've done brief takes on every game in a Direct, but I feel like this time I'd be reduced to either saying the same thing about many of them that I've said before, or […]

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SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2026

Indentifying Luck in Mario Party 10 It's been a small eon, but ZoomZike is finally back with the latest in his epic series of video deep dives, Identifying Luck in Mario Party, with a 2½ hour entry on Mario Party 10, being for the Wii U probably one of the least played titles in the series […]

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SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026

Steam NextFest Coverage Part 4 www.youtube.com/embed/7z52SET5Qv0 Continuing our coverage of the best games from Steam NextFest October 2025 edition. 00:00 Intro00:16 Wall World 21:51 Lyara3:32 Neverawake: Flashback5:08 Umigari7:51 Sisyphus is a […] [Original post on wrestling.social]

SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2026

Sundry Sunday: DK sez he’s okay This one from Donk-tk is very short (39 seconds), but extremely memeable. Hang in there Donkey Kong, we know just how you feel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvIlTo6X_gc setsideb.com/sundry-sunday-dk-sez-h… #sundaysundry #donkeykong #Donktk #meme […]

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SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026

birthbydrip’s Cray-Cray Taxi Strategies I love Crazy Taxi! I think it's one of the best arcade games Sega's ever made, and obsessing over getting Crazy Licenses and beyond helped me get through the long sad years after my mother's passing. I was once competitive on the Crazy Taxi scoreboards at […]

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SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

FEMICOM Yesterday's post had a link to FamiBro, and while trying to balance male and female representations of gaming websites equally is subjective and doesn't make much sense (especially since FamiBro doesn't seem very bro-y), it does allow me to make a largely meaningless introduction to a […]

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SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026

Romhack Thursday: Zelda II: The Adventure of Mario We've not done a Romhack Thursday* for a while. Found by way of a Bluesky post by bro3256, of the website Famibro, this is a brilliant romhack by jroweboy (SMBArena page) that not only puts Mario into Zelda II, but also subtly remixes the game […]

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SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026

Gamefinds: Sophie Houlden’s Picotron Remake of Lemmings It's got every level of the original Lemmings, including variants from different versions, and the first Holiday demo collection, along with a smattering of extras with more on the way. Picotron of course is the successor to the popular […]

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SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026

Steam Next Fest Coverage Part 3 www.youtube.com/embed/PrpiCn-IQqw This is more coverage from Steam Next Fest 2025 October edition. (Previous posts are here: Part 1 and Part 2.) 00:00 Intro00:16 Aerial Knight's Dropshot01:49 Super Pinball Adventure2 […] [Original post on wrestling.social]

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SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/06/2026

@Play: Larn Turns 40 Larn, created by Noah Morgan, may his name be sung by the bards forever, is a venerable classic roguelike game, from the same era as Moria and the first Hacks. It's always been more obscure than the other games but was still popular, and it's still played today. atsb, aka […]

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SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026

Sunday Sundry: Video Games Reproduced In Lego Welcome to our establishment! The special for the day is this weird but fun 13-year-old stop motion video, by Legobuilder9000, reproducing a number of video games but Legofied. It's not perfect (I noticed the Pac-Man ghosts behaving in an unghostlike […]

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SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2026

orz’s Tetris videos orz (a.k.a. orztetris on Youtube) makes videos to help people learn how to play Tetris better. It's as simple as that. The older a game gets, if it remains popular for all that time like Tetris has, the more people obsess over it. And if it's a truly deep and challenging […]

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SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026

Indie Tsushin It's another website, this one a review 'zine of small indie games coming out of Japan. It has slowed down in its updates recently but still sometimes brings news of a pile of interesting things to learn about, and maybe someday to play. Japanese AAA gamedev is nearly as […]

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SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026

Qudzoo We're in the age of Reddit-style message boards and ubiquitious wikis. Concerning those wikis, those of Fandom are a huge scourge, of questionable morality, making thousands of pitiful wikis with very little information in the hopes that some clueless passer-by with community spirit will […]

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SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2026

The Results of 65 Games of Party House Long-time readers of this blog know that I've played a lot of Party House, game #25 in UFO 50. I'm not the best player at it, I've heard there's some with a random scenario win streak of over 130, but I have gotten up to 25. I wrote a strategy guide for it […]

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SetSideB @setsideb.wrestling.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026

Next Fest 2025 Showcase Part 2 www.youtube.com/embed/HrzM_NaapPQ Part 2 of my (Josh Bycer's) favorite demos from Steam Next Fest October 2025 edition. EDITOR'S NOTE: is that a certain bobcat we all know in the preview image? […] [Original post on wrestling.social]

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