EELZAP / Spectre
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#BiriBoyz⚡ STG × Tokusatsu × Mecha.
80's idols, 90's robots. Coin-op aficionado.
Currently: Not on this site lol
80's idols, 90's robots. Coin-op aficionado.
Currently: Not on this site lol
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The medium where mtx,gacha,live service,survivorlikes have become normalized and accepted. The medium where scale is worshipped like nothing else. The medium where important history is lost and tech upgrades are treated as artistic upgrades. The fans of this medium is for sure going to resist genAI
December 23, 2025 at 12:18 AM
The medium where mtx,gacha,live service,survivorlikes have become normalized and accepted. The medium where scale is worshipped like nothing else. The medium where important history is lost and tech upgrades are treated as artistic upgrades. The fans of this medium is for sure going to resist genAI
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Demo Day 64 is here. I'm sharing an early development preview of MARRAS. The demo link is in the first reply to this post. It may have bugs and incomplete features and could change. I'd appreciate your feedback to help improve it. Please spread the word!
#Shmup #STG #Demo #MARRAS
#Shmup #STG #Demo #MARRAS
September 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Action games that only challenge the player if they use self-imposed rules are like horror games that only scare players if they go out of their way to seek out all the spooky stuff off the beaten path
September 3, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Action games that only challenge the player if they use self-imposed rules are like horror games that only scare players if they go out of their way to seek out all the spooky stuff off the beaten path
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There's a tradeoff between how much you couch your language in soft qualifiers for the sake of being some standard of polite or nonjudgmental, and your ability to effectively make your argument.
Having standards and holding games to them isn't corrosive, it's just the nature of making this argument
Having standards and holding games to them isn't corrosive, it's just the nature of making this argument
September 2, 2025 at 10:53 PM
There's a tradeoff between how much you couch your language in soft qualifiers for the sake of being some standard of polite or nonjudgmental, and your ability to effectively make your argument.
Having standards and holding games to them isn't corrosive, it's just the nature of making this argument
Having standards and holding games to them isn't corrosive, it's just the nature of making this argument
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So many indie game publishers are fucking vultures dude. Devs gotta stay the fuck away unless they're gonna get funding or need something extremely specific like a console release and can't do it in any other way
September 5, 2025 at 11:15 AM
So many indie game publishers are fucking vultures dude. Devs gotta stay the fuck away unless they're gonna get funding or need something extremely specific like a console release and can't do it in any other way
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Browsing wplace a bit it's kinda nice to see how relevant millennial online culture still is for zoomers. Sometimes it feels like due to the net culture moves at an insane pace but then if you look at what zoomers like, a lot of it is a big soup of the same type of shit I was into as a teen
September 6, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Browsing wplace a bit it's kinda nice to see how relevant millennial online culture still is for zoomers. Sometimes it feels like due to the net culture moves at an insane pace but then if you look at what zoomers like, a lot of it is a big soup of the same type of shit I was into as a teen
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All of this controversy made Rule Of Rose a cult game; extremely expensive and collectible. But, having tried to play it a couple of times, I don’t think it’s very good. It’s telling that no one ever talks about the actual game…
In 2006, Rule of Rose had quite the troubled time getting published in Europe. It all started in October from Italian magazine Panorama, which denounced the perverted content in the game (that wasn't there). The article was also mostly plagiarized from an online review.
It didn't end there🧵
It didn't end there🧵
September 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
All of this controversy made Rule Of Rose a cult game; extremely expensive and collectible. But, having tried to play it a couple of times, I don’t think it’s very good. It’s telling that no one ever talks about the actual game…
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1987 Williams Space Station 🚀 pinball machine.
3,804 units produced. Designed by Barry Oursler with art by Tim Elliott and code by Ed Boon.
As seen at the Pinball Gallery in Malvern, Pennsylvania.
Continued…
#spacestation #pinball #arcade #williamspinball #80s #1980s
3,804 units produced. Designed by Barry Oursler with art by Tim Elliott and code by Ed Boon.
As seen at the Pinball Gallery in Malvern, Pennsylvania.
Continued…
#spacestation #pinball #arcade #williamspinball #80s #1980s
September 4, 2025 at 8:07 PM
1987 Williams Space Station 🚀 pinball machine.
3,804 units produced. Designed by Barry Oursler with art by Tim Elliott and code by Ed Boon.
As seen at the Pinball Gallery in Malvern, Pennsylvania.
Continued…
#spacestation #pinball #arcade #williamspinball #80s #1980s
3,804 units produced. Designed by Barry Oursler with art by Tim Elliott and code by Ed Boon.
As seen at the Pinball Gallery in Malvern, Pennsylvania.
Continued…
#spacestation #pinball #arcade #williamspinball #80s #1980s
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1978 Midway Blue Shark underwater-themed shooting game.
Players are a scuba diver who use their speargun to shoot three types of sea creatures, sharks, octopuses & swordfish. If the player accidentally shoots another diver, they lose points.
#scuba #arcade #speargun #blueshark #70s #1970s
Players are a scuba diver who use their speargun to shoot three types of sea creatures, sharks, octopuses & swordfish. If the player accidentally shoots another diver, they lose points.
#scuba #arcade #speargun #blueshark #70s #1970s
July 2, 2025 at 2:44 PM
@boghogstg.bsky.social working on a Final Fight 1CC; shifting obviously changes a lot about the route, but how important is it to play "honest?" From a learning perspective, what do you lose?
How honest is an average 1CC, and what's considered *too* cheesy?
How honest is an average 1CC, and what's considered *too* cheesy?
July 1, 2025 at 2:16 AM
@boghogstg.bsky.social working on a Final Fight 1CC; shifting obviously changes a lot about the route, but how important is it to play "honest?" From a learning perspective, what do you lose?
How honest is an average 1CC, and what's considered *too* cheesy?
How honest is an average 1CC, and what's considered *too* cheesy?
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I think an interesting question for designers, especially of more niche styles, is what they'd make if they didn't have to worry about teaching/introducing new players to anything, if they were guaranteed an audience. What kinda game would they make and why? Alot of designers are translators
June 26, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I think an interesting question for designers, especially of more niche styles, is what they'd make if they didn't have to worry about teaching/introducing new players to anything, if they were guaranteed an audience. What kinda game would they make and why? Alot of designers are translators
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Whenever arcade genres/styles get severed from the arcade design ethos they, the devs and the players massively suffer from an artistic pov in the long run. I hear a little dark age edit playing in my head every time I say shit like this but in this case its true
June 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Whenever arcade genres/styles get severed from the arcade design ethos they, the devs and the players massively suffer from an artistic pov in the long run. I hear a little dark age edit playing in my head every time I say shit like this but in this case its true
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Thinking about how much my perspective on formalizing stuff in games is driven by over a decade of trying to convince ppl that arcade games aren't quarter munchers via stuff like 1cc endings. Ppl underestimate the power of formal structures cuz theyre used to playing already well understood stuff
June 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Thinking about how much my perspective on formalizing stuff in games is driven by over a decade of trying to convince ppl that arcade games aren't quarter munchers via stuff like 1cc endings. Ppl underestimate the power of formal structures cuz theyre used to playing already well understood stuff
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Im genuinely confused who the Front Mission 3 remake is for - just old people with bad tastes who comment on "hire this man" type vids? I feel like younger players would vastly prefer the original's visuals cuz theyre stylish and unique
June 26, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Im genuinely confused who the Front Mission 3 remake is for - just old people with bad tastes who comment on "hire this man" type vids? I feel like younger players would vastly prefer the original's visuals cuz theyre stylish and unique
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It's honestly funny how every conversation around "what is truly the value of videogames to society as an art form" acts as if the only two types of videogames to exist are Call of Duty and Disco Elysium
January 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
It's honestly funny how every conversation around "what is truly the value of videogames to society as an art form" acts as if the only two types of videogames to exist are Call of Duty and Disco Elysium
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Good lord this F1A race
June 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Good lord this F1A race
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FOUND! We dumped BS F-Zero Grand Prix 2 Week 1! Probably one of the most major finds we did in a while.
BS F-Zero Deluxe has also been updated to version 1.1 to include the original data from this one!
superfamicom.org/blog/2025/03...
#Satellaview #FZERO
BS F-Zero Deluxe has also been updated to version 1.1 to include the original data from this one!
superfamicom.org/blog/2025/03...
#Satellaview #FZERO
March 29, 2025 at 12:14 PM
FOUND! We dumped BS F-Zero Grand Prix 2 Week 1! Probably one of the most major finds we did in a while.
BS F-Zero Deluxe has also been updated to version 1.1 to include the original data from this one!
superfamicom.org/blog/2025/03...
#Satellaview #FZERO
BS F-Zero Deluxe has also been updated to version 1.1 to include the original data from this one!
superfamicom.org/blog/2025/03...
#Satellaview #FZERO
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shmups are the best dead game genre to constantly get new games in history
March 30, 2025 at 12:10 AM
shmups are the best dead game genre to constantly get new games in history
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FYI the new Shinobi game is coming to retail in Japan. It'll be much cheaper - and faster - than buying from LRG.
March 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
FYI the new Shinobi game is coming to retail in Japan. It'll be much cheaper - and faster - than buying from LRG.
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1973 Gottlieb Jack in the Box 4-player electromechanical pinball machine.
8,300 units produced. Designed by Ed Krynski with art by Gordon Morison.
Continued…
#jackinthebox #pinball #gottlieb #gottliebpinball #arcade #70s #1970s #retroarcade
8,300 units produced. Designed by Ed Krynski with art by Gordon Morison.
Continued…
#jackinthebox #pinball #gottlieb #gottliebpinball #arcade #70s #1970s #retroarcade
March 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
1973 Gottlieb Jack in the Box 4-player electromechanical pinball machine.
8,300 units produced. Designed by Ed Krynski with art by Gordon Morison.
Continued…
#jackinthebox #pinball #gottlieb #gottliebpinball #arcade #70s #1970s #retroarcade
8,300 units produced. Designed by Ed Krynski with art by Gordon Morison.
Continued…
#jackinthebox #pinball #gottlieb #gottliebpinball #arcade #70s #1970s #retroarcade
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Finally updated one of the earliest transitions with the second player #wyverultra #danmakuunlimited #shmup #screenshotsaturday #IndieGameDev #indiegame #scifi
March 23, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Finally updated one of the earliest transitions with the second player #wyverultra #danmakuunlimited #shmup #screenshotsaturday #IndieGameDev #indiegame #scifi
I've seen this one before
Scientists trapped in Antarctica plead for help as violence breaks out
Scientists trapped in Antarctica plead for help as violence breaks out
www.newsweek.com
March 19, 2025 at 5:40 AM
I've seen this one before
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Everyone knows 'Close your eyes. Close your head' from Visionnerz but did you know, the opera singing near the end says
Non credere a ciò che vedi......Non credere ai tuoi occhi, la verità è altrove
or
Don't believe what you see. Don't believe your eyes, the truth is elsewhere
Non credere a ciò che vedi......Non credere ai tuoi occhi, la verità è altrove
or
Don't believe what you see. Don't believe your eyes, the truth is elsewhere
March 19, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Everyone knows 'Close your eyes. Close your head' from Visionnerz but did you know, the opera singing near the end says
Non credere a ciò che vedi......Non credere ai tuoi occhi, la verità è altrove
or
Don't believe what you see. Don't believe your eyes, the truth is elsewhere
Non credere a ciò che vedi......Non credere ai tuoi occhi, la verità è altrove
or
Don't believe what you see. Don't believe your eyes, the truth is elsewhere
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Pics of a train simulator running on a computer with a screen that appears to be vector-based. It was presented at the Japan World Exposition in 1970, but there were already traces of it in 1967.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gM0...
Via @michelentongs.bsky.social, @adoru.bsky.social and Florent Gorges
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gM0...
Via @michelentongs.bsky.social, @adoru.bsky.social and Florent Gorges
March 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Pics of a train simulator running on a computer with a screen that appears to be vector-based. It was presented at the Japan World Exposition in 1970, but there were already traces of it in 1967.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gM0...
Via @michelentongs.bsky.social, @adoru.bsky.social and Florent Gorges
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gM0...
Via @michelentongs.bsky.social, @adoru.bsky.social and Florent Gorges