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I write assembly code for fun
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dinosaurgerms, to retrogaming
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Salamander (1986)
By Konami
[Source: https://youtu.be/ApRxOpMejh8]

Gif from "Salamander" (gameplay, 2D pixel graphics, horizontal shmup perspective). The player controls a small spaceship as it navigates between two massive walls of fire. From one of the walls of fire, giant rings of flame erupt, which the player must avoid.
Gif from "Salamander" (title screen, 2D pixel graphics). The text "Salamander" appears in large, orange letters, above a flashing message: "Please deposit coin".
Gif from "Salamander" (gameplay, 2D pixel graphics, vertical shmup perspective). The player controls a small spaceship as it flies above what appears to be a lunar surface. In the foreground, various lunar-like barriers obstruct the player's movement, which they must destroy to proceed upward.

dinosaurgerms, to gamedev
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Work continues in the Pikuma NES dev course, with an important first for me: I've finally created something with (simple) physics! Note the accel/decel on the tank

Gif of some "gameplay" from a simple NES development demo. A tiny tank moves back and forth, slowly, across the screen, from left to right. As the tank goes back and forth, it takes a small amount of time to accelerate to top speed, and a small amount of time to decelerate to reverse direction.

dinosaurgerms,
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Everything I've made up to this point always had pixel-per-frame movement (e.g. "all-or-nothing" movement), which, while effective, doesn't really capture the "feel" of mass, momentum, etc. See my A2600 "game" below (that I made in a similar Pikuma course) and note the "all-or-nothing" movement of the jet

Gif of some "gameplay" from a simple Atari 2600 development demo. A tiny jet moves about the screen and dodges red enemy bombers above what appears to be a giant river. The jet moves in a "all-or-nothing" manner, e.g. without regard to momentum, mass, etc.

dinosaurgerms, to random
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It's like poetry, it rhymes

(Inspired by a @jake4480 post)

Full-color painting used for the poster for the film "Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film". The painting was painted by Julie Bell and Boris Vallejo. It depicts the characters of the show (Meatwad, Frylock, Master Shake, and Carl) facing off against a group (what appear to be) demons amidst an apocalyptic, volcanic background.

jake4480, to art
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Golden Axe by Boris Vallejo

#GoldenAxe #BorisVallejo #SEGA #art #SwordAndSorcery #RetroGaming

dinosaurgerms,
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@jake4480 I always wondered how Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell ended up doing tons of covers for video game box art in the 90s. I am SO nostalgic for this particular brand of goofy/awesome fantasy artwork!

jake4480, to random
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May 23rd is International Synthesizer Day - and it's also the late Bob Moog's birthday. Raise a knob 🎹

dinosaurgerms,
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@jake4480 Omg "Return of the Rentals" is essentially Moog pop heaven

dinosaurgerms, to gamedev
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I am working through the [at] pikuma [at] mastodon.gamedev.place course on NES development and I can now make Mario float ethereally through a single screen of the Mushroom kingdom

Gif of a NES emulator showing a single screen from "Super Mario Bros", where Mario is floating about the screen in an ethereal way. To the side of the window is a hex editor, which shows various values changing in RAM as Mario moves about.

dinosaurgerms, to random
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Sorry I haven't posted anything in the last few days; I need to create some more arcade-related content for the TL this weekend

Additionally, I've been working on learning NES/Famicom dev in my free time, I could also post content related to that, if there's interest

metin, to design
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Started a new modeling project…

Those who are as old… I mean… as experienced as I am, might already recognize what this is going to be. 🙂

More updates will follow.

#design #artwork #sculpture #3DModeling #RetroComputing #RetroGaming #atari #Atari2600 #retro #gaming #gamer #illustration #illustrator #art #arte #artist #DigitalArt #ArtMatters #GraphicDesign #3D #MagicaCSG #CreativeToots #FediArt #MastoArt #ArtistsOnMastodon

dinosaurgerms,
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@metin He's... beautiful 🤩 🤩 🤩

jake4480, to random
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Happy birthday to Pete Townshend, born 79 years ago today (May 19, 1945). He is of course the guitar string smasher for the legendary Who, and is also known for how great he is at that full-arm windmilling strum thing.

dinosaurgerms,
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@jake4480 i wonder if, when pete does his iconic knee-slide onstage, he gets invincibility frames IRL. his version of the souls-like dodge roll

jake4480, to weezer
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Happy 23rd anniversary to Weezer's green album, released today (May 15) in 2001. Man, did I listen to this album a lot, and I still can. Might be my favorite Weezer record but I hate the last song - luckily it's last and I can just turn it off when it comes on. 😂

I remember following along online as they were making it, they were posting updates. Some great unreleased/b-side stuff from this era, too.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL81_CtYCym2-YiyvBbhCbHgLlJBzshSDS&si=l0Xj-xkNsYL1FRba

dinosaurgerms,
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@jake4480 was this the first matt sharp-less weezer record? 👀

dinosaurgerms, to random
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I love how the title screen music in "Golden Axe II" seamlessly transitions from "stern, high fantasy march" to "George Clinton funkiness" within the space of 30 seconds

dinosaurgerms, to retrogaming
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Knuckle Bash (1993)
By Toaplan
[Source: https://youtu.be/QJQOkgGLhxU]
#RetroGames #RetroGaming #Arcade #Toaplan

Gif from "Knuckle Bash" (gameplay, 2D pixel graphics, side-scrolling beat-'em-up perspective). The two player-controlled characters (one, a ninja, the other, an Elvis impersonator) jump onto a football field to fight with several muscular football players. The football players charge at the two player characters, knocking them over.
Gif from "Knuckle Bash" (title screen, 2D pixel graphics). A torso of an extremely-muscular man is depicted flexing onscreen, while the words "Knuckle Bash" appear in stylized text over it. The screen then transitions to show several illustrations of pro wrestlers doing various wrestling moves.
Gif from "Knuckle Bash" (gameplay, 2D pixel graphics, side-scrolling beat-'em-up perspective). Two extremely-muscular men are seen facing off in what appears to be a boxing ring. At the bottom of the screen, the text "Push A button!!" appears below both characters. This operates as a bonus stage of sorts.

dinosaurgerms, to random
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me [for the past 30+ years]: snes music sounds so muffled, and flat, i don't really get it

me [upon clicking on the castlevania iv OST on a lark on youtube]: snes, i owe you an apology, i wasn't familiar with your game

dinosaurgerms,
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admittedly i played the game a very long time ago, and i remember that the game isn't perfect (multi-directional whip negates need for sub-weapons, player sprite is too big, etc.) but THIS MUSIC! good god this is so good!

dinosaurgerms,
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the "muffled-warm" sound of the snes sound actually works really well with moody stuff (!) can we have more moody, jazz-y OSTs plz

dinosaurgerms,
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i feel like this is a perfect example of a OST that plays to the strengths of the hardware, going for an "organic" sound that you couldn't get on competing consoles at the time

dinosaurgerms,
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ALSO! i remember the game being very "earthy" in color palette, but i didn't remember it having this much depth/beauty in its "earthy-ness". i guess the comparatively-huge snes color palette wins out here, since this would probably look really muddy on (again) competing systems

Gif form "Castlevania IV", showing the logo slowly move into frame onscreen. In the background, a worn, earth-y, stone wall is seen, with various insects crawling over it.

dinosaurgerms,
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(and again, before someone says "but dino the game is flawed"- yes, i know, i agree that rondo is the best classic-style castlevania, i just never realized how much i personally vibe with this game's particular aesthetic + mood)

dinosaurgerms,
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@jake4480 lol yeah i might be overdoing it in qualifying my praise, i'm just anxious about someone coming in and being all "EHRMMMM the multi-directional whip negates the DPS efficiency of the axe subweapon, making this game clearly worthless 😡😡😡"

dinosaurgerms,
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normal brain: "wow, mode 7 on the snes!"

galaxy brain: "wow, transparent layers on the snes!"

Gif from "Castlevania IV" showing off transparent effects used for water in the game. They look really cool!

dinosaurgerms,
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@jake4480 yeah i was really upset when i checked my switch online acct last night and realized that this is NOT on the switch online service lol

dinosaurgerms,
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@jake4480 NO >:( i think maybe because it's on that collection. although maybe it's bc konami is just weird nowadays. contra isn't anywhere to be seen either :(

dinosaurgerms, to retrogaming
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Enforce (1988)
By Taito
[Source: https://youtu.be/Hejv3NkWw7E]

Gif from "Enforce" (gameplay, 2D pixel graphics, first-person perspective). The player drives a tank at moderate speed along an urban landscape while shooting at bipedal mecha. The tank has two large weapons, each protruding from opposite sides of the screen (the left weapon is a laser cannon, the right weapon is a gatling gun). The player rams two of the mecha with the tank, destroying them.
Gif from "Enforce" (attract mode, 2D pixel graphics, first-person perspective). The "Enforce" logo appears in stylized against a dark background. The screen then shows a detailed schematic of the player's tank, which has a slightly-silly-looking vertical orientation, with tank treads on the bottom used for locomotion. On opposite sides of the tank are its two weapons- a laser cannon on the left, a gatling gun on the right.
Gif from "Enforce" (gameplay, 2D pixel graphics, first-person perspective). The player drives a tank at moderate speed along a desert while shooting at other tanks. The tank has two large weapons, each protruding from opposite sides of the screen (the left weapon is a laser cannon, the right weapon is a gatling gun).

dinosaurgerms,
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"Enforce" is a game where you drive a rather-silly-looking tank and shoot at things with two giant cannons. It's similar to other Taito games from the time period with sprite scaling, e.g. "Battle Shark"

Gif from "Enforce" (cinematic, 2D pixel graphics). A sprite representing the player tank (which look a bit silly- vertically oriented, rather top-heavy-looking, with large treads underneath) zooms straight at the screen (using a cool sprite scaling effect) and shoots into the screen with its laser cannon and gatling gun.

dinosaurgerms,
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At the beginning of the game, a man moves into frame with a really cool strut and waves table tennis paddles at you

Gif from "Enforce" (gameplay, 2D pixel graphics, first-person perspective). The player sits in a tank from a first-person perspective, in some sort of high-tech hangar, and sees a man move into frame with a silly strut. The man waves what look like table tennis paddles at the player, and the player's view rises (as if they're on a giant elevator). The "elevator" stops once the player is on a dirt road above the hanger, and the actual game begins.

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