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YouTube video by One Million Power Captain Commando & Robo Army: Brawling in the Shadow of Metro City | Scrolling Down the Belt 45

On this episode of Scrolling Down the Belt, you and the Captain DO make it happen! Captain Commando, that is! Oh right, there's also Robo Army too. Though to be fair...you DO get to transform into a car!
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There’s a Shinichi Sakamoto song in there directly referencing Konami’s The Goonies ‘R’ Good Enough rendition but I don’t know what’s the connection. Fantastic game and soundtrack, so good that it’s coming to modern platforms as well.

Street Fighter Alpha (Adon), Street Fighter 3 (Hugo, Makoto), Capcom Vs SNK (Yamazaki, Terry, Dictator, Geese), KOF XIII (Takuma) - Baki

Street Fighter 6 (Gouki) - Baki

SNK vs Capcom (Mr Karate) - Baki

Capcom Vs SNK (Yamazaki) - Baki

If you were wondering how much Baki influenced Capcom and SNK (as well as Ancient for Streets of Rage 2 and Namco for Tekken)
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STOP THE PRESSES.

The ROM for the unreleased Famicom RPG Splatter World has been released (in a thread on 4chan, of all places). I've tried it myself, and it does seem to be genuine. If it's a fake, it's a damn good one.

Expect (more) coverage on West Mansion soon.

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The Nintendo Museum's Zelda Art and Updates From the Past Few Months First, real quick: I keep forgetting to update here but Bluesky , the gallery , and Archive.org have all been getting pretty frequent updat...

I've been a little busy and scattered but I pulled together a very quick post from the older posts we made here about the #Nintendo Museum's #Zelda exhibit and the thoughts about the "new" art discoveries a few of us had: historyofhyrule.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...

Feena from the title screen of every version of Ancient Ys Vanished - The Omen:

2 character sprites with their respective names (Western and Japanese versions) as well as the names of the graphic designers who worked on each of them.

2 character sprites with their respective names (Western and Japanese versions) as well as the names of the graphic designers who worked on each of them.

I'm doing a little test with a page of sprites and backgrounds, with the names of the graphic designers who worked on each one. And I'm starting with Muscle Bomber / Saturday Night Slam Masters.
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out-of-nowhere news from Cave: they'll soon be opening DANMAKU, an official Cave storefront in Shibuya, and they've put out the call for people interested in part-time work 🇯🇵

Kuroko's stage in Samurai Shodown 2 features art copied straight from the The Evil Dead film's Necronomicon Ex-Mortis book

YouTube video by One Million Power Spider-Man & Spartan X 2: Marvel vs. Mediocre | Scrolling Down the Belt 44

I hope your Spider Sense is tingling, because this episode of Scrolling Down the Belt is all about Spider-Man's Sega arcade beat 'em up debut! And also...the weird sequel to Irem's Kung-Fu that never left Japan! youtu.be/Zkx0OQh5u0Y

Box art of Alex Kidd in Miracle World, featuring Alex Kidd and a few enemies.

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Mark III:
Rieko Kodama, Part IV: Alex Kidd in Miracle World or the birth of a Master System icon (+ Double Target/Quartet, Miracle Warriors and The Black Onyx)
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dispo en VF
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［インタビュー］発売から29年。鬼才・飯野賢治が作った「エネミー・ゼロ」の壮絶な制作現場や裏話を上田文人ら元WARPメンバーが語る 1996年に発売された「エネミー・ゼロ」は，“敵が見えない”“音だけを頼りに敵を倒す”という斬新なシステムや，プラットフォーム変更などでゲーム史に強烈なインパクトを残した。故・飯野賢治氏が率いるWA…

from a recent event commemorating what would've been Kenji Eno's 55th bday, a roundtable interview with 4 former WARP devs: Tomohiro Miyazaki, Hideki Sudo, Naoya Sato and a fella by the name of Fumito Ueda www.4gamer.net/games/999/G9... 🇯🇵

can't go over the whole thing atm, but one related story:

YouTube video by Angry Garbanzo Gradius (グラディウス)(Arcade) BGM - Aircraft Carrier (Extended)

Gradius composer Miki Higashino recently said that she did not compose the game's boss theme and don't know who did it.
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YouTube video by LKKGAME Zombies Attack PV2 / 丧尸兵团 PV2

out now: ZOMBIES ATTACK / 丧尸兵团 测试, the latest game from Liao Kai/LKKGAME, the CN dev behind GanaBlade, G-WARRIOR, Red Blue Cells, etc store.steampowered.com/app/3757240/... this one's a specific homage to the FC/NES version of Konami's Green Beret/Rush'n Attack www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDcK...

PSIKYO PORTAL [Notice] End of Sales for Psikyo Titles on Steam

City Connection's Psikyo ports will be leaving Steam on October 31 psikyo-portal.com/notice_25101... the console versions will remain available (for now, at least)

it wasn't heavily advertised by either party but CC sold Psikyo successor studio Zerodiv to Edia earlier this year

Design Room Video game oral histories

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We are live! Welcome to Design Room, a new independent games media site.

• We specialize in oral histories like the Final Fantasy 7 and Street Fighter 2 ones I (@mattleone.bsky.social) did at Polygon
• Our first big story is on Shadow of the Colossus: bit.ly/4hjwz8n
• See more: designroom.site

A mix of 3 SG-1000 covers: Flicky, Girl's Garden and Ninja Princess

Did you know that Rieko Kodama worked on Girl's Garden? In this third chapter, we also talk about Flicky, Ninja Princess, and Quartet.
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Aussi dispo en VF :
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Gentle reminder: I've been working full-time on VGDensetsu for years, and although I've chosen to make my site freely accessible to everyone, I'm currently unable to make a living from it. So if you would like me to continue my work, please feel free to support me if you can.
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Glad to hear this, the video is great and so is the rest of the content you make. I hope that your other videos get a boost as well!

貴重なゲーム史料を体験！やのまんが発掘した貴重すぎる“幻のPS版”『フェーダ・リメイク！』、開発版のその内容とは…【特集】 | Game*Spark - 国内・海外ゲーム情報サイト 『フェーダ』好きのライターが心底震えた“幻のPS版”との対面！

Yanoman, the jigsaw puzzle company that once published the Aretha series & other JP-only games, recently unearthed a build of the unreleased PS version of FEDA Remake, & they let a FEDA fanatic go hands-on to see what, if anything, changed from the Saturn version www.gamespark.jp/article/2025... 🇯🇵

Square producer Akitoshi Kawazu mentions that Square had received a development kit for the Super Famicom CD-ROM drive and that tests for a new Final Fantasy had been carried out with it. The workstations were NEWS.
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Holy shit someone uploaded the entire stage play adaptation of the Yakuza videogame series with English subtitles and it’s glorious and 500x better than the Amazon show youtu.be/Z2Msr4si6dU?...

It’s been confirmed.

YouTube video by One Million Power Sega R360: Spinning Dreams in the Arcade

This is the story of Sega's R360: The legendary arcade cabinet that spun players around and left arcade floors far too early. Exclusive interviews, developer quotes, and more!
I'd appreciate not only everyone watching, but also sharing this post and the video!
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Illustration: a portrait of Rieko Kodama with some of the games she has worked on. The dominant colors are yellow, purple and red. Counterclockwise from top left: Rieko Kodama, Alis and Lutz from Phantasy Star, Sonic in a maze, Alex Kidd and his motorbike next to Flicky on a waterfront pier, Joe Musashi and his dog near the Statue of Liberty facing a skyline, the three playable characters from Golden Axe seen from behind on the edge of a cliff, and one of the flying ships from Skies of Arcadia.

I wrote a long article about Rieko Kodama, her career at Sega, the evolution of her company, the games she worked on (including some canceled games and/or games for which she is not credited), the status of women and working conditions in the video game industry, etc.
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The current office of CAProduction in Nagasaki, Japan. <A small thread>. Established in July 1993 by a few former Tecno Soft employees from Nagasaki, they've developed everything from Hagane (SNES), Bulk Slash (Saturn), DECA Sports (Wii) to assisting with Clubhouse Sports and the Mario Party series.

Hey everyone, check it out! Two more that I worked on :) These are completely different translations from the Retro Brawler Bundle versions on the Switch, and I did my absolute damnedest to make sure that full-length names for characters, skills, and items were in place for both games.

Here's the original line art for Katsuya Terada's #PrinceofPersia piece. I'm not sure its ever been scanned. This is from my copy of Rakuga King 寺田克也ラクガキング which I've been meaning to de-bind for better scans anyway. This is at 600dpi but I did it at 2400dpi & will upload it later
#Nintendo #Famicom

A photo of a Japanese woman dressed as Link

A photo of a close up of a Japanese woman dressed as Princess Zelda

A photo of a person in a giant Ganon costume. He's a blue pig with a trident.

Link, Zelda, and Ganon from the ever amazing 1990's Japanese dance commercial: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjpH...

I'm high-res rescanning the two 1991 #LttP Shogakukan guides and it has these nice, clearer, photos in the back of the first one. #Zelda #Nintendo #Famicom

A reminder to the #evangelion girlies out there, I've scanned 25 materials related to the series ranging from official photobooks, doujin, pachinko strategy guides, 3D modelling software, screensaver collections, figure books, and even GAINAX endorsed(?) BL, check em out!
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