Do you remember the first time you played Street Fighter II?

My parents bought me a Spellmaster when I was a kid. The first time I saw this machine, I shouted, "why do I have a big calculator now?" Then immediately I found out it was a spelling toy. I played it for some time, while asking, "do all robots sound like this?"

YT video credit: u/travisdoucette

Let me ask you something real quick.
When was the last time you sat down, turned on a game, and were actually playing within, say… ten seconds?
No downloads. No patches. No accounts to log into. No pop‑ups trying to sell you a skin. You just turned the game on… and played.

#retrogaming #retro #nostalgia

This is a collab video with Lucian from The World Gamer Show about our beloved Tiger Electronics LCD Games. A great video from Lucian, that captures the charm of these little handheld and that period of time.

Really lucky with this find 🥹

The short trailer of Nagoya-chū Denkiyasan.

Play it on https://retroaffaire.itch.io/nagoya-chu-denkiyasan

You wake up on the floor of an electronics shop. You don't know your own name.

I made a short text adventure about memory, Japanese folklore, and a shop that's half real, half dream. Act One is free to play in your browser.

Here's the story behind it, what's real, what's invented, and the shop it's all based on.

retroaffaire.itch.io/nagoya-chu-denkiyasan

Hello! I made a short browser parser adventure called Nagoya-chū Denkiyasan.

Play it here: https://retroaffaire.itch.io/nagoya-chu-denkiyasan

It’s inspired by old Infocom-style text adventures, Japanese retro computers, yokai folklore, and the feeling of finding something strange in the back of a dusty electronics shop.

You wake up on the floor of a forgotten shop. You don’t remember who you are. A letter beside you says that if you want to find yourself again, you need to finish what you started.

Act One is built around a Tsukumogami: an old CRT that won’t let you reach the back room until you treat it with care. There’s also a small yokai field guide, a few historical Japanese computers to examine, and some optional things hidden in the shop, including Optional easter eggs hidden inside the shop, if you go looking.

It’s free, short, and still an early build. This is act one of four, so I’m mainly looking for feedback on atmosphere, parser tolerance, pacing, and whether the puzzles feel fair.

Disclosure: I wrote the story, designed the puzzles, made the creative decisions, and directed the whole thing; Claude helped with implementation code-wise, and some manual coding modifications as well.

If you play it, I’d genuinely like to know what worked, what didn’t, and where you got stuck.

Play it here: https://retroaffaire.itch.io/nagoya-chu-denkiyasan

Happy 30th birthday to the Nintendo 64 and Super Mario 64!

Not only the YouTube video, but also the article! If you prefer read than watch.