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Sasha's RetroBytes
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Yawn, good morning, y'all! 👏
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Sasha│Freelance Writer│UK Retro Game/Tech Collector│Video Game Historian│🦈 Furrified 🏳️⚧️│She/Her│Coffeehound
🕹️ 80s-2000s AV nostalgia, anime, TTRPGs, old VG mags 📺
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Sasha's RetroBytes
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Yawn, good morning, y'all! 👏
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Always compelling and absolutely bonkers, EXXOS's Captain Blood from 1988, Commodore Amiga version. The game where a mummified video game creator and captain of an organic starship chases down clones of himself and talks to aliens through emoticons. French sci-fi surrealism at its finest.
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Picking up a hardback copy of the Star Trek Encyclopedia yesterday got me hankering to fire up our CDROM version - Encylopedia '99. Simon & Schuster put out heaps of these kind of things in the mid-late 90s. You couldn't walk into any software store then without seeing them lining the shelves.
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East meets West with Project Gotham Racing 2 for the original Xbox. The cool stylized, almost art deco vibe to the world graphics makes me think of the later A-Train games. 📺: Project Gotham Racing 2, Bizarre Creations, 2003 (RGB SCART)
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📖 Bytes of Game Ads 📺 Namco hit hard on the shmup and arcade sprite scalers on the console front in 1990 with FINALBLASTER and BURNING FORCE. You might wonder why you sometimes see NAMCOT on their games, not NAMCO. NAMCOT was the name used for the home games division's releases until 1995.
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Digging around in one of my storage boxes and unearthed a relic of AD&D's early 90s bump in popularity and TSR's efforts to introduce the game to a wider audience. This is one of the modules for TSR's Mystara campaign setting that had audio CDs with them to aid new GMs in adding immersion.
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Do the Teras Kasi shuffle with your favourite low-poly heroes and villains as they decide the galaxy's fate... 1 v 1.
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Totally!
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Yeah! Surprisingly so!
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Let's have a Micro Machines TT '96 #SplashWaveRacing challenge update!
Since the last current standings update on the Skyline, @6thgenbliss.bsky.social joined the pack and purrs into third!
Want to get in on the action? Event rules are attached!
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Sasha's RetroBytes
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Aha, I hope so!
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Get yourself down to Dixons in January 1993, the No 1 in Britain for the latest video game action. 🔥 (And score yourself a free Simpsons or Smash TV LCD game!)
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Ohhh awesome!
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One of the sweetest and most whimsical game developer logos. The adventurous raccoon-ish creature that was Traveller's Tales' mascot and logo. Later versions were CGI animated renders until he vanished in 2005 in favour of the current double T, but this 1997 version is my favourite one.
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Aww, that would be a sweet paring. The Traveller's Tales logo is such a lovely one.
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Looking a bit worse for wear now, my Psygnosis mug ;; Good morning, Skyline!
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🕹️ Bytes of Gaming History ⌛ The future's blue and purple at E3 2006 - except if you're there to see Xbox 360, where a grimy prophet of Gears of War's Judgement Day spread the word to watch out below! And yes, this was the Giant Enemy Crab and RIIIDGE RACER (remember that?) E3. Lovely shiny Wii 💜
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An image of zen for your Bluesky feeds with the original Settlers game - Amiga version. Those familiar with it will likely now have the bird song, the chopping of wood, and the medieval melody that compliments the industrious tranquillity. Oh, and the 'Yipee!' as a prospector finds some ore. 💜
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"I'll be here... I'll be waiting... for you... so..." The peace before the clash of gunblades. ⚔️ 📺: Final Fantasy VIII, Square, 1999
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At the Midnight Hour: prime Psygnosis anti-grav racing and a twisty-turny Namco controller. This is such a fun controller to use with Wipeout games and do sweeping turns with.
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"He who controls the blast processing controls the universe!" RTS-ing on a three-button controller - Dune: The Battle for Arrakis on Sega Mega Drive. A superbly implemented port of the Amiga/DOS RTS. Snappy cursor movement and a minimalistic UI that served as a testbed for Command & Conquer's.
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It's happening, playing this Smash Bros-like on my NES with a rando I met on the Discord. I cannot tell what year this is. #supertiltbros
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Brian Riggsbee - Retro Game Books
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The preorder for Video Game Maps: SNES Volume 1 ends in a little over a week and is the only way to guarantee your copy. Lock in the book or the bundle here:
retrogamebooks.com/products/vid...
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Sasha's RetroBytes
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Yeah, I got burned out by reruns of Z eps and the overly long fight arcs. I always preferred watching the Dragonball series where it was more of an adventure series and that's what I'd watch again now.
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Yep!
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📖 Bytes of Game Ads 📺 One of the coolest ads... ever. For one of my favourite and most impressive C64 games: Retrograde. 📖: Zzap64 (March 1990).
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Yeah, really was just the same 25-30 Genesis games for decades until the Mini 2. I'd love to see the SMS get some more love too as while for me personally the library isn't as strong as the NES's, there's still a heap to enjoy from it and deserves fresh love.
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Will do!
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I really hope Sega continue being bolder with re-releasing their back catalogue, yeah—especially stuff on the Master System side, too.
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Will do!
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Worth doing so, especially for the relative pennies they go for! And yeah, they're pretty ubiquitous despite being for a niche audience on Genesis/MD. I always love seeing the MD being pushed to do stuff like this.
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Come on down, hidden pillar number five! It's little known now compared to the others, but Mig-29 from Domark received a rather accomplished port in 1993. And this is easily the most simulation-heavy of the quintet. Wisely, they made use of the six button joypad and in-game menus for functionality.
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The four pillars of flight sim-mery on Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, published from 1991 to 1993. Varying degrees of simulation accuracy but rich in vibes and presentation to fill in the gaps left by cramming it all into three buttons and a start button. Night Storm is easily the most cinematic.
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Yeah, they're okay though. I chat to them on Discord here and there and they're alright, just taking some time away from social media. Hope they return to BlueSky some day tho.
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Ahh, shame it's not the SEGA CD version, but still worth checking out.
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Today I've learned that there was a compilation containing both Mortal Kombat and Mortal Kombat II for the original Game Boy. What's curious about it is that it was rated T by the ESRB, despite the series' long history of M-rated games, beating Mortal Kombat Vs. DC Universe to the punch by a decade.
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DOKI DOKI CRT PIXEL
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PRIMAL RAGE ATARI/PROBE 1995 SEGA GENESIS
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This is one of my core arcade memories, though I didn't actually play it much. It was one of the more expensive games at my local shopping centre arcade in '95, and I remember watching the intro and attract loop so many times while waiting for a turn on Knights of the Round.
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Oh! Worry not, they absolutely do, especially the first Monkey Island.
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Master System Maze Mayhem over brunch after watching @jparish.bsky.social's latest Segaiden video.
Fantasy Zone: The Maze is an addictive and wonderfully colourful little game. Had so far missed it in my sporadic digs into the SMS libary, so I'm glad to have had a heads-up about it.
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Well, Larry had my vote this morning on Tory Obliteration Day. Good morning, y'all 👋
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The Sheffield Space Centre - for all your 90s UK manga (and sci-fi and fantasy!) and earlier anime fandom needs. 📖: Anime UK issue #17, Dec 1994.
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🕹️ Bytes of Gaming History ⌛ The amazing spectacle of the SEGA R360, first released in Japan in 1990 before making its way out around the world in 1991. Rotating on two axes and in 360 degrees, it initially shipped to arcades with G-LOC - perfect game fodder for such a full-body flight experience.
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Vintage Squaresoft logos, and press releases, picture peeks, and postage stamp-sized videos - even on a 14-15" monitor. A delve into the Squaresoft disc from the Sony European Computer Trade Show promo pack from 1997. So much hype for Square's next great RPG adventure.
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I don't HATE Metroid Other M so far. It's very much a Team Ninja game and less of a real Metroid game tho so it plays more like Ninja Gaiden. Also probably more my TV than the game but it's way too dark. The lighting is very pretty but whenever there's shadows on screen I can barely see anything.
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I ended up enjoying Other M quite a bit during my first playthrough of it a couple of years back, and it was interesting playing it after Dread, but yeah, I got very weary of that too ;o;
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All the best for your recovery 💜
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Hell yeah!
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Same here. It's one of a handful of games that are just pure cozy play and I revisit every year or two to spend a few hours replaying it. Broken Sword and Indy and the Fate of the Atlantis are another couple.
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📖 Bytes of Game Ads 📺 How appropriate, you fight like a cow." ⚔️ The eternally amazing Secret of Monkey Island in ad form from a 1990 issue of Computer Gaming World.
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