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¡Hola! Acabo de llegar a diaspora*. Es un placer estar aquí y poder compartir con ustedes mi pasión por las home computers y los videojuegos.
¿Quién de ustedes tiene o tuvo una computadora de 8 o 16 bits?
Hi! I’ve just arrived on diaspora*. It’s a pleasure to be here and share my passion for home computers and video games with you all.
Which of you has -or used to have- an 8-bit or 16-bit computer?
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Let's see if Fedi is smarter than LLMs:
When we got our first PC a friend installed a bunch of games (Win95).
One of these was a 3D adventure game (maybe 3rd person view?). It was a miracle it ran on that HW and was very low poly. I didn't know English at the time so I have no clue what the game was about.
I remember that could walk around in a village and NPCs occasionally talked to you. Then giant green worms appeared and that's when I usually died 😁 or the game just went on because the worms weren't very targeted/hostile?
I'd appreciate any guesses on this! I'm not a huge gamer but want to know what that game was about.
90 Pixel Art Masterpieces: Pappas Pärlor’s Perler Bead Street Takeover
Content warning: Pappas Pärlor: The Pixel Art Visionary Pappas Pärlor, also known as Johan Karlgren, is a Swedish street artist who brings old-school video game vibes to the real world. He uses Perler beads—small plastic beads that melt together—to create colorful, pixel-
The artist Pappas Pärlor with his street artwork “Me, looking forward to a new work week”
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, because no one else seems to admit that the original arcade version of Commando had more than 8 directional shooting.
Like, look at this longplay:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glAOASJEmQE
To me, it seems obvious that a lot of bullets are NOT just going in the standard 8 directions. It's possible to hit enemies that are "in between" vertical/horizontal and the standard diagonal slope.
Am I the only one who realizes this?.
Commando - Arcade 1985 - Gameplay
And here we are, with Capcom's first major arcade hit of 1985, which defined the Run 'n Gun genre. Vertical scrolling, tons of enemies to fight, rapid-fire s...YouTube
doing some visual design research on isometric tile-based games and came across this incredible screenshot from Celtic Tales: Balor of the Evil Eye
that entire screenshot was drawn with just *sixteen colours*
(click screenshot to view as razor sharp pixels)
OMG. You can buy the original Fallout game for £2 at Gog.
TWO POUNDS.
I think the nostalgia hit I got at the POSSIBILITY of playing it again was probably worth that.
Playing with my #arduino and continue my game with a famous main character: Carrot!
He has to eat a lot of fishes 🐟
We have been officially approved to be listed on JoinMastodon.org under the #Gaming category!
We’re super excited for what this means for our servers continued growth. Thank you all SO MUCH for your ongoing support!
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Hi all, I'm jmechner on #Twitter #Instagram, new here! I do #videogames, #books, #screenwriting and #comics.
I made #PrinceofPersia and #Karateka on #AppleII using rotoscoped #animation & released my #gamedev #journal. Nowadays I write & draw #graphicnovels #BD and #sketchbook #sketching. I'm from #USA, live in #France.
Interested in #drawing #art #illustration #games #gaming #retrogames #retrogaming #film #cinema #tech #technology #history. Suggestions welcome!
First up came this morning: yet another Game Boy - this time the GBC! I've never even SEEN one in person. And I must say, it's MAJESTIC. My first GBC game arrives tomorrow.
#retrogaming
