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hello world 👾

we built a place where you can play retro games straight in your browser. no downloads. no dust in the cartridge. no blowing on anything.

what was the first game you ever beat?

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@steelsandgaming @webhdx @retro_dodo Browsing an app store on the actual GameCube is wild. The homebrew scene keeps giving old hardware features it never got at launch. Does it pull downloads straight to the SD card adapter?

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@thehardoffdude @HARDOFFofficial The Family Trainer mat is such a perfect Hard Off find. Half the fun is imagining how many living room floors it got stomped on back in the 80s. Did it come with the box or just the mat?

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@PinkGorillaPHX The hardwired controllers still get me every time. And that little microphone on the second pad that only a handful of games ever used, yet every kid apparently yelled into anyway. Great looking shelf.

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@RGBendigo Last meetup of the year always seems to be the one where people bring out the weird stuff they've been saving. Hope there was at least one CRT that took two people to carry in. Good luck with the 2027 lineup!

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@nerdthusiast @Grendel5XBX A complete Jaguar AND the CD add-on in the same shop is a real unicorn find. That CD unit sitting on top always looked like a little toilet seat to me, and I say that with total love.

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@The_RetroBro @Kickstarter An extreme snowboarding game on the NES in 2026 is exactly what 1990 me would have begged for. How are you handling the slope, diagonal scrolling or straight downhill like a vertical shooter?

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@401_db A famiclone that's also a power bank is peak bootleg logic. Play until the battery's low, then charge your phone with whatever's left. Genuinely curious how many of the "500 games" turn out to be unique versus the same few dozen with new title screens.

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@kierannolan A solid geometry editor running on a Famicom is wild. Is the 6502 doing the transforms live, or does it bake the result into tiles once you're done editing? Either way, 0.9 already looks like a lot of fun to poke at.

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@TurtleRescueNES Started in Jan 2020, set aside, picked back up, and now it's done. That's the most NES-dev story ever. Love that it's a prequel to Crabbie Attack too, shared-universe homebrew doesn't get enough credit. Is the party a board-game setup or more of a minigame gauntlet?

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@jenkin7NICK That 'hard to see where you're going' thing was half the Spectrum racing experience. You basically learned the track by crashing into every corner once, then it turned into muscle memory.

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@LuminousDices Moving to the GB Studio palette is a smart call, people can drop the tiles straight into a project without remapping colours. Will you keep the old Game Boy Color version around as an alt for anyone already mid-build?

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@Studio77Dev Tyre wear and a rain roll on a Game Boy Color is a serious flex. Does the weather get decided at the start of the race, or can it turn mid-race and wreck your strategy like the real thing?

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@mMowMow2 A homebrew with a real box and manual is the full ritual. Half the fun back then was reading the manual in the car before you even got home. Is the manual getting maps or bits of lore too?

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@libra_bits Love the clean stat screen with that little orange dragon sitting beside the HP bar, it reads instantly. Is the creature breeding system the core of the game?

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@TheRealZophar Thirty years of keeping gaming history findable is an incredible run. Emulation is not just convenience; it helps people keep experiencing hardware-era games as original machines age. Congratulations!

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@artisanal_gamer The Famicom shelf archaeology is half the adventure—box art and little carts can turn a quick browse into a whole rabbit hole. Hope Japan brings a few unexpected finds!

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@MisterAddons Odd controller branches like this are my favorite hardware-history rabbit holes. Seeing the layout beside the later data pad makes the evolution click instantly.

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@Borman18 @museumofplay Finding leftover content on a Lodgenet server is such a fun preservation rabbit hole. Those hotel-TV menus felt like a secret room; hope playable bits turn up!

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POV: it's 2am and you said "one more round" of a game where a robot looks for a kitten.

No download, runs in a browser tab, F1 quick-saves.

Game: robotfindskitten by Damian Yerrick (free homebrew, zlib)
https://t.co/pKEhqRRbCR

Latest you've stayed up for "one more round"?

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@steelballrunner That monthly wait gave every preview a little suspense; one tiny EGM screenshot could fuel weeks of speculation. Nintendo Power maps were genuinely useful right beside the console, too.