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Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 13h

Your game has been visited by the scantily clad Goddess of Game Reviews

The cover of 1998/5 ゲーム批評 courtesy of Internet Archive featuring some sort of pink hippie scantily clad bug fairy lady with a halo of Good Game Bad Games around her midsection and X and O signs in her hand

Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 15h

I am obsessed with unusual game pairings in game ads, here we have full S&M Pit-Fighter and Space Invaders

Super Space Invaders and Pit Fighter from Domark (computer versions)

Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 16h

In 1990, 3D modeling techniques meant ACTUAL 3D...send away for a "garage kit" where you learn to make your own scantily clad elf girl holding a big ass sword

Make your own elf girls with this "garage kit" obtained by mail order classroom

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Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure if this is only for Apple Music Classical but having the CD booklet available here is amazing…would love to see this for checking liner notes and be able to click on producer or engineer name and jump to a directory of their work

The same sort of booklet you see in a CD case scanned in high res and viewable in some sort of custom viewer

Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 1d

Was gonna push this out tomorrow to space them out but I am probably going to be busy so went ahead and dropped this one as well: King Salmon OST (Mega Drive / Masaharu Iwata), think I brought out the Tai Chi reverb for this one... #megadrive #vgm #gamemusic youtu.be/6EsbdT09N0c

[MD/GEN] King Salmon OST Boost Mix / キングサーモン BGM / Hot-B / Masaharu Iwata

YouTube video by Boost Mix Music - Game Music Channel

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Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 1d

Trying to have a conversation with someone who thinks every publication being in the Japan National Library means it is "preserved" and thus scanning things and putting them on Internet Archive is not actually an act of preservation. This is what the average person in Japan thinks 😬

Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 1d

...and before I permanently delete them from the HDD here are the four manga-style ads for Aretha II with the final one showing the Yanoman dev team members in their natural habitat (game dev room) #gameboy

Aretha II ad comic Vol 1 featuring a wide eyed news reporter visiting the Yanoman Studio and being shocked at what she saw

Aretha II ad comic Vol 2 featuring a monster waiting room inside the TV studio with the ad similarly having the format of an old school website and three screenshots of the game on the side, with a banner of the game title at the bottom

Aretha II ad comic Vol 3 has the "main character waiting room" and going in for an interview with Materia, who mentions about being able to befriend monsters that a certain game series may have straight up borrowed from this game...

Aretha II ad comic Vol 4 has the game dev members in their dev room including "God Ishii", Main programmer is off to see the worker at conbini that looks like Cutie Suzuki, the musician Chakky rock musician, pure hearted director Johnny who is having a burial cermony for beloved catfish, and the reported thinks it is a haunted house

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Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 1d

Just dropped: GB Aretha II OST! (Looks like they just added the soundtrack to YouTube copyright system a couple weeks ago as "Yanoman", so any ads that run the money will go 100% to Yanoman which is great! Esp for original dev to get money is awesome...) #gamemusic #vgm #gameboy youtu.be/4YzUWpCPw6w

[GB] Aretha II OST Boost Mix / アレサII BGM

YouTube video by Boost Mix Music - Game Music Channel

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Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 2d

My best friend over in the US survives off lots of special medical care with a rare blood disease, and just told me he has to stress about the possibility of losing his insurance coverage...don't let me down Schumer

Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 2d

Correcting myself, I found a Japanese one at least, still haven't seen an English one

Ad for SMB1 from Famimaga December 1985, featuring artwork and four screenshots with a price of 4900 yen

Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 2d

What I would do for a 3.5mm headphone jack on my iPhone...this is the dongle-less hill I will die on

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Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 2d

I bought the book The Complete Thoughts of Game Creator by the creator of Puyo Puyo himself, Kazunari Yonemitsu (米光一成), will try to post any interesting tidbits as replies but it is mostly sort of high level principles as short essays/summaries like “how to know if your game is actually fun”

First prologue page showing the author smiling and box of Puyo Puyo

Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 2d

If you are scrolling through a list of Famicom games on Wikipedia this is probably not the advertisement art you expect to see for the game "Dough Boy" #famicom

Artwork for the game Dough Boy looks a bit like a war zone with grimacing tough guy holding a rocket launcher while things blow up behind him with a tank seen as well, and three screenshots with price of 5,300 yen listed...by Kemco

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Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 2d

The late TV legend Ken Shimura playing Famicom Hyper Olympic on "Hachiji da yo" in 1985 dressed as his most famous Tono-sama character, next to Kyonkyon (Kyouko Koizumi) a popular idol singer/actress #famicom

Ken Shimura next to a poster of his most famous character Tono-sama

The full article snippet that has four screens from the TV show

Intensely playing the game (2 player mode?)

The zoomed in screenshot to clearly see Tono-sama and Kyonkyon

Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 2d

Bubsy LFG

Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah I love these, awesome renditions and cute size

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Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 2d

"10 Yard Fight is by IREM! It must have some killer title screen music" - wait it had no music at all?? Early Famicom games are hit and miss when it comes to having music...so many of the basic space shooter type games seem to have no music too, trying to find hidden gems...

Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 2d

One went for only 3000 yen in September with an additional catalog and bunch of stickers included apparently auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/m...

5513アメリカ警察本2冊セットアメリカンポリス ... - Yahoo!オークション

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auctions.yahoo.co.jp

Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah I haven’t played anything like that, I was thinking more like the 18+ stuff that was on PC 98 and had amazing stories like Yu No or whatever, If they were incentivized to keep things more like an R movie with stories and gameplay it might be easier to be mainstream

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Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 3d

Still my favorite game of the past 5 years or a close tie with Elden Ring. Free update is amazing 👏

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 3d

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 will receive a free update featuring new dungeon, enemies, bosses, costumes, text/UI game localizations, and more surprises

Game has now sold over 5 million units

www.ign.com/articles/cla...

Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 3d

I looked up who the mastering engineer was and it was like some guy who was in a metal band and not a professional mastering engineer / yeah that is going to do it with so many AI driven plugins and easy tooling people think it is easy these days. Mixing is hard but so is mastering to do truly well

Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 3d

I am not going to name and shame but there is a female singer metal release I was excited about and it has a mastering problem where orchestral parts crackle on my EarPods, a problem when over compressing highly dynamic parts and sort of an amateur mistake I have done myself in old mixes.

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Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 3d

That artwork is awesome, I love this game too, great news about the release

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Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 3d

Apparently in 1984 all you needed to get lucky was to have a Bouncer arcade cabinet in your pad

A screenshot from Ninja III showing a Bouncer cabinet behind two of the main protagonists

Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 3d

Just dropped: Exciting Billiard (Konami) Famicom bopping jazz OST, that became an excuse to test the new L4 UltraMaximizer plugin (but I didn't push it very hard...yet...) #gamemusic #famicom youtu.be/5Cx5hbqdxdY

[FC] Exciting Billiard OST Boost Mix / エキサイティングビリヤード BGM / Konami

YouTube video by Boost Mix Music - Game Music Channel

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