Retro365

Your daily dose of 'on this day in gaming' nostalgia 365 days a year. #arcades #amiga #atari #C64 #NES #Nintendo #Sega #SNES #ZXSpectrum

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@C64Reloaded Haha! Go Scorelord!

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Ever wondered what happened to the Scorelord?

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@exQUIZitely Is this irony?! The Daily Star and the Royal British Legion shit the bed over this back in the 90s!!! 🤣🤣🤣

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@C64Reloaded I'll take a C64 and Amiga. What do I need to do?

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@AllegoryDru 🤣🤣🤣

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40 years ago today — 26th August 1985 — Sega’s Hang-On roared into arcades. 🏍️💨

With its pioneering full-body bike cabinet and smooth 3D sprite-scaling, it redefined racing games and kicked off Sega’s racing dominance.

#HangOn #Sega #ArcadeLegend #RetroGaming #OnThisDay

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I remember seeing if for the first time I'm Southport around 1986. It was genuinely breathtaking. Unbelievable at the time.

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🧱 39 years ago today — 20th August 1986 — Arkanoid smashed into arcades! 🕹️🚀Taito’s legendary brick-breaker reinvented a classic with power-ups, slick controls, and sci-fi flair. “The dimension-controlling force DOH must be destroyed!”
#Arkanoid #Taito #RetroGaming #OnThisDay

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🗿 40 years ago today — 19th August 1985 — Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom swung into arcades. 🐍
🕹️ Packed with voice samples, mine cart mayhem, and daring whip action, it let players be Indy in a thrilling adventure.

#IndianaJones #TempleOfDoom #Retrogaming

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🎯 40 years ago today — 18th August 1985 — Hyper Sports landed on the C64 in a cracking Konami conversion.🏅 Fast, fluid, and joystick-busting, it brought Olympic thrills home with events like skeet shooting, vault & swimming.
Still gold medal stuff!
#C64 #HyperSports #Konami

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🎮 On 17th August 1987, the Sega Master System launched in Europe — bringing 8-bit brilliance and bold arcade ports to living rooms across the continent! 🌍🕹️ From After Burner & Alex Kidd to Wonder Boy, it kick-started a Sega legacy.

#SegaMasterSystem #RetroGaming #OnThisDay

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On 13th August 1991, the Super Nintendo launched in the USA — and 16-bit gaming levelled up.🎮✨ With Super Mario World, F-Zero, and Mode 7 magic, the SNES kicked off a golden age of gaming.

#SNES #SuperNintendo #16bit #RetroGaming #OnThisDay

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🏜️ On 12th August 1993, Dune II: The Battle for Arrakis deployed on the Amiga — and real-time strategy was never the same.
⚔️🛢️ Spice, sandworms and base-building brilliance laid the foundation for the RTS revolution.

#DuneII #Amiga #RTS #RetroGaming #BattleForArrakis

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🚗💨 On this day in 1983 — 42 years ago — Tranz Am hit the ZX Spectrum.

One of Ultimate’s early gems, it put you behind the wheel in a fuel-hunting, bandit-dodging dash across a post-apocalyptic USA. Pure 8-bit magic. #ZXSpectrum #RetroGaming #OnThisDay

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@Humdrum_Haiku @C64Reloaded 🤣

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🏅 40 years ago today - 10th August 1985 - Summer Games 2 lit up the C64 with Epyx’s winning formula of pixel-perfect sports action. 🕹️Fencing, kayaking, cycling, javelin & more — a Commodore classic that redefined sports sims in the '80s.
#C64 #SummerGamesII #Epyx #RetroGaming

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@gamesyouloved Well done! That's a helluva achievement in a few months.

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👊 On 9th August 1991, Streets of Rage hit the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis — and the streets were never the same again. 🕹️🔥

With gritty co-op brawling, iconic music by Yuzo Koshiro, and unforgettable characters, it's a superb 16-bit beat 'em up.

#StreetsofRage #MegaDrive #Genesis

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@JazRignall The awesome arcade original was released a year earlier - almost to the day!

https://t.co/7cEiOcKDcr

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🏁 On this day in 1989, Super Monaco GP roared into arcades! 🕹️

SEGA’s legendary F1 racer brought high-speed thrills, force feedback steering, and intense gear-shifting action to the cabinet scene.

A true classic — fast, fierce, and unforgettable. #RetroGaming #SEGA #OnThisDay

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🌕 On 8th August 1979, Lunar Lander touched down in arcades, making history as Atari’s first vector graphics game! 🚀

Precision, physics and fuel management — it paved the way for generations of space games to come.

#LunarLander #Atari #RetroGaming #Arcade