[💙M] One of my favorite video game marketing tropes is how many ads for arcade games — because they're meant to appeal to arcade operators in hopes of selling to them rather than to players — are more about how the game can make ***BIG PROFITS 💵*** for the arcade than about player fulfillment
"arcade games are just made to steal your quarters" is like some "contemporary art is just money laundering" type shit. dispense with these layer-two takes you heard from someone marginally smarter than you. play out run. get your cock out and play xevious. play mr. do!
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Paying tribute to Yoshihisa Kishimoto by 1cc'ing Double Dragon in the true, proper & correct manner, by only using the elbow🫡
R.I.P
There you go, a 1CC of Gunbird 2 (Dreamcast) on. “Child” level 😅 That wasn’t too bad, actually. Didn’t break a sweat and only played a few runs. I can confidently graduate to “Very Easy” now. #shmup #retrogaming
Our coverage of Double Dragon and its immense impact on the video game landscape. 🙏 R.I.P. Kishimoto-sensei
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R.I.P. to a legend
40 years ago, Capcom's rootin' tootin' up-the-screen shootin' Gun Smoke hit Euro arcades. It was basically Commando with cowboys, with the player guiding hero Billie Bob through a variety of Western environments. Mucho baddies and power-ups ahoy made this a very fun shooter.
Some (but not all) of the games that were most important to me, over the years.
#My9Games #私を構成する9つのゲーム
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Blurry selfie, taking whilst early morning jogging
Up mega early, accidentally doing 7 miles rather than 3 all because I was listening to tales of smackwhacking and the Congo Bongo Files and didn’t want to stop… it can only be the latest edition of @videowizardspod.bsky.social So good to be hearing this again 🤘
Opening Up
'G-Darius'
PlayStation
Typical. The first 2026 video game release I’m adding to my collection is a reissue of a 1993 port of a 1986 arcade game.
Slap Fight MD is notable for its arrange mode featuring a @yuzokoshiro.bsky.social OST.
We also covered the arcade game in the 1st year of @videowizardspod.bsky.social.
New podcast: Time Crisis
The Cane and Rinse podcast returns for its fifteen year with its first ever lightgun game coverage.
We crouch into cover and give Time Crisis the once-over. Leon, Chris W, Karl and Tony are ready for ACTION!
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Episode 32 is sloooowly coming together. But who doesn't love a bit of good natured and sometimes even insightful chat about classic arcade games such as Mappy, Mario Bros., Gyruss, Star Wars and... Krull?
The first half of the long awaited Video Wizards episode 32 is done! Patreon subscribers can already tune into 4 and a half hours of animated talk and sounds of the arcade games and news of 1983's springtime season. Enjoy!
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It was such a cool thing for me to have @jazrignall.bsky.social on here. Mean Machines and CVG were my introductions to proper video game critique and analysis and he and his fellow editors helped shape my tastes. Oh yeah, Defender is pretty awesome as well. 😁
One of the best games ever made
Just checking through the upcoming games for the mean machines audit and oh boy the @videowizardspod.bsky.social massive should be looking forward for episode 200
Going to be a good one!
same Outfoxies description as before. It has not gotten any saner as those things are still happening in the same pic
The Outfoxies
Another unported masterpiece that I love. It's quite short & not too tricky to learn, so anyone can learn it with a bit of effort. I'd say it's an acquired taste but everyone seems to love it too, so good
Also a blast in 2P mode
Many thought it would never get a port but here we are
Radio 6music bringin’ the Pilo today @videowizardspod.bsky.social
A screenshot of Bart de Graaf speaking to Dutch police after hurling a brick through a shop window for some reason
@mkstayontarget.bsky.social @onecreditclassics.bsky.social Instagram feed delivering the goods today
In a section we like to call "The Classifieds Report"
Flyer for a live stream at twitch.tv/mkstayontarget on Wednesday November 26 at 3.00 PM GMT+1
This Wednesday, our shmup Schildmaid MX is finally arriving on all major current consoles!
To celebrate & pay homage to the games that inspired us, we'll be live streaming from perhaps the largest arcade on mainland Western Europe.
Join us on November 26 from 3PM GMT+1 at twitch.tv/mkstayontarget.
A screenshot of a discord thread where a user has posted ‘p funk’
It’s been getting a bit @videowizardspod.bsky.social in the Discord
Earnings and profits! And Konami especially had this thing of putting real life models in their advertisement. Check this gem out:
M.I.A.: Missing in Action (1989)
Only 3 warps? Shouldn't be so hard to reach.
Capcom sound team in the rooftop of Capcom's offices, 1990
Joyful Road arcade flyer
This week's Arcade Archives release is SNK's 1983 driving game Joyful Road, AKA Munch Mobile. Collect the food & dispose of litter on the road as you make your way home
#ジョイフルロード
#アーケードアーカイブス
#アケアカ
Mutant Fighter
#RetroGaming
#Arcade
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