McCheeseBob
@mccheesebob.com
I love many old things - technology, photography, games, anime etc. I'm mostly here to enjoy art and maybe post an occasional cat photo. Occasionally make things for retro game jams or Ludum Dare.
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McCheeseBob
@mccheesebob.com
· Nov 16
Yo wassup cheeseheads
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Most of my other socials/streaming/retro game dev stuff can be reached through my stupid (under works) website. mccheesebob.com
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Hey, I bet you didn't hear that Zork 1, 2, and 3 were open-sourced today!
…Oh, you have heard. Yeah. Way ahead of me. :)
Here's my comments, and some details that you might not have seen.
blog.zarfhome.com/2025/11/zork...
…Oh, you have heard. Yeah. Way ahead of me. :)
Here's my comments, and some details that you might not have seen.
blog.zarfhome.com/2025/11/zork...
Zork is now open source
Two years ago, I wrote: Microsoft-the-company does not care about Infocom. But a lot of people in Microsoft must care. Microsoft is heavily populated by greying GenX nerds just like me. Folks who grew...
blog.zarfhome.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Hey, I bet you didn't hear that Zork 1, 2, and 3 were open-sourced today!
…Oh, you have heard. Yeah. Way ahead of me. :)
Here's my comments, and some details that you might not have seen.
blog.zarfhome.com/2025/11/zork...
…Oh, you have heard. Yeah. Way ahead of me. :)
Here's my comments, and some details that you might not have seen.
blog.zarfhome.com/2025/11/zork...
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Angel's Egg (1985 4K Theatrical Remaster)
Man. All I can really say is that it's a really pretty film.
More weird stories need to be made, more animation needs to be supported.
More dreams of things that inspire must be nourished to create.
Things like these exist for Art's sake and I'm glad.
Man. All I can really say is that it's a really pretty film.
More weird stories need to be made, more animation needs to be supported.
More dreams of things that inspire must be nourished to create.
Things like these exist for Art's sake and I'm glad.
November 20, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Angel's Egg (1985 4K Theatrical Remaster)
Man. All I can really say is that it's a really pretty film.
More weird stories need to be made, more animation needs to be supported.
More dreams of things that inspire must be nourished to create.
Things like these exist for Art's sake and I'm glad.
Man. All I can really say is that it's a really pretty film.
More weird stories need to be made, more animation needs to be supported.
More dreams of things that inspire must be nourished to create.
Things like these exist for Art's sake and I'm glad.
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Smaller, passion-led projects created by talented people who care about their craft are still out there! Please don't give up. Support the internet and the creatives you want to see! 🧵
November 19, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Smaller, passion-led projects created by talented people who care about their craft are still out there! Please don't give up. Support the internet and the creatives you want to see! 🧵
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America's first ever esports champion was Rebecca Heineman, a trans woman. She went on to found some of your favorite video game studios and worked on your favorite video games. Next time you see somebody rail about 'woke' and 'DEI'
Remember that.
Remember her.
Remember that.
Remember her.
"I code so others can dream."
Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ video game pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has sadly passed away after a short, tough fight with aggressive cancer.
Read our obituary to this true industry trailblazer: gaymingmag.com/2025/11/gaym...
Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ video game pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has sadly passed away after a short, tough fight with aggressive cancer.
Read our obituary to this true industry trailblazer: gaymingmag.com/2025/11/gaym...
Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ games pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has died - Gayming Magazine
Rebecca Heineman, a trailblazing figure in the video game industry and a celebrated icon within the LGBTQ+ gaming community, has died.
gaymingmag.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
America's first ever esports champion was Rebecca Heineman, a trans woman. She went on to found some of your favorite video game studios and worked on your favorite video games. Next time you see somebody rail about 'woke' and 'DEI'
Remember that.
Remember her.
Remember that.
Remember her.
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wrote a lil piece on etrian odyssey! backloggd.com/u/farawaytim...
farawaytimes's review of Etrian Odyssey | Backloggd
I loved this! Pure joy from start to finish, just a precisely tuned machine for generating happy brain chemicals. Loved the art, the music, the crunchy sound design, the battle tactics, the varied and...
backloggd.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:48 PM
wrote a lil piece on etrian odyssey! backloggd.com/u/farawaytim...
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I'm updating my Big Spreadsheet Of Cool Free PC Games again!
I merged in all the incomplete entries, which I'm working on chipping away at and filling in the details of, which has bulked the list up to 324 items. But some of them are for entire series' or platforms, so probably ~400 games here.
I merged in all the incomplete entries, which I'm working on chipping away at and filling in the details of, which has bulked the list up to 324 items. But some of them are for entire series' or platforms, so probably ~400 games here.
Free PC Games - The Best For The Broke
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November 16, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I'm updating my Big Spreadsheet Of Cool Free PC Games again!
I merged in all the incomplete entries, which I'm working on chipping away at and filling in the details of, which has bulked the list up to 324 items. But some of them are for entire series' or platforms, so probably ~400 games here.
I merged in all the incomplete entries, which I'm working on chipping away at and filling in the details of, which has bulked the list up to 324 items. But some of them are for entire series' or platforms, so probably ~400 games here.
Jumping into subminiature cameras with this little cute Mamiya Super 16 - also got a handful of old metal carts for it. Waiting on some old microfilm to arrive, but in the meantime I took a funny size comparison photo. My 5x7 Agfa Ansco really dwarfs this little thing.
November 15, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Jumping into subminiature cameras with this little cute Mamiya Super 16 - also got a handful of old metal carts for it. Waiting on some old microfilm to arrive, but in the meantime I took a funny size comparison photo. My 5x7 Agfa Ansco really dwarfs this little thing.
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Artist/aeronautical enthusiast Kazuhiko Hachiya's recent test flight of M-02J, his homage to Nausicaä's Möwe jet glider. Incredible stuff!
Sekiyado testflight 2025/11/08_2
YouTube video by kazuhiko hachiya
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Artist/aeronautical enthusiast Kazuhiko Hachiya's recent test flight of M-02J, his homage to Nausicaä's Möwe jet glider. Incredible stuff!
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This all reminds me of an incident on the PLATO system 45 years ago that I wrote about in my book The Friendly Orange Glow:
November 7, 2025 at 2:14 AM
This all reminds me of an incident on the PLATO system 45 years ago that I wrote about in my book The Friendly Orange Glow:
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Wizardry the Shooting -2nd Stage- [Sega Saturn/Dezaemon2]
YouTube video by amagishien
www.youtube.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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So just a heads up being supportive of trans folks wins you elections.
November 5, 2025 at 3:17 AM
So just a heads up being supportive of trans folks wins you elections.
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Visually striking and evocative, with multiple layers of parallax scrolling, Extra Half-Brite mode, and Copper tricks to pull it all off. Plus a familiar Superb Owl as a shmup protag!
Psygnosis and Art & Magic's 'Agony' from 1992 for Commodore Amiga.
Psygnosis and Art & Magic's 'Agony' from 1992 for Commodore Amiga.
September 3, 2024 at 11:40 PM
Visually striking and evocative, with multiple layers of parallax scrolling, Extra Half-Brite mode, and Copper tricks to pull it all off. Plus a familiar Superb Owl as a shmup protag!
Psygnosis and Art & Magic's 'Agony' from 1992 for Commodore Amiga.
Psygnosis and Art & Magic's 'Agony' from 1992 for Commodore Amiga.
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CastleVCS, a project to reproduce the first level of Castlevania on #Atari2600 forums.atariage.com/topic/385486... #atari
October 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM
CastleVCS, a project to reproduce the first level of Castlevania on #Atari2600 forums.atariage.com/topic/385486... #atari
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Lmao they wrote to me some time ago to offer the whole suite (which I very much appreciated, don't get me wrong), but at the time they probably thought they won over a vocal critic of adobe. Way to blow it
October 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Lmao they wrote to me some time ago to offer the whole suite (which I very much appreciated, don't get me wrong), but at the time they probably thought they won over a vocal critic of adobe. Way to blow it
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1982 was very early for Japanese adventure games, with only a small number of releases. Takara Building Adventure thus is one of the earliest adventure games in Japanese, but it was not generally available...
...until today.
Includes some unexpected history!
bluerenga.blog/2025/10/29/t...
...until today.
Includes some unexpected history!
bluerenga.blog/2025/10/29/t...
Takara Building Adventure Part 1 (1982)
The last time I wrote about a Japanese game was with The Palms, where I mentioned skipping over two games from 1982 because there were no copies available. This was one of them. Brief history recap…
bluerenga.blog
October 30, 2025 at 1:59 AM
1982 was very early for Japanese adventure games, with only a small number of releases. Takara Building Adventure thus is one of the earliest adventure games in Japanese, but it was not generally available...
...until today.
Includes some unexpected history!
bluerenga.blog/2025/10/29/t...
...until today.
Includes some unexpected history!
bluerenga.blog/2025/10/29/t...
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Silly retro ARPG type thing I've been messing with in Godot
Another one of those things where I don't know how much I want to do with it, especially since we should probably be working on BUDD still
Another one of those things where I don't know how much I want to do with it, especially since we should probably be working on BUDD still
October 25, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Silly retro ARPG type thing I've been messing with in Godot
Another one of those things where I don't know how much I want to do with it, especially since we should probably be working on BUDD still
Another one of those things where I don't know how much I want to do with it, especially since we should probably be working on BUDD still
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Anniversary: SNES Action RPG 'Terranigma' Is 30 Years Old Today, And It's Still A 10/10 In Our Book.
Anniversary: SNES Action RPG 'Terranigma' Is 30 Years Old Today, And It's Still A 10/10 In Our Book
Never released in the US of A!
www.nintendolife.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Anniversary: SNES Action RPG 'Terranigma' Is 30 Years Old Today, And It's Still A 10/10 In Our Book.
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30 years of the absolute best game. 🙂↕️
October 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
30 years of the absolute best game. 🙂↕️
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If you enjoy my work, please subscribe to my Ko-fi! I am very much on a knife edge as far as being able to continue writing's concerned (at all, never mind for X money or X articles a week), and if one or two big subscribers leave I'm back to applying for local supermarket jobs.
ko-fi.com/kimimi
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Support Kimimi
Videogame archaeologist and explorer: Player of the untranslated. Lifter-upper of the unloved and misunderstood.
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October 18, 2025 at 2:39 AM
If you enjoy my work, please subscribe to my Ko-fi! I am very much on a knife edge as far as being able to continue writing's concerned (at all, never mind for X money or X articles a week), and if one or two big subscribers leave I'm back to applying for local supermarket jobs.
ko-fi.com/kimimi
ko-fi.com/kimimi
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I am covering EVERY First Person Shooter EVER made in Japan.
From 1985 to 2025, that's over 40 years and 70 games of gaming history.
Link: youtu.be/F80Cl6WzBNo?...
This was without a doubt the most ambitious video I've ever made.
From 1985 to 2025, that's over 40 years and 70 games of gaming history.
Link: youtu.be/F80Cl6WzBNo?...
This was without a doubt the most ambitious video I've ever made.
October 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I am covering EVERY First Person Shooter EVER made in Japan.
From 1985 to 2025, that's over 40 years and 70 games of gaming history.
Link: youtu.be/F80Cl6WzBNo?...
This was without a doubt the most ambitious video I've ever made.
From 1985 to 2025, that's over 40 years and 70 games of gaming history.
Link: youtu.be/F80Cl6WzBNo?...
This was without a doubt the most ambitious video I've ever made.
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"What makes this one so special is how sincerely it wants to help complete newcomers fall in love with this dungeon crawling subgenre too."
Got a fresh article on Legend of Grimrock available for everyone to read!
kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2025/10/13/l...
Got a fresh article on Legend of Grimrock available for everyone to read!
kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2025/10/13/l...
Legend of Grimrock: From old fans to new ones, with love
Naked, defenceless, and cast into the dark—Legend of Grimrock’s opening certainly does a great job of echoing the sheer terror of 1989’s Chaos Strikes Back. My equipment is whatever I h…
kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com
October 13, 2025 at 7:07 AM
"What makes this one so special is how sincerely it wants to help complete newcomers fall in love with this dungeon crawling subgenre too."
Got a fresh article on Legend of Grimrock available for everyone to read!
kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2025/10/13/l...
Got a fresh article on Legend of Grimrock available for everyone to read!
kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2025/10/13/l...
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All 3 of my rolls from early September for half-frame day are developed and scanned. A lot of images were lost due to bigger leaders than expected with bulk rolling and accidentally exposing part of one. It definitely made me go out and shoot more film than usual.
October 8, 2025 at 2:11 AM
All 3 of my rolls from early September for half-frame day are developed and scanned. A lot of images were lost due to bigger leaders than expected with bulk rolling and accidentally exposing part of one. It definitely made me go out and shoot more film than usual.
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big fan of the post-ufo 50 turn of classic freeware devs putting together gorgeous anthology releases, really hope it continues www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxtf...
Good Things Vol 1 - Announcement Trailer
YouTube video by John Cooney
www.youtube.com
October 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
big fan of the post-ufo 50 turn of classic freeware devs putting together gorgeous anthology releases, really hope it continues www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxtf...