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Love it when 2000s ADV anime DVDs have this character panel design above the logo going on with their spine art. 💜

submitted 13 hours ago • 12 comments

Lunch time with the Knight Sabers 🔥

submitted 13 hours ago • 7 comments

I hope those are SCART cables as they appear to be, delivering that pure RGB signal into 20XX. 📺: Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo, 2040, 1998

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

Cheesy FMV cutscenes, isometric carnage, and a banger title screen tune: Crusader No Remorse. While the DOS PC version is the best one overall, the PS1 (pictured below) and Saturn ports are solid reworks for the hardware. 📺: Crusader: No Remorse, Origin Systems/Realtime Associates, 1996 (PS1 RGB)

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

Ringing the new Yesterzine episode bell as I line it up for a cosy watch a little later on. 💜 Been watching Dudley's Literal Magazine Show for years now, and they never disappoint.

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

While we're talkin' cool TTRPG covers, this is still one of my favourites and one of my favourite sci-fi campaign settings: Star*Drive for TSR's proto-D20 Alternity system. 💜 Has some Traveller flavour in how it deals with stellar nationalism, slow FTL travel, and cut-off regions being recontacted.

submitted 3 hours ago • 4 comments

This was mine: Titan: The Fighting Fantasy World! While not a TTRPG rulebook in itself, reading it led to me writing my first little adventures for the earlier Fighting Fantasy: The Fighting Fantasy Introductory Roleplaying Game that eventually evolved into Dungeoneer/Advanced FF.

submitted 3 hours ago • 11 comments

Style guides and the philosophy behind the logo from a 1999 Dreamcast Press Kit. The logo represents an uplifting community, optimistic and chill. Guidelines are presented on what to do if you can't fit in the swirl, and elsewhere, it's stated firmly that red is *not* to be used as a background.

submitted 4 hours ago • 6 comments

From the skies of a distant future of beauty and ruin to Japanese TV screens. Panzer Dragoon! #VideoBytes

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

Having a nostalgic drive around in Forza Horizon 4. Haven't played it in several years. What a comfy thing it is. <3

submitted 7 hours ago • 16 comments

Head on down to the Electronic Mall of 1984, where, by the Year 2000, claims Compuserve, the World will catch up with the way they do things. Early versions of online connectivity and commerce are such fascinating things to explore. 📖: Computes! Gazette, July 1984.

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

Here's a question for you guys! Do you have any recommendations for Finnish rock bands? =) Kirk and I want to listen to more. Examples of groups I love already are The Rasmus, Poets of the Fall and Lordi... got more? =) Gimme!

submitted 12 hours ago • 7 comments

"1.9.8.5. It's all about doing it." I'm a couple of hours late for it hitting the day in Japan, but hey, it's the 40th anniversary of the arcade release of one of my fave shmup series: Gradius! 🔥 Konami's shmup blazed a trail in 1985 and would enjoy successful home ports. ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

I hope those are SCART cables as they appear to be, delivering that pure RGB signal into 20XX. 📺: Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo, 2040, 1998

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

Lunch time with the Knight Sabers 🔥

submitted 13 hours ago • 7 comments

Love it when 2000s ADV anime DVDs have this character panel design above the logo going on with their spine art. 💜

submitted 13 hours ago • 12 comments

10 PRINT "C64 cubby organising and tidying" 20 GOTO 10 RUN

submitted 14 hours ago • 6 comments

Feeling the (Windows 98) Real Folk Blues... 🎶 📺: Minami 2000 CD #1, 2000 (ESP)

submitted 22 days ago • 8 comments

A mid-90s PC edutainment gaming classic, one you could sneak in some extra time on the family computer with as you'd be learning! Honest, mom and dad! Produced and co-designed by Ron Gilbert of Monkey Island fame. 📺: Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo, Humongous Entertainment, 1995

submitted 21 days ago • 15 comments