Videogame Beaches 🏳️‍⚧️

I'm leaving for today; I'm noticing that unpleasant cold and a... funny throat. Neither bodes well.

The game opens with a large sign saying "Welcome to Uranus" floating in space near a brownish celestial sphere shrouded in darkness (I bet it's Uranus *ba dum tss*) above some flat platforms and a stylish glass dome, all looking very very Looney Tunes like, specifically the spacey cartoons with Marvin the Martian.

A bodacious red-haired babe smilingly waits to be rescued by our hero. Like everything else, her outfit is very 50s retro-futurism coded.

A Pikmin-looking green alien with a dangling antenna with a red bulb on top is shooting at you with his fancy laser gun, looking very stylish in his pink astrosuit. He's standing in front of what looks like a glass wall next to a street light. Very noir and abstract at the same time, this street in deep space, going nowhere.

Our hero, Blasto (voiced by Phil Hartman no less) in an intense encounter with an alien, set on a lava covered planet with floating pieces of land scattered here and there and a tree that's somehow survived in this hellscape. Good work, tree! The clear night sky is visible on the horizon with a large planet with a ring orbiting in the distance. How anybody is able to breathe in these environments is anybody's guess.

Blasto (PS1) (1998)

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title screen that blends dithered waves of blue and grey. the logo for the game is ornately renee in shiny gold // Ys 3: Wanderers from Ys for Sega Genesis, photography on CRT TV

#crt #photography #retrogaming

( opens envelope ) congratulations to this year's winner

Rebecca Heineman - Wikipedia

My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away.

Fuck cancer.

Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...

A nightcap at the Drawnblade RIP Rebecca Heineman

THE BARD'S TALE
INTERPLAY/ATELIER DOUBLE CO. 1991
NES

バカメ・デス (x68000)

keeper (x68000)

I have Cleared Shadow Tower and I have to say I did not expect to enjoy this game as much as I did!

It is an extremely niche type of rpg with heavy emphasis on equipment durability resource management and risk mitigation but settles into an extremely satisfying loop and cool monster designs! 1/2

Got really excited about this Vib Ribbon press disc in the Hit Save repository only to find out it's already online but we can at least pretend you saw it here first !!!

Zidane in Final Fantasy 9

Steiner in Final Fantasy 9

Zidane in Final Fantasy 9

Zidane in Final Fantasy 9

Some more FF9 on CRT, focused on cosy interiors this time and there are plenty of them in this game, so warm

what in the shits fuckum is this! *gets sent to the start of the game*

Game: Final Fantasy Chronicles Developer: Squaresoft Platform: Playstation 📺: Sanyo DS24425

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A purple background with gradient hues, on which an indigo GC is balanced, corner on.

A photo with a white background of an indigo GCN seen from the front and across the upper body of a controller plugged into the ports.

A silver wavebird in front of another Indigo GCN with its receiver plugged into the ports

A spice orange controller flat against a white background

Happy 24th Birthday, Game Cube! Making its way outside Japan to the USA in November 2001!

Let's celebrate with some GCN eye-candy: very high resolution and quality from a press disc.

What games would you recommend to someone wanting to get into its library, peeps? What are your faves?

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.

The remaster really broke the lighting, so its something you cant get without the GameCube now.

Noted! But just in case I forget, remind me! 💜

Ice (Poy Poy 2, PS1, Konami, 1998)

If you want to hear a lot about what inspired the game and also see my dogs, this is the place to do it. Big thanks to @dannyodwyer.bsky.social for driving down to do this video! Also for noclip2 patrons you get to see my game and movie collection... people keep asking about that

And has the moves!

The Simpsons: Hit & Run (2003, Various)

Crimson Gem Saga (2009, PSP)

One day until demonschool. that's tomorrow

store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/...

store.playstation.com/en-us/concep...

www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...

We can start it! I don't have much, but I do have some CDs.

If you're wondering who Ellena System is, she's the protagonist of a PC98 game: Broadway Legend Ellena

Stage 2 (Puyo Puyo Da! Featuring Ellena System, Arcade-DC, Compile, 1999)

That's a cool hobby! It would be awesome if something like RandomGameSaturday exists but with game soundtracks; it would allow to discover great ost and games!

The fish and dolphins jumping out now and then are nice, but it doesn't quite reach the level of the Wave Race or even Sea-Doo Hydrocross.

The last toast by the legend herself:

I leave it up to you to go to lindken.com and look up Jennell Jacques, now look at her job description, goddess of technology… and fuck cancer, fuck it in the ass

- Becky

Rest in peace and free of pain now, Burger Becky.

Pirates' title screen on a crt TV with a moored galleon against a pinkish sunset/sunrise

A snap of the city hub screen showing a colonial port town in lovely 32-colour graphics. In this case, it's Port Royale.

A snap of the one-on-one naval battle screen with two pixel ships, a Spanish merchantman and my sloop, closing for battle

A duel! My pirate captain raising their sword to strike the enemy captain on the deck of his ship.

I'm looking forward to digging into Pirate Yakuza action at some point, but tonight for a feature, I've been revisiting my first ever piratical game. One still as golden as all the rich stuff in One-Eyed Willy's hidden treasure.

📺: Sid Meier's Pirates, MicroProse, 1987/90 (Amiga version)