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Cal Skuthorpe

@buzzclik.bsky.social

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Design guy. Font spotter. PETSCII fanatic. Views all my own, my bosses have nothing to do with it. I make tiny robots here: https://bsky.app/profile/petsciibots.bsky.social I make fake C64 games here: https://bsky.app/profile/64thdimension.bsky.social

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Cal Skuthorpe @buzzclik.bsky.social · Apr 26

You may know me as a #PETSCII artist, but what you might not know is that I also slap a bunch of designs (PETSCII or otherwise) onto shirts and stuff over at www.teepublic.com/user/petscii

#pixelart #C64 #Commodore64 #textmode

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Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️, but spooky 🦇 @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · Jul 27

New article time!
The Amiga family of computers have just turned 40 - and are still deeply misunderstood and underappreciated. So let's use this anniversary to look at Sword of Sodan, a game that is perhaps the epitome of this sad phenomenon:

kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2025/07/27/s...

Sword of Sodan: Comes out fighting

This game left a strong impression on me so very many years ago—how could it not? Fantasy hack and slash action rarely looks as good as this. The playable characters were heroes in the classic Cona…

kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com

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Cal Skuthorpe @buzzclik.bsky.social · Jul 27

Oh, dude. It's incredible of-the-era scholcky action goodness. Plus that theme song rules.

Cal Skuthorpe @buzzclik.bsky.social · Jul 24

Dude, I am suuuuper paranoid about doing that every time I fill up. You're living my nightmare rn.

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MrTalida @mrtalida.bsky.social · Jun 17

I am delighted to announce that I've 3D scanned the complete Super Mario Land keshi figure series, originally released by Bandai in Japan in 1989!

All 21 of these vintage Mario toys--from Daisy to Tatanga, and everyone in between--can now be downloaded here:
archive.org/details/kesh...

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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · Jul 22

A 2D first person dungeon crawler, made in 3 days for the Ludum Dare game jam. Isn't it funny that we used to call these "3D" games? It's not even billboards, it's sprites. #indiedev

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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · Jul 17

my isometric #pixelart Chibi Metroid for the Game Boy. Explore a bunch of ruins. In 3D.

#indiedev

chibi samus celebrating cutscene #pixelart

Samus' ship interior, from Metroid Prime

Samus at a cryo-preservation chamber ruin #pixelart

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Rob Caporetto @ #MIGW25 @robcap.bsky.social · Jul 23

NEW VIDEO TIME!

With its 30th anniversary happening a few weeks back, it made it the right time to dive into Air Combat on PlayStation, the first in what'd become the Ace Combat home series.

But how's it stack up from someone coming it from those later games?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mLN...

Air/Ace Combat (PSX): A Series Gets Cleared For Take-Off - Beyond The Scanlines #124

YouTube video by Beyond The Scanlines

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · Jul 11

chess seems too well balanced theres gotta be some trick

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Cal Skuthorpe @buzzclik.bsky.social · Jul 10

@drewwise.bsky.social Was away on holiday recently and had a stranger who was obviously a big F-Zero fan come up to me to ask about my FALCON-0 shirt. Just thought you should know!

(I love that shirt, and your work in general!)

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Cal Skuthorpe @buzzclik.bsky.social · Jul 3

Happy Return of the Living Dead Day!

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Homestar Screens @grapenutsrobot.graphics · Jul 1

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DOKI DOKI CRT PANIC @crtpixel.bsky.social · Jun 30

WONDER BOY IN MONSTER LAND
ESCAPE 1988
SEGA MASTER SYSTEM

It's 5 o'clock in Monster Land, fancy a drink from the Monster bartender?

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · Jun 29

tired: passing legislation

wired: running legislation, 28 yards, first down

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · Jun 28

A member of Taiwan's parliament stole a bill and ran off with it to prevent it from being passed

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Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone.bsky.social · Jun 25

AI in the wild? This tray tissue I was given at a restaurant is full of errors and hallucinations…!

a tissue on a tray with a bunch of pictures and phrases and about food. but it seemingly contains a bunch of errors and nonsense:

“Doltclous”
“A full suamsh makes for you a happy heram”
“bood food is bood mood”

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · Jun 25

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon is notorious for its poor DVD release. A year or two ago, someone sent me 4 of the home laserdiscs releases. Here's the first of four that I am uploading to the Internet Archive. archive.org/details/Teen...

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Cal Skuthorpe @buzzclik.bsky.social · Jun 25

That typeface is Exocet, created by the legendary Jonathan Barnbrook!

Cal Skuthorpe @buzzclik.bsky.social · Jun 24

You spelled "abolish" incorrectly

Get Equipped With @getequipped.bsky.social · Jun 24

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Homestar Screens @grapenutsrobot.graphics · Jun 23

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barinky @barinky.net · Jun 21

mech 🌺🌷🌼

#picocad #3dmodeling #mecha #robot #lowpoly #digitalart #aseprite #ps1 #retro

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Mollie L Patterson @mollipen.bsky.social · Jun 21

My first Genesis / Mega Drive game of the year, thanks to @mix256.bsky.social and @megacatstudios.bsky.social — can’t wait to play it!

Physical copy of Sega Genesis / Mega Drive game ZPF

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MachinePix @machinepix.bsky.social · Jun 19

East Japan Railway Company mini training vehicle.

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Cal Skuthorpe @buzzclik.bsky.social · Jun 20

"Why is the plane in the water?" - my 3yo, looking at the safety instruction card before we take off

Uhhh well you see

Cal Skuthorpe @buzzclik.bsky.social · Jun 19

One of my all-time favourite pieces of music. Just friggin' incredible.

youtu.be/rZ5ZpJnE-II

Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects - Z2 - Reticuli

YouTube video by NiNaNo LuLuLaLa

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Cal Skuthorpe @buzzclik.bsky.social · Jun 18

Brad repping quality games over here 😈🎲💕

Brad Lynch @marinov1.bsky.social · Jun 18

June 18, 1998

You may know it as Devil Dice or (more likely) you may not know it at all. A great puzzle game developed by Shift, who later made Freedom Wars, God Eater, and Code Vein.

Cal Skuthorpe @buzzclik.bsky.social · Jun 18

cc @jeffgerstmann.com, in case you want to celebrate Garfield's special day when it's June 19th in your part of the world.

Noted video gamesman Jeff Gerstmann, rendered in the style of Jim Davis's curmudgeonly cat, Garfield.

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