Guy's stage in Street Fighter Alpha 2.

You can find Cody and Jessica in the background as well as Haggar choking out a street thug

#FinalFight #RetroGaming #Retro #StreetFighter

Classic MacPaint Art
From July of last year, the blog called decryption posted a bunch of wondrous examples of 1-bit MacPaint art from the early days of the platform. MacPaint had a distinctive aesthetic: tiny dots, each either white or black, favored the use of dithering to create makeshift grayscale. (Note: one image is NSFW.) Here's a few selections, but there's lots more
https://setsideb.com/classic-macpaint-art/
#niche #retro #art #decryption #dithering #mac #MacPaint #niche #retro

#SNES #RetroGaming #Retro

“Welcome to the EarthBound CuLt”
In a dusty corner of classic Earthbound fansite starmen.net is this page.

It's hard to read in this screenshot. It's hard to read on the original site too! Here's some of the text:

Welcome to the EarthBound CuLtjoin us or you will DIe______________________________________________ how about I sharpen you I just love sha
https://setsideb.com/welcome-to-the-earthbound-cult/
#oldweb #retro #earthbound #EarthboundCult #fangamer #oldweb #retro

Has anyone ever messed around with FreeDOS? Is there any real benefit of using it in a virtual machine vs. something like DOSBox? I love the idea of an open source, modernized version of DOS

https://freedos.org/

#retrocomputing #retro #90s #dos #dosgaming #cli

Kosmic Shows off Obscure Super Mario Bros. Quirks
Super Mario Bros. is over 40 years old, and is only 40K in size, and yet there's still a lot of weird behaviors in it. The old infinite 1UP trick from bouncing repeatedly on a Koopa shell is pretty old hat now; the Minus World trick is slightly less known, but is still not much of an eyeopener these days.

Kosmic, gener
https://setsideb.com/kosmic-shows-off-obscure-super-mario-bros-quirks/
#retro #glitches #Kosmic #retro #supermariobros

Here are the highlights from last night's Aladdin stream!

https://odysee.com/@OregonPacifist:0/Aladdin-SEGA-Livestream-Highlights:c

#RetroGaming #SEGA #Retro

Here's the livestream replay from earlier tonight. 52 minutes long but I ended up playing through the game without being able to see my health bar, life, gem or apple counts

https://odysee.com/@OregonPacifist:0/%F0%9F%94%B4-Aladdin-(SEGA-Genesis):8

#Retro #SEGA #RetroGaming #Odysee

This is so cool! Shoutout to @definitcode for bringing it to my attention!

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

#RetroGaming #Retro #Steam #Gaming #VideoGames

CRPG Combat & What a Combat Round Means
Never let it be said that I'm not alert to the benefits of reusing work.

I was just watching the beginning of Video Games 101's first video, of four, of Final Fantasy IV née II, which was such a substantial jump over the first Final Fantasy that it instantly gained a bunch of admirers back then, including myself. It came out early in the SNES
https://setsideb.com/crpg-combat-what-a-combat-round-means/
#retro #dd #design #FFIV #retro #rpgs #VG101

🔴 Reach Beyond is the new single from Speckled Band, inspired by a classic Twilight Zone tale. 🌌

Turn the sound on. Step into the unknown.

🎧 Out now on the platform of your choice 👇
#ReachBeyond #SpeckledBand #NewMusic #SciFiSounds #NowStreaming #TheTwilightZone #rodserling #nightgallery #retro #musician #songwriter

https://artists.landr.com/057914901572

NES Games & State Machines
A couple of years ago gamedev channel NesHacker did a video on how everything in your typical NES game is really a pile of state machines, concurrent ones, nested ones, bunches and bunches of them. If you have any interest in NES coding at all, it's worth a look. (8½ minutes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lZ53Sx5oc0

The chief differen
https://setsideb.com/nes-games-state-machines/
#development #retro #development #nes #NESHacker #retro #StateMachines

Sundry Sunday: Lego 8-Bit Trip
A bit of an oldie this time, and in more ways than one, a four minute stop motion animation from Rymdreglage made with Lego bricks, from way back in 2009. It's still great though! By "8-bit," in this case, they mean specifically the Commodore 64 end of the swimming pool, especially as conce
https://setsideb.com/sundry-sunday-lego-8-bit-trip/
#retro #sundaysundry #animation #commodore64 #InternationalKarate #lego #retro #Rymdreglage #stopmotion #sundrysunday

👾 "Another Wild Little Project" - Minecraft Comes To Sega Saturn

https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/02/another-wild-little-project-minecraft-comes-to-sega-saturn

#minecraft #segasaturn #ports #retro #retrogaming

Fighting Games That Cheat
It's a good one today folks. Modern Vintage Gamer had a look into how the CPU opponents of two of the most popular and foundational fighting games, Mortal Kombat 2 and Street Fighter 2, cheat against players trying to progress far into the game on their meager financial resources.

Their Mortal Kombat 2 video (11 minutes) is th
https://setsideb.com/fighting-games-that-cheat/
#niche #retro #cheating #fighting #MK2 #mortalkombat #niche #retro #SF2 #streetfighter

RE: https://pdx.social/@zuul/116055285017652375

I’m quote posting this to put in on the local timeline. Nothing beats the nostalgia of classic Pizza Hut. From the red plastic cups and parmesan cheese shakers to the arcade games with their attract modes. It was a magical time indeed

#Pizza #RetroGaming #Retro

10-hour Superplay of Arcade Gauntlet
Gauntlet is one of the best games that Atari Games made, and is certainly one of the best known, but it's interesting how little even people who played it know about it.

Gauntlet has 100 levels, although seven of them take the form of an in-game tutorial. The first level has three exits; one if market EXIT TO 4 and anothe
https://setsideb.com/10-hour-superplay-of-arcade-gauntlet/
#retro #arcade #atarigames #gauntlet #longplay #mackey_special #retro

#RetroGaming #Retro

A Technically Proficient Commodore 64 Demo Explained
We've linked to Iftkyro's work before here, he created the mystifying (if you know much about how the C64's video hardware works) demo Nine, where a system that should only be able to move eight sprites around appeared to display nine. How was that done? As it turns out, with great difficulty, and not a
https://setsideb.com/a-technically-proficient-commodore-64-demo-explained/
#retro #commodore64 #demo #Iftkyro #QuondamTunneling #retro

After 3-4 days of continuous updates, the Retro Gaiden web interface looks ridiculously good 👀

https://retro-gaiden.com/public/local

#Retro #SocialMedia #Mastodon #Fediverse #Instance

Wherefore Commando’s Jank?
Displaced Gamers' Behind the Code series is back, with an under-the-hood look at another NES Capcom game, following their examinations of Ghosts & Goblins and Strider, links are to our previous pointers to their peerless product.

G&G was implemented by popular early NES anonymous developer and target of player
https://setsideb.com/wherefore-commandos-jank/
#development #retro #behindthecode #capcom #Commando #development #displacedgamers #glitches #retro

Unix-like OS for the Apple IIGS
These days writing a command-line OS for 8-bit or 16-bit era computers is almost an old trick, but GNO/ME (any relation to GNOME is purely accidental) has the difference of both having Unix-like features like signals, pipes and multitasking, while also having been written back in the day, in the 90s. Author Jawald Bazyar shows it off here
https://setsideb.com/unix-like-os-for-the-apple-iigs/
#retro #appleIIgs #GNOME #os #retro #StupidComputerTricks #unix

I've created a new post on Retro Gaiden's Patreon page:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/retro-gaidens-149761590?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

#Patreon #Retro

Today I learned that the 32X version of Virtua Fighter supports native 16:9 widescreen

https://youtu.be/vJfa1i1gcvg

#SEGA #RetroGaming #Retro

Recovered Games and Data from the Sega Channel
I'm a bit late to the trough on this one, but it's worth calling back to the Video Game History Foundation's recent release of over 100 ROMs and other data from the Sega Channel, that short-lived service that allowed subscribers with a model peripheral to play downloaded games over a cable TV
https://setsideb.com/recovered-games-and-data-from-the-sega-channel/
#retro #cable #gamingalexandria #GeneralInstrument #retro #sega #segachannel #VGCF

If you’re going to save the world, you better look good doing it.

#NES #Retro #RetroGaming

All the 3-Up Moons in Super Mario World
Did you know there are seven of them? Really! Super Mario World has way more moons than you need to win the game, by a large margin, but it still feels special to find one of these secret collectables.

MarMax Gaming points out all their locations in this video (10 minutes). There's not a huge numbers of reasons to get the
https://setsideb.com/all-the-3-up-moons-in-super-mario-world/
#retro #mario #moons #nintendo #retro #secrets #supermarioworld

The Frantic Fisherman from Compute’s Gazette
There was once a time when Compute's Gazette, the Commodore 64 type-in magazine, was nearly the center of the computing world.

An important source of low-cost computer software from the age before the internet, Compute's Gazette distributed a variety of software, including a couple of games eac
https://setsideb.com/the-frantic-fisherman-from-computes-gazette/
#retro #C64AppreciationSociety #computesgazette #FranticFisherman #retro #typein

So further to yesterday's query, that thing in that government office was not quite a computer, and not on the Internet, but rather a terminal of a network called #Telidon which apparently you could get a machine (I suppose it would've been a computer of sorts) with which you could dial in from anywhere and view it on your TV.

Not surprising at all that the 70s Canadian gov got into some funky homegrown tech. Had I known it was possible for us to have this at home, I probably would've been insufferable about it, but I did get a C64 a number of years later, it was for he best.

Anyways, here's a video about the artists that created for Telidon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjMUe7hkwRs

#Retro #Canada #70s

About Arcade Game Startup Displays
I was just thinking a few days ago, It's been quite some time since we've heard from Retro Game Mechanics Explained. In fact, looking at their channel, it's been eight months since their last deep dive into video game internals, their terrific (if somewhat dry) look i
https://setsideb.com/about-arcade-game-startup-displays/
#niche #retro #galaxian #hardware #Joust2 #niche #pacman #retro #retrogamemechanicsexplained #rgmex #startup #SuperPacMan #TeddyBoy

Ok so hey #Canada #GenX especially people from #Winnipeg who spent time in Eaton Place downtown in the early 80s, because that is the specific instance of what I'm certain was in many government offices and such.

Ok. It is maybe 1980 I'm late single digits and I go downtown with my gramma a lot, and we spend a fair amount of time in Eaton Place, her doing whatever she did, and me doing a circuit of Petland, a record store on the second floor, the arcade, and near the North entrance of the South building, there was a government office of some kind.

In that government office, there was a computer. Not one that #retro heads would recognize, it was large, did simple colour graphics, and had a weird nonstandard keyboard about the size of a gigantic TV remote, on a curly cable. Possibly some sort of Unix thing and I think it was networked, presumably on the Internet.

It mostly did very boring stuff and I was just a kid, I didn't care about whatever its main functions were, but I had learned that if I entered f518, there was a graphical mystery house game of some kind.

I remember that office had a fair amount of techy stuff, like, there was a kind of pushbutton video jukebox where you could watch various promotional videos, I remember one of the things it played was a Folklorama ad with the "la-lalala-la-lalalaaa" earworm, which my older California chick cousin and I laughed at one summer day that we were all downtown.

I would really love to find out what was the deal with that computer system, though.

🥳Unsolicited thrift store good news:

For just wanting the case for my RaspberryPi build, I bought a tiny, about 50 year old portable radio for €0,50. Clearly marked "(Philips, not working)".

I bought, for spare parts, a Scalextric slot car racetrack with two cars, €2. Clearly marked "broken".

What's hilarious is that, not only the radio works fine, the slot car racetrack came with EVERYTHING including spare parts and original untouched car decal sheet.

The racetrack is pretty clear case, I will... AHEM, my boys will play with it as is just fine.

But the radio though. It's cute as a little pig. I can't destroy it for a Pi build. 😁

I feel so lucky. Should I now go buy scratch tickets, chewing tobacco and a Peterbuilt meshback baseball cap? 🤔

#E_Waste_Conoisseur #Retro #DadLife #RaspberryPi #DIY #tinkering

A Thing Called Packri Monster (Take 2)
Sometimes Wordpress is infuriating.

What I remember doing is working hard on a post proclaiming to the world the existence of a weird offshoot of the Pac-Man universe called Packri Monster. I wrote it, and I saved it (I believe) so it would be posted on the morning of January 16th.

Well, I just
https://setsideb.com/a-thing-called-pacri-monster/
#niche #retro #Bandai #coleco #handheld #niche #PacMan #PackriMonster #retro #tabletop #Tomy #watch

Just wanted to ask as some of you are better at getting this than I am, does anyone know where to find old and lost or hard to find Casio soundfonts? I looking to start an archive of old synth and toy keyboard soundfonts. #Chiptune #chiptune #Retro #retro #Casio #casio #Music #music

#Apple #Retro #RetroTech

Came across this classic from an older, more civilized era of Youtube. I still use "I wasn't even there!" to this day

https://youtu.be/ZzV6-453ay8

#gaming #Retro #youtube #oldnet #2000s #callofduty

I meant to post this amazing delivery from @ajroach42 & https://www.mountaintowntoys.com/ when I received it last week, so thanks to @derek for reminding me with this great thread!

https://social.coop/@derek/115888313020372319

I mean...that's a lot of awesomeness is a small package!

From a new "100 year old" Sky Pirates quartely, to toys made completely in house, to 2 #GameBoy color games made from their podcasts! I still can't oversell it, but I was speechless last week.

Oh yeah, you can play the games on computer, too!

https://www.mountaintowntoys.com/product/jupiters-ghost-away-mission-gbc-cartridge/

#JupitersGhost #ExpeditionSasquatch #FediArt #GameBoyColor #retro #vintage #toys

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Jupiter's Ghost Game Boy Color game in lime green cartridge and laser cut wood frame.

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Game boy color showing start menu of jupiter's ghost GBC game.

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Expedition sasquatch and jupiter's ghosts game boy color cartidges

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The motherlode from Mountaintown Toys. Volumes 1 and 2 of "The Mysterious Air Pirates", handmade toys and 2 game boy color games. Expedition sasquath and Jupiter's ghost

This game showed up on my Steam recommendations just now and it looks outstanding. We have a lot of Doom-style retro shooters ("Boomer shooters", though I hate that name), even some Quake-style ones, but not so many that are inspired by Wolfenstein.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2195910/Darkenstein_3D/

#RetroGames #retro #wolfenstein #fps #Steam #PCMR