Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️⚧️
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I'm curious and passionate about a whole bunch of nerdy and cool stuff! I also publish a fortnightly retro gaming and anime 'zine and write on several blogs:
Scanlines zine: betweenthescanlines.itch.io
Main blog: scanlineartifacts.wordpress.com
I'm curious and passionate about a whole bunch of nerdy and cool stuff! I also publish a fortnightly retro gaming and anime 'zine and write on several blogs:
Scanlines zine: betweenthescanlines.itch.io
Main blog: scanlineartifacts.wordpress.com
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You, too, can look upon this sleek black Twin Famicom (I'm certain it's one) and cool pad and tiny screen and make grabby hands for them.
What a cool little timepiece! The interviewee is Izumi Igarashi from Shôjo Commando Izumi, then *really* looking forward to SMB3.
📖: Famitsu #48, April 1988
What a cool little timepiece! The interviewee is Izumi Igarashi from Shôjo Commando Izumi, then *really* looking forward to SMB3.
📖: Famitsu #48, April 1988
November 25, 2024 at 12:05 AM
You, too, can look upon this sleek black Twin Famicom (I'm certain it's one) and cool pad and tiny screen and make grabby hands for them.
What a cool little timepiece! The interviewee is Izumi Igarashi from Shôjo Commando Izumi, then *really* looking forward to SMB3.
📖: Famitsu #48, April 1988
What a cool little timepiece! The interviewee is Izumi Igarashi from Shôjo Commando Izumi, then *really* looking forward to SMB3.
📖: Famitsu #48, April 1988
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A foursome of late 2001 hype as new console generations roll out the gate - or find their footing in the case of PS2.
One of my favourite issues of Electronic Gaming Monthly - bursting with just an incredible amount of hype for some of the best games of their generation.
One of my favourite issues of Electronic Gaming Monthly - bursting with just an incredible amount of hype for some of the best games of their generation.
August 21, 2024 at 7:53 PM
A foursome of late 2001 hype as new console generations roll out the gate - or find their footing in the case of PS2.
One of my favourite issues of Electronic Gaming Monthly - bursting with just an incredible amount of hype for some of the best games of their generation.
One of my favourite issues of Electronic Gaming Monthly - bursting with just an incredible amount of hype for some of the best games of their generation.
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"When evil screams throughout the world, when all three suns converge, when all that's fair and fine seems lost... a hero will emerge!"
Aimed at younger players with a more forgiving parser and puzzles.
📺: The Dark Crystal (Hi-Res Adventure #6), Sierra On-Lline, 1983 (Apple II version.)
Aimed at younger players with a more forgiving parser and puzzles.
📺: The Dark Crystal (Hi-Res Adventure #6), Sierra On-Lline, 1983 (Apple II version.)
November 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
"When evil screams throughout the world, when all three suns converge, when all that's fair and fine seems lost... a hero will emerge!"
Aimed at younger players with a more forgiving parser and puzzles.
📺: The Dark Crystal (Hi-Res Adventure #6), Sierra On-Lline, 1983 (Apple II version.)
Aimed at younger players with a more forgiving parser and puzzles.
📺: The Dark Crystal (Hi-Res Adventure #6), Sierra On-Lline, 1983 (Apple II version.)
Aha, I've never seen a Master System presented like an ancient relic like this, as prizes for beating Le Chevalier Du Labyrinthe, the French version of Knightmare.
Hallelujah!
@yesterzine.bsky.social
Hallelujah!
@yesterzine.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Aha, I've never seen a Master System presented like an ancient relic like this, as prizes for beating Le Chevalier Du Labyrinthe, the French version of Knightmare.
Hallelujah!
@yesterzine.bsky.social
Hallelujah!
@yesterzine.bsky.social
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One of the early female protags in video/computer games: Kim Kimberly from Level 9's Snowball. (1983)
November 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
One of the early female protags in video/computer games: Kim Kimberly from Level 9's Snowball. (1983)
A flick-through Newtype USA issue one from Nov 2002, with some Burn Up background sonix 🎶
November 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
A flick-through Newtype USA issue one from Nov 2002, with some Burn Up background sonix 🎶
.hack, Rahxephon, Full Metal Panic, and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex?
Heavy-hitters aplenty in the first issue of Newtype USA from November 2002. 🔥
Heavy-hitters aplenty in the first issue of Newtype USA from November 2002. 🔥
November 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
.hack, Rahxephon, Full Metal Panic, and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex?
Heavy-hitters aplenty in the first issue of Newtype USA from November 2002. 🔥
Heavy-hitters aplenty in the first issue of Newtype USA from November 2002. 🔥
As revolutionary conflict rages across Alba, heroes and villains alike take up sword, bow, and staff in a struggle for victory.
📺: Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber, Quest, 1999
📺: Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber, Quest, 1999
November 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
As revolutionary conflict rages across Alba, heroes and villains alike take up sword, bow, and staff in a struggle for victory.
📺: Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber, Quest, 1999
📺: Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber, Quest, 1999
Dinner is served 🍽️
We've added 100 new CDs to our collection of press CDs from GamePro magazine, with thousands of pieces of game art, screenshots, and more
So, what's the GamePro press CD collection? We put together an explainer
So, what's the GamePro press CD collection? We put together an explainer
The art of GamePro | VGHF Library Highlights
YouTube video by The Video Game History Foundation
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November 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Dinner is served 🍽️
When directions fail in the heat of the moment - as they often did on virtual television adventure game Knightmare!
Ooh, nasty~
Broadcast between 1987-1994 in the UK (with French and Spanish adaptations) Knightmare pitted a team of kids to guide a friend through a perilous dungeon.
#VideoBytes
Ooh, nasty~
Broadcast between 1987-1994 in the UK (with French and Spanish adaptations) Knightmare pitted a team of kids to guide a friend through a perilous dungeon.
#VideoBytes
November 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
When directions fail in the heat of the moment - as they often did on virtual television adventure game Knightmare!
Ooh, nasty~
Broadcast between 1987-1994 in the UK (with French and Spanish adaptations) Knightmare pitted a team of kids to guide a friend through a perilous dungeon.
#VideoBytes
Ooh, nasty~
Broadcast between 1987-1994 in the UK (with French and Spanish adaptations) Knightmare pitted a team of kids to guide a friend through a perilous dungeon.
#VideoBytes
I was today, years old when I learned there was a little fad around 2000-2001 for 'digital trading cards': narrow card-like CDs that you just put in your drive, and they span around as usual.
One set of them is for Buffy for the Vampire Slayer, with per character multimedia stuff.
One set of them is for Buffy for the Vampire Slayer, with per character multimedia stuff.
November 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I was today, years old when I learned there was a little fad around 2000-2001 for 'digital trading cards': narrow card-like CDs that you just put in your drive, and they span around as usual.
One set of them is for Buffy for the Vampire Slayer, with per character multimedia stuff.
One set of them is for Buffy for the Vampire Slayer, with per character multimedia stuff.
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Stage 1 (After Burner II, Arcade-MegaDrive-PC Engine-ZX Spectrum-Commodore 64-Amstrad CPC-MSX-Amiga-Atari ST-DOS-FM Towns-Sharp X68000-Saturn-PS2, Sega-AM2, 1987)
November 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Stage 1 (After Burner II, Arcade-MegaDrive-PC Engine-ZX Spectrum-Commodore 64-Amstrad CPC-MSX-Amiga-Atari ST-DOS-FM Towns-Sharp X68000-Saturn-PS2, Sega-AM2, 1987)
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New blog post! Breaking out the Tandy Color Computer 2 for the first time in years, in order to give it a desperately-needed composite video upgrade. Why does this model get neglected in many composite mods? Take a look! nicole.express/2025/cuckoo-...
Composite Mod on the CoCo 2: The UVD Board
Since at least March of 2019, the Tandy Color Computer 2 has sat there, teasing me. It has a Motorola 6847, the tragically disappointing graphics chip, paire...
nicole.express
November 9, 2025 at 1:48 PM
New blog post! Breaking out the Tandy Color Computer 2 for the first time in years, in order to give it a desperately-needed composite video upgrade. Why does this model get neglected in many composite mods? Take a look! nicole.express/2025/cuckoo-...
Guidelines for PCE CD-ROM2 Life Harmony:
1) Read more puppygirl x masc lesbian light novels
2) Point out how cute your CD-ROM is as often as possible
3) Do not disturb your CD-ROM if they are pleasantly dreaming
4) Do not vibe too hard with the beat - only sufficiently.
1) Read more puppygirl x masc lesbian light novels
2) Point out how cute your CD-ROM is as often as possible
3) Do not disturb your CD-ROM if they are pleasantly dreaming
4) Do not vibe too hard with the beat - only sufficiently.
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Guidelines for PCE CD-ROM2 Life Harmony:
1) Read more puppygirl x masc lesbian light novels
2) Point out how cute your CD-ROM is as often as possible
3) Do not disturb your CD-ROM if they are pleasantly dreaming
4) Do not vibe too hard with the beat - only sufficiently.
1) Read more puppygirl x masc lesbian light novels
2) Point out how cute your CD-ROM is as often as possible
3) Do not disturb your CD-ROM if they are pleasantly dreaming
4) Do not vibe too hard with the beat - only sufficiently.
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This is the latest build of my DOS game jam game. It’s currently 208kb, single executable, and that’s with a bunch of standard C libraries still linked in. Plays well, too IMHO :D
November 9, 2025 at 3:29 AM
This is the latest build of my DOS game jam game. It’s currently 208kb, single executable, and that’s with a bunch of standard C libraries still linked in. Plays well, too IMHO :D
"When evil screams throughout the world, when all three suns converge, when all that's fair and fine seems lost... a hero will emerge!"
Aimed at younger players with a more forgiving parser and puzzles.
📺: The Dark Crystal (Hi-Res Adventure #6), Sierra On-Lline, 1983 (Apple II version.)
Aimed at younger players with a more forgiving parser and puzzles.
📺: The Dark Crystal (Hi-Res Adventure #6), Sierra On-Lline, 1983 (Apple II version.)
November 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
"When evil screams throughout the world, when all three suns converge, when all that's fair and fine seems lost... a hero will emerge!"
Aimed at younger players with a more forgiving parser and puzzles.
📺: The Dark Crystal (Hi-Res Adventure #6), Sierra On-Lline, 1983 (Apple II version.)
Aimed at younger players with a more forgiving parser and puzzles.
📺: The Dark Crystal (Hi-Res Adventure #6), Sierra On-Lline, 1983 (Apple II version.)
One of the early female protags in video/computer games: Kim Kimberly from Level 9's Snowball. (1983)
November 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
One of the early female protags in video/computer games: Kim Kimberly from Level 9's Snowball. (1983)
Every vote is a zed head re-buried and a free sandwich on your plate.
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Every vote is a zed head re-buried and a free sandwich on your plate.
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Megan - whipping hard drives into full submission since 1997.
📖: BYTE Magazine, July 1997
📖: BYTE Magazine, July 1997
May 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Megan - whipping hard drives into full submission since 1997.
📖: BYTE Magazine, July 1997
📖: BYTE Magazine, July 1997
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"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should!"
10 PRINT "CLEVER GIRL"
📖: BYTE January 1986
10 PRINT "CLEVER GIRL"
📖: BYTE January 1986
September 10, 2025 at 10:23 AM
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should!"
10 PRINT "CLEVER GIRL"
📖: BYTE January 1986
10 PRINT "CLEVER GIRL"
📖: BYTE January 1986
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📖 Bytes of Game Ads 📺
"At times like these, bullets are a girl's best friend..."
From the team that brought you GoldenEye for N64: PERFECT DARK 🔥
"At times like these, bullets are a girl's best friend..."
From the team that brought you GoldenEye for N64: PERFECT DARK 🔥
July 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
📖 Bytes of Game Ads 📺
"At times like these, bullets are a girl's best friend..."
From the team that brought you GoldenEye for N64: PERFECT DARK 🔥
"At times like these, bullets are a girl's best friend..."
From the team that brought you GoldenEye for N64: PERFECT DARK 🔥
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What else but otakumail would an anime fan of the late 90s have for their email address provider?
Sending you love through the timestream for your Martian Successor Nadesico shrine, Sage042.
Sending you love through the timestream for your Martian Successor Nadesico shrine, Sage042.
September 1, 2025 at 11:44 PM
What else but otakumail would an anime fan of the late 90s have for their email address provider?
Sending you love through the timestream for your Martian Successor Nadesico shrine, Sage042.
Sending you love through the timestream for your Martian Successor Nadesico shrine, Sage042.
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200 years after the space-time collapse, advanced mecha are discovered on a world now with a 1920s level of technology...
Orguss 02 has been one of those OVAs that's stuck with me ever since I first saw it on the UK Sci-fi channel in the late 90s.
📺: Orguss O2, J.C Staff, 1993-1995
Orguss 02 has been one of those OVAs that's stuck with me ever since I first saw it on the UK Sci-fi channel in the late 90s.
📺: Orguss O2, J.C Staff, 1993-1995
October 30, 2025 at 8:16 PM
200 years after the space-time collapse, advanced mecha are discovered on a world now with a 1920s level of technology...
Orguss 02 has been one of those OVAs that's stuck with me ever since I first saw it on the UK Sci-fi channel in the late 90s.
📺: Orguss O2, J.C Staff, 1993-1995
Orguss 02 has been one of those OVAs that's stuck with me ever since I first saw it on the UK Sci-fi channel in the late 90s.
📺: Orguss O2, J.C Staff, 1993-1995
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So there's this YouTube channel that exclusively posts shorts featuring cats at your typical Japanese arcade
I present to you: "Sound Voltex at Round1 on a Weekday Night"
This is honestly pretty accurate to what you'll see at the SDVX cabs on a normal Wednesday
www.youtube.com/shorts/1CQPj...
I present to you: "Sound Voltex at Round1 on a Weekday Night"
This is honestly pretty accurate to what you'll see at the SDVX cabs on a normal Wednesday
www.youtube.com/shorts/1CQPj...
平日夜のラウンドワンのサウンドボルテックス
YouTube video by ゲームセンターのある日常
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November 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
So there's this YouTube channel that exclusively posts shorts featuring cats at your typical Japanese arcade
I present to you: "Sound Voltex at Round1 on a Weekday Night"
This is honestly pretty accurate to what you'll see at the SDVX cabs on a normal Wednesday
www.youtube.com/shorts/1CQPj...
I present to you: "Sound Voltex at Round1 on a Weekday Night"
This is honestly pretty accurate to what you'll see at the SDVX cabs on a normal Wednesday
www.youtube.com/shorts/1CQPj...
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I am unreasonably proud of using various Varia suit parts edited together to make the SA-X into a Saxophone.
Say what you will about the SA-X, but it sure was scary.
November 9, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I am unreasonably proud of using various Varia suit parts edited together to make the SA-X into a Saxophone.