Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️

What movie did you watch over and over as a kid?

I loved Sword in the Stone sooo much. Still do.💜

Look this way for hot dragon on dragon action 👀

Alas, only of an overhead shooter variety in this NES version. A departure from the first person flight sim and dragon jousting of the computer versions.

Look this way for hot dragon on dragon action 👀

Alas, only of an overhead shooter variety in this NES version.A departure from the first person flight sim and dragon jousting of the computer versions.

(Yes, this is an actual PC game screenshot)

It's totally UNREAL.

It's amazing to see how late the M2 was being primed as the new hot system - just a few months away from being cancelled and despite being a no-show at E3 the previous year.

📺: Next Generation, Feb 1997

Yeah! The whole soundtrack is such an interesting mix of styles and vibes from them.

Ooh, I haven't! Cheers for the heads-up. That's my YouTube watching sorted for a while now. xD

A dungeon-eye view of the Waterdeep sewers, which echo with dungeonfunk.

For the Mega CD version of Eye of the Beholder, Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima once again combined forces to rock your adventuring party's world.

Oooh, I'm excited for both! Nailing the inspiration from the Sega CD EOB soundtrack. It's one of the most amazing dungeon synth tracks I've ever heard.

One of my very favourite opening stages of any game. It's wonderful <3

Ahh, they're so awesome <3 Looking good!

Always appreciate chit-chatting with you and all your enthusiasm and support for what I do, Val <3 You're a comfy moot. 💜

Yeah!

Ohhh, right, yeah! The Valken and Growlanser artist! Yeah, I see it now.

📖 Bytes of Game Ads 📺

Opa-Opa's Greatest Battle is About to Begin!

The cover for a 1995 flyer for the second attempt to release Space Fantasy Zone for PC Engine CD. The winged hero and the cute 'Weponalds' mascot stand front and centre, ready for a new dimension of Fantasy Zone action!

Yeah! Getting to see footage like this is such a treat.

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Ohhh nice!

Was watching a tape of The Guyver, and was greeted to a flyer of Anime Expo ‘94 at the end.

Yeah, from what I've heard in interviews with movie licence games devs over the years, scripts in various states of completion were primarily what that had to work with.

Beach Court (Street Slam, Arcade-NeoGeo AES-NeoGeo CD-Zeebo, Data East, 1994)

Aha, my reaction too.

Heyhey, Casey <3

A low-key ad in comparison to some Final Fantasy commercials, but one that gives us a wonderful glimpse of the game in development, Square's dev offices, and the computers they used to make Final Fantasy II for Famicom.

#VideoBytes

The original is still impressive in its own way, and back then, I'd have lapped it up if I'd got hold of one of the Assassins PD group disks with it on.

I was desperately for anything and everything that even remotely felt like DOOM on the Amiga.

Oh, I should specify PD as in Public Domain, shareware etc.

Rebirth takes the original version and greatly expands on its core gameplay and presentation with a much more expansive viewport and 64 colour graphics. It'll just about run on expanded A500s, but a 2MB A600 onwards is recommended.

Black Dawn: Rebirth is a remaster of one of a whole mess of gothic horror and sci-fi PD dungeon crawlers released on the Amiga from 1994 onward as its commercial life continued wrapping up.

Apocalypse logs, an orbital station gone silent, and moody sci-fi dungeon crawling. Did Crewman Jones elaborate on what the source of the unholy scream was? Only time will tell…

📺: Black Dawn: Rebirth, Commodore Amiga, 2019

Hey Lina! <3 Happy Friday o/

Aha, yeah, nor me.

Just in case my focus is all over the place and I don't do so on the day, happy birthday in advance. 💜