When I read the description for this “Run a madcap hotel in this Marx Bros management sim” my eyes turned into cartoon heart shapes.
Hi, I’m Phil Nelson, a writer, developer, and audio-visual maker of stuff. I have been making stuff online for over 25 years. I run RetroStrange and Set Side B. Good to see you.
Blog Archives
Tag: video games
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The Secrets of the Sega Channel
The excellent Video Game History Foundation has just announced a new treasure trove of previously-inaccessible content from the short-lived Sega Channel including over 100 new Sega Channel ROMs.
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Super Mario Bros. Remastered
Over on Github some awesome person has released
“A Remake / Celebration of the original ‘Super Mario Bros.’ games. Features new levels, custom modes, new characters, alongside a full level editor / custom level system!”
It looks like a lot of fun and I’m planning to play with it this weekend.
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Last-minute 3D Prints: Analogue Pocket Grip
Threw this chubby little grip by Thingiverse user wilkesvaughn onto my Ender 3 Pro the day before a multi-leg trip thru the American Middle-West and so far it’s been nice. One thing that I’ll need to mod in: My travel earbuds have a 90-degree bend in the TRRS connector, which means I can’t use headphones with this on. It looks nice in pink on my black Pocket, with some light sanding right before hopping in a cab to the airport. I’ll clean the bottom a bit better when we get back. Take a look:
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AKI.guide
AKI.guide is a website dedicated to sharing knowledge about the pro wrestling video games made by AKI Corporation between 1996 – 2007 such as Virtual Pro Wrestling, WCW/NWO World Tour, and No Mercy. These games have a huge online following, and mods are still being actively developed that add entire new gameplay modes and total conversions. The site even has an online patcher so you can try out mods without needing to download any tools.
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Pocket Platform Images
A ton of nice images like these are in the repo. I’ve been traveling with my Analogue Pocket and Game Boy Camera as my only gaming devices and it’s been going great. There is a lot of customization possible with the Pocket and a pretty big community with lots of well supported “cores” (basically, hardware-level emulation-but-not-emulation, it’s the actual reimplemented hardware using FPGAs). This repo of hi-quality platform images is my latest addition to my load out.
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Virtual Boy Coming To Nintendo Switch and Switch 2
Hell has frozen over and all the red devils are here. It even has a physical Virtual Boy device you plug your Switch in to, but sadly no controller. 14 games are set to be released which is most of the catalog. According to Nicole the missing games are Waterworld, Virtual League Baseball, Virtual Lab, Virtual Fishing, Space Squash, SD Gundam, Panic Bomber and Nester’s Funky Bowling. Me? I’m just pissed that the original VB prices just exploded on eBay.
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All 54 lost clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity
Kyle Orland for Ars Technica. Real Soccer 2009 was the last one, and was described as “especially cursed,” by the preservationists. Check out the GitHub repo for all the games before Apple takes it down.
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RetroGame350-AppRepo
Saving for myself for later, a GitHub repo of PocketGo and RetroGame350 apps/emulators.
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We won: Unity is dropping its unpopular per-install Runtime Fee
Instead of ramping from there, the Runtime Fee is now gone, and Unity has made other changes to its pricing structure:
- Unity Personal remains free, and its revenue/funding ceiling increases from $100,000 to $200,000
- Unity Pro, for customers over the Personal limit, sees an 8 percent price increase to $2,200 per seat
- Unity Enterprise, with customized packages for those over $25 million in revenue or funding, sees a 25 percent increase.
Unity announced the changes to universal disdain in September 2023, made a lot of noise about how smart they all were for doing it, and are now walking backwards without taking an ounce of responsibility for this waste of everyone’s time.