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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 22h

I wonder if Eiji Tsuburaya and Gerry Anderson ever met. I bet it would've been a really interesting conversation (assuming there was a fast enough translator to keep up)

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Eiji Tsuburaya on a model set with Ultraman and a giant monster photo-bombing him from behind

Gerry Anderson on set with one of his supermarionation creations

The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Like, this is partially inspired by a wonderful and very life-affirming post I just saw from @AppleFangirl about their journey of self discovery and actualization, and a lot of the things clicked 1-to-1 with me:

Depression
Keeping up appearances for bigoted family.
Gender dysphoria
Cosplaying […]

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Being agender is a lot like being trans except when your egg cracks there's nothing inside it except disappointment and a little sound clip of the sad trombones from The Price Is Right.

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 1d

@vhswizard.bsky.social BlueSky shadow me is asking the real questions

The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Can you think of any instances in media where you've got a "lotus eater" sort of situation, someone in an ideal fantasy world that's meant to keep them trapped... but the trap makers have screwed up one detail, and screwed it up SO BADLY that upon discovering that single thing wrong it causes […]

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 1d

I had to open up Google Chrome for the first time in a while and whoooooo boy they have been busy cramming AI into just about every corner, haven't they?

On the flip side, aside from weird subreddits and Twitter, have you ever met a person that was actually... excited about AI and would want […]

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 1d

After avoiding them the entire release cycle, I may have possibly caved yesterday and bought a Studio Series Mixmaster when I encountered him in the wild.

I had been avoiding them because I have the Combiner Wars Devastator already, and I do not *need* another […]

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A photograph of the Studio Series "Transformers The Movie" toy of Mixmaster. He is a green and purple robot that transforms into a cement mixer. In this photo, his toy is standing in an action pose, gun drawn, showing off the articulation of this new figure design

The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Prepared for some obscure 1990s. CGI horror and probable psychic damage?

The entire 13 episode run of Van-Pyres is on YouTube.

https://youtu.be/nXd9x12zn5c

The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Like, a lot of people don't appreciate how big, how long, how far the Wonder Boy franchise reached... mainly because it was really, really big on the Sega Master System, and very few people played that.

It got some increased visibility when all the games (including several that were never […]

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 5d

It freaked me out several times during development because they'd disappear for a year or so at a time, then pop back up to announce a new partnership or new deal, then they'd vanish again. We got a lot of concept art (the Kickstarter I linked is a virtual time capsule and gold mine for the […]

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 5d

BUT, while Lizard Cube were hard at work on their REMAKE of one of the best games ever based on my entirely impartial and fair judgement, a different team, Game Atelier, were hard at work making a SEQUEL to it.

"Monster Boy and The Cursed Kingdom" started life as a sequel to an entirely […]

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 5d

That game got a beautiful hand-drawn remake in 2017 by one team of developers (and I strongly encourage you to also play the remake) because holy shit it's gorgeous.

The remake also let you play in the new hand-drawn style OR the original pixel art style, and […]

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 5d

For context, Wonder Boy was the Super Mario franchise to me when I was a kid, mainly because my parents were... cheap... and decided that when everbody else was going Nintendo, they were going to invest in the Sega Master System.

The first couple of games were […]

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Screenshot from Wonder Boy 3: The Dragon's Trap showing the hero (in human form) about to kill a snake

Screenshot from Wonder Boy 3: The Dragon's Trap showing the hero (transformed into a merperson) fighting enemies under water

Screenshot from Wonder Boy 3: The Dragon's Trap showing the hero, transformed into "Mouse Man" standing sideways on the checkerblock pillars

Screenshot from Wonder Boy 3: The Dragon's Trap showing the hero transformed into a dragon fighting enemies inside a pyramid-themed area

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 5d

HEY

YOU

Do you like Metroidvanias? How about unofficial sequels where the new team worked directly with a bunch of the previous people? How about games on sale, do you like those too?

https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/monster-boy-and-the-cursed-kingdom-switch/

This game is a […]

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 5d

@Lewie_Kong It's really funny because the ImgCat devs just created/announced an official bluesky handle earlier today and they are also having this discussion in the discord right now, and I'm actually trying to court the ImgCat people into to also setting up an account on Mastodon.

Imgcat is a […]

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 5d

I'm just saying, I pity anybody that ever tries to do an Inception on me

I live here and still get lost constantly

The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 5d

This is the hold music my brain plays. It's what you hear in the elevators of my soul, pumped through distant speakers in the abandoned mall of my dreams.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFLJX-T7LPk

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 6d

Catching up on #dandadan and i just had a terrible realization.

Momo called someone a "blockhead" and... she and Okarun are Lucy and Charlie Brown

The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 6d

I am ready for the elves to come collect me and take me to for Valinor

The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 6d

Not a person that I normally follow, but they got me on board with this line early in the video.

"I'm going to give a longer rundown of this first movie just so we all kinda understand 'the lore' because... unfortunately, Evil Bong has *lore* (awkward laugh)" […]

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 6d

I am not sure what the right "rate" is to post new content. So far I've been sort of doing it in blasts, I do a bunch of work, write up a few posts back to back, and then get subsumed by my life for another couple of weeks before I can spin back to the blog and do another bulk load of blogging […]

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 6d

Once they're scanned in, two things generally tend to happen:

1. If the slides are damaged/discolored, I do my best to color correct them (if possible) or at least make them pleasing to the eye.

2. If the slides have interesting things in them I can research - locations to try and find […]

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 6d

I could use some input from fellow bloggers and slow-roll content creators.

What's the right rate to update my weird indie 35mm scanning photo blog? I am having trouble coming up with a good rhythm.

Here's sort of the problem:

I get the slides at random, as I find them. I currently have a […]

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 7d

I am sure, by now, you're looking at this list and going "well, at least if Vista was technically Windows 6, the next one it being called Windows 7 makes sense now" and... I envy you, I really do. That's such a nice thought.

Completely wrong, but very nice.

See, Windows 7 was actually […]

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