Nicole Express
@nicole.express
i like video games too much // neither holy, nor roman, nor an empire // she/her // https://nicole.express
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Just when you thought a landmark year for historical video game research was over!
For years I wondered what the dead boss in Monster Party for NES was meant to be.
The manual says it's a giant spider. Except it's not. It looks like a lizard.
Well, today I stumbled upon this: bogleech.com/halloween/ha...
The 1980s Gegebo Majuu (ゲゲボ魔獣) toy figurines by Bandai.
The manual says it's a giant spider. Except it's not. It looks like a lizard.
Well, today I stumbled upon this: bogleech.com/halloween/ha...
The 1980s Gegebo Majuu (ゲゲボ魔獣) toy figurines by Bandai.
December 30, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Just when you thought a landmark year for historical video game research was over!
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🎶 New blog post / it's one you can read / this Sun's Timekeeper is toast / so why don't we / cut a hole in it with a Dremel? 🎶
#sparc #sunos #sparcstation #retrocomputing #powertoolabuse
www.leadedsolder.com/2025/12/30/s...
#sparc #sunos #sparcstation #retrocomputing #powertoolabuse
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Giving the SPARCstation some jumper cables
My SPARCstation 1+ is very forgetful, and the cause is the old evil of batteries. In this case, the battery is entombed in an immortal epoxy container, which makes it really hard to swap! That’s why m...
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December 30, 2025 at 4:08 PM
🎶 New blog post / it's one you can read / this Sun's Timekeeper is toast / so why don't we / cut a hole in it with a Dremel? 🎶
#sparc #sunos #sparcstation #retrocomputing #powertoolabuse
www.leadedsolder.com/2025/12/30/s...
#sparc #sunos #sparcstation #retrocomputing #powertoolabuse
www.leadedsolder.com/2025/12/30/s...
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Who says Macs don’t have disk drives?
December 30, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Who says Macs don’t have disk drives?
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Ultima I: The First Age of Dithering.
This title screen for the PC-98 port of Ultima is so charming.
This title screen for the PC-98 port of Ultima is so charming.
March 2, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Ultima I: The First Age of Dithering.
This title screen for the PC-98 port of Ultima is so charming.
This title screen for the PC-98 port of Ultima is so charming.
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Against all odds, you need this... The famous Gravis Gamepad! Positioning itself as the gamepad of choice for the DOS and early Windows gamer of 1993.
I never had one of these as sidewinders were my choice when I started PC gaming in '98.
Was this (or still is!) your fave, vintage PC biskies?
I never had one of these as sidewinders were my choice when I started PC gaming in '98.
Was this (or still is!) your fave, vintage PC biskies?
January 10, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Against all odds, you need this... The famous Gravis Gamepad! Positioning itself as the gamepad of choice for the DOS and early Windows gamer of 1993.
I never had one of these as sidewinders were my choice when I started PC gaming in '98.
Was this (or still is!) your fave, vintage PC biskies?
I never had one of these as sidewinders were my choice when I started PC gaming in '98.
Was this (or still is!) your fave, vintage PC biskies?
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Trying not to dwell on weird comments but this response to my video "The Untold Story of the Nintendo Entertainment System" is next level. This should win some kind of award. This is a fifth grade playground burn, a troll I didn't know I was nostalgic for.
December 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Trying not to dwell on weird comments but this response to my video "The Untold Story of the Nintendo Entertainment System" is next level. This should win some kind of award. This is a fifth grade playground burn, a troll I didn't know I was nostalgic for.
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Sega has further refined role playing games... Phantasy Star!"
Signing off for the night with a Japanese commercial for the OG Phantasy Star. 4 Megabit plus FM Sound 🔥
(This time with sound, not sure what happened last time ;o;)
#VideoBytes
Signing off for the night with a Japanese commercial for the OG Phantasy Star. 4 Megabit plus FM Sound 🔥
(This time with sound, not sure what happened last time ;o;)
#VideoBytes
January 8, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Sega has further refined role playing games... Phantasy Star!"
Signing off for the night with a Japanese commercial for the OG Phantasy Star. 4 Megabit plus FM Sound 🔥
(This time with sound, not sure what happened last time ;o;)
#VideoBytes
Signing off for the night with a Japanese commercial for the OG Phantasy Star. 4 Megabit plus FM Sound 🔥
(This time with sound, not sure what happened last time ;o;)
#VideoBytes
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Groove on Fight New Year's card, for New Year's 1997.
December 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Groove on Fight New Year's card, for New Year's 1997.
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Tucked away in a Polish anime CD from 1997: Windows 3.x/95 Solitaire infused with the Power of the Moon!
Also known as Moonsol and Solitaire: Sailor Moon Edition.
Also known as Moonsol and Solitaire: Sailor Moon Edition.
December 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Tucked away in a Polish anime CD from 1997: Windows 3.x/95 Solitaire infused with the Power of the Moon!
Also known as Moonsol and Solitaire: Sailor Moon Edition.
Also known as Moonsol and Solitaire: Sailor Moon Edition.
time to rewatch the 1987 diet coke commercial, i assume this is 100% accurate to what the 1980s were like all the time, including the mermaids www.youtube.com/watch?v=30dh...
Diet Coke Commercial feat. The Pointer Sisters - Just For The Taste Of It (1987)
YouTube video by Fry's Commercial Vault
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December 29, 2025 at 4:08 PM
time to rewatch the 1987 diet coke commercial, i assume this is 100% accurate to what the 1980s were like all the time, including the mermaids www.youtube.com/watch?v=30dh...
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Last night, I showed off the really impressive "G-Zero" for the #Sega Genesis, which featured Mode-7-like #SNES visuals
Today, I want to show you another demo from 2022,
with a similar goal.
But this time for the #NES
"Kart Racer '86"
blackbirddev.itch.io/mariokart86
#retro #homebrew #retrogaming
Today, I want to show you another demo from 2022,
with a similar goal.
But this time for the #NES
"Kart Racer '86"
blackbirddev.itch.io/mariokart86
#retro #homebrew #retrogaming
December 29, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Last night, I showed off the really impressive "G-Zero" for the #Sega Genesis, which featured Mode-7-like #SNES visuals
Today, I want to show you another demo from 2022,
with a similar goal.
But this time for the #NES
"Kart Racer '86"
blackbirddev.itch.io/mariokart86
#retro #homebrew #retrogaming
Today, I want to show you another demo from 2022,
with a similar goal.
But this time for the #NES
"Kart Racer '86"
blackbirddev.itch.io/mariokart86
#retro #homebrew #retrogaming
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An early title screen (left) for Phantasy Star II (MD) compared to its final release (right). Besides the similar but nude single woman, the same planets are there, but a nice portrait of Alis/Arisa(?) disappeared for the final title screen.
December 29, 2025 at 12:39 AM
An early title screen (left) for Phantasy Star II (MD) compared to its final release (right). Besides the similar but nude single woman, the same planets are there, but a nice portrait of Alis/Arisa(?) disappeared for the final title screen.
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this 1996 commercial for claritin sent me into flight or flight. an absolute psycho directed this
April 24, 2025 at 6:37 AM
this 1996 commercial for claritin sent me into flight or flight. an absolute psycho directed this
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It's a game of cat-and-mouse as MacUser rolled onto shelves for the first time in 1985 with purrfect timing to ride the Mac wave.
April 5, 2025 at 11:16 AM
It's a game of cat-and-mouse as MacUser rolled onto shelves for the first time in 1985 with purrfect timing to ride the Mac wave.
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that's not a JAV, that's a famicom bootleg found only in the deepest bowels of aliexpress 500-in-1 multicarts
Super Erotic Wife 7
December 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
that's not a JAV, that's a famicom bootleg found only in the deepest bowels of aliexpress 500-in-1 multicarts
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There is a YA fiction book about meeting Honus Wagner, a baseball player who is only known today because his baseball card is worth a lot of money. I hope I live long enough to see the film adaptation of Stadium Events.
December 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
There is a YA fiction book about meeting Honus Wagner, a baseball player who is only known today because his baseball card is worth a lot of money. I hope I live long enough to see the film adaptation of Stadium Events.
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1994: What and Why, indeed.
December 28, 2025 at 8:17 PM
1994: What and Why, indeed.
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The final issue of GAME FREAK zine from 2004, produced by the company that had started off life as an arcade game tips zine in the early 80s, to commemorate 15 years since the founding of the company.
The previous issue had been released in 1999 following a 12-year gap as they focused on game dev.
The previous issue had been released in 1999 following a 12-year gap as they focused on game dev.
December 28, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The final issue of GAME FREAK zine from 2004, produced by the company that had started off life as an arcade game tips zine in the early 80s, to commemorate 15 years since the founding of the company.
The previous issue had been released in 1999 following a 12-year gap as they focused on game dev.
The previous issue had been released in 1999 following a 12-year gap as they focused on game dev.
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I've released my tool for encoding pixel art on floppy disk tracks.
Because that is surely a thing that people will want to do? I don't know. I just get ideas and dumb stuff happens.
github.com/dbalsom/flux...
#retrocomputing #floppy #floppydisk
Because that is surely a thing that people will want to do? I don't know. I just get ideas and dumb stuff happens.
github.com/dbalsom/flux...
#retrocomputing #floppy #floppydisk
December 28, 2025 at 3:12 AM
I've released my tool for encoding pixel art on floppy disk tracks.
Because that is surely a thing that people will want to do? I don't know. I just get ideas and dumb stuff happens.
github.com/dbalsom/flux...
#retrocomputing #floppy #floppydisk
Because that is surely a thing that people will want to do? I don't know. I just get ideas and dumb stuff happens.
github.com/dbalsom/flux...
#retrocomputing #floppy #floppydisk
I was going to do a "let's look back at the blog posts I wrote this year" and then I realized that the Apple ][ writeup was *not* this year and time is moving too fast and I'm too old and now you don't get a look back
December 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I was going to do a "let's look back at the blog posts I wrote this year" and then I realized that the Apple ][ writeup was *not* this year and time is moving too fast and I'm too old and now you don't get a look back
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Wow, @shanelynch.bsky.social and @billytimegames.bsky.social got the #SegaChannel running on #MiSTerFPGA! Links and instructions are in the post: retrorgb.com/sega-channel...
Sega Channel on MiSTer - RetroRGB
Shane Lynch has just released a MiSTer core for the "Sega Channel" - One of the first download services for video game consoles that was released in the 90's for the Sega Genesis and only available vi...
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December 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Wow, @shanelynch.bsky.social and @billytimegames.bsky.social got the #SegaChannel running on #MiSTerFPGA! Links and instructions are in the post: retrorgb.com/sega-channel...
Surprise, a new "byte" post: a little writeup on a color LCD game from 1999. The mirror vision trick to get more brightness on a color LCD didn't die with the Panorama Screen, it turns out. nicole.express/2025/stop-in...
Narcissus' Direct-to-VHS Return: MGA's Space Invaders Color FX
Remember the Game & Watch Panorama Series? The use of mirrors for a clever approach to a portable color LCD console. Of course, in 1999, you didn’t need ...
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December 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Surprise, a new "byte" post: a little writeup on a color LCD game from 1999. The mirror vision trick to get more brightness on a color LCD didn't die with the Panorama Screen, it turns out. nicole.express/2025/stop-in...