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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · Oct 17

New pinned post and info sheet!

I'm curious and passionate about a whole bunch of nerdy and cool stuff! I also publish a fortnightly retro gaming and anime 'zine and write on several blogs:

Scanlines zine: betweenthescanlines.itch.io
Main blog: scanlineartifacts.wordpress.com

A pixel campfire themed info sheet giving an introduction about how I'm a self-employed freelance writer, a zine publisher, a collector and enthusiast of older games and computer/console hardware and also run a racing competition, and very much into 90s and 2000s anime!

Passionate about PS1, Amiga, Wii, and Mega Drive in particular!

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 1m

Saaame, it is <3

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 21h

Following on from my last post sharing a vid from Minami CD 49, there is also a lovely snapshot of the Spanish cosplay scene with a gallery of photos from ExpoManga 2004.

I was stateside attending anime cons in '04, so yeah, the cosplay costumes and way the photos are taken is nostalgic to me. 💜

A group photo with FF8 themed cosplays (plus Tifa!)

A brown-haired Cloud cosplayer poses with a fittingly beefy buster sword to his side.

"I Am the Pretty Guardian Who Fights for Love and Justice!" A sweep group photo of Sailor Moon cosplayers, about fifteen in all, posed for a photo, with four of them, kneeling in front of the rest.

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 1h

I'll get some ZX Spectrum #ScanlineSunday action in with a gorgeous piece of demoscene artwork from Elysium State, a 2022 prod.

📺: Philips 14", RGB SCART, Spectrum +2.

A crt tv screenie with a medusa head with vibrant colours, yellows, oranges, greens, and reds, with sharp pixel definition and very little colour clash.

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Rekawaiii 🏳️‍⚧️ Elf Faetuber~ @rekawaii.gay · 2h

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So here's the thing. My credit card debt has grown exponentially, to the point where the interest payments drown out my own contributions to it (I pay more than the minimum)
If you can help. I would greatly appreciate it. Even by sharing. I'll be streaming to raise funds.

Support reky

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · Apr 5

It's a game of cat-and-mouse as MacUser rolled onto shelves for the first time in 1985 with purrfect timing to ride the Mac wave.

A scan of the cover of Mac User with a Apple Mac with a blue-tinted paint program open and a sharp-pixel image of a close-up of a cat's face on the screen. Powered by MacLevitation, a mouse hovers in front of it close to the reader's face.

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 4h

Hey Zeggy <3

Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 4h

Likewise, Robin <3

Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 4h

Hey Jade o/

Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah, big business then with themed screensavers. $25-35 seems to be the average price.

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 4h

We chosen few*

*fewness may vary

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 4h

It's just a tiny slice of exploring that can be completed in ten or so minute, but totally worth doing so.

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 4h

"We're here... why are you shaking? Are you okay? Wake up."

The game switches to top-down RPG after the opening scene in the boat, presented first-person style.

A pixel rendition of a first person view of the ship you wake up in that can be panned a little, Myst-style.

Seyda Need, Bitter Coast Region.

A top-down Ultima/FF style pixel rendition of Seyda Neen's swampy portside docks.

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah! <3

Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah! Same <3

Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 5h

Here's the link and some of the sweet thematic beepage. Seems to be expanding from the initial proof-of-concept into what might hopefully be a full lil game.

jordanly.itch.io/the-elder-sc...

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Nick Westwood @retrobreak.co.uk · 5h

Thanks to @sharkabytes.bsky.social reminding me this game existed a while back, I finally got it running on my Pal wii!

So excited to see how it compares to Excite Truck, one of my fave games on the system!

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 6h

REALLY COOL anime and manga - from Software Sculptors, the founders of which would go on to found Media Blasters.

CD-ROMs, Screensavers, and Video. 🔥

A late 90s magazine ads with Slayers' Lina Inverse and Gourry posed together, with Lina winking and pointing her finger up in the air.

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 6h

Game Boy Color visions of a Bitter Coast journey to Vivec.

Trying out a lil Game Boy game jam Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind fan adventure game that's got a whole glob of talent and charm behind it.

A pixel GBC scene of a silt strider rising above a fittingly swampy and tall mushroom strewn landscape in horizontal perspective. A tall grey mountain rises above the dithered mist.

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 7h

When you boot up the game greeted by concert FMV that I'm told by a helpful Livejournal post about this game that it features Rick Jude Palombi and Bernadette Barlow.

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 8h

The life of a band manager in late 90s Japan. Hit up the big city, go splash out on some pop art to put in our fancy penthouse apartment, and get told to hit the bricks by a potential band member.

📺: Sold Out, Shinko Music, 1997 (PS1)

A menu in a mix of English and Japanese, with a flat render of a secretary standing with clipboard in hand and an apartment background bathed in purple light, with a menu of various decisions to make such as Cruise the City, Band Meeting, Band Chart, Promote, and Jump to Next Week.

A render of a sparkling metropolis at night, no doubt with catgirl criminals doing hot crime

What do you want, asks a lady in smart dress and with long brown hair in an art gallery, as she offers some pop art for 80,000 yen.

If you don't want to die, disappear! Warns 'Flash', a grungy long haired rocker with muscles and a leather vest, plus slick back long air.

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 8h

Racin' in to say a good morning/afternoon, y'all. 💜

An Amiga AGA image of a digitization of a Dirty Pair hollywood movies calendar from 1990, with Kei and Yuri on a motorcycle together, Top Gun style.

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 8h

Hear, hear on PSXDatacenter. Immensely useful site <3 And thank you for giving me a shoutout. <3

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lete lyre@中秋の名月 @letelyre.bsky.social · 16h

Fascinating. Squeezing my brain trying to work out what the original (internal) Japanese script might have been for that first line. It's like, /almost/ there!

Maybe something like「レバー入力方向にキャラクターが進む」 "Your character will go FORWARD (proceed) in the same [A]WAY (direction) you input the joystick."

Sick Combos @sickcombos.bsky.social · 16h

could you run that by me again

How To Play instructions that include some interesting translation choices during the intro, i think Mr. Do should see a neurologist // Neo Mr. Do! for Neo Geo AES, photography on CRT TV

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Turom @turom.me · 9h

Let’s go crazy, it’s #ScanlineSunday 🔥

Detana TwinBee
出たなツインビー
Konami - 1995 - Sega Saturn
Sony BVM A20 CRT
🟥🟩🟦

Detana TwinBee Yahho! Deluxe Pack
出たなツインビーヤッホー！ＤＥＬＵＸＥＰＡＣＫ
Konami - 1995 - Sega Saturn
Sony BVM A20 CRT
RGB SCART

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 9h

xD The perfect match