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I'll get in some #RandomGameSaturday action with something from our PC-CDROM boxes: Warcraft III plus Frozen Throne.
Still with their Gamestation stickers on, sniff.
But yeah, jeez, Warcraft III was one of those times when I felt so in tune with an RTS and its storyline.
Still with their Gamestation stickers on, sniff.
But yeah, jeez, Warcraft III was one of those times when I felt so in tune with an RTS and its storyline.
November 22, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I'll get in some #RandomGameSaturday action with something from our PC-CDROM boxes: Warcraft III plus Frozen Throne.
Still with their Gamestation stickers on, sniff.
But yeah, jeez, Warcraft III was one of those times when I felt so in tune with an RTS and its storyline.
Still with their Gamestation stickers on, sniff.
But yeah, jeez, Warcraft III was one of those times when I felt so in tune with an RTS and its storyline.
🕹️ Bytes of Gaming History ⏳
Candid photos of the midnight launches for the Xbox 360 on 22nd November 2005. Up to 17 hours some waited, camping out in their hundreds, some with TVs and OG Xboxes hooked up to generators to pass the time, until finally, they got their hands on the next generation.
Candid photos of the midnight launches for the Xbox 360 on 22nd November 2005. Up to 17 hours some waited, camping out in their hundreds, some with TVs and OG Xboxes hooked up to generators to pass the time, until finally, they got their hands on the next generation.
November 22, 2025 at 12:20 PM
🕹️ Bytes of Gaming History ⏳
Candid photos of the midnight launches for the Xbox 360 on 22nd November 2005. Up to 17 hours some waited, camping out in their hundreds, some with TVs and OG Xboxes hooked up to generators to pass the time, until finally, they got their hands on the next generation.
Candid photos of the midnight launches for the Xbox 360 on 22nd November 2005. Up to 17 hours some waited, camping out in their hundreds, some with TVs and OG Xboxes hooked up to generators to pass the time, until finally, they got their hands on the next generation.
Hoihoi, it's the Xbox 360's 20th birthday today! Happy birthday, one of my favourite and personally important consoles in my gaming life.
Yes, I too fought the RROD.
But yeah, the 360 was my gateway to that generation of gaming. Mirror's Edge, Mass Effect, Fallout 3, Assassin's Creed II...
1/2
Yes, I too fought the RROD.
But yeah, the 360 was my gateway to that generation of gaming. Mirror's Edge, Mass Effect, Fallout 3, Assassin's Creed II...
1/2
November 22, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Hoihoi, it's the Xbox 360's 20th birthday today! Happy birthday, one of my favourite and personally important consoles in my gaming life.
Yes, I too fought the RROD.
But yeah, the 360 was my gateway to that generation of gaming. Mirror's Edge, Mass Effect, Fallout 3, Assassin's Creed II...
1/2
Yes, I too fought the RROD.
But yeah, the 360 was my gateway to that generation of gaming. Mirror's Edge, Mass Effect, Fallout 3, Assassin's Creed II...
1/2
This is awful, and Diaz has QTP'd that they have insider info that @crunchyroll.com execs consider the current backlash against their enshittification of subtitles too small to matter.
They've bent to backlash before tho with trying to lower video quality.
This is an important one, anime fans.
They've bent to backlash before tho with trying to lower video quality.
This is an important one, anime fans.
November 22, 2025 at 10:23 AM
This is awful, and Diaz has QTP'd that they have insider info that @crunchyroll.com execs consider the current backlash against their enshittification of subtitles too small to matter.
They've bent to backlash before tho with trying to lower video quality.
This is an important one, anime fans.
They've bent to backlash before tho with trying to lower video quality.
This is an important one, anime fans.
Late-nite skeet shooting with one of Kit's favourite games on NES, first played on Pegasus: Track & Field.
Still reaching for that 3200 points qualify ;o;
Still reaching for that 3200 points qualify ;o;
November 22, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Late-nite skeet shooting with one of Kit's favourite games on NES, first played on Pegasus: Track & Field.
Still reaching for that 3200 points qualify ;o;
Still reaching for that 3200 points qualify ;o;
From some of the experiences I've had so far, I'd name Hotel Dusk as one of my must-plays, same with Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin. One of my favourite Dsiware titles is a cool tower defence game called Starship Patrol. Moon is another interesting title that puts the DS's capabilities to good use.
November 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
From some of the experiences I've had so far, I'd name Hotel Dusk as one of my must-plays, same with Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin. One of my favourite Dsiware titles is a cool tower defence game called Starship Patrol. Moon is another interesting title that puts the DS's capabilities to good use.
Touch it. See it. Feel it.
Old enough to legally drink now in the country where it first launched on 21st November 2004: The Nintendo DS.
Happy 21st, my favourite handheld. 💜
Share the love for the DS family, peeps. What are your favourite games and memories? What do you consider essential plays?
Old enough to legally drink now in the country where it first launched on 21st November 2004: The Nintendo DS.
Happy 21st, my favourite handheld. 💜
Share the love for the DS family, peeps. What are your favourite games and memories? What do you consider essential plays?
November 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Touch it. See it. Feel it.
Old enough to legally drink now in the country where it first launched on 21st November 2004: The Nintendo DS.
Happy 21st, my favourite handheld. 💜
Share the love for the DS family, peeps. What are your favourite games and memories? What do you consider essential plays?
Old enough to legally drink now in the country where it first launched on 21st November 2004: The Nintendo DS.
Happy 21st, my favourite handheld. 💜
Share the love for the DS family, peeps. What are your favourite games and memories? What do you consider essential plays?
When the full moon rises... A metropolis in the grip of demonic evil, three years before the rise of Jaquio.
📺: Ninja Gaiden Shadow, Natsume, 1991 (GB)
📺: Ninja Gaiden Shadow, Natsume, 1991 (GB)
November 21, 2025 at 1:55 PM
When the full moon rises... A metropolis in the grip of demonic evil, three years before the rise of Jaquio.
📺: Ninja Gaiden Shadow, Natsume, 1991 (GB)
📺: Ninja Gaiden Shadow, Natsume, 1991 (GB)
A Quest for Identity...
One of the great cinematic platformers. 💜
One of the great cinematic platformers. 💜
November 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
A Quest for Identity...
One of the great cinematic platformers. 💜
One of the great cinematic platformers. 💜
Ah, of course, I thought it might be: The cover is a homage to Pretty Woman.
November 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Ah, of course, I thought it might be: The cover is a homage to Pretty Woman.
A cool mag cover from Famicom User for the 35th Birthday of the Super Fami.
What a stylish Nekki/Necky the Fox!
Special bonus: Get a Super Famicom before anyone else!
What a stylish Nekki/Necky the Fox!
Special bonus: Get a Super Famicom before anyone else!
November 21, 2025 at 11:46 AM
A cool mag cover from Famicom User for the 35th Birthday of the Super Fami.
What a stylish Nekki/Necky the Fox!
Special bonus: Get a Super Famicom before anyone else!
What a stylish Nekki/Necky the Fox!
Special bonus: Get a Super Famicom before anyone else!
Kicking off with some birthday greets to the Super Famicom! Released in Japan on this day 35 years ago.
Fearing Yakuza were going to hijack shipments of Super Fami's, Nintendo trucked them in secret to stores: Operation Midnight Shipping.
What are some of your favourite SF or SNES games, peeps?
Fearing Yakuza were going to hijack shipments of Super Fami's, Nintendo trucked them in secret to stores: Operation Midnight Shipping.
What are some of your favourite SF or SNES games, peeps?
November 21, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Kicking off with some birthday greets to the Super Famicom! Released in Japan on this day 35 years ago.
Fearing Yakuza were going to hijack shipments of Super Fami's, Nintendo trucked them in secret to stores: Operation Midnight Shipping.
What are some of your favourite SF or SNES games, peeps?
Fearing Yakuza were going to hijack shipments of Super Fami's, Nintendo trucked them in secret to stores: Operation Midnight Shipping.
What are some of your favourite SF or SNES games, peeps?
What horror lurks aboard a space station in the year 2061? The awesome cover for Jesus: Kyōfu no Bio Monster for Famicom gives us a clue as to what. 👾
I played this through last year, and definitely recommend it.
I played this through last year, and definitely recommend it.
November 21, 2025 at 1:27 AM
What horror lurks aboard a space station in the year 2061? The awesome cover for Jesus: Kyōfu no Bio Monster for Famicom gives us a clue as to what. 👾
I played this through last year, and definitely recommend it.
I played this through last year, and definitely recommend it.
The Yggdrasil Labyrinth called, tasking adventurers to take up digital stylus and map their route as they seek fame and fortune.
📺: Etrian Odyssey, Atlas/Lancarse, 2007. (DS)
Snapped with an Olympus Camedia C-765
📺: Etrian Odyssey, Atlas/Lancarse, 2007. (DS)
Snapped with an Olympus Camedia C-765
November 20, 2025 at 10:47 PM
The Yggdrasil Labyrinth called, tasking adventurers to take up digital stylus and map their route as they seek fame and fortune.
📺: Etrian Odyssey, Atlas/Lancarse, 2007. (DS)
Snapped with an Olympus Camedia C-765
📺: Etrian Odyssey, Atlas/Lancarse, 2007. (DS)
Snapped with an Olympus Camedia C-765
"Sneeee... look at my diorama, I'm so proud, sneee..."
I do love the diorama on this, the cover of what was intended as the third of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons for Intellivision, but the licence was stripped before release.
I do love the diorama on this, the cover of what was intended as the third of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons for Intellivision, but the licence was stripped before release.
November 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
"Sneeee... look at my diorama, I'm so proud, sneee..."
I do love the diorama on this, the cover of what was intended as the third of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons for Intellivision, but the licence was stripped before release.
I do love the diorama on this, the cover of what was intended as the third of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons for Intellivision, but the licence was stripped before release.
Ultima/Akalabeth are the earliest examples I can think of with 3D wireframe dungeons, but as far as real-time reflex combat in them and not switching to a separate battle system like in those, FTL's Dungeon Master (1987) is the first one.
November 20, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Ultima/Akalabeth are the earliest examples I can think of with 3D wireframe dungeons, but as far as real-time reflex combat in them and not switching to a separate battle system like in those, FTL's Dungeon Master (1987) is the first one.
A slice of the sixth generation in mag covers. 🔥
November 20, 2025 at 7:58 PM
A slice of the sixth generation in mag covers. 🔥
Meeting some of the learned denizens of the land, where artefacts of the age of man can be found such as globes and telescopes, the latter known as 'light catchers'
November 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Meeting some of the learned denizens of the land, where artefacts of the age of man can be found such as globes and telescopes, the latter known as 'light catchers'
A beautiful VGA sunset 💜
November 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM
A beautiful VGA sunset 💜
The world opens up before us, and we have some more gorgeous and adventurey music <3
November 20, 2025 at 6:18 PM
The world opens up before us, and we have some more gorgeous and adventurey music <3
Who knows what goes into the honey that this chilled out bear enjoys
November 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Who knows what goes into the honey that this chilled out bear enjoys
No kit milf for us; too dedicated to our quest
November 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
No kit milf for us; too dedicated to our quest
Kicked off playing through Inherit the Earth (1994, DOS), and on the trail of the culprit behind the theft of the Orb of Storms.
The voice acting and conversation structure has been very natural so far.
Ongoing 🧵
The voice acting and conversation structure has been very natural so far.
Ongoing 🧵
November 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Kicked off playing through Inherit the Earth (1994, DOS), and on the trail of the culprit behind the theft of the Orb of Storms.
The voice acting and conversation structure has been very natural so far.
Ongoing 🧵
The voice acting and conversation structure has been very natural so far.
Ongoing 🧵
Three flavours of mouse - click, click, click!
I remembered that Eye of the Beholder for MCD has mouse support, and here it is in three different flavours: JPN, NA, and EUR.
Dwells in the shadow of its SNES rival in terms of being remembered, but a fresh spotlight gleams on its sleek black body.
I remembered that Eye of the Beholder for MCD has mouse support, and here it is in three different flavours: JPN, NA, and EUR.
Dwells in the shadow of its SNES rival in terms of being remembered, but a fresh spotlight gleams on its sleek black body.
November 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Three flavours of mouse - click, click, click!
I remembered that Eye of the Beholder for MCD has mouse support, and here it is in three different flavours: JPN, NA, and EUR.
Dwells in the shadow of its SNES rival in terms of being remembered, but a fresh spotlight gleams on its sleek black body.
I remembered that Eye of the Beholder for MCD has mouse support, and here it is in three different flavours: JPN, NA, and EUR.
Dwells in the shadow of its SNES rival in terms of being remembered, but a fresh spotlight gleams on its sleek black body.
A dungeon-eye view of the Waterdeep sewers, which echo with dungeonfunk.
For the Mega CD version of Eye of the Beholder, Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima once again combined forces to rock your adventuring party's world.
For the Mega CD version of Eye of the Beholder, Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima once again combined forces to rock your adventuring party's world.
November 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
A dungeon-eye view of the Waterdeep sewers, which echo with dungeonfunk.
For the Mega CD version of Eye of the Beholder, Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima once again combined forces to rock your adventuring party's world.
For the Mega CD version of Eye of the Beholder, Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima once again combined forces to rock your adventuring party's world.