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taizou @taizou.12bit.club · Nov 1
All boys should be kissing
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ONE-STAR HEROES: playing bad games to pay my bills!

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ONE-STAR HEROES: playing bad games to pay my bills! | !tip
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November 30, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Umbreon ✨
November 30, 2025 at 11:14 PM
taizou.12bit.club
currently using Linux booted from usb to flash SD cards because I don't want Windows putting its fucking System Volume Information on them
November 30, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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🎨Commission art 2025-96
November 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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November 30, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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yes, it's that marvel of the arctic; the wonderful snowshoe hare!
a painting of a rather concerned looking white hare strapped into traditional snowshoes
November 29, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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"No TV? No Problem!"

Clip-on screens for consoles in the early 2000s were certainly a thing - as were built-into-controllers with HIP Screen: PS2, Xbox, and GameCube pads with a 2.6" back-lit TFT screen rising above them.

To my surprise, these actually reviewed quite well.
A magazine ad for Hip ScreenPad, with a photo of the controller and pivoting screen in a frame with speakers either side. The pad looks much like the average third party dual shock-alike you'd get.
November 30, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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ネコ
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November 29, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Beano #1452, May 16, 1970
Biffo and Buster engage in a moment of prayer at the Violin Recital by Fred Fiddle, whose fiddle emanates a "Lovely Notes" sound.
November 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Mobile Suit Gundam
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Char's Counterattack
First base is stabbing, second base is kissing, third base is divorce
November 30, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Wikis: Taito invented Body Sonic when they made Darius in 1986

AI: The term Body Sonic refers to a haptic feedback system developed by the Japanese video game company Taito

Reality: Body Sonic was released by Pioneer in 1980 & Namco had deluxe Pole Position 2's using it in 1982
AI being shit & wrong, as always Deluxe Pole Position 2 Body Sonic cabs in 1982, Namco Milaiya arcade 80s Pioneer Body Sonic chair for consumers. Originally made for concerts before being offered for cars, home use & concerts for the hearing impaired
November 30, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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#furryart #oc
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JP Ronny Bond Jr (U) [b1].nes
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Wii版のクロノア君の衣装可愛いですね〜！
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November 30, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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ピットくーん
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Dick Master (J) [b1][o1].nes
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Tackle the Twink
November 30, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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;-)
青いブリンク (hudson soft, pc engine, 1990)
November 29, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Classy androgynous lion 🍷
November 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Confirmed: McVitie's are the snack of the genius
mathewkumar.com Mathew Kumar @mathewkumar.com · 1d
Via @dylancuthbert.bsky.social and @retrogamermag.bsky.social, if I ever interview Miyamoto it’s gonna be a Nardwuar-style affair where I suddenly surprise him with some digestives
What is your most prominent memory of creating Star Fox with Argonaut and the people at Nintendo? Going for McVitie's chocolate biscuits at the local convenience store at 3am is one of my best memories. The schedule was tight, and we were waiting for final bug reports. Miyamoto and everyone else were there, and Miyamoto had a hankering for his favourite student-era snack, which happened to be McVitie's chocolate biscuits, which were sold in Japan back then. Sadly, you can't find them here anymore. McVities Chocolate Digestives
November 29, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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This is an interesting bit, it's come up before, that Tectoy wanted to bring over a monochrome, Game Boy-like handheld from Taiwan as a budget alternative to the Game Gear and license Sega games for it. The only one I think that matches that description is the Gamate?
Time Extension: You mentioned before about Sega saying, 'No' to you a lot. Are there any ideas that you can specifically remember that you pitched to Sega and they just outright refused to do? Arnhold: I can give you one: the black and white video game. Game Boy was huge, and Sega at the time had the Game Gear, which ate through, I don't know how many Batteries, but it was still a fantastic product. Playing Super Monaco GP II game to game with two Game Gears was always an amazing experience, and you could even use the Game Gear as a TV set. So we thought it was fantastic, but we knew it would never hit the millions that Game Boy was enjoying, especially in Brazil. So we found one company in Taiwan — I don't remember the name — that had this product they were interested in selling. Their product was okay, but I went to my head of engineering, Roberto, and said, 'The audio is lousy. Can you fix it?' And he said, 'Sure, no problem, but it will cost a little bit.' So we came more or less to the idea that if we could do half a million units, it would pay for the investment. That was the ballpark figure we had in mind. So I went to talk to Randy Rissman, who was the owner of Tiger Electronics, which had excellent distribution, especially in the U.S, and I said, 'Now imagine if this has Sega games,' and he said, 'This looks pretty feasible.' Everything seemed to me to be pretty positive, but then I flew out to Tokyo, and I had a very bad meeting with Sega. They told me, 'No way,' but this time they said it convincingly, so I knew I couldn't do it. They said, 'No, Sega will never have a monochromatic handheld.' We tried to explain to them the size of the market we were aiming for, and asked, 'Let us just do it in the US & Brazil.' But they told us again, 'No'. In other words, don't even think about it. Time Extension: How complicated were the games going to be? Were they going to be like actual Sega games, like the Master System or Game Gear? Or even more simplified? Arnhold: They were going to be real video games, not LCD games. If you put them side by side with a Game Boy, they would be, let's say, Game Boy-like, but for our games: Altered Beast, Golden Axe, Afterburner, Sonic and the whole library, right? I think it would have been a huge success. In my opinion, there was no chance of failing. Time Extension: Have any prototypes survived? Or do you have any images of what it may have looked like? Arnhold: No, we kept it really, really secret. In the beginning, we didn't want anybody to know for obvious reasons, but then, when Sega was so determined not to approve it or license their games to us, we more or less got rid of everything to do with it. We didn't want this to leak because, after many, many years with an excellent relationship with Sega, we knew exactly when we could advance with something like this and when we could not. So I think it was an excellent idea, but they said, 'We don't want it, it won't happen,' so we thought, forget it, let's try something else.
November 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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"We Were Fighting Nintendo Clones Backed By Big Companies" - How A Small Toy Company Helped Sega Conquer Brazil. (Repost)
"We Were Fighting Nintendo Clones Backed By Big Companies" - How A Small Toy Company Helped Sega Conquer Brazil
Former Tectoy CEO Stefano Arnhold on the Master System, Mega Net, and more
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November 29, 2025 at 7:50 PM