retrogaming

I had not played Diablo at the time so this game was my introduction to the genre...

There’s a Kickstarter out to produce vinyl records of an industrial rock cover of The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour soundtracks, with the blessing of the original composer! There’s also a bunch of WIP preview tracks on the Kickstarter page if you want to hear what it’s going to sound like when it’s done.

Randi Rain disassembles and restores an almost-“new”-but-not-working “Hit and Missile” electro-mechanical handheld game (from 1979 - 198x?)....

Revisiting the 1997 Microsoft SideWinder Force Feedback Pro joystick for PC! This started off as simple FFB stick nostalgia, showing off a few Windows 95 games, annnd ended up going down rabbit holes on gameport adapters, DirectX, patent trolls, and the quiet demise/resurrection of force feedback flight sticks.

I’ve heard it’s the first but not really sure. Anyway, the overseas version linked in the post is particularly cute since the singer is obviously not a professional and it feels like the main character herself is singing as the voice actor is probably the same as the singer. I was like “what the hell is happening?” when...

I love his videos, they’re my usual workout “podcasts”. New one is about the 8BitDo controllers, I’ve been lurking about the ultimate one, I’ll finally know if it’s worth it