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@randomstranger.bsky.social

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I like obscure old video games and make a lot of videos about them. I've documented all of the Nintendo Famicom library and I'm currently working on the PC Engine.

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Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · Oct 17

Hello, new followers!

My magnum opus is Famidaily, a complete catalog of the Famicom library across 1065 episodes. Every cartridge is broken down with information putting it in context, how to play it, and what kind of response it got.

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Famidaily: All of It - YouTube

All of the Famidaily videos in order.

www.youtube.com

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Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 1h

Damnit, Dredd, fire-eating is one thing that he performs, not ever thing that he performs. Do you spend every waking moment judging?

Tred @tredlocity.bsky.social · 7h

Judge Dredd is perfect comics.

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Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 11h

A sign of a great movie is when they struggle to get the story to 70 minutes and then tack on ten minutes of actors flubbing lines.

Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 19h

Oh good. My scope hallucinated writing 60 data samples this morning and everything after our first machinery swap just isn't on the drive even though the file list showed them when I was recording. And of course this is all time critical...

Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 19h

Barunba on the PC Engine has Namco take a new spin on the shoot-'em-up which is unfortunately undermined by the physical realities of playing with a PC Engine controller.

youtu.be/L23MFLpqnMw

Barunba (バルンバ) - PC Engine Power 141

YouTube video by RndStranger

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Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 1d

There's a buried setting I have to dig for. I'll do it, of course, I'm just annoyed that I have to work for the "don't make my videos worse" button.

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Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 1d

Damnit, youtube sent me an email saying they were turning on ai translation and dubbing on my channel. So that would be awful.

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Kevin Bunch (ubersaurus) @atariarchive.org · 1d

It's not game-related, but the Babylon 5 Interactive Information Kit has been preserved. This is a Windows 3.1 multimedia floppy sent to TV stations around 1994 to help promote the show, and it's a fun time capsule of computer materials (and the show) at the time: youtu.be/IYDy3pnvqxU?...

theLogBook.com unearths the 1994 Babylon 5 Interactive Information Kit

YouTube video by theLogBook

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Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 2d

Desth Bringer is a distinctive RPG on the PC Engine with game mechanics different from anything else.

It also has one of the worst reputations of any game on the platform.

youtu.be/0Hzly8fyNOU

Death Bringer (デス・ブリンガー) - PC Engine 140

YouTube video by RndStranger

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Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 3d

It's frozen and I'm definitely giving it away. There's a local charity here that's the likely recipient.

Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 3d

Someone gave me a ten pound ham. I cook for two people and I don't like ham.

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Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 4d

It's such a weird omission given the roughly 100 SD Gundam games, and then there's the classic Gundam. The PC-FX doesn't even have one.

I'm starting a rumor here about a NEC-Bandai feud that resulted in the Playdia.

Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 4d

Reputation, nothing. After doing the entire Famicom library I've paid my dues with Bandai.

The only downside of there being a single Bandai game on the PC Engine is that I only get to use my Dragon Ball joke once.

Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 4d

It has occurred to me that the PC Engine might be the only console released in Japan after 1986 to not have any SD Gundam game on it. There's almost no Bandai at all on the platform...

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Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 4d

Watching Matango, a film I've been wanting to see for years. It starts with a yacht wrecked in a storm and I'm weirdly annoyed that no one is wearing life vests during this. I've been watching videos about maritime disasters lately and these people are just asking to become mushroom people.

Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 4d

Super Daisenryaku was designed around bringing the enormously wargame to something that worked better for console players. It took advantage of the CD-ROM on the PC Engine to provide more modern military hardware and conflicts than you could shake an RPG at...

youtu.be/m7B8300mEic

Super Daisenryaku (スーパー大戦略) - PC Engine Power 139

YouTube video by RndStranger

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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 4d

This has been floating in my brain for a bit

Moominpappa looking ponderous and saying "Just according to suunnitelma", with the text "Translator's note: suunnitelma means plan" in parenthesis at the top, in reference to a classic meme about a Death Note anime translation

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Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 4d

I thought I'd try picking random games in my steam library that I haven't played and it only comes up with Half-Life 2 Deathmatch...

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Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 4d

The writing, game systems, and everything else were pretty bad, too, though I put it all down to bad project management.

Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 4d

Poor choice of tech with trying to make Ultima 3D about five years before hardware could efficiently do what they were trying for and disastrous project management (which is always a given with games) which resulted in the game being dumped in a totally unfinished state.

Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 5d

Always a fun recording session when I beat the entire game in 18 minutes, it was the first time I played it, and there's no other secrets or modes to show off.

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Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 5d

For Random Game Saturday, I have one of the worst video game purchases I ever made: Ultima IX Ascension in the special Dragon Edition. That box is ginormous, maybe half a meter tall. The game it came with was a disaster.

The box for Ultima IX Ascension Dragon Edition

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The Onion @theonion.com · 5d

Everything Falling Apart, Reports Institute For Somehow Managing To Hold It All Together https://theonion.com/everything-falling-apart-reports-institute-for-somehow-1819569822/

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Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 6d

Shocked that someone actually tried to play Nobilis, peak "RPG with absolutely huge ideas and little room for anyone to play". I want to see how this turns out...

Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 6d

The new season of my actual play show where we play old rpgs from history BEGINS!

Here at the start of the season I mostly hold it together as the GM. Later, you can practically hear the steam coming out of my ears. Podcast links are in the video description!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTLB...

Play to Find Out, S3E1: Nobilis

YouTube video by Quinns Quest

www.youtube.com

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Retronauts @retronauts.bsky.social · 6d

In an episode exclusively for our $5 patrons: @jparish.bsky.social @hg101.bsky.social @johnandersen.bsky.social & Jimmy Cooney deliver the buzz on Hudson
Sign up & listen here: www.patreon.com/posts/140271...

cover image by Amanda Neipris: the Hudson bee flies in front of the TurboGrafx-16 box artwork

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Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 6d

Moero! Twinbee, Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa, Othello, Tanigawa Koji no Shogi Shinan...

There's a few games that made the fds to Famicom cart leap.

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