sourdust

sourdust, 1 month ago to cymru

The #Welsh word for fondly recalling being tucked in to bed by one's mother at night is "NosDalgia".

sourdust, 2 months ago to retrogaming

Bought from a rather well-stocked "tip shop" for £2 each.

I know it's only golf AGAIN, but - a #Dreamcast game for £2? In a junk shop? In 2024?! Had to be done...

#RetroGaming

sourdust, 2 months ago to random

Nothing sums up our weird world of the future more succinctly, than "So what did we all think?" retrospectives of a TV series that launched 24 hours ago.

sourdust, 2 months ago to HashtagGames

#AltEclipseASongOrPoem
#HashTagGames

My Corona

sourdust, 2 months ago to retrogaming

Amazing to think that this was already a "retro" computer game even when we played it in school in 1984!

I don't think we knew it was THAT old. With contemporary IT generations more likely to be measured in months than years, a 12 YEAR OLD computer game would have felt like communing with the ancestors... 👴

#RetroGaming #StarTrek

https://vmst.io/@Robavince/112215042099830803

sourdust, 3 months ago to random

When I first saw a REAL crocodile, I wasn't bothered at all.

Turns out I was just Lacoste Intolerant.

🐊

sourdust, 4 months ago to zxspectrum

This is "Starburst" on #ZXSpectrum - a "Crash" magazine covertape game. A very decent shmup which manages to avoid colour-clash issues for the most part, and plays quite smoothly. Incremental power-ups build quickly and you don't lose them ALL if you die. Have to appreciate a shmup that isn't dead-set on wrecking your life... 🙂

If this was on the front of my magazine in 1991 I'd be pretty chuffed.

#RetroGaming #shmups

sourdust, 4 months ago to retrogaming

[sigh]

It's ALWAYS an emergency with you, Nancy.

You never call just to say "HI!", do you?

I'm right here, Nancy... 😢

#RetroGaming #RetroGames #ChaseHQ #SegaMasterSystem
#80s

sourdust, 4 months ago to random

I wonder if the Scottish ambassador would be willing to outline their surrender terms?

#WALvSCO #SixNations

sourdust, 4 months ago to retrogaming

I've gone down in a hail of lead - again. But at least it looks like my partner got lucky...

#TurnsOutImStillCrapAt "Crime Patrol" on #Sega #MegaCD.

#RetroGaming #Lightgun

sourdust, 4 months ago to retrogaming

"Complete set of commercially-released #Atari7800 #lightgun games" is perhaps one of the most underwhelming #RetroGaming collection achievements possible...

Nonetheless, a win is a win! 😂

sourdust, 5 months ago to Intellivision

Five different versions of Imagic's "Demon Attack" (1982) playing on original hardware.

L-R: #Intellivision, #Atari2600, #Atari8Bit, #VIC20, #Commodore64

INTV has hands-down the best gameplay content. It's a toss-up between A26 and VIC as to which is the prettiest. The A8 version is - disappointingly - barely distinguishable from the A26.

The later C64 version is pretty poor. It's missing nearly all of the visual charm of earlier versions, especially the VIC one.

#RetroGaming #Atari

sourdust, 5 months ago to retrogaming

#TurnsOutImStillCrapAt "Pole Position" - #Vectrex

Actually, I'd never played it on Vectrex before; new platform, but familiar results!

#RetroGaming

sourdust, 6 months ago to zxspectrum

I was a big fan of #Gauntlet in the arcade, but coming as late as 1987 meant this #ZXSpectrum port entirely passed me by at the time.

A shame, as it turns out it's pretty good. It would be an understatement to say that the Speccie's record with arcade ports was not exactly a litany of triumph, so this stands out as very playable and - crucially - RECOGNIZABLE analog of the original experience.

#TurnsOutImStillCrapAt it, though. "Blue Valkyrie... is about to die..."

#RetroGaming #80s

sourdust, 6 months ago to retrogaming

#TurnsOutImStillCrapAt "Lethal Enforcers" - #SEGA #Megadrive

Finally bodged together a station where all (well... some) of my lightguns can do their thing. Shooty shooty bang bangz...

#RetroGaming #Genesis #OrangeAndTeal

sourdust, 6 months ago to DOOM

Platforms on which I own (original) #DOOM:

• PC
• SNES
• 32X
• Jaguar
• N64 (doesn't really count)
• GameBoy Advance
• 3DO
• Saturn
• PS1
• PS3
• Switch

Platforms on which I have played #DOOM today:

#RetroGaming #Doom30th

sourdust, 7 months ago to retrogaming

"Galaxian" on #Atari XL.

Atari 8-bit has a rep for faithful arcade conversions, and also for them being generally easier than both the originals, and most contemporary ports.

This one bucks that trend both ways. In terms of accuracy it's disappointing; the sprite movement is far too different (and erratic) for the game to "feel" like the arcade version. But this also makes it harder - you don't die any faster, but it's much harder to hit anything!

#RetroGaming #shmup

sourdust, 7 months ago to Nintendo

That straining sound you hear, is several million #Nintendo fans gamely trying to wedge their minds open to the concept of a live-action #Zelda movie...

sourdust, 7 months ago to retrogaming

In case it helps you out there:

Ghost identification for beginners.

#RetroGaming #Halloween

sourdust, 7 months ago to random

#RWC2023 #ENGvRSA

Hyper-aggression, intransigence and negativity can only get you so far.

Fair play to England for taking it to the wire so improbably, but thank you South Africa for (somehow) not letting them get away with it.

sourdust, 8 months ago to random

Wanna feel old?

If "One Million Years B.C." was made today, it would be set in 999,943 B.C.

sourdust, 9 months ago to animals

#CatsOfMastodon

Random Windowcat.

#SanFrancisco, 2010.

sourdust, 9 months ago to retrogaming

£4!

"I had £10 on it, but I don't think it's an original..."

• Oh, I see... [whips out wallet]

"Yeah; it doesn't actually say '#Atari' on it anywhere."

• No, you're right... Still, I don't mind. Card okay?

No, I didn't go back in time to 2002. But it sure felt like it. 😄

#RetroGaming

sourdust, 9 months ago to GameBoyAdvance

#TurnsOutImStillCrapAt

No! Wait!

Do not adjust your equipment. This is legit. I actually completed the course in #OutRun!

I'm 95% sure that this has never happened before, in nearly 40 years of trying, on countless platforms...

Is the #GameBoyAdvance "#SEGA Arcade Classics" version famously easy? Because this was my first attempt. Something's not right here!

#RetroGaming

sourdust, 10 months ago to retrogaming

#TurnsOutImStillCrapAt "Cannon Fodder" - #SNES

Although perhaps getting less crap, since a friend @yesterzine let me in on the little secret that this version works with a mouse. After five minutes of rummaging, I was in business.

Note the "surfboard" thigh-mounted mousemat, comfortably pushing the SNES itself into second place on the "Most #90s Thing In This Photo" hiscore table.

#RetroGaming #Nintendo

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