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Matt

@toomanywires.bsky.social

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Video Games & life in Japan, mostly. Occasionally NBA talk, good music, FPL, and pictures of something I cooked. 日本語OK. Blogging like it’s 2009: http://www.toomanywires.co.uk/

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Matt @toomanywires.bsky.social · 6h

I picked the Suns, because Barkley, though mid-90s Sonics ran them a close 2nd

Matt @toomanywires.bsky.social · 6h

The best! This is great: Coach Karl sometimes playing GP 48mins so he didn’t have to hear his shit-talking on the bench! Some other good anecdotes too

Inside Gary Payton's Trash Talk Genius

A new book takes on the history of talking smack—and takes a hard look at a Sonics legend.

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Matt @toomanywires.bsky.social · 7h

So much fun to watch. I got into the NBA in the mid-90s and it was hard not to be drawn toward Kemp and Payton

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Matt @toomanywires.bsky.social · 7h

Also talked about the struggles he had in his life/career, as it’s important not to idolize sports star and to understand that they’re regular people. But mostly we watched dunk clips

Matt @toomanywires.bsky.social · 7h

Got my Shawn Kemp t-shirt on. Daughter asked who he is, so I showed her the Lister dunk video. Like a good parent

Shawn Kemp Dunks on Alton Lister

YouTube video by Bball_DD

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Matt @toomanywires.bsky.social · 19h

The disc ain’t messing about either

The disc for Henry Explorers on the Japanese Sega Saturn. It features various zombies, skeletons and other creatures

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Matt @toomanywires.bsky.social · 1d

Alright Gaff, cool your tits

A screenshot from Final Fantasy Tactics. Gaffgarion, addressing Ramza:
“You may have the noble blood, but I've been making wives into widows since long before you were born. In battle, I am your better.”

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Murderbot 238776431 @zerocrossing.bsky.social · 1d

People deserve to see the full video. youtu.be/9bR6KJhJ8iM?...

Björk and her TV - Definitive Restoration

YouTube video by Vel

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Matt @toomanywires.bsky.social · 1d

Trouser weather (17°c)

Matt @toomanywires.bsky.social · 2d

The very same! You’re basically on the dev team

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Matt @toomanywires.bsky.social · 2d

Reading the Wipeout book. Didn’t realize that the nose-bleed lady is Sara Cox! (That’ll likely mean nothing to non-UK folks - sorry)

An ad for Wipeout on PS1: a man and woman in wipeout t-shirts stare into the camera. They have nosebleeds and appear dazed

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Matt @toomanywires.bsky.social · 3d

Upsetting myself by remembering that Moogles are extinct in the Final Fantasy Tactics timeline. I guess they were delicious?

Matt @toomanywires.bsky.social · 3d

The PS1 artwork made me click, the music made me stay. Nails that Demo disc vibe

VAPOR DRIVE :: Atmospheric DnB & Jungle ::

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Matt @toomanywires.bsky.social · 3d

Impressive games but far too miserable to live in a gacha machine

Matt @toomanywires.bsky.social · 3d

Imagine doing this gacha and getting The Last of Us 1 or 2. Would ruin your week

ゲームパッケージミニチュアチャーム２（Playstation）

人気ゲームタイトルがミニチュアチャームになったシリーズの第2弾！

gashapon.jp

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Matt @toomanywires.bsky.social · 4d

Publishing company struggles with words

Matt @toomanywires.bsky.social · 4d

Missed the Game Gear’s 30th by a few hours, but here’s something I wrote a few years back about a blue GG and a mysterious old man & his box of dead-stock GG games

How I Met my Game Gear

I am here and I am blogging! Sorry for the four-month absence. Here's a week of new posts to make up for it. I like to write about games fro...

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Matt @toomanywires.bsky.social · 4d

I am once again asking that someone revive 1UP dot com so we can live our online lives there and do fun things like debate Infamous vs. Prototype

Matt @toomanywires.bsky.social · 4d

Didn’t need to in the end. My credit card decided it didn’t like Edge anymore and blocked the transaction. I just decided not to fix it

Matt @toomanywires.bsky.social · 4d

I came to the same conclusion a year or two ago. Loved getting it in the post & that first 10-minute skim read, but then it’d just sit there unread & I’d feel bad for not reading it!

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Matt @toomanywires.bsky.social · 5d

Playing a stranger, fat thumbs, bright colours, not skipping cutscenes, and overthinking character-select! I played Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls at #TGS2025 and this post is about that:

Tokyo Game Show 2025 - Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls

I'm drawn to colour. Fighting games with big, bright colours and characters that fill the screen. I played Street Fighter II and then 2D Sat...

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Matt @toomanywires.bsky.social · 4d

“While sucking the pants off a monkey, the monkey can be fired into other monkeys to knock them out.” I’m reading about video games on wikipedia

Matt @toomanywires.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah. Takes 10mins and available in English tho

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Matt @toomanywires.bsky.social · 4d

Need to fill in the census tonight. 50/50 chance I get my age wrong

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Matt @toomanywires.bsky.social · 5d

They saw you coming!