Be careful, Jeremy Parish's bowtie is really a camera

I thought all of those piles along the sidewalks were sandbag barricades to prevent flooding at first, but no… Glad Bags as far as the eye can see

Funny you should say that

Stepped into the airplane and it was sunny and 79°F. Stepped out after a 70-minute flight and it’s 43°F and rainy. This should be illegal

Dark Horse’s standard size is 9x12”! I had actually laid this out at 8x10” and had to retool it when they picked it up. That’s also why the NES Eras are 12”, I didn’t want this one to be lonely on the shelf.

Man, I misread that as “turns him on” and thought you had a very different take on Mega Man canon for a moment

We shared solutions and answers in the school yard. Or, in Miyamoto terms, it was like when someone found their dad's porn stash and passed it around to friends

Yeah basically

I guess the second edition of my book will need an update: "metroidvanias AND PORN are based on The Tower of Druaga"

Rethinking Defender: In defense of Williams' groundbreaking 1980 metroidvania. In this 50,000 word video essay, I wi

A text thead from Chris Sims, who constantly hassles me about Super Mario World being a metroidvania, chastising me for mentioning Super Mario World in my metroidvania book (it's not a metroidvania)

Damn, called out

It's not in the book, but I am putting together an errata video of things that just missed the cut, and it will be included there.

Special thanks in particular to my editor, @editrix-rachel.bsky.social, who took a pretty damn good book (IMO) and refined it into something genuinely great, and @apncreates.bsky.social for her cover art, which miraculously encompasses the entirety of 1980s pre-metroidvania games

YouTube video by Jeremy Parish | Video Works Backtrack to the bookstore: Metroidvania: The First Decade | Metroidvania Works Special

My new book launched yesterday! With the help of our friends at @darkhorse.com! Which means you can buy it at any bookstore worth a damn! Here's an overview (link in video description), plus a few little bonus Metroidvania Works segments that were added to the print edition: youtu.be/7My3pi-MEO8

A photo of a shelf at a bookstore showing various video game related books like: WipeOut Futurism: The Graphic Archives, Joysticks to Haptics, Video Game of the Year by Jordan Minor, Good Game No Rematch by Mike Drucker, and The Art of Battletoads. Faced out is The History of Metroidvania Decade One: 1980-1990 by Jeremy Parish. A shelftalker beneath it reads: “Attention Hollow Knight Silksong fans: learn the early origins of your favorite genre of exploratory platform games with this meticulously researched and beautiful book all about it!”

Excited to tell every customer who comes in at work about the new @jparish.bsky.social book

www.instagram.com/p/DVcmyHDkY9b/

Yeah, I received this for Christmas six or seven years ago and only bring it out for XTreme situations

And here I thought I was being too annoyingly pushy about it

Fancy gin in a fancy glass

Broke out some of the Good Stuff to celebrate my book launch

Happy to see an end to one of the most bizarre copyright conflicts in gaming history

It's the Pokopia logo, altered to say "Pokopia Renzoku Satsujin Jiken". A play on the original Japanese title for The Portopia Serial Murder Case

Get ready for… Side Walkin'

Honestly just dress to match the vibe level of the eyeglasses, regardless of the seasonality of the fabric or cut, and you'll be fine

I legit love that your primary strategy for tackling middle age has been "slowly morph into Elton John"

After a few episodes this papier-mache weirdo is replaced by a real human, but the puppet regularly returns as her antagonistic “evil” version. They never explain the cavemen. It’s a very strange VHS magazine

free yourself today from any felt obligation to kiss a troop’s ass

Experience the weird wonder of GTV (no, not that GTV) Before PlayStation, Sony sponsored its own monthly games mag, Game Tech Video... on VHS?

I have uploaded the nightmarish first episode of another vintage VHS-based games magazine from 1980s Japan to ruin your morning: retronauts.com/article/2484...

Shane, we’re heading into MARCH 1st, not April

It's called a tonsure, and it's a sign that this console has chosen to devote its life to ascetic privation for the sake of spiritual enlightenment

OK, photo project distraction complete, time to return to my usual state of increasingly furious impotence about the state of the world I guess

Yeah.... I'll.... think about it....

Riot Zone starring Tony and Hawk

I assume this game ends with the protagonists doing the DragonBall fusion dance to merge into the ultimate pro skater