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Between the Scanlines: Scanline Artifacts Issue One A physical compilation of selected articles from our digital, community-driven retro gaming and anime magazine.

Okay! Here we go!

The Kickstarter campaign for the first issue of Scanline Artifacts, a physical A5 magazine featuring a juicy selection of features and articles from the first 32 issues of our digital retro gaming and anime zine, Between the Scanlines, plus brand new material, has gone LIVE!

The massive thread of winter scenes in classic JRPGs 🌨️❄️☃️

1. Chrono Trigger (SNES)
2. Final Fantasy 6 (SNES)
3. Final Fantasy 7 (PS1)
4. Final Fantasy 9 (PS1)

YouTube video by Evercade Evercade - What's On The Cart? - Data East Arcade 2

Greetings, 'caders! Data East Arcade 2 is just around the corner (indeed, looks like some of you are receiving your copies already!) -- so here's a look at What's On The Cart so you can see all the games in action! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bM7...

a cat is sitting on a couch and making a surprised face with its mouth open . Alt: a cat is sitting on a couch and making a surprised face with its mouth open because it is impressed at Evercade's upcoming cartridge lineup.

looking at next year's cart lineup be like

I have both the EXP and the VS. Tbh you can get better Ambernic handhelds and have access to a lot more games. However I like collecting the physical media. It's a good price point and the only thing I collect these days.

An ad from Famitsu's December 25th 1987 issue with Alis from Phantasy Star ready with sword and shield against a backdrop of pure Tomcat action with AfterBurner! And an ad for the FM Synth unit.

📖 Bytes of Game Ads 📺

From Famitsu with Love on Christmas Day in 1987: snazzy Phantasy Star and Afterburner ads. Both blasting out YM2413 FM Synth from Sega Mark III/Master Systems - if you had ¥6800 to spare.

Been playing Evercade. Canon legends of the new gods and Xeno Crisis. Both great games and something I would never have played if it without owning an Evercade.

A snap of Sega Master System Phantasy Star's title screen with Alis to the right of the game's name and Start and Continue, brown hair flowing and sword drawn.

A snap of Phantasy Star II's cool planets between two firey red lasses presenting them in space like they're prizes in a quiz show.

The rather plain but classy classical-themed PSIII logo with Generations of Doom. in flowy gold text that reminds me of Escaflowne's.

Phantasy Star IV's orbitally awesome title screen with one planet closer to another and a simple stylized Phantasy Star in gold all-caps text and The End of the Millennium in lower-case blue text.

I'll get my Scanline Sunday entry in for this week! Share some with us, be it on CRT TV, scaler, or your favourite emu shaders.

Four flavours of RGB SCART Phantasy Star on one of our trusty 14" combi portables from me this week, taking us all the way to the End of the Millennium.

A snap of the cover featuring a scene from the Batman Rises Amiga demoscene production with Batman looking out to the skyline of Gotham.

A new issue of our fortnightly retro gaming and anime digital 'zine, Between the Scanlines, has rolled out!

This issue: DS and Sega Saturn anniversary coverage, spotlight on two new Amiga demoscene prods, and we'll take you To the Moon!

betweenthescanlines.itch.io/issue-twenty...

Introduce yourself with four video games.

I've done some of these before with mainly console games, so this time I'll (appropriately) stick with four of my core C64 and Amiga faves and games I play the most on them.

A photo of Broken Helix's case and cover, which really doesn't tell you a lot with its explosions and fire erupting against a near-silhoutte of the protag.

A snap of the back cover which does tell you a lot more about the sandbox nature of the game with 1.6 million square feet of 3D interactive world and 55 mins of voiced dialogue and multiple plotlines.

Post a Random Game Here on Saturday!

Closed my eyes and reached for our PS1 shelving and came away with Broken Helix. A non-linear, multi-plotline action-adventure game with the protag voiced by Bruce Campbell!

Konami was doing some really interesting stuff on PS1 alongside MGS and Silent Hill.

The cover of Retro Gamer issue 266. The main image is the artwork used on the original PlayStation Tekken cover, which shows various characters from the game.

Retro Gamer issue 266 is on sale today, and celebrates Tekken's 30th anniversary! The mag also includes a ZX Spectrum 2025 calendar.

Also inside:
Fairlight
Capcom CPS1
Stunt Race FX
Colin McRae Rally
World Of Warcraft
And more

Buy it in stores or online: www.magazinesdirect.com/az-magazines...

Knights of the Round (1991) | beat 'em up | Arcade and consoles | Capcom

Medieval England seen through the lens of a Capcom beat 'em up inspired by King Arthur was a wild smorgasbord of light RPG elements, tigers, a samurai warrior, and a Gearpunk golem standing in the way of saving a kingdom!

"who are you?" "Strengthen your Mages, Beserkers and Knights in battle across Elibe. Build your army. Plan your strategy. But trust no one in Fire Emblem. Only for Game Boy Advance." Four screenshots from the game are also shown including one where a sailor is asking our he gets seasick. A tiny picture of the Game Boy Advance is also shown. Rated "E" for Everyone!

A 2003 ad for Fire Emblem (also known as Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade in Japan), a tactical RPG by Intelligent Systems for the Game Boy Advance

The illustration (minus our hero!) in the backdrop is from "Pluto and a Harlequin in Hell", a painting by Giuseppe Bernardino Bison (1762 - 1844).

A photo of Phantasy Star IV with a stylized illustration of three of the main cast in action poses with a menacing demon creature above

The back of the case with another gorgeous dark cyberpunk fantasy illustration and gameplay screenies

A photo of the contents with manual, map, promo pamphlet, and cart

A snap of the manual to show three character illustrations and details

A peek outside and inside Phantasy Star IV JPN Mega Drive release.

Absolutely recommend using this relocalization hack for your next playthrough of the NTSC-U version. It polishes it up with adding missing dialogue, plotlines, and more character banter.

www.romhacking.net/hacks/4171/

The box art for Snatcher on the MSX2, a game by Konami.

A pixel art illustration of the main cast of Snatcher, from the end credits of the Sega CD version.

Pixel art of Neo Kobe City, the setting of Snatcher, also on the Sega CD.

Pixel Art from Snatcher on the Sega CD of a taxi driver at night.

I just finished Snatcher as my first Hideo Kojima game and holyyyyyy shit what an incredible game
suprisingly funny, an incredible story, beautiful pixel art in every single scene, and a great soundtrack. 10/10 i need to play metal gear now (or Policenauts)
everyone go play snatcher on sega cd now!!

Been playing it recently on the Evercade, which is the megadrive port I think. Agreed, tough as nails. Level 3 is my limit on easy.

A photograph of DinoCity on a CRT. A boy rides the back of a theropod dinosaur backdropped by blue skies and confronted by strange frog-like monsters.

📺 DinoCity // Super NES // JVC AV-27D201 via component

Street Fighter II review
Amiga Power February 1993
#Amiga #retrogaming #retrogames

So tough. 16 bit brings the most nostalgia. But I think 128 bit was the best overall. The PS2 library is vast and excellent. Nothing beats it

Commodore Vic 20. A hand me down from my uncle in 85. Followed not long after by the Commodore plus 4. Thinking back now the plus 4 was probably a dud buy for him. He moved swiftly onto the C64

Everyone's posting their most popular piece from the other site. Discounting memes and whatnot, I think mine was this, which I drew to commemorate the end of the SEGA AGES Switch line!

I was pretty happy with it at the time, and thankfully M2 liked it too! #TTDArt

I rented it back in the days when you could rent SNES games in the US. I thought it was cool, but like nobody was talking about it. And then I saw it on clearance regularly. Oddly, it took me a while to find a copy of my own.

The game sold terribly in the US. In Japan, it sold okay.

To piggyback on this…

Can younger gamers stop trying to retcon Earthbound as being some massively successful earth shaking culturally significant game of its time.

None of that is true. It was a massive flop when it released.

This is my Evercade collection. I can play these via emulation & roms but I enjoy collecting physical media & the price point is just right for me. I also like feeling part of a modern retro community. Evercade has its faults but I think Blaze are doing a great job in a tough market. #Evercade

Who remembers Zodiac toyshops?

Over 90 of them in the UK at their height. Sadly closed in 1989/1990.

Just look at those shelves!

Source: zodiactoys.wordpress.com

A low-poly Robocop with a boxy jetpack on his back against a still pixel background of crumbling buildings in the 'Rehab Zone'. Commodore Amiga version, RGB Scart.

Have you ever seen Polygon Jetpack Robocop before? Now you have. Away he goes, to fight crime in the sky in a boondoggle of a movie.

The game this photo was snapped from, Ocean Software and DiD's Robocop 3 was released a full two years *before* the movie came out.

Front Mission clean artwork by Yoshitaka Amano.

Front Mission clean artwork by Yoshitaka Amano.

Front Mission clean artwork by Yoshitaka Amano. This particular piece was featured on the Super Famicom instruction manual cover.

Front Mission clean artwork by Yoshitaka Amano.

Some illustrations from the #SuperFamicom version of #FrontMission by Yoshitaka Amano. The 3rd one was featured on the cover of the instruction manual. Usual upscale/clean/retouch applied.

Introduce yourself with four video games…