• Your AI Slop Bores Me is a terrific little game where you can enter a prompt for a bit of text or a drawing, and then it’s randomly assigned to someone else viewing the other tab to fulfill the prompt. Answering a question (in whatever way) awards you “tokens” that you can spend to enter more prompts.

• Omedas on Youtube has an exhaustive article about the search for the perfect jump arc in Super Mario 64, the mathematics of determining it, and what people have come up with towards solving this puzzleIt. SOMEHOW ITS 45 MINUTES LONG.
• It’s outside our usual subject matter, unless you include all internet entertainment within that scope, but it tickles me so in it goes, the website The Complete Wermo’s Guide To Huttese (and other Star Wars languages). If it had its own post, it’d probably go under my beloved Oldweb tag.

• Hackaday has an article about one bright hacker’s work to restore the Wii’s pizza channel (which was never released in the US) so it can order from Dominos.
• Finally this is a bit of a selflink but hey, we’re not on Metafilter here are we? An online friend named GothPanda has created a modest little Yahoo-like web directory called Neato!, and I’ve been contributing links to it. We’re up to 63! I’m signed on as a “guide,” so if you contribute links to it with the Add link, I’ll have a look at them and consider adding them! But be warned, this is not a site to stick your SEO links! Nyaah!

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@blueribbs.bsky.social and their magic bikini comic.

@gohbilly.bsky.social presents the babies (from the Babalities) of Mortal Kombat:

@shcontest.bsky.social, the account of the yearly Sonic Hacking Contest, and their thread of winners and honorable mentions of the 2025 contest.

@katch.bluesky.social enjoyed Aiden Moher’s book on JRPGs, Fight, Might, Items.

@edwardodell.bsky.social made a post that’s only very slightly game-related, but is hilarious, imagining if Orson Welles found out about Dragonball-Z:

@johnlearned.bsky.social links to shmuplations’ translation of an archive of Hideo Yoshizawa tweets about NES Ninja Gaiden.

@gamehistoryorg.bsky.org presents unused voice lines from MLB Slugfest 20-03 that were rejected by Major League Baseball.

@raycarrot.bsky.social explains how Rayman’s password system works.

@tykenn.games is working on a project called “Trees Hate You,” and, well, see for yourself.

@jongraywb.bsky.social found a hilarious and tragic caption to someone in a Kirby suit on the news.

@thinkygames gave us a talk by Patrick Traynor, creator of the mindtwisting puzzle game Patrick’s Parabox, and how that game was programmed. Hey, I kind of know him!

@historyofhyrule.com, a great account generally, presents the originals of some of the Legend of Zelda manual artwork.

@skeet.bets calls out one of the more evocative Dwarf Fortress bug reports:

@jasonkoebler.bsky.social notes one of the most significant problems with virtual pinball tables.

@kekeflipnote.bsky.social, a.k.a. Kekeflipnote, a popular artist who uses Nintendo’s DSi Flipnote app as their medium, posts Kirby’s reaction to a photo of a highly questionable part of Kirby-licensed fuzzy slippers.

@spacecoyote.com, a.k.a. Nina Matsumoto, shows off her Undertale artwork for the cover of Famitsu!

@castpixel.bsky.social‬ has great mockup pixel artwork for a fictional Gameboy Pac-Quest game, starring “Pac-Girl,” who seems to be intended to be a younger Ms. Pac-Man:

videogameesoterica.bsky.social notes that a fan translation of SEGAGAGA, one of the last official Dreamcast games and a weird and hilarious museum of Sega content, is nearing completion.

kriswolfhe.art (Bluesky) reminds us that, whatever the game’s faults might have been, judging by how the title character was drawn, the character artist for the Grinch GBC game was suspiciously into his subject.

fluffcopter.bsky.social, on a weird interaction in Caves of Qud that I’m not sure if they’re kidding about or not. They “poured warm static on my dog, it turned into a dromad trader that comes with guards and items. They are all my dog, the whole trade party and merchandise. I convinced my dog to sell me my dog for free while my dog, my dog, my dog and my dog were standing guard.”

chrisdeleon.bsky.social warns us not to lose faith in Santa Claus, or he’ll turn into a monster:

And, most recently, almondsquirrel.bsky.social reminds us that Disney Solitaire, a game with dark patterns, real money transactions and lootboxes, is PEGI rated 3+, while Balatro has none of that, but is rated 18+ because of its nebulous Poker theming.

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1. Sega’s One-Sided History, from The History of How We Play, about the tensions between Sega’s Japanese and American management.

2. From Mugen Gaming, working on a translation of Japanese TTRPG Sword World, with a crowdfunding campaign to begin in 2026. Included here because Sword World is soaked in video game influences. It really is a case of back-and-forth around the world: Wizardry and Ultima inspired Dragon Quest, Dragon Quest inspired other JRPGs, and then those JRPGs influenced Sword World. And to go with it, a nearly-complete fan translation of a Super Famicom Sword World game.

3. Martin Piper takes a look at the 3D wireframe driving game Stunt Car Racer for the Commodore 64. (45 minutes) From 1989, it did a number of things that you wouldn’t have thought possible on an unmodified C64, and he pieces through its programming.

4. At Retroevolve, Mandy Odoerfer describes the charm of bootleg Pokemon games, games like 2003 Pocket Monster Carbuncle and Pokemon Vietnamese Crystal.

5. The Splatterhouse Homepage, an oldschool webshrine, is still updating, and has a new page on the recent dumping of an unreleased sequel to Splatterhouse Wanpaku Graffiti, called Splatterworld, although I notice that one of its downloads is actually dated to 1993. Hmm, curious!

6. Userlandia exhaustively explored everything at VCFMW this year! (1 hour) I agree: there was a right ton of stuff there to explore!

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1. Fan patches English into Wizardry VI for Saturn.

2. The unreleased web browser for the Gamecube. (8 minutes)

3. Read Only Memo on a recompilation of Dinosaur Planet, Rare’s N64 game that got reconfigured into Star Fox Adventures on Gamecube, their last game made for Nintendo before Microsoft bought them. (They did make some portable games after that, like It’s Mr Pants for Gameboy Advance and a port of Diddy Kong Racing for the DS.)

4. Max Fog on Interactive Fiction blog The Rosebush writing on the history of Infocom and the Z-Machine.

5. A Sonic the Hedgehog romhacking tutorial. (15½ minutes)

6. Pictochat Online.

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1. Video Games Chronicle interviews Hip Tanaka, a.k.a. Chip Tanaka, composer of Nintendo music going back to Metroid and Earthbound, president for a while of Pokemon company Creatures Inc., and current chiptune musician with many wonderful tunes.
2. The podcast Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games recently concluded a tour of every game in UFO 50;
3. On Game Informer (welcome back), from February 2022, before their recent troubles, Inside the Nintendo Power Hotline.
4. A wiki, Ukikipedia, is a knowledge resource for Super Mario 64 speedrunners.
5. And from Kaze Emanuar, a video delving into the power of Mario 64’s sound engine, which can run code itself. (15 minutes)

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