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lune! the world's best obscure videogames critic, and aspirant writer of other things too he or they are both fine if you mostly post politics, even if they're good politics i probably won't follow you back. http://patreon.com/lunaticobscurity

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Very true, though I'd suggest this upload with better FM emulation and without the terrible reverb effect: www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-TC...

08.03.2026 03:30 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

having a self esteem episode

going to do some not internet things

08.03.2026 01:04 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#pixelart

06.03.2026 21:50 — 👍 2006    🔁 556    💬 5    📌 1

a few taiwanese mega drive rpgs have gotten released in english in modern times, but i think all of those releases might predate pier solar, too.

08.03.2026 00:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

i want to design some kind of game that can be played with just a small book and a pencil, that offers an interesting single player experience. to play alone in situations where dice rolling isn't practical.

08.03.2026 00:46 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

i don't think bunny doesn't care here, they're clearly scared of something, even if it's just being alone

08.03.2026 00:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Someone down bad for team aqua shelly in the most real way possible

Someone down bad for team aqua shelly in the most real way possible

07.03.2026 23:40 — 👍 52    🔁 13    💬 3    📌 2
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maybe i should look into watching marvelous

08.03.2026 00:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
VGM Hall of Fame: Illumination Laser - Viole`n`t Moon (X68000)
YouTube video by VGM Hall of Fame VGM Hall of Fame: Illumination Laser - Viole`n`t Moon (X68000)

people are talking about game music, and i have a reminder that some old shooting game hardly anyone has played contains music that will make your soul ascend

08.03.2026 00:20 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 2

for when you and a friend have a long train ride in your immediate future

08.03.2026 00:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
plastic zip-lock bag with front of "the thirty years' war" game 
visible mistake in print: "a three player bame"
published by q-games and prices 1.79$
photocopied illustration of "depiction of the wonderfully strange peoples found under the Swedish Armada" which is a german woodcut from 17th century

plastic zip-lock bag with front of "the thirty years' war" game visible mistake in print: "a three player bame" published by q-games and prices 1.79$ photocopied illustration of "depiction of the wonderfully strange peoples found under the Swedish Armada" which is a german woodcut from 17th century

game's front, back, inside front and inside back cover

game's front, back, inside front and inside back cover

game fully unfolded with a small board and map's legend
for convenience or else the owner colored the faction territories with markers

game fully unfolded with a small board and map's legend for convenience or else the owner colored the faction territories with markers

"This is a very small, very inexpensive ($1.79) wargame covering the whole of the Thirty Years War. The three players represent Austria, Sweden, and the Palatinate. Production, political influence, and status are all kept on a small record sheet"
boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/21...

08.03.2026 00:15 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

the billion degree fireball!

08.03.2026 00:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What I like about the Errol Flynn ROBIN HOOD is that it was made back when movies were in color.

07.03.2026 23:44 — 👍 128    🔁 14    💬 10    📌 0

obviously i have a lot of nostalgia for pal md cases, but jp ones look so much more adult, like vhs tapes of action movies

07.03.2026 23:49 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Added some icons for when you can open doors and speak to NPCs AND I've been working on the actual cutscenes!! How DRAMATIC!

#NegativeReverie #ScreenshotSaturday #MadeWithGodot #IndieDev #GameDev

07.03.2026 22:14 — 👍 36    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

in a world where roms became public domain after 30 years, your favourite critics could sell curated multicarts, with little booklets containing essays expalining each game's inclusion

07.03.2026 23:42 — 👍 15    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

walking to a convenience store for drinks and/or snacks after 11pm is self care

07.03.2026 23:39 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In case you missed it yesterday evening — there’s a translation patch for the Sega Saturn’s Lupin III: Pyramid no Kenja, and we’ve got a story about it on our site with the details:

07.03.2026 18:40 — 👍 25    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 1

every anti-sex and anti-porn measure also tends to make it more difficult for kids to know about consent, harder for them to recognise and report abuse, etc.

it's clearer than ever that this is by design

07.03.2026 17:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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She just gave him Boneitis lol

07.03.2026 08:19 — 👍 26    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0

have you seen any of the live action adaptations? 4 movies and a tv show, all from the 90s

07.03.2026 17:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

there's also a very similar related game with the same character designer entitled dinosaur island, in case you want more

07.03.2026 17:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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奇面組の推しです

07.03.2026 13:46 — 👍 68    🔁 20    💬 0    📌 0
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this rules

07.03.2026 15:43 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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In the lead-up to GRAND PRINCESS '26, specially selected matches will be released on the TJPW official YouTube channel for one week only.

This week’s match:
Miyu Yamashita & Aja Kong vs. Sareee & Maki Itoh!

The only previous encounter between Miyu and Sareee!
youtu.be/5mA_bj6St_c

#tjpw #tjpwGP26

07.03.2026 11:01 — 👍 46    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 1
tenchi masaki from tenchi muyo dressed in a grey schoolgirl uniform walks through a scifi scanner thingie

tenchi masaki from tenchi muyo dressed in a grey schoolgirl uniform walks through a scifi scanner thingie

a computer screen showing his skeleton and a DNA strand, captioned dialog reads "everything looks okay"

a computer screen showing his skeleton and a DNA strand, captioned dialog reads "everything looks okay"

the space cop or whatever says "but did you know your frame is very masculine?"

the space cop or whatever says "but did you know your frame is very masculine?"

tenchi says "uh, i... have a father who's a man"

tenchi says "uh, i... have a father who's a man"

it's a pleasant surprise if you find a crossdressing character in a 90s anime and the joke being told is funny

07.03.2026 11:04 — 👍 4427    🔁 1368    💬 28    📌 20
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I traded Spotify with an MP3 player for a week. Life outside the algorithm was rough No algorithm, no endless playlists, no podcasts on demand. Just a handful of albums, wired headphones and a lot of silence

Guardian stories are always "I am barely a human, look at how I fail at everything when I'm not spoonfed"

The "I listen to 5 hours of music a day but don't know what to listen to" is peak NPC behaviour, a skill issue. You don't like any music Lauren.

www.theguardian.com/thefilter-us...

07.03.2026 09:46 — 👍 62    🔁 17    💬 8    📌 7

Gamest preview:

You might want to double check how Warrior is spelled before releasing your game lads

Ken also being written as 拳 (fist) instead of ケン

Ryu is written as 隆, Long in Chinese Pinyin, implying the Sheng Long / Sho'ryu' mix up caused issues in other languages long before EGM in 1992😉

07.03.2026 10:19 — 👍 51    🔁 16    💬 5    📌 0