Paul Darbyshire 🇪🇺

Artwork for Toaplan Arcade 1, featuring Tiger-Heli and 7 other games.

Artwork for Toaplan Arcade 2, including Twin Cobra and 6 other classics.

Artwork for Toaplan Arcade 3, featuring Batsugun and 6 other classics.

Artwork for Toaplan Arcade 4, including Knuckle Bash and 5 other hits.

Toaplan is a legend of Japanese game development, and you can enjoy a wide selection of its arcade hits on Evercade! Our four Toaplan Arcade carts give you a way to collect officially licensed physical releases of these all-time classics, with full-colour manuals and collectible clamshell cases.

Just a bunch of animated save points in PS1 RPGs ❤️

Shown here:
1. Chrono Cross
2. Legend of Legaia
3. Tales of Phantasia
4. Final Fantasy 7
5. Final Fantasy 8
6. Final Fantasy 9
7. Parasite Eve
8. Wild Arms
9. Xenogears

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100%.

I think disturbing is a good way to describe a lot of OOT actually. I do remember it surprising a lot of people at the time.

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on N64 via NSO.

Man, I’d totally forgotten about guillotine alley. 😮‍💨

A bag of Union Timana coffee.

Cracking open a new coffee too. 👀

Pepperoni pizza.

Boom! 💥

Oh man, this place is definitely worth the drive, the pizzas are outrageous. Plus, there’s a nice wharf over the road where you can have a drink, really nice in the summer.

Purely Pizza restaurant in Burscough, Lancs.

A meatball and ndjua pizza.

Booths supermarket in Burscough, Lancs.

Good old Purely Pizza up in Burscough, got a cheeky 25% off code earlier. Maybe a little peek in Booths before getting home for the game too…👀

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Out for pizza shortly!

Feels like we've had 4568348 consecutive years of darkness. 💀

A swimming pool in Crete.

TFI Friday, man. Mentally I’m here. 🥲

MOAR SF2 tonight. 🙂‍↕️

Thread. (TLDR: the House of Lords DCC report on AI came down hard on the correct side of the debate, rather than siding with industry lobbyists.)

Art by Peter Elson (1947 – 1998). Another giant of British scifi book cover art

RUIN ARM R.P.G. (1995): A vibrant Super Famicom game box cover illustration depicting a dynamic group of fantasy adventurers charging forward through ruined stone structures under a bright blue sky. In the foreground, a young male hero with spiky orange hair, goggles, red cape, and blue tunic wields a large sword with both hands. Surrounding him are a blue-haired female mage in flowing robes, a green-skinned goblin-like character with goggles and a wide grin, a young female archer in red and blue attire, and various large mechanical creatures and monsters, a metallic robot head, and other fantastical armored figures. A large glowing green orb floats in the background amid towering ruins and rocky terrain. The bold title "RUIN ARM" appears in stylized blue and gold lettering at the center, with Japanese text above and publisher credits for Banpresto and Nintendo at the bottom.

RUIN ARM R.P.G. (1995) by Bandai for Super Famicom. Japanese cover illustration by Hiroyuki Taiga.

Phazon Suit🌧

MOAR SF2 tonight. 🙂‍↕️

There’s always one. 🤣

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on N64 via NSO.

I’d actually forgotten about this particular piece of nightmare fuel. 💀

Tekken 2: The greatest fighters on Earth. (1 of 3)

Tekken 2: The greatest fighters on Earth. (2 of 3)

Tekken 2: The greatest fighters on Earth. (3 of 3)

Tekken 2: The greatest fighters on Earth.
Source: Ultra Game Players 89 (October 1996)
Scan Source: RetroMags

#retrogaming #playstation #namco

When I dumped the Unreleased Japanese version of Burnout 1 PS2, unaware it never came out in Japan, I left it in my “non-priority” prototype pile for nearly a year

When I finally revisited it, I realized it was a important build👇

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When East meets West. That Bob Wakelin art wins in this case. Those Colours.

Street Fighter V on SFC.

Sometimes you just have to go with it…

It costs $0.00 to uninstall that Big Tech browser you’ve always used and switch to a European browser that has no AI and doesn’t collect your data. 🫶🏻

It’s definitely a good time. Nice dose of strange going on too.

I’d recommend the sequel if you get chance. Probably not as good as the first game but still a great Vania.

Pretty much everything I ever wanted in a Metroidvania. Spectacular game, and it looks great on CRT. 👀

SNES SF2 hacks, man, I absolutely love them, you know.

Street Fighter V on SFC.

Sometimes you just have to go with it…