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I'm going to do a history exploration of shmups, like I did with fighting games a few years ago.
I will play all shmups, beginning with the ones in arcades, starting from... 1962. It will allow me to see trends and some influences, and determine once and for all which is "the first shmup to do X".
I will play all shmups, beginning with the ones in arcades, starting from... 1962. It will allow me to see trends and some influences, and determine once and for all which is "the first shmup to do X".
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Do you remember the CDTV and Amiga CD32? Well, even if you don't, you will 100% love this video! Guaranteed.
(100% love not guaranteed)
youtu.be/Sw97xpWYEsY
(100% love not guaranteed)
youtu.be/Sw97xpWYEsY
Commodores misadventures with CD-ROM
YouTube video by 8/16/32bit
youtu.be
December 21, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Do you remember the CDTV and Amiga CD32? Well, even if you don't, you will 100% love this video! Guaranteed.
(100% love not guaranteed)
youtu.be/Sw97xpWYEsY
(100% love not guaranteed)
youtu.be/Sw97xpWYEsY
I'm really pumped that Taito keeps pushing these, and that they've started going for third party games.
I'm less thrilled by the actual selection. Some of them are real mysteries.
I'm less thrilled by the actual selection. Some of them are real mysteries.
December 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I'm really pumped that Taito keeps pushing these, and that they've started going for third party games.
I'm less thrilled by the actual selection. Some of them are real mysteries.
I'm less thrilled by the actual selection. Some of them are real mysteries.
Oh yeah!
One of the most impactful games I've ever played. Glad to have it physical at last.
@serenityforge.com @origamedigital.bsky.social
One of the most impactful games I've ever played. Glad to have it physical at last.
@serenityforge.com @origamedigital.bsky.social
December 22, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Oh yeah!
One of the most impactful games I've ever played. Glad to have it physical at last.
@serenityforge.com @origamedigital.bsky.social
One of the most impactful games I've ever played. Glad to have it physical at last.
@serenityforge.com @origamedigital.bsky.social
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Please consider picking up these games! They are so good and I love them very much!
ウィンターセールということで、ニンテンドースイッチとスチームで『トランシルビィ』『ピコンティア』『フェアルーン』『カミコ』がセール中です！よろしくお願いします！
🟥 Nintendo Switch
store-jp.nintendo.com/search?q=ski...
⬛ Steam
store.steampowered.com/publisher/FL...
🟥 Nintendo Switch
store-jp.nintendo.com/search?q=ski...
⬛ Steam
store.steampowered.com/publisher/FL...
December 22, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Please consider picking up these games! They are so good and I love them very much!
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December 20, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Do you sometimes feel like you just want to ride and never stop? I always do when I see the majestic landscapes of Mongolia.🐎🍃
Have you already added The Legend of Khiimori to your Steam, Epic or PlayStation wishlist?
LINK IN BIO
Have you already added The Legend of Khiimori to your Steam, Epic or PlayStation wishlist?
LINK IN BIO
December 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Do you sometimes feel like you just want to ride and never stop? I always do when I see the majestic landscapes of Mongolia.🐎🍃
Have you already added The Legend of Khiimori to your Steam, Epic or PlayStation wishlist?
LINK IN BIO
Have you already added The Legend of Khiimori to your Steam, Epic or PlayStation wishlist?
LINK IN BIO
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For those that would enjoy classic flight sims with some modern QoL, then I'll give a couple of games a shout-out, starting with this one. Thunder Helix is inspired by EGA flight sims such as LHX and walks a fine line between arcade action and simulation.
Save 25% on Thunder Helix on Steam
Pilot deadly helicopter gunships, battle enemy forces and complete dangerous missions within a thrilling desert warzone!
store.steampowered.com
December 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
For those that would enjoy classic flight sims with some modern QoL, then I'll give a couple of games a shout-out, starting with this one. Thunder Helix is inspired by EGA flight sims such as LHX and walks a fine line between arcade action and simulation.
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As you can imagine this game posits the idea that people who redact things are always the good guys. (V. Good game)
Enjoying redacted document pages in your timeline? Why not take control of them in my fun mobile game! mrgan.com/blackbar/
Blackbar
A text game about censorship, by Neven Mrgan & James Moore.
mrgan.com
December 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
As you can imagine this game posits the idea that people who redact things are always the good guys. (V. Good game)
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I spoke to a dozen professional concept artists working in games about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs easier, even if it's just used in "very early ideation stages."
Zero said "yes." Most said it made their job harder.
I learnt a lot about concept artists. You should too!
Zero said "yes." Most said it made their job harder.
I learnt a lot about concept artists. You should too!
We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier.
Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...
Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...
Concept Artists Say Generative AI References Only Make Their Jobs Harder
“The ‘early ideation stages’, when worlds are being fleshed out by writers and artists, are literally crucial to the development of a game’s vision,” said one artist.
thisweekinvideogames.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I spoke to a dozen professional concept artists working in games about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs easier, even if it's just used in "very early ideation stages."
Zero said "yes." Most said it made their job harder.
I learnt a lot about concept artists. You should too!
Zero said "yes." Most said it made their job harder.
I learnt a lot about concept artists. You should too!
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On a longtemps cru qu’il fallait “rester pour lutter”. Sauf que sur X, le combat est truqué... à notre défaveur.
@jipece.bsky.social démonte, point par point, cette illusion tenace. Et pose une question aussi simple qu'inconfortable : à qui profite vraiment notre présence ?
À lire absolument ⤵️
@jipece.bsky.social démonte, point par point, cette illusion tenace. Et pose une question aussi simple qu'inconfortable : à qui profite vraiment notre présence ?
À lire absolument ⤵️
Sur X, on monte sur le ring avec des faits… face à des algorithmes sous stéroïdes.
@jipece.bsky.social rappelle que X n’est autre qu'une machine à épuiser la gauche et à récompenser l'extrême droite.
À lire et à partager avant de “rester pour combattre” 👇
derriere-le-vacarme.com/analyse/x-et...
@jipece.bsky.social rappelle que X n’est autre qu'une machine à épuiser la gauche et à récompenser l'extrême droite.
À lire et à partager avant de “rester pour combattre” 👇
derriere-le-vacarme.com/analyse/x-et...
X et l’illusion du combat en terrain hostile
Bienvenue sur X, l’ex-Twitter d’Elon Musk, où la gauche s’épuise à combattre des moulins à vent numériques.
derriere-le-vacarme.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
On a longtemps cru qu’il fallait “rester pour lutter”. Sauf que sur X, le combat est truqué... à notre défaveur.
@jipece.bsky.social démonte, point par point, cette illusion tenace. Et pose une question aussi simple qu'inconfortable : à qui profite vraiment notre présence ?
À lire absolument ⤵️
@jipece.bsky.social démonte, point par point, cette illusion tenace. Et pose une question aussi simple qu'inconfortable : à qui profite vraiment notre présence ?
À lire absolument ⤵️
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Who coined "Metroidvania"? It wasn't @jparish.bsky.social, and he'll be the first to tell you. Besides, there are far more interesting questions, like: How did it spread? Evolve? And what's it got to do with rickrolling?
Watch til the end for a post-credits sting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8set...
Watch til the end for a post-credits sting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8set...
The History Of The Word "Metroidvania" And How It Spread
YouTube video by Critical Kate (of A Critical Hit!)
www.youtube.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Who coined "Metroidvania"? It wasn't @jparish.bsky.social, and he'll be the first to tell you. Besides, there are far more interesting questions, like: How did it spread? Evolve? And what's it got to do with rickrolling?
Watch til the end for a post-credits sting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8set...
Watch til the end for a post-credits sting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8set...
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Most of us did not choose to write or draw or design so that we could put products on the shelf. We chose to do it because it’s a set of skills we enjoy exercising, that give us fulfillment.
It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.
It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.
December 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Most of us did not choose to write or draw or design so that we could put products on the shelf. We chose to do it because it’s a set of skills we enjoy exercising, that give us fulfillment.
It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.
It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.
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Reposting this without all of the line breaks so it can fit together
December 18, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Reposting this without all of the line breaks so it can fit together
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Fans in France! Get up to 30% off Evercade hardware on Amazon!
Too many deals to list in one post, so stop by our store page https://www.amazon.fr/s?k=Blaze+Entertainment on Amazon or https://evercade.co.uk/christmas-deals-in-europe-on-evercade-hardware-up-to-30-off/ for links to specific deals.
Too many deals to list in one post, so stop by our store page https://www.amazon.fr/s?k=Blaze+Entertainment on Amazon or https://evercade.co.uk/christmas-deals-in-europe-on-evercade-hardware-up-to-30-off/ for links to specific deals.
December 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Fans in France! Get up to 30% off Evercade hardware on Amazon!
Too many deals to list in one post, so stop by our store page https://www.amazon.fr/s?k=Blaze+Entertainment on Amazon or https://evercade.co.uk/christmas-deals-in-europe-on-evercade-hardware-up-to-30-off/ for links to specific deals.
Too many deals to list in one post, so stop by our store page https://www.amazon.fr/s?k=Blaze+Entertainment on Amazon or https://evercade.co.uk/christmas-deals-in-europe-on-evercade-hardware-up-to-30-off/ for links to specific deals.
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Believe me when I say as someone who very much used to be on the other side of the fence that there is still worth in learning about untranslated games even if you can't play them for yourself yet. The historical canon in Japan doesn't stop at what western publishers thought would be profitable.
December 18, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Believe me when I say as someone who very much used to be on the other side of the fence that there is still worth in learning about untranslated games even if you can't play them for yourself yet. The historical canon in Japan doesn't stop at what western publishers thought would be profitable.
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People like me who are genuinely passionate about these games don't do so to rub our fluency in your faces. We do it because we want to improve people's literacy in the media they enjoy. And in many cases, it took a massive amount of both time and money to even be able to offer this coverage.
December 18, 2025 at 3:33 AM
People like me who are genuinely passionate about these games don't do so to rub our fluency in your faces. We do it because we want to improve people's literacy in the media they enjoy. And in many cases, it took a massive amount of both time and money to even be able to offer this coverage.
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icymi, all this Egret II Mini junk dropped today:
Arcade Collection vol.1, a new 10-game SD expansion with Technos & Data East games (Chelnov!)
a new violet-variant run of the base Egret II Mini
"lite" (no zines) reprints of the first three SD expansions
another run of goofy toy accessories
Arcade Collection vol.1, a new 10-game SD expansion with Technos & Data East games (Chelnov!)
a new violet-variant run of the base Egret II Mini
"lite" (no zines) reprints of the first three SD expansions
another run of goofy toy accessories
Taito just announced the nature and contents of the first expansion pack in their new Egret II Mini expack line, titled Arcade Collection Part 1: for the included games & other details (including restocks of previous hardware/expansions), LET'S GO GO read this thread: mastodon.social/@gosokkyu/11...
December 18, 2025 at 4:10 AM
icymi, all this Egret II Mini junk dropped today:
Arcade Collection vol.1, a new 10-game SD expansion with Technos & Data East games (Chelnov!)
a new violet-variant run of the base Egret II Mini
"lite" (no zines) reprints of the first three SD expansions
another run of goofy toy accessories
Arcade Collection vol.1, a new 10-game SD expansion with Technos & Data East games (Chelnov!)
a new violet-variant run of the base Egret II Mini
"lite" (no zines) reprints of the first three SD expansions
another run of goofy toy accessories
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these also dropped in Japan today—these comps usually aren't particularly noteworthy but Vol.10 includes Gapporin!, a game that's not on ACA & has since been described as a "pre-release" inclusion on this comp, indicating that Hamster's going to push beyond their current ~108-deep NG library
ACA Neogeo Selection vol.7&8 aren't even out yet and they've already announced vol9&10, out Dec.18 www.snk-corp.co.jp/official/aca... 🇯🇵 ACA Neogeo ended after 108 games (minus sporadic delistings), so they've managed to get most of em onto cards... just in time to resell em all as ACA2, I guess
アケアカNEOGEO セレクション
『アケアカNEOGEO』が10タイトル収録された『アケアカNEOGEO セレクション』が登場！凄いゲームをもう一度、連れて帰ろう。
www.snk-corp.co.jp
December 18, 2025 at 4:31 AM
these also dropped in Japan today—these comps usually aren't particularly noteworthy but Vol.10 includes Gapporin!, a game that's not on ACA & has since been described as a "pre-release" inclusion on this comp, indicating that Hamster's going to push beyond their current ~108-deep NG library
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well goddamn, this week's the week: Namco's chaotic gimmick-heavy versus action The Outfoxies is getting its first-ever home reissue via Arcade Archives tomorrow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxTaxcJpD50 this is a massive get & one of the biggest requests by both fans & Hamster themselves
Arcade Archives THE OUTFOXIES - YouTube
"THE OUTFOXIES" is an action game released by NAMCO LIMITED (current Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc.) in 1995.You select one of the world’s top assassins as ...
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December 17, 2025 at 8:17 AM
well goddamn, this week's the week: Namco's chaotic gimmick-heavy versus action The Outfoxies is getting its first-ever home reissue via Arcade Archives tomorrow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxTaxcJpD50 this is a massive get & one of the biggest requests by both fans & Hamster themselves
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Mozilla has a new CEO which:
- Has been at Mozilla for less than a year
- Has no prior open source experience (but well in "fintech" and "real estate")
- Has a MBA (aka "brainworm diploma")
- Is all-in on AI
That’s exactly the kind of profile the whole community has been waiting for.
- Has been at Mozilla for less than a year
- Has no prior open source experience (but well in "fintech" and "real estate")
- Has a MBA (aka "brainworm diploma")
- Is all-in on AI
That’s exactly the kind of profile the whole community has been waiting for.
December 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Mozilla has a new CEO which:
- Has been at Mozilla for less than a year
- Has no prior open source experience (but well in "fintech" and "real estate")
- Has a MBA (aka "brainworm diploma")
- Is all-in on AI
That’s exactly the kind of profile the whole community has been waiting for.
- Has been at Mozilla for less than a year
- Has no prior open source experience (but well in "fintech" and "real estate")
- Has a MBA (aka "brainworm diploma")
- Is all-in on AI
That’s exactly the kind of profile the whole community has been waiting for.
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What originally prompted me to spend months researching how Sega consoles and games were sold in Italy in the 80s/90s was the fact that I kept seeing people adopting "US memories", remembering things that never happened (like Sega vs. Nintendo ads).
That's (also) why preservation is important.
That's (also) why preservation is important.
The marketing of Sega in Italy (1984 - 2001) - The Genesis Temple
The marketing of Sega in Italy: from arcades to homes, 90s Italy just loved SEGA. And Giochi Preziosi loved them back with many weird ideas.
genesistemple.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:19 AM
What originally prompted me to spend months researching how Sega consoles and games were sold in Italy in the 80s/90s was the fact that I kept seeing people adopting "US memories", remembering things that never happened (like Sega vs. Nintendo ads).
That's (also) why preservation is important.
That's (also) why preservation is important.
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Nvidia sells more chips than there is power or space to run. AI companies inflate their stock value making deals based on the *potential* of those chips while they depreciate in a closet. That monopoly money goes back into Nvidia to buy more chips.
This is how you economy.
This is how you economy.
December 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Nvidia sells more chips than there is power or space to run. AI companies inflate their stock value making deals based on the *potential* of those chips while they depreciate in a closet. That monopoly money goes back into Nvidia to buy more chips.
This is how you economy.
This is how you economy.
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Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
December 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
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Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama.
Us: Across your entire career?
Reiner: In a 6 year period.
Us: That sounds-
Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
Us: Across your entire career?
Reiner: In a 6 year period.
Us: That sounds-
Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
December 15, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama.
Us: Across your entire career?
Reiner: In a 6 year period.
Us: That sounds-
Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
Us: Across your entire career?
Reiner: In a 6 year period.
Us: That sounds-
Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.