Fifth Generation Gaming
@fifthgengaming.bsky.social
Deeply misguided enthusiast who is trying to review every 32-bit console game
Blog: https://fifthgengaming.blog/
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Deep Listens
A bi-weekly video game book club that takes a deep look at one game every episode. We discuss the literary elements, philosophical ideas, and game design decisions that make games great while keeping...
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Anyone seeing this should check out Deep Listens. It's a collection of podcasts about video games and sometimes other stuff. I show up in episodes when you least expect it. deeplistens.libsyn.com
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Also check out the Stargate SG-1 podcast I'm on! we're in season 2 and things are starting to pick up deeplistens.libsyn.com/chariots-of-...
Deep Listens: Chariots of the Pods: Episode 7
Join Adam, Tyler, Jason, and Justin as they kick-off season 2 of Stargate SG-1 by reviewing its first four episodes: "Serpent's Lair", "In the Line of Duty", "Prisoners", and "The Gamekeeper". They di...
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November 12, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Also check out the Stargate SG-1 podcast I'm on! we're in season 2 and things are starting to pick up deeplistens.libsyn.com/chariots-of-...
Back on the wagon with the blog. My brain got stuck on Nights into Dreams until I eventually brute forced it. fifthgengaming.blog/2025/11/12/a...
All Saturn Games In Order: August 1996 (Part 1)
Entering into August ’96 with the first four releases of the month: Olympic Soccer: Atlanta 1996, Alien Trilogy, Alone in the Dark: One-Eyed Jack’s Revenge, and NiGHTS into Dreams.
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November 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Back on the wagon with the blog. My brain got stuck on Nights into Dreams until I eventually brute forced it. fifthgengaming.blog/2025/11/12/a...
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This is gonna piss off the biggest losers who had zero intention to play the game
August 29, 2025 at 3:10 AM
This is gonna piss off the biggest losers who had zero intention to play the game
While I'm at it, I've finally been able to get my next blog post out. This time you can watch me go through all the stages of Jaguar cope:
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All Jaguar Games In Order: 1995 (Part 1)
We begin our look at the Jaguar in 1995 with Syndicate, Troy Aikman NFL Football, Cannon Fodder, Theme Park, and Double Dragon V: The Shadow Falls
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August 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM
While I'm at it, I've finally been able to get my next blog post out. This time you can watch me go through all the stages of Jaguar cope:
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fifthgengaming.blog/2025/08/27/a...
I've also gone insane and played Star Ocean: Til the End of Time. Here's a little something to activate traumatic flashbacks for anyone who's played it:
August 27, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I've also gone insane and played Star Ocean: Til the End of Time. Here's a little something to activate traumatic flashbacks for anyone who's played it:
Coming back in from hiatus. One of the things I got up to was starting a Stargate rewatch podcast with some members of the @deeplistenspodcast.bsky.social community! After three installments we're about halfway through season 1 of SG-1. Here's a link to our first episode: tinyurl.com/mrxkppwb
Deep Listens: Chariots of the Pods
Join Adam "Borgmaster" [REDACTED], Tyler "Grav" [REDACTED], Jason "Jatzu" [REDACTED], and Justin "Justinr258" [REDACTED] as they journey through the Stargate franchise. In this first installment they ...
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August 27, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Coming back in from hiatus. One of the things I got up to was starting a Stargate rewatch podcast with some members of the @deeplistenspodcast.bsky.social community! After three installments we're about halfway through season 1 of SG-1. Here's a link to our first episode: tinyurl.com/mrxkppwb
Streamed some more Tokyo Xtreme Racer, and this time I finally beat the Grim Reaper like it's Castlevania or something
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Tokyo Extreme Racer (Fourth Stream)
YouTube video by Fifth Gen Gaming
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July 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Streamed some more Tokyo Xtreme Racer, and this time I finally beat the Grim Reaper like it's Castlevania or something
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You seemed to like that sales chart, so here's another, guaranteed to set off some arguments...
In fall 1996, Super Mario 64 and Pilotwings 64 dominated sales, but no other N64 games cracked the top 25. Ten PS1 games did make the chart though!
archive.gamehistory.org/item/1dbda55... (p.78)
In fall 1996, Super Mario 64 and Pilotwings 64 dominated sales, but no other N64 games cracked the top 25. Ten PS1 games did make the chart though!
archive.gamehistory.org/item/1dbda55... (p.78)
June 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
You seemed to like that sales chart, so here's another, guaranteed to set off some arguments...
In fall 1996, Super Mario 64 and Pilotwings 64 dominated sales, but no other N64 games cracked the top 25. Ten PS1 games did make the chart though!
archive.gamehistory.org/item/1dbda55... (p.78)
In fall 1996, Super Mario 64 and Pilotwings 64 dominated sales, but no other N64 games cracked the top 25. Ten PS1 games did make the chart though!
archive.gamehistory.org/item/1dbda55... (p.78)
Not the most exciting lineup, but I'm glad to have gotten back to covering the Saturn.
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All Saturn Games In Order: July 1996
Covering the July ’96 Saturn releases of NHL Powerplay ’96, Galaxy Fight, DecAthlete, and The Legend of Oasis.
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June 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Not the most exciting lineup, but I'm glad to have gotten back to covering the Saturn.
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relooted is being made by a team of developers from numerous african countries, but only its white south african creative director was able to demo it to summer game fest attendees. this was most certainly not always the plan
![“At least three people before me in the queue were denied without having their documents looked at,” they said. “In fact, as I left the consulate, someone else who had their visa approved with no issue, who had no travel history and did not provide concrete travel plans, asked me if I noticed what was happening inside. You can probably guess what the main difference between myself and this other applicant is.”
Myres believes he was only able to attend SGF on behalf of Nyamakop because of his unique history: While he was born in Australia, his parents moved to South Africa when he was just six months old. Due to their histories and his own, he possesses an Australian passport, a South African passport, and a British passport. This has repeatedly come in handy for Nyamakop, which – even prior to the past few years’ documented increase in refusal rates of visas from African countries – faced difficulties when it came to visiting Western countries.
"We had the same problem on our previous project where, if I didn't have a British passport, basically our company wouldn't exist,” Myres told Aftermath. “Because if you don't have enough lead time to go to important events, you just can't get a visa from an African country. And on [Relooted] specifically, it's kind of fucked up to be making a game about reclaiming African artifacts that are in Western countries, and Africans [on the team] can't even visit those artifacts. Hundreds of dollars in visa application fees, and then it might get declined. Thousands of dollars for accommodations and flights just to even visit your own cultural heritage, and that's a best-case scenario. But in this case, most of the people on the continent can't even get a visa to travel [to the United States]."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5gdejlhcswjbzraadoltdpps/bafkreihle42aqaz7bqvfvn7m73hajdyp6cn4tfmzjyy2anhrderhix56ru@jpeg)
June 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
relooted is being made by a team of developers from numerous african countries, but only its white south african creative director was able to demo it to summer game fest attendees. this was most certainly not always the plan
I had the intrusive thought that I should go insane and play every indie 3D Platformer. I had to remind myself that I'm still in the middle of going insane and playing every Tokyo Xtreme Racer. Does this count as self-control?
June 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I had the intrusive thought that I should go insane and play every indie 3D Platformer. I had to remind myself that I'm still in the middle of going insane and playing every Tokyo Xtreme Racer. Does this count as self-control?
Finally got my 1994 Round-Up posted after all these weeks.
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All Jaguar and 3DO Games (Kinda) In Order: 1994 Round-Up
Looking back on the Atari Jaguar and 3DO in 1994.
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June 6, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Finally got my 1994 Round-Up posted after all these weeks.
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There is something deeply broken inside of me, the one thing that makes me want a Switch 2 right now instead of later is the Ridge Racer arcade archives release.
June 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
There is something deeply broken inside of me, the one thing that makes me want a Switch 2 right now instead of later is the Ridge Racer arcade archives release.
That feeling of accidentally dropping your phone such that it perfectly lands corner first onto your barefoot middle toe.
June 4, 2025 at 3:26 AM
That feeling of accidentally dropping your phone such that it perfectly lands corner first onto your barefoot middle toe.
I streamed some Tokyo Xtreme Racer (1999) as part of my Genki obsession. This is where I admit the whole reason for this process was because I wanted to play this game.
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Tokyo Xtreme Racer (First Stream)
YouTube video by Fifth Gen Gaming
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June 3, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I streamed some Tokyo Xtreme Racer (1999) as part of my Genki obsession. This is where I admit the whole reason for this process was because I wanted to play this game.
youtu.be/MIx0VqhHnOg
youtu.be/MIx0VqhHnOg
Playing Wizardry 7, and you hear about old copy protection schemes, but experiencing it first hand really brings home how monumentally lame those could be.
June 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Playing Wizardry 7, and you hear about old copy protection schemes, but experiencing it first hand really brings home how monumentally lame those could be.
I streamed more Genki racing games, including the Wangan Dead Heat bonus disc, which unlike a lot of Japanese Saturn discs is SFW. I'm sure there were more than a few guys at the time who felt cheated by that fact.
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Genki Racing Games: '96 - '97
YouTube video by Fifth Gen Gaming
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May 29, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I streamed more Genki racing games, including the Wangan Dead Heat bonus disc, which unlike a lot of Japanese Saturn discs is SFW. I'm sure there were more than a few guys at the time who felt cheated by that fact.
youtu.be/TR5E7NILIVE
youtu.be/TR5E7NILIVE
When looking up Genki's 1996 re-release of Wangan Dead Heat, I noticed that they added a bunch of pictures of models to the back of the box. It didn't really register with me why they were there until I played the thing. Let's just say it comes with a bonus disc.
May 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
When looking up Genki's 1996 re-release of Wangan Dead Heat, I noticed that they added a bunch of pictures of models to the back of the box. It didn't really register with me why they were there until I played the thing. Let's just say it comes with a bonus disc.
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The creators of Myst series (@cyan.com) saved hundreds of video tapes from the making of their iconic adventure game franchose.
We helped preserve them. Here's what we found.
We helped preserve them. Here's what we found.
The unseen history of Myst | VGHF Library Highlights
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May 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The creators of Myst series (@cyan.com) saved hundreds of video tapes from the making of their iconic adventure game franchose.
We helped preserve them. Here's what we found.
We helped preserve them. Here's what we found.
I really tried to put some time into it, but Wangan Dead Heat is a truly uninteresting Daytona USA knock-off with a busted drifting mechanic. There's a drift button that doesn't work 1/4 of the time and the camera shows the side of the car in a drift so that you have no idea where you're going.
May 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I really tried to put some time into it, but Wangan Dead Heat is a truly uninteresting Daytona USA knock-off with a busted drifting mechanic. There's a drift button that doesn't work 1/4 of the time and the camera shows the side of the car in a drift so that you have no idea where you're going.
Genki was definitely using the Hang-On GP tech for Wangan Dead Heat. You can tell because the road melts at the bottom of the screen.
May 26, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Genki was definitely using the Hang-On GP tech for Wangan Dead Heat. You can tell because the road melts at the bottom of the screen.
Also, Wangan Dead Heat is piping hot garbage.
May 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Also, Wangan Dead Heat is piping hot garbage.
I went ahead and streamed a bunch of early Genki racing games even though I'm using my crummy back-up headset. This is definitely a way to experience these games: youtu.be/1ZcuUO7QXoE
Genki Racing Games: '93 - '95
YouTube video by Fifth Gen Gaming
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May 24, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I went ahead and streamed a bunch of early Genki racing games even though I'm using my crummy back-up headset. This is definitely a way to experience these games: youtu.be/1ZcuUO7QXoE
The difficulty curve is also weird in Shutoko Battle 2. There's a Mega Man style level select with 9 tracks where you beat up on jobbers, and then you have to race Keiichi Tsuchiya on each of those courses as boss fights. He's like 10 seconds a lap faster than you when you have a maxed out car
May 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The difficulty curve is also weird in Shutoko Battle 2. There's a Mega Man style level select with 9 tracks where you beat up on jobbers, and then you have to race Keiichi Tsuchiya on each of those courses as boss fights. He's like 10 seconds a lap faster than you when you have a maxed out car