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Ray Barnholt

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Ray Barnholt @rdbaaa.space · Sep 2

I told you

Apr 26 2021: "this will make sense later"

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Ray Barnholt @rdbaaa.space · 1h

you LITERALLY HAVE a GOTH LAMMY for this!!!! game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/20...

WIND AND SEA、「パラッパラッパー」とのコラボハロウィンイベントを御殿場店限定で10月11日より開催限定のデザインのアイテムが展開。パラッパとPJベリーの着ぐるみも登場

WIND AND SEA（ウィンダンシー）は、イベント「WIND AND SEA × PaRappa the Rapper ハロウィンコラボイベント（御殿場店限定）」を10月11日から13日までの3日間、静岡県御殿場市にある「WIND AND SEA GOTEMBA」にて開催する。営業時間は10時から20時まで。

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Ray Barnholt @rdbaaa.space · 8h

I just realized Forza Horizon 6 could have a Tomica DLC. that would be neat

Ray Barnholt @rdbaaa.space · 11h

no flag for "search called off?"

Weasel Hills C.C. (Hole 19) @wildweasel486.bsky.social · 1d

Some inappropriately creepy golf content - Sente Mini Golf (1986) has DIP switches that add photos of missing children to the attract mode (and to enable a "LOCATED" message per kid). These profiles were replaced with new ones in updated ROMs.

Modern operators seem to leave them on, a lot. 😨

A Reddit post from r/creepygaming by user SuperCamouflageShark - I saw these missing child reports on the attract mode of a Sente Mini-Golf arcade machine recently.

The photo is of a Sente Mini Golf machine, displaying black-and-white photographs of missing children: Tahj Allen Merriman, and Steven Phillip Curtis. Their profiles are filled out in red text.

Another photograph of a different Sente Mini Golf machine, displaying the same photos of missing children.

Sente Mini Golf running under MAME, with the DIP Switches menu showing. DIP switches 3, 4, and 5 configure whether the missing children are displayed in the attract mode, with switches 4 and 5 showing or hiding a "LOCATED" stamp over the respective kid's photo.

Screenshot of Sente Mini Golf running under MAME; this screen shows two different missing children: Malinda Marie Smith and April Rose Yates. For the sake of demonstration I have enabled the "LOCATED" flag on the kid on the right. (DISCLAIMER: I do not have any information on whether April was located or not. This is strictly a demonstration and is not intended as documentation of a real event.)

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Ray Barnholt @rdbaaa.space · 11h

much less prioritize it among the pile of bills and other mail they'd get

Ray Barnholt @rdbaaa.space · 1d

sry

Ray Barnholt @rdbaaa.space · 1d

And seeing as video essays are a thing now, this 100% applies to YouTube too! I would love nothing more than to see less sludge in general

Ray Barnholt @rdbaaa.space · 1d

As I wrote 10 years ago in my final magazine: you have immediate access to decades of games/scans/videos/etc. to make a unique gaming text. You can go bigger than a zine and still make it look cool, and you don't have to make yet another platform/genre catalog. Curate and craft for god's sake

Kurt @ Hardcore Gaming 101 @hg101.bsky.social · 1d

For anyone lamenting how some goon was able to get a publishing deal - put together your own book! Create a solid concept, do some planning, create a design, and pitch it! Most publishers don't have open pitch seasons. They want to see someone that can see a full project to completion.

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VGDensetsu @vgdensetsu.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote a long article about Rieko Kodama, her career at Sega, the evolution of her company, the games she worked on (including some canceled games and/or games for which she is not credited), the status of women and working conditions in the video game industry, etc.
vgdensetsu.net/riekokodama/

Illustration: a portrait of Rieko Kodama with some of the games she has worked on. The dominant colors are yellow, purple and red. Counterclockwise from top left: Rieko Kodama, Alis and Lutz from Phantasy Star, Sonic in a maze, Alex Kidd and his motorbike next to Flicky on a waterfront pier, Joe Musashi and his dog near the Statue of Liberty facing a skyline, the three playable characters from Golden Axe seen from behind on the edge of a cliff, and one of the flying ships from Skies of Arcadia.

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Ray Barnholt @rdbaaa.space · 1d

it's ok he didn't last there long

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Ray Barnholt @rdbaaa.space · 1d

the well-red mage is on alt.games.final-fantasy saying he was roflmao when tifa called cloud the r-word

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Ray Barnholt @rdbaaa.space · 1d

I can't comprehend how one gets played by a guy with a username and demeanor of a '90s usenet dork

Kurt @ Hardcore Gaming 101 @hg101.bsky.social · 1d

I've been doing some asking around and while I'm not speaking in any official capacity, Bitmap was not aware that this author was going to post this and is not happy about it

Danny Page @danny.page · 2d

<butterfly meme> this is contrition?

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Ray Barnholt @rdbaaa.space · 2d

will you accept shonen yangus. he's in a dungeon and torneko's there for some reason

Ray Barnholt @rdbaaa.space · 2d

Alex I hope you got paid well for a 2-hour therapy session

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Ray Barnholt @rdbaaa.space · 2d

game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/20...

「どこでもいっしょ」トロが、ほぼ等身大のおすわりぬいぐるみになって登場！　限定予約受付中

ビサイドは、ぬいぐるみ「『どこでもいっしょ』おすわりジャンボトロ」を2026年2月に発売する。本体価格は33,000円（消費税・送料・配送にかかる手数料込：39,600円）。数量限定及びビサイドショップ限定で予約受付を開始している。

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Ray Barnholt @rdbaaa.space · 2d

chat do i get the ~$220 jumbo toro

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Ray Barnholt @rdbaaa.space · 3d

I gotta do more on mercari, I guess, maybe

Ray Barnholt @rdbaaa.space · 3d

yes I also took a picture thank you

Ray Barnholt @rdbaaa.space · 3d

bless the people who send in questions about my ebay auctions minutes before they end. the kind of stupid they write books about

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Ray Barnholt @rdbaaa.space · 4d

my 3-year-old saw this at costco and said "red skibbi toilet!" mind you, he can't read a ton and watches only 3 thins on TV, so naturally I will be doing a dark knight interrogation later

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Ray Barnholt @rdbaaa.space · 5d

serious comment: konami had the best TMNT art outside of the Mirage comic

Ray Barnholt @rdbaaa.space · 5d

some don draper-caliber genius telling you what your company needs is putting a ninja turtle in the electric chair

Game Mag Print Ads @gamemagprintads.famiconsumer.com · 5d

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist
Source: Mega Play Vol. 3, No. 6 (January 1993)
Scan Source: RetroMags

#retrogaming #sega

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Ray Barnholt @rdbaaa.space · 5d

times like these we need Major Nelson, what's he up t--oh right

Ray Barnholt @rdbaaa.space · 5d

tried to come up with a name dumber than Stadia but it's impossible

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Ray Barnholt @rdbaaa.space · 5d

after xbox dies don't worry, just one or two more sea changes in the industry and microsoft will re-enter console gaming with a streaming box called Communo or something

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