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Dr Johnny Blanchard

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Screenwriter #Retrocomputing/#RetroGaming: https://www.youtube.com/@reenthused #IndieDev: https://tonsomo.itch.io #Film: https://www.youtube.com/@roguegunners Buy gaming in the obscure: https://mixam.co.uk/print-on-demand/6813e21211c9951bff4316db

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RE-Enthused @re-enthused.com · 10h

Let’s Play: Kick and Run on the Famicom Disk System

We play a football game, or I guess Soccer if you insist, on the Famicom Disk System - It's called Kick and Run, which is pretty on the nose I guess.

Let’s Play: Kick and Run on the Famicom Disk System

We play a football game, or I guess Soccer if you insist, on the Famicom Disk System - It's called Kick and Run, which is pretty on the nose I guess.

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BadComputer @badcomputer.bsky.social · 10h

Thanks to our team of translators we now have translations of the manual in German, English, Spanish, French, Japanese, and Brazilian Portuguese! 🥳 #homebrew #mastersystem

BadComputer @badcomputer.bsky.social · 1d

To celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the SEGA Mark III console in Japan, Astro Climber will be released and available for free on 20th October. #homebrew #mastersystem

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Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 11h

To celebrate the 25th port of Jurl i've created a bundle of all the paid for versions of Jurl for 25% off. There's also a load that are free - but you can't add those to bundles on itch itch.io/s/161564/jur...

Jurl 25th Port Bundle by Tonsomo Entertainment

A bundle by Tonsomo Entertainment, $12.75 for 17 games

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Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 11h

Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 12h

Amazing how every comedian going to Riyadh is doing it to ‘engage with people open minded to regime change’ almost like it’s a line that PR people have come up with

Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 15h

Yeah I thought id done don’t recommend too

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Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 17h

I started to design a card game similar to that - but you had to build up your strengths in clickbait, shock and apologies

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Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 17h

Nah, I think it barely affected their subscriber levels

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Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 17h

Just stop with this bollocks, what does this even mean?

A YouTube thumbnail with the title Is the Amiga CD32 worth playing in 2025

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Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.com · 1d

A quest to eliminate $5 million has tripled, thanks to the generosity and passion of THE TOXIC AVENGER fans across the country.

Together, you didn’t just meet that goal, you crushed it, helping wipe out over $15 million dollars in medical debt for 10,000+ people!

‘The Toxic Avenger’ & Undue Medical Debt Cleared $15 Million in Real-Life Medical Debt Together!

Before Macon Blair’s The Toxic Avenger released in theaters back in August, the Cineverse marketing team came up with a wonderful idea. They took the remainder of their marketing budget for the film a...

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Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 20h

Man hire by meta to make uk government make bad decisions that favour meta is worried that uk government might not make bad decision that favours meta - is the actual headline here

Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 21h

I thought Stanley Unwin was dead, I didn’t realise he was doing game journalism

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Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 22h

Ah the rapture content makers just kicking the can down the road because they don’t want to risk losing their views - and that’s both on the people making it up and the people making videos about the people making it up

Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 22h

It’s still a lovely little handheld with a great library

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Horsenburger @horsenburger.bsky.social · 1d

TELETEXT HALLOWEEN A-Z: E is for Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.

Cleavage, camp, and coffin-side sass, she’s horror’s high priestess of innuendo and undead glamour.

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Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 1d

However, it did mean I was able to find out that the joystick control had been broken (which was actually working in the emulator …) so I fixed that and uploaded a new version

Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 1d

I spent hours trying to get the message to show up on the old Neo Geo Pocket to say it’ll only work on colour models with no success, only to find out that it was because the emulator I was using was broken - it works fine on actual hardware.

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Kevin Jon Davies @kjd42.bsky.social · 1d

#OTD 45 years ago (7 Oct 1980) according to my diary, I drew these images for the Hitchhiker's Guide BBC TV series. Douglas Adams as both the ad exec and as Paula, the worst poet in the universe. I was 19 years old and having fun.

Mindless Jerks artwork for Hitchhiker's Guide TV series drawn by KJD (c) Pearce Studios Ltd. 1980.

Paula NM Jennings (Worst Poet) artwork for Hitchhiker's Guide TV series drawn by KJD (c) Pearce Studios Ltd. 1980.

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Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 1d

Describe your BlueSky account in one image

The cover for a Jethro Tull album called Living in the past

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Ron’s Computer Videos 🧍‍♂️🖥️📼 @ronscompvids.bsky.social · 2d

Describe your Bluesky account in one image

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SarahJaneAvory @sarahjaneavory.bsky.social · 1d

Spectrum Next #Delphian progress: from walking around to flying across a planet, to flying into space... Now I just need to optimise the starfield code a little... then add the planets and the sun when in space. Still, I'm making progress... 😀😎

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Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 1d

Like or not, this is fucking awful.

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Kath @kathyburke.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown

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Rat Fascal @mrpsb.uk · 1d

Pay me to go for a walk next year. Well, pay MNDA, but I'll still do the walking www.justgiving.com/page/mw-wind...

Walking the Windsor 50 for Motor Neurone Disease Association

Help Mark Williamson raise money to support Motor Neurone Disease Association

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Dr Johnny Blanchard @onlyretrofans.com · 1d

In the fine tradition of capitalism, now that someone has shown weakness I can push my book - you know, if you want a retro book that isn’t written by someone pandering to the right mixam.co.uk/print-on-dem...

Gaming in the Obscure

Gaming history is full of almost rans and never made its, some of these are well known but there's a collection of devices that have been lost in time. Some of them failed because they weren't good en...

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