Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️⚧️
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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
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
Heyas! And yeah, I'm glad if I manage to sleep more than five-six hours just lately.
February 10, 2026 at 9:57 AM
Heyas! And yeah, I'm glad if I manage to sleep more than five-six hours just lately.
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This collection really feels like a fever dream. Beautiful video quality, enough extras to keep you interested for days, and so much else, all on a single disc.
If you told 12-year-old me this would be a thing, I'd have looked at you funny, because it really *feels* like an impossible release.
If you told 12-year-old me this would be a thing, I'd have looked at you funny, because it really *feels* like an impossible release.
Project A-ko Perfect Collection 4K is perhaps our craziest disc ever.
It combines all our work to remaster A-ko into a new package, with the first appearing as it never has in gorgeous 4K w/ HDR!
A-ko has never looked this good before.
store.crunchyroll.com/products/pro...
It combines all our work to remaster A-ko into a new package, with the first appearing as it never has in gorgeous 4K w/ HDR!
A-ko has never looked this good before.
store.crunchyroll.com/products/pro...
February 9, 2026 at 8:27 PM
This collection really feels like a fever dream. Beautiful video quality, enough extras to keep you interested for days, and so much else, all on a single disc.
If you told 12-year-old me this would be a thing, I'd have looked at you funny, because it really *feels* like an impossible release.
If you told 12-year-old me this would be a thing, I'd have looked at you funny, because it really *feels* like an impossible release.
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Not only will they safeguard Mega-Tokyo in 2032, the Knight Sabers will now prevent screen burn-in on your mid '90s CRT monitor - Bubblegum Crisis: The Screensaver!
📖: Animerica, July 1994
📖: Animerica, July 1994
September 6, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Not only will they safeguard Mega-Tokyo in 2032, the Knight Sabers will now prevent screen burn-in on your mid '90s CRT monitor - Bubblegum Crisis: The Screensaver!
📖: Animerica, July 1994
📖: Animerica, July 1994
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Damn, the proliferation of LCD monitors sure was great, but AT WHAT COST?
We have destroyed prime cat perch real estate.
We have destroyed prime cat perch real estate.
Cats: perching on CRT monitors and TVs since 19XX.
The PC is an Olivetti M20, a Z80 based compy with its own OS and a fine line in vector green felines. Dual floppies - nice!
Snapped from the Creative Black Book, published in '85.
The PC is an Olivetti M20, a Z80 based compy with its own OS and a fine line in vector green felines. Dual floppies - nice!
Snapped from the Creative Black Book, published in '85.
February 10, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Damn, the proliferation of LCD monitors sure was great, but AT WHAT COST?
We have destroyed prime cat perch real estate.
We have destroyed prime cat perch real estate.
Azzy is appreciative of the perch to play her Commodore 64 on.
February 10, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Azzy is appreciative of the perch to play her Commodore 64 on.
Aww, sweet! And yeah, my CRT TVs are prime kitty loafing places too. Especially the lil one next to me now on my desk.
February 10, 2026 at 12:21 AM
Aww, sweet! And yeah, my CRT TVs are prime kitty loafing places too. Especially the lil one next to me now on my desk.
Cats: perching on CRT monitors and TVs since 19XX.
The PC is an Olivetti M20, a Z80 based compy with its own OS and a fine line in vector green felines. Dual floppies - nice!
Snapped from the Creative Black Book, published in '85.
The PC is an Olivetti M20, a Z80 based compy with its own OS and a fine line in vector green felines. Dual floppies - nice!
Snapped from the Creative Black Book, published in '85.
February 10, 2026 at 12:13 AM
Cats: perching on CRT monitors and TVs since 19XX.
The PC is an Olivetti M20, a Z80 based compy with its own OS and a fine line in vector green felines. Dual floppies - nice!
Snapped from the Creative Black Book, published in '85.
The PC is an Olivetti M20, a Z80 based compy with its own OS and a fine line in vector green felines. Dual floppies - nice!
Snapped from the Creative Black Book, published in '85.
Not too long, hadn't played for a week before tonight while my partner was away from home, so Id' say around fifteen hours or so in total.It's a good game for hour or two sessions, can get a lot done in a short amount of time.
February 9, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Not too long, hadn't played for a week before tonight while my partner was away from home, so Id' say around fifteen hours or so in total.It's a good game for hour or two sessions, can get a lot done in a short amount of time.
Pouring one out afresh for BC-98.
I'm doing the Malcolm Reynolds Firefly gif trying to put into words my reaction to encountering these enemies in the PC-98 dungeon crawler I'm checking out.
February 9, 2026 at 11:49 PM
Pouring one out afresh for BC-98.
Sniff, that's us done with Mime - Floating Dream. The second PC-98 game we've completed since Slayers.
Working on a feature on this and have a whole heap to say. It has been one of the most meaningful experiences with the computer so far, and enjoyed sharing titbits from it over the last month.
Working on a feature on this and have a whole heap to say. It has been one of the most meaningful experiences with the computer so far, and enjoyed sharing titbits from it over the last month.
February 9, 2026 at 11:42 PM
Sniff, that's us done with Mime - Floating Dream. The second PC-98 game we've completed since Slayers.
Working on a feature on this and have a whole heap to say. It has been one of the most meaningful experiences with the computer so far, and enjoyed sharing titbits from it over the last month.
Working on a feature on this and have a whole heap to say. It has been one of the most meaningful experiences with the computer so far, and enjoyed sharing titbits from it over the last month.
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Happy 30th birthday, Bahamut Lagoon! A game for me that's wrapped up in ZSNES and fan translation nostalgia, eagerly awaiting each new update in 2001-02.
Absolutely gorgeous, with some of Square's best giving one of the last hurrahs to the Super Fami before setting sail for PlayStation shores.
Absolutely gorgeous, with some of Square's best giving one of the last hurrahs to the Super Fami before setting sail for PlayStation shores.
February 9, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Happy 30th birthday, Bahamut Lagoon! A game for me that's wrapped up in ZSNES and fan translation nostalgia, eagerly awaiting each new update in 2001-02.
Absolutely gorgeous, with some of Square's best giving one of the last hurrahs to the Super Fami before setting sail for PlayStation shores.
Absolutely gorgeous, with some of Square's best giving one of the last hurrahs to the Super Fami before setting sail for PlayStation shores.
The Eyes of the Cosmos, She who perceives the threads of fate and sees the destinies of all things, everywhere.
One of my favourite pieces of artwork from the game so far.
📺: Mime - Floating Dream, 1995 (PC-98)
One of my favourite pieces of artwork from the game so far.
📺: Mime - Floating Dream, 1995 (PC-98)
February 9, 2026 at 8:51 PM
The Eyes of the Cosmos, She who perceives the threads of fate and sees the destinies of all things, everywhere.
One of my favourite pieces of artwork from the game so far.
📺: Mime - Floating Dream, 1995 (PC-98)
One of my favourite pieces of artwork from the game so far.
📺: Mime - Floating Dream, 1995 (PC-98)
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The attract loop for Amok, a Sega Saturn mech blast 'em up from 1996.
Developed by Lemon, published by Scavenger, and with music by Jesper Kyd.
This is a pretty damn cool game that uses voxels for its graphics rather than polygons, giving it a look that I more associate with Novalogic sims.
Developed by Lemon, published by Scavenger, and with music by Jesper Kyd.
This is a pretty damn cool game that uses voxels for its graphics rather than polygons, giving it a look that I more associate with Novalogic sims.
November 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The attract loop for Amok, a Sega Saturn mech blast 'em up from 1996.
Developed by Lemon, published by Scavenger, and with music by Jesper Kyd.
This is a pretty damn cool game that uses voxels for its graphics rather than polygons, giving it a look that I more associate with Novalogic sims.
Developed by Lemon, published by Scavenger, and with music by Jesper Kyd.
This is a pretty damn cool game that uses voxels for its graphics rather than polygons, giving it a look that I more associate with Novalogic sims.
Mine too! Mainly for the games they were putting out on PS/Saturn.
February 9, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Mine too! Mainly for the games they were putting out on PS/Saturn.
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Côte d'Azur C (Club Kart European Session, Arcade, Sega Mechatro, 2001)
February 9, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Côte d'Azur C (Club Kart European Session, Arcade, Sega Mechatro, 2001)
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*coughs* I'm fading fast, kid... I can feel the reaper knocking, haha... But listen to me... before I go, promise me one thing... *coughs* Put some glasses on your OCs, or your drawing of... any characters... That's my final... wish. Put... a pair of... pretty glasses... *dies*
February 9, 2026 at 7:23 AM
*coughs* I'm fading fast, kid... I can feel the reaper knocking, haha... But listen to me... before I go, promise me one thing... *coughs* Put some glasses on your OCs, or your drawing of... any characters... That's my final... wish. Put... a pair of... pretty glasses... *dies*
Back on the Mime - Floating Dream playthrough now that Kit is home again, with the wisdom of floof given to us as we pick up the trail on what we were doing last on it.
February 9, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Back on the Mime - Floating Dream playthrough now that Kit is home again, with the wisdom of floof given to us as we pick up the trail on what we were doing last on it.
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We want you, said Squaresoft - and Aya - in a 1998 issue of Next Generation magazine.
Don't phone, though, lest it suddenly burst into flames.
Note the Square Electronic Arts - an artifact of the time the two entered into a joint partnership to localize Square's games in North America.
Don't phone, though, lest it suddenly burst into flames.
Note the Square Electronic Arts - an artifact of the time the two entered into a joint partnership to localize Square's games in North America.
November 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
We want you, said Squaresoft - and Aya - in a 1998 issue of Next Generation magazine.
Don't phone, though, lest it suddenly burst into flames.
Note the Square Electronic Arts - an artifact of the time the two entered into a joint partnership to localize Square's games in North America.
Don't phone, though, lest it suddenly burst into flames.
Note the Square Electronic Arts - an artifact of the time the two entered into a joint partnership to localize Square's games in North America.
Heyhey o/ Cheers <3
February 9, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Heyhey o/ Cheers <3
Heyuna! <3 Hope you have one too ^^
February 9, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Heyuna! <3 Hope you have one too ^^
It's from this store here; they have a ton of lovely stuff.
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February 9, 2026 at 3:14 PM
It's from this store here; they have a ton of lovely stuff.
Ah, nice! I'd started reading the books before then, but it was an absolute treat firing up the demo of the first Discworld game I had on a mag coverdisk. Hearing a full voice cast and getting to walk around the Unseen U.
February 9, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Ah, nice! I'd started reading the books before then, but it was an absolute treat firing up the demo of the first Discworld game I had on a mag coverdisk. Hearing a full voice cast and getting to walk around the Unseen U.
Cheers Timmy <3 Kit's back from her travels to visiting family in Poland, so we're having a chill day of catching up on stuff we wanted to do together.
February 9, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Cheers Timmy <3 Kit's back from her travels to visiting family in Poland, so we're having a chill day of catching up on stuff we wanted to do together.
Totally worth doing so.
February 9, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Totally worth doing so.
Yeah, one of mine too. I was floored back then at how some of the late SNES games looked and sounded.
February 9, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Yeah, one of mine too. I was floored back then at how some of the late SNES games looked and sounded.