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

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

Haha, that one was shot under controlled and carefully observed conditions for safety

A crapload of rare sealed TG16 games

As ever, Turbo Works is only possible because of generous people who somehow trust my clumsy ass to photograph their unspeakably valuable TurboGrafx collections without destroying anything

Tokyo Jungle for PS3 boxart mockup featuring Pombon from Pokemon Winds and Waves

In hindsight, that was a horribly constructed sentence. But, in my defense, I was jazzed as HELL at the time

I still can't believe they let me use my dumb "official logo of the metroidvania genre" title design with zero pushback, tho

Off by a block!

Can't wait to learn who the Sisko analogue is