Be careful, Jeremy Parish's bowtie is really a camera
@jparish.bsky.social
Retronauts Co-Host, NES Works Producer, Limited Run Book Guy, and RGB addict. Did not invent the word "Metroidvania." He/him. Header pic by Sonya Yruel.
Yourself but as a cartoon
January 28, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Yourself but as a cartoon
As if things weren't bad enough already, here's a video about a genuinely awful NES game: The Uncanny X-Men. I had the good instincts to avoid this one back in the day based on screenshots alone, but incredibly enough, it turned out to be EVEN WORSE than I expected:
youtu.be/wNQg6dUg4Dk
youtu.be/wNQg6dUg4Dk
Here's why the world hates and fears them: The Uncanny X-Men | NES Works 159
YouTube video by Jeremy Parish | Video Works
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January 28, 2026 at 2:06 PM
As if things weren't bad enough already, here's a video about a genuinely awful NES game: The Uncanny X-Men. I had the good instincts to avoid this one back in the day based on screenshots alone, but incredibly enough, it turned out to be EVEN WORSE than I expected:
youtu.be/wNQg6dUg4Dk
youtu.be/wNQg6dUg4Dk
I’ve really gotta drink this stuff before it turns
January 27, 2026 at 11:34 PM
I’ve really gotta drink this stuff before it turns
Anyway, this is still the world's best, most comprehensive guide to the stuff you can newly play on NSO today:
limitedrungames.com/collections/...
Or you can fall back on the video version if that's your jam:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
(If nothing else, check out The Mansion of Innsmouth)
limitedrungames.com/collections/...
Or you can fall back on the video version if that's your jam:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
(If nothing else, check out The Mansion of Innsmouth)
Virtual Boy Works Hardcover Book
– Limited Run Games
After Nintendo achieved world-shaking success with its Game Boy handheld system, a next-generation follow-up seemed inevitable. Yet few could have predicted the form it would take—or how poorly it wou...
limitedrungames.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Anyway, this is still the world's best, most comprehensive guide to the stuff you can newly play on NSO today:
limitedrungames.com/collections/...
Or you can fall back on the video version if that's your jam:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
(If nothing else, check out The Mansion of Innsmouth)
limitedrungames.com/collections/...
Or you can fall back on the video version if that's your jam:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
(If nothing else, check out The Mansion of Innsmouth)
But I don't wanna make any more Virtual Boy Works videos
This is @jparish.bsky.social coded.
Virtual Boy – Nintendo Classics – Overview Trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVva...
January 27, 2026 at 2:37 PM
But I don't wanna make any more Virtual Boy Works videos
January 27, 2026 at 3:05 AM
Aw, damn. R.I.P. to one of the true greats.
Sal Buscema, beloved comics artist, passes away
Sal Buscema, a veteran comics artist and part of the famed Buscema family of Marvel artists, has passed away. He was 89 years old when he died on Friday, and the news broke today, on what would have been his 90th birthday.
Sal Buscema, a veteran comics artist and part of the famed Buscema family of Marvel artists, has passed away. He was 89 years old when he died on Friday, and the news broke today, on what would have been his 90th birthday.
Sal Buscema, beloved comics artist, passes away
Sal Buscema, a veteran comics artist and part of the famed Buscema family of Marvel artists, has passed away. He was 89 years old when he died on Friday, and the news broke today, on what would have been his 90th birthday.
www.comicsbeat.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:39 PM
Aw, damn. R.I.P. to one of the true greats.
Th-thanks, YouTube...?
January 26, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Th-thanks, YouTube...?
MARS? Weird swerve for Destro, but I'm sure there was some insidious Cobra-oriented reasoning at play here
January 26, 2026 at 4:50 PM
MARS? Weird swerve for Destro, but I'm sure there was some insidious Cobra-oriented reasoning at play here
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Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."
Anyway, back on the middling-to-awful side of things, here is a video on two platonically middling games (good intentions, lackluster execution): youtu.be/l9TCGHDV69E
January 21, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Anyway, back on the middling-to-awful side of things, here is a video on two platonically middling games (good intentions, lackluster execution): youtu.be/l9TCGHDV69E
I've been covering a lot of pretty middling-to-awful NES games lately, so I am happy to inform video patrons that they can now watch a video about a very GOOD game instead: www.patreon.com/posts/nes-wo...
NES Works 160: Shadowgate | Jeremy Parish
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January 21, 2026 at 1:24 PM
I've been covering a lot of pretty middling-to-awful NES games lately, so I am happy to inform video patrons that they can now watch a video about a very GOOD game instead: www.patreon.com/posts/nes-wo...
Life, uh, finds a way
Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.
January 21, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Life, uh, finds a way
Vindication for Gary Larson
This is the first recorded instance of a bovine using tools from her environment to relieve an itch—leaving scientists astonished. www.wired.com/story/veroni...
‘Veronika’ Is the First Cow Known to Use a Tool
This is the first recorded instance of a bovine using tools from her environment to relieve an itch—leaving scientists astonished.
www.wired.com
January 20, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Vindication for Gary Larson
I'm happy to hear that there'll be new Patlabor in our lifetimes, but something feels a little wrong about seeing the Labors as computer models rather than obsessively detailed cels illustrated by the hands of absolute maniacs
First trailer for "Patlabor EZY" new anime series directed by Yutaka Izubuchi at JC Staff studio (feat. Akemi Takada & Kenji Kawai).
8 episodes, also coming as 3 feature films starting in May.
ezy.patlabor.tokyo
8 episodes, also coming as 3 feature films starting in May.
ezy.patlabor.tokyo
January 20, 2026 at 12:41 PM
I'm happy to hear that there'll be new Patlabor in our lifetimes, but something feels a little wrong about seeing the Labors as computer models rather than obsessively detailed cels illustrated by the hands of absolute maniacs
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I cannot fucking believe this is real
I think people need to like... actually read this, so they know exactly who every politician isn't spending every waking moment removing
I think people need to like... actually read this, so they know exactly who every politician isn't spending every waking moment removing
![NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials:
Dear Ambassador:
President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]
“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreie7itpptx3xbxhpsnlaqmwk752h7pcrion5ija2apksljtax2adx4@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 5:40 AM
I cannot fucking believe this is real
I think people need to like... actually read this, so they know exactly who every politician isn't spending every waking moment removing
I think people need to like... actually read this, so they know exactly who every politician isn't spending every waking moment removing
Cat has been wanting to take me to “one of the world’s top 30 cocktail bars” for a few years and we finally managed to sneak it in at the end of our trip. Justifiable claim imo
January 17, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Cat has been wanting to take me to “one of the world’s top 30 cocktail bars” for a few years and we finally managed to sneak it in at the end of our trip. Justifiable claim imo
Looks like this is the last weekend you can preorder the physical edition of Jaws from LRG. It's the cult classic NES game, AND ALSO it includes the new "Enhanced Edition" of the game which was designed by
[checks notes]
me?!
limitedrungames.com/collections/...
[checks notes]
me?!
limitedrungames.com/collections/...
Jaws Retro Edition Bigger Boat Edition (Switch, PS5)
– Limited Run Games
Jaws Retro Edition is region-free. This is an open pre-order for a limited time. PRE-ORDERS CLOSE ON SUNDAY, JANUARY 18, 2026, AT 11:59 PM EASTERN TIME. This can't be! There has never been a Great Whi...
limitedrungames.com
January 17, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Looks like this is the last weekend you can preorder the physical edition of Jaws from LRG. It's the cult classic NES game, AND ALSO it includes the new "Enhanced Edition" of the game which was designed by
[checks notes]
me?!
limitedrungames.com/collections/...
[checks notes]
me?!
limitedrungames.com/collections/...
Celebrity sighting for this trip: we had to wait in line to make our purchase at an antiques shop until the proprietor finished chatting over champagne with ultra-award-winning chef Alain Ducasse
January 17, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Celebrity sighting for this trip: we had to wait in line to make our purchase at an antiques shop until the proprietor finished chatting over champagne with ultra-award-winning chef Alain Ducasse
I love when we duck into a random restaurant while traveling abroad and it turns out to be something tasty but totally unexpected. I mean, this place said “couscous” on the awning, but I thought that was a French term I didn’t know, not a restaurant specializing entirely in, you know, couscous
January 17, 2026 at 3:00 PM
I love when we duck into a random restaurant while traveling abroad and it turns out to be something tasty but totally unexpected. I mean, this place said “couscous” on the awning, but I thought that was a French term I didn’t know, not a restaurant specializing entirely in, you know, couscous
I'd like to offer a hearty "Screw YOU" to every American media writer and personality in the ’80s/’90s who tried to gaslight us into believing that France is full of prickly, snobbish misanthropes who hate foreigners. It is consistently one of the friendliest, most welcoming places I've ever visited
January 17, 2026 at 10:59 AM
I'd like to offer a hearty "Screw YOU" to every American media writer and personality in the ’80s/’90s who tried to gaslight us into believing that France is full of prickly, snobbish misanthropes who hate foreigners. It is consistently one of the friendliest, most welcoming places I've ever visited
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if you havent cancelled spotify yet and this isnt the final nail in the coffin for you, i really dont know what else to say other than i hope some introspection finds you soon
In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
January 16, 2026 at 8:06 AM
if you havent cancelled spotify yet and this isnt the final nail in the coffin for you, i really dont know what else to say other than i hope some introspection finds you soon
Oh man, I loved that guy in the 1982 sci-fi classic “Le Tron”
January 16, 2026 at 10:12 AM
Oh man, I loved that guy in the 1982 sci-fi classic “Le Tron”
Paris is so cool that even the restaurants have riz
January 15, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Paris is so cool that even the restaurants have riz
You know, I think this Monet kid has some real potential. Keep an eye on this guy, he could be famous someday
January 15, 2026 at 3:58 PM
You know, I think this Monet kid has some real potential. Keep an eye on this guy, he could be famous someday