Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️

A full page piece of artwork of the Final Fantasy VII main cast illustrated in a cinematic movie poster form, used for the article commemorating it smash success and popularity

While digging into the EGM 1998 Buyer's Guide, I came across this gorgeous piece of Final Fantasy VII artwork - voted Best RPG of 1997 by the mag and its readers.

Love how cinematic and vibrant it is 💜

I was today years old when I learned that a travel guide was produced for the Game Boy in 1991 and that it has a cute little pixel animation to represent the character of each major city it covers.

It seems the thieving grifter pieces of human filth at "superhuman" are using my work without my consent to create AI editors based on me. The world isn't terrible enough, we also have to deal with people just stealing our work to burn resources and enrich themselves in a brand new way? Fuck off

Ohhh no

Z trigger is in a really comfy place, the stick has just the right amount of resistance and travel, and it's a surprisingly comfortable shape to hold for long periods of time.

A photo of the transparent Interact MakoPad in front of an N64

I've been trying different N64 controllers while playing through Ocarina of Time for the first time. Began with a tight stick official pad, then gave one of our Retrofighters a try, and now for session three, I used this MakoPad 64.

Might actually be my favourite of the three to play Ocarina with.

Opening cutscene to TwinBee RPG for PlayStation. That's right, this 1998 title is a role-playing game with the sentient mascot. And it has dating elements, so you sick shoot 'em up freaks can finally kiss a ship (that's not true. unfortunately, it also has human characters)

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Ohh, it's a rock band called The Church.

Kojima posing holding dual rifles.

Kojima smirks as he peers down the sights of his airsoft rifle

Kojima holds up an issue of Mixx Zine, looking a bit nonplussed at being asked to do so.

A snippet of the interview

A playful Hideo Kojima shortly after the release of Metal Gear Solid, as featured and interviewed in Mixx Zine's Jan 1999 issue.

"That's right. I want to keep on making games till I die."

The website banner gif for Otakon 1999, convention of Otaku Generation. Their scanlined red haired mascot is to the left

A red-coloured winamp skin with their mascot smiling away in her gauzy purple and pink robes

Otakon 1999's snazzy web banner and Winamp skin, perfect for listening to OP and ED midis and new kids on the block, MP2 and 3

In-game setting. Sadly no cable-reading spookiness like the with memory card. xD

Bedroom Hinari is a great name for a sleazy guy in a comedic anime.

Since picking up a variety of mono and stereo crts over the last six years, I have a new appreciation for stereo on small tvs. You genuinely get a feeling of wonder going from using a mono one for a while to a true stereo (some of them just mux mono through two speakers, tsktsk).

Aha, yeah, I had a mono TV too, a little Hinari. And feels like one, especially with the colonel giving you the it's okay, you can do it your own way talk and then Mei Ling bemused at the concept of a mono TV xD

xD Same

Yeah, I more than likely did too on my little bedroom Hinari. Only the 'big TV' downstairs had stereo.

“Snake, don't worry about it. There's more to being a good person than just having a stereo television. You can do it just the way you are!”

A pep talk for those with 14" portable CRTs and a mono speaker.

Yeah! Me too, that's what we're watching, the OG dub.

IX wasn't on there, it originally released in '98 prior to IX's release, with Akalabeth being the tenth game in the collection. But yeah, they really should have for a comprehensive Ultima collection to that point.

Oh, I bet. I didn't see it at the cinema on release, but I got to see it on a big screen on one of the stateside cons in the early 2000s, which was a pretty awesome experience.

My chosen middle name is Jessica, Jess for short, which is a name I've always loved, it's such a pretty one, and is the name of my main character in Guild Wars 2.

My chosen last name is the name of a star system in Wing Commander.

2/2

Mine is a mix of nerdy and sentimental. Sasha is the name of my gshep OC, who was one of my trans outlets when I thought 'right, I'm not gendercurious but full trans.'

This was the first piece of artwork I received of Sasha, back in 2012 from a friend who helped me realize I was trans-f. 💜

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This is one of my favorite video game easter eggs. I played this game on release (or close to it, anyway) and was right smack in the middle of the Sailor Moon target audience at the time, and the "waaaait a minute..." that came out of me when I spotted it... :D

Aww, Kikoskia mention! One of my long-time YouTube watches. And yeah, I get the why's too, and it was tradition for the series to redefine what Ultima is and looks/plays like with each new game, but yeah, it really wasn't this time.

Ohhhhh, gosh, right, it is!

Aww, I wonder, yeah. Would not be surprised if it was.

Yeah, I would love a copy of Ultima IV/V boxed with all the lovely goodies but way out of my price range for one.

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Ooh, neat! And ahh, I wonder if it's this one?

Yeah, same here. I'll give any game with a reputation for being terrible a fair shake of a stick. But U8 just feels hateful at times in ways I can't ever push past.