Some more make-your-own-story nonsense, from my game dev days, that went nowhere. Game development is like that a lot.

I bought Newtype every month from the late '80s to the mid '90s. Never once had a clue what was going on in Five Star Stories.

What a corker. Loved a bit of Iron Fist and Shang-Chi, as a kid in the mid '70s. The MCU versions just don't match up.

Illustration of two cat adventurers. A large, bumbling green cat with a bit of armour and a little old skinny fella on his back looking to nick the gems from a backpack.

And another one incase that makes making your own story up a bit easier.

Illustration of two cat adventurers. A stoic black cat in armour with a sword and a wizard female with a magic staff (glowing bit at the end etc.).

Make-your-own-story-up cat duo.

It's a viewtiful day for a #randomgamesaturday

Much fierceness.

And here’s me thinking that my steady diet of the Brothers Quay just fu**** me up over the years.

Only time I was caught out with a fake was with a JPN copy of Minish Cap on fleaBay.

Fantastic! The perfect pairing.

The stock footage, radio chatter and lack of music for most of the opening titles gives The Six Million Dollar Man a gravitas it really doesn’t deserve.

At least v1.0 looked like a real person.

Or, at least, swing.

I've heard that they're good for your heart and have effects the more you eat them.

As long as he's under orders to do more than just a landscape.

Pragmata does look interesting but I probably wouldn’t give it a second look if all I had to go on was the box art. Nobody really gives a monkeys about this kind of thing anymore, do they?

It does run 20% faster outside of the UK, though.

The SFC version has lovely box art but is now, sadly, way out of my price range.

Metal Slug being the exception. That was always amazing.

I've always been a little disappointed playing Neo-Geo games, given their price and the machine's reputation. At least having them on whopping big carts in lovingly illustrated cases would allow me to convince myself that they're better than they actually are.

It's no Kung Fury.

@bitmapbooks.com - I didn't even know there were versions for other regions :)

Crikey! I feel honoured :)

Is there anyone anywhere in the world making a Super Famicom (or just Japanese 16bit era in general) zine/mag? I really feel in the mood for something like that at the moment. Hey, you could call it Super16.

I certainly appreciate the 'Action' flash on the Psycho Fox box. Great artwork, too.

I’ve done jobs where I had to reproduce stuff on-model. It’s not much fun.

I can remember being a kid in the ‘70s thinking what a dream it would be to work at somewhere like Marvel or Disney. Not so much, now.

Well, to be fair I wasn’t a ‘pro’ illustrator at that point (as in I’d never been paid to draw something).

Sorry, is it a bit of a faux pas to bump your own #portfolioday post?

It is a treat, too.