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Capt. Lcd101

@lcd101.com

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I like old tech, retro gaming, and CRT monitors. I also collect obscure video game plush. The final Splatoon 1 Nintendo Network player! Welcome to the World Wide Web! 🦑 lcd101.com

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Capt. Lcd101 @lcd101.com · Oct 18

Hello, Bluesky! I was the final Splatoon player on the Nintendo Network, surviving 68 days after Nintendo turned the servers off.
Using Twitter, I documented my time as the final player in an online game, but now I’m excited to start all over here!
#Splatoon

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Capt. Lcd101 @lcd101.com · 1d

Pac Racing is the best team.

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𝙍𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙛 𝙈𝙤𝙗𝙞𝙪𝙨 @mobius1s.bsky.social · 2d

[ #ridgeracer | #MB1S32 #art ] "Good luck PRC!"

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Capt. Lcd101 @lcd101.com · 8d

This is so cool!! I’ve never been to an actual ghost town before, but I used to be into urban exploration so I’ve always wanted to go.

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I'm Uni :3 @unicouniuni3.bsky.social · 9d

Sweet dreams with Mini Uni

A tuxedo cat is peacefully sleeping while holding a small plush that looks just like him, covered with a white blanket featuring paw prints and his own image

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Capt. Lcd101 @lcd101.com · 10d

Also just noticed that Lcd101.com has been slow for *three months!* I’ve been up to my head with other things, so I haven’t messed with the website in a bit. I’ve fixed it now (it had something to do with the music player) and hope to write again very soon.

Capt. Lcd101 @lcd101.com · 10d

It’s spooky month… So I’ve got a wizard’s hat again.

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Capt. Lcd101 @lcd101.com · 11d

Huge fan of how these karts look! This is far from the first Mario Kart plush set, but the first with the characters in their cars in over 30 years. They did a really nice job at translating these to plush form whilst retailing all the details from the kart model.

Capt. Lcd101 @lcd101.com · 11d

togetherplus.eu/en/mario-kar... Not sure when these will release, but they're up on the website now.

Mario Kart – Together Plus

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Capt. Lcd101 @lcd101.com · 11d

NEW SAN-EI MARIO KART WORLD PLUSHIES REVEALED!! All credit goes to u/Yoshl18 on Reddit for finding these on the Together Plus (EU San-ei distributer) website!

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Capt. Lcd101 @lcd101.com · 12d

I found my Pog collection last night. But since I’m an ironic hipster, I actually bought about a quarter of them at a secondhand boutique in Seattle in 2019.

Capt. Lcd101 @lcd101.com · 12d

the 90s were a different time

eBay listing for “oj simpson pog slammer jail cell bars wheres the juice 32”, sold on 11th August 2025 for a best offer. The slammer features a picture of OJ behind metal bars.

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Capt. Lcd101 @lcd101.com · 17d

I also have the Japanese DVD of Phase One - Celebrity Takedown which also contains these videos, but there’s no way I’m passing something this cool up. Notably, Tomorrow Comes Today is a lot smoother and squished into 4:3 because the US hadn’t quite figured out analogue widescreen yet.

Capt. Lcd101 @lcd101.com · 17d

Recently picked up this promotional VHS tape containing the Tomorrow Comes Today and Clint Eastwood music videos. Pretty much America’s first introduction to the world of Gorillaz. It’s always so weird seeing more modern animation on VHS since most of my library is from the early nineties.

The ending of the Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood music video, showing all four members of the band (2D, Noodle, Murdoc, and Russel) playing on a Sony Trinitron CRT television.

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Capt. Lcd101 @lcd101.com · 18d

@capncococharms.bsky.social It’s your boy…

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Capt. Lcd101 @lcd101.com · 19d

Good fucking god, I had this as a kid and have the vaguest memory of burying it in the backyard.

Capt. Lcd101 @lcd101.com · 19d

That’s still cool! Hopefully you can try again soon.

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I'm Uni :3 @unicouniuni3.bsky.social · 22d

Bring it on! :3

A tuxedo cat standing upright on its hind legs on a cat tree, with wide yellow eyes and front paws slightly raised, as if challenging someone.

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𝙍𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙛 𝙈𝙤𝙗𝙞𝙪𝙨 @mobius1s.bsky.social · 25d

[ #acecombat | #MB1S32 #art ] a victory sure would be nice

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Capt. Lcd101 @lcd101.com · 26d

I’m pretty sure it was this exact upload, but a lot of videos from 2005 obviously don’t exist on the platform anymore. Long live RetroJunk, I used to spend hours downloading videos from there.

Capt. Lcd101 @lcd101.com · 26d

Behold, the very first YouTube video that I ever watched! youtu.be/dHXWut9D9kY?...

Ducktales

YouTube video by Minou427

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Capt. Lcd101 @lcd101.com · 27d

Judging by how the response was to the earlier Killswitch controversy… I’m so sorry.

Capt. Lcd101 @lcd101.com · 29d

MORE WAYS TO WIN FROM **STD**

Advert for “Sega Survival Gear” from the company STD. This is not a joke.

Capt. Lcd101 @lcd101.com · 29d

I’ve been getting into old gaming magazines lately and I just love finding little things like this that remind you of how far gaming has come. Remember the Night Trap legal controversy?
(EGM, Vol. 55, February 1994)

Quartermann is back with more gossip and rumors in Electronic Gaming Monthly from Feb. 1994, during the US court hearings on violence in video games.
“QUARTERMANN'S TOP TEN REASONS WHY CONGRESSMEN DON'T WANT VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES...
The Q-Mann was in the inner chambers of Congress, peeking around a flower pot at the proceedings that Washington claimed would change the face of Industry forever. While the big guns of gaming strapped on their bulletproof vests, and fired first with an answer to the Washington white shirt's Q'8, yours truly found out the real reasons behind the brohaha..
10. Cong. Kohl was upset after not being able to find his copy of Madonna's SEX.
9. Lieberman couldn't find Night Trap for his grandson, so he wants it banned.
8. Both congressmen were jealous that they couldn't package their BS as well as Konami boxed Lethel [sic] Enforcer.
7. The government really wants to force all games to also be made specifically for girls - of course Rama 1/2 would be exempt.
6. Kohl just hates to see game characters sweat.
5. Someone has to run on the anti-violence ticket in '94. Of course real violence shouldn't be the issue.
4. Insect Politics.
3. Complaining about cartoon violence was getting old.
2. Congress felt this was the only way to create a level playing field - something Nintendo's marketing hasn't been able to do.
1. Hey, what better way to get on C-SPAN?”

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Capt. Lcd101 @lcd101.com · Sep 15

Oh shit, I’ve got some 2016s somewhere in storage. Actually waiting on some 2032s for the other games, so I might replace this one in the meantime. Had no idea they could even fit a battery in the thin cartridges honestly.

Capt. Lcd101 @lcd101.com · Sep 15

But I think my most recent is The New Tetris for N64, which was one of my favorite games of all time and one I had some crazy impressive scores on, so that made me sad. SimCity SNES got wiped recently, but it’s still holding my current saves so we’re good.