Capcom's 1988 'takes home the arcade challenge!' sales brochure - archive.gamehistory.org/item/23d9b329-d054-4a0e-... - was hyping the rise of the NES, forecasting $1 billion in retail game sales by the end of the year.

Chôshirô Suzuki (GGI) During my research concerning the company GGI ( ジージーアイ ), I came across a fascinating article 1  (in my opinion, obviously) in the July 1...

An English translation of the Monthly Coin Journal feature on Choshiro Suzuki. Suzuki once worked for GGI and later was the president of Human. arcade-terra-incognita.blogspot.com/2026/01/chos...

GGI (Part I) : 1973 - 1980 GGI (ジージーアイ) is one of those companies that played a genuine role in the video game industry during its golden age — without ever leaving a ...

Part I of a profile on the arcade game company GGI arcade-terra-incognita.blogspot.com/2026/04/ggi-...

Egg It Pac-Man Bootleg Nintendo NES Famicom Clone Famiclone Knock Off Multicart YouTube video by Retro Games Fan

I was hoping this would be some sort of K-Razy Antiks knockoff. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDVK...

Antstream recently added seven golf games including Actua Golf (aka VR Golf) and Chip Shot: Super Pro Golf, the first Intellivision game on the service.

Official Sega Genesis Seal of Quality: 17 companies have earned the right to display this seal. (1 of 3)

Official Sega Genesis Seal of Quality: 17 companies have earned the right to display this seal. (2 of 3)

Official Sega Genesis Seal of Quality: 17 companies have earned the right to display this seal. (3 of 3)

Official Sega Genesis Seal of Quality: 17 companies have earned the right to display this seal.
Source: GamePro 15 (October 1990)
Scan Source: RetroMags

#retrogaming #sega

The mighty Alammo of AlammoFM on YT has just dropped OMEGADRIVE on @itch.io - an interactive #MegaDrive VGM player!

Extremely impressive despite only being in beta - definitely one to keep an eye (and ear) on. Now go and explore some MD #chiptunes!

delacannon.itch.io/omegadrive

Ore! Tomba grip strength tester / Promotional material / Whoopee Camp / 1997

Panasonic 3DO VHS Promo From 1993 YouTube video by This Week In Gaming

Panasonic 3DO VHS Promo From 1993 www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWw0...

TOSE has demolished its Nagaokakyo Development Center (est. 2009) which once housed 85 staff on several floors and an adjacent building it owned in Kyoto to make way for a new six-floor office complex that will open January of 2028.
Link: t.co/B7OLS4yQHs

Historian Alex Smith (author and host of They Create Worlds) joins us for the latest Video Game History Hour podcast to challenge the prevailing “Genesis does what Nintendon’t” narrative in the early '90s: gamehistory.org/episode-154-sega-in-the-...

アルファ電子1984年頃の広告。ひとつの発想が技術を生み、その技術が新たな発想を創る。技術ポエムがいい感じだ…
#AlphaDenshi #1984

In one of the other articles, they mention the Hot-B/Cool-A thing.

TCW 256 - Cinemaware YouTube video by They Create Worlds Podcast

Bob Jacob wanted to put Hollywood into a game box and nearly pulled it off. Defender of the Crown, Wings, Rocket Ranger, and a football game that quietly inspired EA Sports, all from a studio that lasted five years. youtu.be/EN43CmoJpyc #Cinemaware #DefenderOfTheCrown #RetroGaming #GamingHistory

(Incidentally, I believe Ecseco was involved with the licensing of Block Breaker, but I can't find the ad.)

Pop Quiz: Hot-B brought the Dutch MSX2 game (Block) Breaker to Japan. It was the inspiration for Devilish. What game did they turn down?

Has anyone ever asked Takahashi? bsky.app/profile/ohfi...

Konami Computer Entertainment Chicago / Konami Amusement of America gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.p...

I was thinking Micronics, but I don't think that was in Higashiosaka. bsky.app/profile/taiz...

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Ecseco gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.p...

The Definitive History of Hot-B At this point in time, I think I can safely stand by that title. And I found it completely by accident searching for something else. Not muc...

New on GDRI2: The Definitive History of Hot-B gdri.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-...

Konami Computer Entertainment Chicago / Konami Amusement of America gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.p...

Final Fight Revenge: An oral history, 26 years later Five team members look back at the origins and development challenges behind Capcom's first — and still only — internally-developed, U.S.-made fighting game.

We dig into Capcom's infamous U.S.-made fighter, with a 5,000-word feature and never-before-seen development assets.

A look at the game selection screen of Jaleco Arcade Collection Vol.1 at PAX East courtesy of Gravity Co., Ltd. Had a good playthrough of 64th Street: A Detective Story. I noticed previously unannounced titles including Best Bout Boxing, Chameleon, Cisco Heat, Pinbo and Valtric. Release Date: TBA.

Ecseco gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.p...

I'd like to know where this info came from. Unfortunately, there aren't too many issues of Famitsu from Summer 1991 available, though I can confirm that it was originally listed with the working title "Back to the Future 2." bsky.app/profile/gdri...

Ad for the Falcon-8 Video Simulator from Falcon (same phone number as seen in Yamato) (Monthly Coin Journal January 1983)

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New book from Sion Sawa about his father, sound designer Kazuo Sawa, coming out later this month www.gameimpact.info/shioniku/

Takeuchi's written a bit about Air Buster recently, including:

X68000 Air Buster x.com/takeuty/stat...
The X68000, FM Towns, and PC-9801 make appearances x.com/takeuty/stat...
MD Air Buster was supposed to be 8M x.com/takeuty/stat...