Save File: errant musings on all things gaming.
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Riot Zone: A TurboGrafx-16 Gem with a Street Fighting Soul
It’s Turbo Tuesday! Riot Zone is a great beat-em-up for the Turbografx-16. It is a port of the Sega arcade game Riot City. It was ported by Hudson Soft.
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Gamething…that’s it
A project of mine that took form/was realized during the COVID pandemic of 2020. I cant recall the details, bit I read an article on how dosbox can be compiled into a web assembly and run an old DOS game in a browser (references needed). I think the original project was dreamlayers/em_dosbox and the original…
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Freeplay Cards for the Long Island Retro Gaming Expo 2024
As one of the Coordinators for the Expo, I create cards for individual games for the Freeplay section (Zones). It adds to the experience. This year (2024) there will be two new sections containing the FMV and Anime genres. The Zones are named Full Motion Frenzy and Anime Arcade respectively.
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Tears of the Kingdom: Dragons!
Spoiler alert! If you have played The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, you may have encountered enormous fantastical beasts gliding through the sky. Seemingly unreachable. They are accompanied by a mystical tune that indicates one is close by. All you need to do is look up. During an exploratory adventure, I found that…
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No Man’s Sky
I have been playing this game since it was released in 2016. I purchased the PS4 version when it was released in August of that year. It is an FPS where you explore and survive in an open world. The entire universe of the game is procedurally generated. As an RPG fan and curious explorer,…
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Phantasy Star
The Analogue Pocket is truly a wonderful device. The size of a Game Boy, it allows you to play a number of classic handheld games. Adding the ap[propriate cores, gives you access to many 8 bit and 16 bit era consoles. One of these is the venerable Master System, a much overlooked console overshadowed by…
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Turbo Tuesday: The Another Story.
I try to review a TurboGrafx/PC Engine game on video and post to YouTube and other social channels every Tuesday. I call this Turbo Tuesday. This week I did a review of Hellfire S for the PC Engine. You can check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIxzzKDaXYc
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Hellfire S: The Another Story
Yes, The Another Story. I am not sure what that means, but it is probably a bad translation. I decided to play this fine shoot ’em up today for the next episode of Turbo Tuesday. Hellfire S is a port of the popular Toaplan Arcade game, Hellfire. The PC Engine version is enhanced with a…
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Reproduction Atari Jaguar Controller Inserts
I have been searching for Atari Jaguar inserts for a long time now. I recently came across this page from a mention in a Facebook Group: https://hoskinson-industries.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage
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