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@emmfoolery.bsky.social

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Irrepressible MS-DOS Game Archaeologist Join the DOS Game Jam! http://czecha.boo 🦘

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Emmy @emmfoolery.bsky.social · Sep 7

Hello! I'm Emmy!

Here are some things I've been involved with that you might like:

☆ DOS music compilations on YouTube (surprisingly popular!)

☆ Translated the first Czech game for DOS: Donkey Island!

☆ Helped give naked alien boy pants!

☆ Stream terrible DOS games on Twitch!

》 czecha.boo 《

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MFW people follow me on Bluesky. (Me dressed as a Satan, looking mildly aghast.)

Google screenshot of Bard playlist that got recommended to EVERYONE retro adjacent last year. 😅

Donkey Island screenshot from donkeyisland.zip

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Emmy @emmfoolery.bsky.social · 10h

I'm not mad that none of you have the rare DOS porn, I'm just disappointed.

Emmy @emmfoolery.bsky.social · 16h

I never said bad. 😂

Emmy @emmfoolery.bsky.social · 19h

Oh I know this is going to be good. 🙏

(People constantly refer to Donna Summer as Donna Summers, and I assume that's because they have a good and inherent desire to want her cloned.)

Emmy @emmfoolery.bsky.social · 19h

Deep cuts, best cuts.

Emmy @emmfoolery.bsky.social · 19h

I truly think the Games Industry would be in a much better place, creatively, if everyone had more exposure to DOS Shareware games.

Denture Man title screen. It's horrifying.

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Emmy @emmfoolery.bsky.social · 23h

P.S. Please play Cats on Broombas.

Okay, I'll stop now.

Maybe.

Cats on Broombas by Eigen Lenk

Puzzling cats!

eigen.itch.io

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Emmy @emmfoolery.bsky.social · 23h

Here's another cutie on itch, from quite a few years back now.

Witchy Workshop by Deerbell

Use spells, machines, and alchemical devices to solve the Red Bean Witch's magical physics puzzles!

deerbell.itch.io

Emmy @emmfoolery.bsky.social · 23h

Y'all thirst for physics puzzle games.

Quoted is one I saw at Parallels the other night, which doesn't require you to shoot a cat, goldfish, or monkey to solve the puzzle. Check it out!

Pictured below: proof of your thirst.

Creative Contraptions for MS-DOS - Probably the first Rube Goldberg game ever? (Please prove me wrong, I'd love to hear of earlier!) This company went defunct fairly quickly, which sucks, 'cos this is a banger of a release for the platform/era/genre.

It's The Incredible Machine. It's Sierra. It's probably top ten most nostalgia-fuelled pined after DOS games.

Arthur to Astaroth no Nazomakaimura: Incredible Toons. 1996 Japan only release.
It's NOT DOS.
How dare I.

SCRIBBLENAUTS MY BELOVED. I cannot believe that this came out in 2009.

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Emmy @emmfoolery.bsky.social · 23h

I respect your critical thinking abilities, but also that's extremely funny to me. DOS games are just like this.

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Emmy @emmfoolery.bsky.social · 1d

Stealing this for my MS-DOS jank go live message, thanks jordo.

twitch.tv/emmfoolery

(Go follow jordan, jordan is a delight.)

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Tanat Boozayaangool 🔜 MIGW @tanatb.housefuckinggame.com · 2d

highlight of my professional game dev career

a twink in mesh green shirt on stage with slides in the back that says "I'm a fa***t and this is a game for fa**ots" with pictures of said twink pole dancing

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Emmy @emmfoolery.bsky.social · 2d

Okay, I'll yell it from the audience in the middle of a presentation.

Emmy @emmfoolery.bsky.social · 2d

Heading to Parallels with @sonneveld.bsky.social!

If you see me, feel free to say hi… so I can capture your image on floppy disk… because I'm too socially awkward to function in public without some sort of DOS-adjacent security blanket. 😎

#MIGW

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Emmy @emmfoolery.bsky.social · 3d

Leonard Egg is now Dizzy's canonical legal name.

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Emmy @emmfoolery.bsky.social · 3d

Lenovo Execs on their company name:
"Le Novo."
"New Legend."
Innovative, timeless, luxurious.

Me, every time my laptop starts up, over the past ten years:
"Len Ovo."
"Leonard Egg."
Who is Leonard Egg? 🤔🤔🤔

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Emmy @emmfoolery.bsky.social · 3d

It was literally just audiobook after audiobook with covers that looked like cowboy-themed hetero wedding announcements.

It looks like they're all gone, now? I never listened to any, but if you feel like you're missing out, you can always write your own.

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Emmy @emmfoolery.bsky.social · 4d

My local library app lets you filter audiobooks by Popular, and last time I looked, it was literally just reams of cowboy erotica.

Now it's... this?

Happy Melbourne International Games Week, I guess????

Some sort of Ready Player One erotica idk

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MysticalMachineGun @mysticalmachinegun.bsky.social · 4d

Tomorrow! I'll be 43 but I'm busy then so

Tonight! We're doing a viewer redeem to celebrate my birthday - kicking off with Fantastic Dizzy as redeemed by @underconsolepod.bsky.social followed by Thief redeemed by @boardgameheaven.bsky.social if we beat it!

#MMGPlays

twitch.tv/mysticalmach...

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Emmy @emmfoolery.bsky.social · 4d

Possibly! I'm semi-local, but I need to get you to autograph a roof tile or something.

Emmy @emmfoolery.bsky.social · 4d

TANAT WILL BE THERE!? AAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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