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Peter Franke
@peterafranke.bsky.social
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Father, husband and good friend.

"We are what we think. All that we are is our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world." -Buddha, The Dhammapada
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peterafranke.bsky.social
Stand!
November 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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ocelo78.bsky.social
Tonight @ 7PM CST, we'll continue our adventure in Dragon Warrior on the NES. We've rescued the princess, bought magic armor and leveled up to 13. It's time to grind XP for those higher levels!
twitch.tv/ocelo78
#retrogaming #NES #RPG #DragonWarrior
November 12, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Reposted by Peter Franke
ocelo78.bsky.social
Tonight @ 7PM CDT, we'll continue our adventure in Dragon Warrior on the NES. We've reached level 12 and found important items that are required to continue the quest!
twitch.tv/ocelo78
#retrogaming #NES #RPG #DragonWarrior
October 22, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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ocelo78.bsky.social
Tonight @ 7PM CDT, we'll continue our adventure in Dragon Warrior on the NES. We've reached level 11 and upgraded our equipment. Now we're hunting for clues to continue the storyline.
twitch.tv/ocelo78
#retrogaming #NES #RPG #DragonWarrior
October 8, 2025 at 1:46 PM
peterafranke.bsky.social
DEVO still sounds fresh today.
#DEVO #Vinyl
October 5, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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ocelo78.bsky.social
Tonight @ 7PM CDT, we'll continue our adventure in Dragon Warrior on the NES. We've grown to level 9 and bought some new armor. Exploring has revealed a new cave in the east. Should we push for level 10 before braving the darkness below?
twitch.tv/ocelo78
#retrogaming #NES #RPG #DragonWarrior
October 1, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Reposted by Peter Franke
ocelo78.bsky.social
Tonight @ 7PM CDT, we'll continue our adventure in Dragon Warrior on the NES. I'm enjoying returning to this classic RPG. Where I once considered it's simplicity a drawback, I'm liking the straightforward gameplay.
twitch.tv/ocelo78
#retrogaming #NES #RPG #DragonWarrior
September 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Reposted by Peter Franke
ocelo78.bsky.social
Tonight @ 7PM CDT, we'll battle slimes and grind our way through the fantasy lands of Dragon Warrior on the NES! This was one of the first jRPGs to become hugely popular, in part because Nintendo promoted the game so heavily.
twitch.tv/ocelo78
#retrogaming #NES #RPG #DragonWarrior
September 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Reposted by Peter Franke
ocelo78.bsky.social
Tonight @ 7PM CDT, we'll be back in the Vic Viper in Gradius II on the NES!
twitch.tv/ocelo78
#retrogaming #NES #shmup #gradius
September 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Reposted by Peter Franke
ocelo78.bsky.social
Tonight @ 7PM CDT, we'll be returning to a challenging and beautiful shoot-em-up on the Famicom/NES: Gradius II. We blasted our way to much later stages recently, let's see how far we can get!
twitch.tv/ocelo78
#retrogaming #NES #shmup #gradius
August 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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ocelo78.bsky.social
Tonight at 7PM CDT we'll defend the battlements against a horde of Orc invaders in "Orc Attack" on Atari 8-bit home computers! I never played this game as a kid, but it looks and plays great. It's a bit like reverse "Kaboom".
#Retrogaming #Atari #Atari8bit #OrcAttack
www.twitch.tv/ocelo78
August 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Reposted by Peter Franke
ocelo78.bsky.social
Tonight at 7PM CDT we'll hop into an F-14 and push it into overdrive in Afterburner II on the TurboGrafx 16! This is a PC Engine port of the 1987 Sega arcade game. I loved the arcade game as a child, especially the sit-down cab.
#Retrogaming #TurboGrafx16 #PCEngine #Afterburner
www.twitch.tv/ocelo78
August 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
peterafranke.bsky.social
Scary Monsters - David Bowie
1980
#Vinyl #DavidBowie
August 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Reposted by Peter Franke
ocelo78.bsky.social
Tonight at 7PM CDT we'll eat power pellets and chase ghosts in Pac-Man 4k on the Atari 2600! Pac-Man was a notoriously bad port to the Atari when it was released. Pac-Man 4k is a brilliant homebrew re-imagining of what could have been.
#Retrogaming #Atari #PacMan #Atari2600
www.twitch.tv/ocelo78
August 6, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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ocelo78.bsky.social
Tonight at 7PM CDT we'll craft burgers and crush our enemies at the same time in BurgerTime on the Atari 2600! An arcade classic from 1983, this is a reasonably decent port to the humble Atari 2600's limited hardware.
#Retrogaming #Atari #Burgertime #Atari2600
www.twitch.tv/ocelo78
July 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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ocelo78.bsky.social
Tonight at 7PM CDT we'll continue our hunt for Count Dracula in Castlevania by Konami on the NES! We've made it to stage 10-12, let's see if we can defeat Frankenstein!
#Retrogaming #NES #Castlevania #Konami
www.twitch.tv/ocelo78
July 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
peterafranke.bsky.social
Pelican - Flickering Resonance

Fuzzy, heavy instrumental melodies from Chicago. This one hits right from the start.

#Pelican #HeavyPsych #Vinyl #NowSpinning
July 2, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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ocelo78.bsky.social
Tonight at 7PM CDT we'll hunt Count Dracula in Castlevania by Konami on the NES! A classic 1986 platformer and one of the most iconic NES titles. I've never beaten the game. Let's see how far we can get!
#Retrogaming #NES #Castlevania #Konami
www.twitch.tv/ocelo78
July 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Reposted by Peter Franke
ocelo78.bsky.social
Tonight at 7PM CDT we'll liberate a Caribbean island from tyrannical rule in Guerrilla War by SNK on the NES! Modeled on "Ikari Warriors", this 1987 run-and-gun shmup is an excellent arcade port and a couch-co-op favorite!
#Retrogaming #NES #GuerrillaWar #Shmup
www.twitch.tv/ocelo78
June 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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ocelo78.bsky.social
Tonight at 7PM CDT we'll go behind enemy lines in our heavily armed jeep to rescue POWs in "Jackal" by Konami on the NES! I've only played the excellent NES home version of this arcade game. It's one of the best couch co-op games on the system!
#Retrogaming #NES #Jackal #Shmup
www.twitch.tv/ocelo78
June 18, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Reposted by Peter Franke
ocelo78.bsky.social
There's a current tech article about how ChatGPT's AI was defeated by the computer opponent on the Atari 2600. Video Chess is no joke and it's a marvel of efficient programming for the 1978 tech of the Atari 2600. Only 128 _bytes_ of RAM!
#Atari #Atari2600 #Chess #VideoChess
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Video Chess - Atari 2600 - Level 1 - Checkmate CPU
YouTube video by Ocelo78
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June 12, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Reposted by Peter Franke
ocelo78.bsky.social
Tonight at 7PM CDT we'll blast our way through a gigantic asteroid and take on the space terrorist Gond in Vanguard, on the Atari 2600 from 1983! One if the first "scrolling" shoot-em-ups ever and one of the very few available on the 2600.
#Retrogaming #Atari #Vanguard #Shmup
www.twitch.tv/ocelo78
June 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM