retroed

Spooky time! 🎃

Podcasting is now twenty years old. And that means shows that ran for years are now just a bunch of URLs that resolve to nothing.

Sometimes, someone uploads a full set of mp3s to archive.org, and that’s great! But you can’t easily listen the same way as your other podcasts.

What if you could?

🧵

A Life Well Wasted 9 will be released one week from today. Here’s the poster design by Olly Moss. Screenprints will be on sale from 9/4 through 9/11 on the ALWW website. Still ad-free! Come back next week.

Happy birthday, Wil!

He really is oh so tiny.

This evening's gaming. And what a game!

Switch 2 GET! Midnight launch at Smyths. Top atmosphere and everything went smoothly. The staff were great.

Super Mario Kart (1992, Nintendo) - SNES

Sharp Pixels vs. MiSTer FPGA composite via Sony KV-14M10

Officially under a week before the Switch 2! I’m mixed on it, but mostly I’m just excited to be alive to see another new Nintendo console. What a privilege so many didn’t get.

Great idea! The first cover tape that comes to mind is this one from Your Sinclair.

Giant Bomb is now independent

"Giant Bomb has new owners, and you're looking at them" - Jeff Grubb

Random game Saturday. One of my favourite SEGA Mega Drive titles, QuackShot.

RIP Giant Bomb.

✋

I needed it in my hands!

Well deserved! Incredible game.

I've just sold a sealed copy of F-Zero on eBay which will pay for the Mario Kart World Switch 2 bundle, Pro Controller 2 and Donkey Kong, with some change leftover. So there's my guilt from pre-ordering last night gone. Thanks, Nintendo!

I think it might be time to break the emergency glass, and list my sealed PAL copy of F-Zero for SNES.

Hi folks, the website I originally wrote this for ended up getting to get way into crypto and advertising gambling and was nuked from the internet after getting sued.

I think it is some of my best writing and would appreciate if people could share it now it has a new home.

Game Informer is back! The entire team is returning and we can't wait to reconnect. Come join us to celebrate the best in games, the people who make games, and the people who play games from all around the world.

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They're the best!

Age yourself with a toy from your childhood.

Post a picture of when your pet was little.

Donkey Kong '94 is one of my favourite games of all-time. Mario's Picross is right up there too, as the OG Picross.

This games industry bloodbath is because of corporate mismanagement and pure, unrestrained avarice. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

Alien Breed: Tower Assault – A monolithic Amiga classic When I first started this blog, I had a couple of rules, which I thought necessary given that my day job is in the games industry. 1) Try not to cover new releases and, if I do, don’t be negative a…

New blog!

For sentimental reasons, I replayed Alien Breed: Tower Assault, a special game from my youth, and found myself immersed in its open-world survival horror all over again!

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I've been an admirer of @jazrignall.bsky.social's writing since the Mean Machines days, so to say I've been looking forward to this new @bitmapbooks.com book is an understatement. I can't wait to get stuck in. Cheers!

What a colossal asshat this man is. No clue whatsoever.