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John Ricciardi

@johntv.bsky.social

ハチノヨンとスパデラのジョンです。Tokyo-based game lover/gatherer and 8-4 & SDX co-founder. EGM alum. 集まり屋。(He/Him) くわしいことは本をみて下さい。

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What’s going on with this weird ghosting thing here - is it an emulation issue on NSO?

28.02.2026 06:09 — 👍 23    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0

Nothing quite like the feeling of playing a brand new Resident Evil game for the first time

27.02.2026 16:22 — 👍 35    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Digging the vibes on this one, probably more than any other in recent memory

27.02.2026 14:28 — 👍 33    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Was thinking the same thing

27.02.2026 14:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So is Japanese RE9 censored again?

27.02.2026 13:08 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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My Pokémons, let me show you them

(Happy 30th Pokémon!)

27.02.2026 12:35 — 👍 87    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0
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a pixel art of a video game with hearts and trees around it Alt: Link visiting a fairy in The Legend of Zelda surrounded by floating hearts

Newly free this week, @jparish.bsky.social @feitclub.bsky.social & @johntv.bsky.social embody Power, Wisdom, and Courage in daring to discuss The Legend of Zelda for its 40th anniversary
retronauts.com/article/2482...

25.02.2026 12:01 — 👍 46    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 1

32 and blizzarding in NY, meanwhile it’s 72 and sunny in Tokyo…

23.02.2026 04:22 — 👍 29    🔁 0    💬 5    📌 0

Saw that on my playthrough too - what’s up with the copyright symbol, is that a bug from back in the day? Feel like I read about this a while back but can’t remember where

22.02.2026 16:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Oh, Canada.

22.02.2026 15:52 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Was thinking the same thing. Feels like little league or something

22.02.2026 15:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Oh, my bad, looks like it was 4:15 in total. (And now I’ve learned that the Nintendo app doesn’t update playtime in real time, so thanks for that!) This looks correct now tho because I hit the credits at 12:30am

22.02.2026 02:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Looks like 2:45

21.02.2026 16:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Today was the perfect day for another playthrough. Still stands up, 40 years later. Truly one of the best games ever made ❤️

21.02.2026 15:42 — 👍 82    🔁 6    💬 5    📌 0

Parisi, in his native accent

21.02.2026 07:26 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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We were so excited to be part of Indie Fan Fest that we decided to drop our #NextFest demo early!

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Slide and collide in our revolutionary Dungeon Brawler right now! Support Steam Remote Play Together!

#indiedev #gaming

19.02.2026 19:10 — 👍 18    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 2
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Friday, February 21, 1986. 40 years ago this very minute (it’s a little past noon here in Japan), people were discovering Zelda’s secrets for the first time.

21.02.2026 03:27 — 👍 129    🔁 20    💬 2    📌 3

If you’re worried about the future of games, remember that your $ holds enormous sway. Support companies who actually care about the art and craft of making games, who put people first and value their employees & audiences. Support indies especially. The future doesn’t belong to greedy corporations

21.02.2026 00:42 — 👍 886    🔁 314    💬 9    📌 11

No this was just a small shop that was on its last legs and the grandma in there had lots of stock of things that had long since run their course. I wish I’d taken more pics during those trips

21.02.2026 00:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy 40th, Legend of Zelda~ (and Famicom Disk System!)

20.02.2026 15:04 — 👍 253    🔁 52    💬 2    📌 7
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I was fortunate enough to buy my FDS brand new in 1997 from a small mom ‘n pop shop near Akihabara that had them in stock. It came with two free games - Ice Hockey and Excitebike. Mostly used it to play the Japanese versions of Zelda, Zelda 2, Metroid, Kid Icarus, Doki Doki Panic, and a few others.

20.02.2026 16:04 — 👍 64    🔁 5    💬 4    📌 0
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Happy 40th, Legend of Zelda~ (and Famicom Disk System!)

20.02.2026 15:04 — 👍 253    🔁 52    💬 2    📌 7

Feeling a bit ill after 15 mins of Virtual Boy lol

17.02.2026 05:40 — 👍 73    🔁 3    💬 10    📌 1

Ah-hah! Apologies to Giancarlo, indeed that makes even more Sony sense than Shane

17.02.2026 04:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

(Or is that some other Shane-alike)

17.02.2026 04:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Are Shane and Peter in this or are they just invading your thumbnail

17.02.2026 04:15 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Or that

16.02.2026 23:40 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Gotta find the lumbar corset I got from when I had a herniated disc so I can wrap that big bulky sucker around my head as Yokoi intended

16.02.2026 23:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

How did you get it so quickly? Hah!

The “real” one is beautiful and definitely feels more like the authentic experience but the fact is, I just want to play the games, and for that, the cardboard jam seems more accessible.

16.02.2026 23:29 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Two other things: 1) you can’t take video while playing the VB app (boo), and 2) when you quit the app, you have to touch the screen to close it.

16.02.2026 16:08 — 👍 18    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0