Star Wars Arcade (1993)
By Sega
[Hi-res: https://imgur.com/a/star-wars-arcade-1993-sega-nY6bcUj ]
[Source: https://youtu.be/YJwseTVyum0 ]
#RetroGaming #Arcade #DinoArcadeGifs

Chack'n Pop
「ちゃっくんぽっぷ」
(Taito, 1984)

Play online:
https://www.file-hunter.com/MSX/?id=chacknpop

Chack'n Pop, a precursor to Bubble Bobble, is a platform game where Chack'n battles Monstas and Mightas to reclaim stolen hearts. Use bombs to destroy enemies and eggs, releasing hearts and revealing the level exit.

#msx #MSXGames #retrogaming #retrogames
(Video: screenscraper.fr)

Es soll ja Menschen geben, die, obwohl sie früher einen #C64 hatten, das Hobby heute nur aus nostalgischen Gründen verfolgen. Das ist ja auch echt ok, aber Leute, ihr verpasst echt was - denn auch heute kommen noch immer ziemlich coole Programme für euren Brotkasten raus und ich wollte mal kurz von Hibernated berichten, das ich mir mal in der Collectors Edition gekauft hab und das wir hier gleich mal anspielen wollen

Review for Sonic the Hedgehog on Mega Drive from Mean Machines 10 - July 1991 (UK)

This issue can be downloaded here:
https://www.outofprintarchive.com/catalogue/meanmachines.html

#RetroGaming
#Sega
#MegaDrive

So, considering I have been playing Radia Senki recently, a JRPG, I think it is a foregone conclusion on what music I will pick from this game for #VGMWednesday

If you took the punt and said the 『Battle Theme』you're absolutely right. If you play this game, you will be hearing this track A LOT. The encounter rate in this game can vary from a full length of a corridor to you raised your pinkie finger. At least the battles are relatively engaging with the real time combat, maybe I should say forcibly engaging
But this isn't the venue for discussing gameplay! Back to the music.

https://youtu.be/hKjZPcm-y3Q?si=8FK6l7omwXcy6GZQ

Is it as good as the Final Fantasy battle theme... No. But it is still an appropriately energetic piece. I encourage people to check out other parts of the OST as it is. By and large, it's a pretty decent soundtrack.

Huh....

Ok, Story Time. This one has a good ending, I promise. ​​

I joked yesterday about ancient ZX Spectrum game, Chaos: The Battle of Wizards, one of the very best video games ever created, which prompted me to have a look at the general state of Chaos in the year 2025.

Chaos is a strategy masterpiece. Up to 8 wizards, each armed with a random selection of magical spells do battle until there's only one survivor, all on a single screen. Chaos does what it says on the tin: no game is ever the same. Wizards can build strong positions, summoning a menagerie of powerful creatures, only to die suddenly from a Giant Rat bite. Every situation is precarious, right to the bitter end.

Martin Brownlow unofficially adapted Chaos for the Atari ST. His genius innovation was to dress the game with custom sound samples harvested from TV and film pop culture of the time: Red Dwarf, Monty Python, Highlander, Blackadder, Evil Dead and more. These samples lifted Chaos to another level. Perfect geek fodder.

In the Noughties Richard Phipps took Martin's template and coded a version for the PC. Chaos Funk took advantage of OpenGL graphics and artfully streamlined the gameplay for modern sensibilities and mouse controls. Later, he revised this excellent tribute into a much more customizable version, Chaos Groove. He also added to the game through both versions, more spells and updated sound samples taken from more recent pop culture works like The Simpsons, South Park and, I suspect, additions from the original sources as well.

Richard still has a website but unfortunately his download links have expired in the intervening years. If you search for Chaos Groove online you'll find the github page of Adam Jiminez, who forked Chaos Groove after Richard's work on it had seemingly stopped. Adam's forked code is still there but sadly there are no pre-compiled, ready-to-run binaries.

You can play the original bleepy Spectrum version online.
There's a modernised version available on Android
Of course, you can always emulate the Spectrum and Atari as well, those versions all available for download. A version even made it onto the Gameboy Advance.

And Julian Gollop, creator of the original and much more complicated follow-up Lords of Chaos on the Atari ST, revisited the format in 2014 with Chaos Reborn, available on Steam, a third interpretation of the classic that hews closer to the original format but still over-cooks it away from that seminal one-screen simplicity, though you can play it online with up to three opponents.

1/2

#RetroGaming #ChaosTheBattleOfWizards #ZXSpectrum #AtariST #PC

#crashmagazine competition about the upcoming Give my Regards to Broad St. game.

Don't get lost on the Tube!

Golden Axe (1989)
By Sega
[High-res: https://imgur.com/a/golden-axe-1989-sega-mM6KJkJ ]
[Source: https://youtu.be/HQgHoshKghg ]
#RetroGaming #Arcade #DinoArcadeGifs

If you have a #SteamDeck and enjoy the old classic #Sony #PlayStation games Jak and Jak 2 - you can play 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 PC decompilation ports of them by using:

https://opengoal.dev/

Its nice seeing people 𝘴𝘰 in love with an in-game universe like that of Jak that they dedicate so much to making it the best possible way to play the games!

Having never played them, they're next up to try for me.

New poster for my Games Room!
This was the cover on the very first issue of GamePlayers magazine I ever remember owning when I was Teeny Selenie!

If you really must know, I'm like the David Copperfield of getting the #pinball stuck where it was never meant to go...

I guess I also found a reason why not every table should have blade lights installed.

Amiga Joker 10/1996
#Retrogaming #Retrogames

Sky Raider (1978)
By Atari
[Hi-res: https://imgur.com/a/sky-raider-1978-atari-inc-XkL9sgZ ]
[Source: https://youtu.be/jcrDZZ1cFO8, https://flyers.arcade-museum.com/videogames/show/948 ]
#RetroGaming #Arcade #DinoArcadeGifs

If you're in #Boston and love old computers, electronics, and games, check out the MIT Swapfest flea market. First meeting this year is April 20th.

I went a few times last year and saw some wild things like Commodore 64s, Apple ][s, a NeXT cube, and tons of video games. I also saw a lot of old radio equipment and miscellaneous electronics parts.

http://w1mx.mit.edu/flea-at-mit/

I just spent a few hours to re-scan some of my old CDs from the "Bestseller Games" magazines. I know, these CD-ROMs are pretty much everywhere on the internet, but I wanted to have better scans of my originals. These discs are precious to me!

Here's the original disc from Bestseller Games, Vol. 1 from 1994. It contains the German VGA release of "Indiana Jones III - Der letzte Kreuzzug" for MS-DOS. Maybe it is useful to someone. Have fun!

https://archive.org/details/bg1_indy3_v1

My old color hack of Faceball 2000 got retooled for part of a years-long effort to restore the game's hidden 16-player multiplayer mode, and the results of such are now public and documented for one's viewing pleasure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9dVVRv70aA