UFO 50 Deluxe Editions for Nintendo Switch are out of preorder and shipping now!
Take a look inside and pick up your own here: www.fangamer.com/products/ufo...
UFO 50 Deluxe Editions for Nintendo Switch are out of preorder and shipping now!
Take a look inside and pick up your own here: www.fangamer.com/products/ufo...
When you see "HPRshredder" and "Simon's Quest" pop up on the timeline and you know you've got to set aside an hour to enjoy peak retro game analysis...
23.02.2026 22:36 — 👍 45 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 0Someone asked me to animate it so I did
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BTW in case you're interested, you can actually play the original PC-88 version of Hydlide on Nintendo Switch, courtesy of EGGCONSOLE!
🔗 www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
Those photos are amazing! A published book that collected scans of some of those arcade community notebooks would be so cool.
22.02.2026 02:03 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Screenshot sources:
The Tower of Druaga: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tow...
Courageous Perseus: www.hardcoregaming101.net/courageous-p...
Dragon Slayer: www.mobygames.com/game/18618/d...
Hydlide: www.mobygames.com/game/12807/h...
The Tower of Druaga (Arcade)
Courageous Perseus (PC-88)
Dragon Slayer (PC-88)
Hydlide (PC-88)
While we're celebrating Zelda's 40th, I want to give some love to some of the foundational action adventure games that predated it. Hydlide, in particular, deserves more respect outside of Japan for what it did for the genre in '84 (PC88).
Tower of Druaga, Courageous Perseus, Dragon Slayer, Hydlide
The Katsuya Terada illustration isn't technically of the first Zelda game, I don't think, but I always felt his work captured its spirit best.
Source: www.flickr.com/photos/histo...
Shout out to The Legend of Zelda after 40 years! A game whose sense of exploration and adventure still feels unparalleled to me in many ways.
Art scans courtesy of @historyofhyrule.com: www.flickr.com/photos/histo...
Hand-drawn map by my dad, from when we played the game together in the 80s.
Genuinely unnerving trailer for this upcoming stop-motion horror game. Just like the horror movies I'm interested in, I'm alternately excited and apprehensive to see what it's about!
And the team's previous games, Judero/Mashina (also stop-motion) are on sale: store.steampowered.com/bundle/49099...
I LOVE the new art-style for Rift Wizard 3. The first two games were pretty utilitarian pixel-art, but the chalk-sketch aesthetic here is gorgeous.
19.02.2026 13:29 — 👍 57 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
Fresh one up on my Youtube today, an A-Z exploration exercise of RPGs and strategy games on the Genesis! youtu.be/83_uoaxoIqA
Hopefully a few in there you haven't seen before, enjoy!
At GDC this year, I'll be one of several people giving a microtalk at this session:
schedule.gdconf.com/session/game...
The larger topic is "Games about Games" but my talk will be about game collections in particular.
I'm happy to hear that - thank you so much! I feel lucky to have gotten to work with some amazing people on them. 💓
12.02.2026 19:48 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ghosts 'n Goblins Resurrection is $2.99 on Steam buff.ly/EkS86AC
$10.49 Xbox buff.ly/o6QAntg
Deck verified
SAMURAI GUNN 2
⚔️ IS SO BACK ⚔️
Rebuilt from the ground up in our own engine, FASTER and DEADLIER than ever!
MORE to COME!
store.steampowered.com/app/1397790/...
The Ana Spelunky Youtooz plush went well and she'll be shipping out later this year (ETA April). Thanks to everyone who preordered one and hope you enjoy!
It'd be fun to do another - if you're interested, let me know if there's a Spelunky character you'd be excited to see next!
Promo image for The Crimson Diamond on sale for 25% off for Steam Typing Fest, Feb 5 to Feb 9 starting at 10am Pacific. The border has keyboardy type keys and the image in the middle is The Crimson Diamond's key art, featuring protagonist Nancy Maple holding a gem up to the moonlight while kneeling by a river.
The Crimson Diamond is 25% off for Steam Typing Fest 2026! 🎉⌨️ It's a text parser cozy mystery adventure set in early 1900s Canada! If you've never typed "open door" to open a door, this may be the perfect time to see if your brain is wired to love that! ❤️🔥🧠 store.steampowered.com/app/1098770/...
05.02.2026 19:15 — 👍 111 🔁 49 💬 4 📌 5Yeah, pretty crazy!
07.02.2026 02:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I don't typically put much thought into chain scoring or scoring in beat 'em ups at all, but this one got me hooked on trying to go higher! And it's a free browser game! From the creator of Fight'N Rage.
Really impressive PICO-8 graphics, too!
👊 sebagamesdev.itch.io/backstreet-w...
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bop! 😊
KOLYDR: adamatomic.itch.io/kolydr
Hi I'm on bluesky now! Last year was a hell of a year as my 2-year-old was diagnosed with cancer (!?!?!?) and spent much of it in the hospital. Thankfully it's in remission now. What a ride. Hoping to slowly get back into gamedev stuff this year!
17.01.2026 13:06 — 👍 199 🔁 20 💬 17 📌 0Haha very true...!
27.01.2026 03:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Just posted my latest - a Rygar-spective covering every game and port in this weird and well loved series! youtu.be/onRg_sydwS0
Spreading the word is very appreciated :)
LET'S FIGHT!
The third update for UFO 50 on Switch is out now (v1.8.10)!
This one fixes a single issue where a detached Joy-Con could register multiple inputs.
But we're currently working on more bugfixes and optimizations, for a larger update in the future.
Whoa, congratulations!!! ✨🌟✨
26.01.2026 19:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I'm so glad you feel that way! When I hear someone got into a new genre because of UFO 50 it always makes me happy.
23.01.2026 19:47 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Haha yeah... I'm in the same boat but I think what makes up for the loss of reaction time as you get older is the increased patience and discipline. I'm finding that a lot of these games (including GnG) are less about reaction time than I thought.
23.01.2026 00:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
