A new recovery thanks to Retroboy - an unfinished and early bullfighting game for the #C64 called 'La Venganza del Toro'. Added today into the GTW64 archives, which you can check out for yourselves at https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/la-venganza-del-toro/
Enjoy and Happy Friday!
🐿 I beg to differ lads
🐿 But that game
🐿 is called Eric and the Floaters
🐿 by Sinclair Research
🐰 You mean by Nintendo
🦊 By Hudson
🦆 Pretty sure it was Irem
🐺 LOOK WHAT AM I WRITING ON THE MARQUEE. JUST TELL ME WHAT I'M WRITING ON THE SODDING MARQUEE.
🦊 There's that new Bomber Man game
🦆 That new what?
🦊 You know, you run around a maze dropping bombs and they explode in four directions and you try and blow your mates up
🦆 You mean DynaBlaster, that was called DynaBlaster
🐰 It was called Bomber Man
🐰 They didn't want to call it Bomber Man in your country because
🦆
🐰
🦊
🦆 Because what
🐰 Well you know
🦊 In your country it was called Atomic Punk
🐰 No it's Bomber Man
🦊 No it was really called Atomic Punk, you have a Mandela Effect about it
A conversation on a discord server with folks about Regis Philbin's music career reminded me of this... wonderful gem: https://www.discogs.com/master/1709858-Various-Who-Wants-To-Be-A-Millionaire-The-Album
We all know that the eShop shutting down sucks. But it sucks for way more reasons than you might realize.
There is no reasonable path to legally accessing enormous swaths of video game history, *even within libraries and archives*, and it’s because the ESA wants it that way.
🧵 (also excuse me if I do this wrong, first time threading on Mastodon)
RT @textfiles
http://DISCMASTER.TEXTFILES.COM's days are numbered unless we can find someone willing to host a server for it, allowing it to continue as a search engine. (It won't add more data for some time to come.) Are you someone extraordinarily cool who can provide rack and bandwidth space? DM
To my surprise, a commercial port of the 90s shareware hit Terminal Velocity got released today:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1956430/Terminal_Velocity_Boosted_Edition/
Thanks to @unknownoutrider I just learned about Unified Cutlery Theory. Prior to this I'd only really known Spoon Theory
I found this page which describes it pretty well.
@transparencyboo Saw you were looking for obscure 3DS games over on Twitter?
The eStore-exclusive Pocket Card Jockey is your standard solitaire/horseracing hybrid. It's great and I've never met anyone who's heard of it.
He/him. Puzzle-Adventure Hybrid with RPG Elements. Supports 3D Acceleration. He Is Essentially What He Believes. Just in case, 🔞, LGBTQ+ 👍, DOS 👌, 🐂💩👎.
Avatar by @mavica_again