Tiny Best Selector is a tool to help you combat choice paralysis when you have a lot of games to play. Based on the Tiny Best Set: GO! set of ROMs for a variety of consoles (Google it to find the link).
Category: Cool Links
Wow, Hilligoss Bakery in Indiana uses two Commodore 64’s as point of sale systems: According to a person who visited the store back in 2009, the co-owner of the bakery Michael Hilligloss stated that the computers were originally bought from Sears in the early 80s, and are running custom code written in assembler as they couldn’t find any software available that would take into account Indiana’s weird tax laws.
(via Time Extension)
NHK found and interviewed Nasir Gebelli, the programmer who worked on Final Fantasy I–III. He hasn’t really been seen or heard from since the 90s so if you’re a fan of the early FFs, you’ll wanna read this. (via Alex Kraus on Bluesky; h/t Time Extension)
Max Krieger posted a really good pastebin on Bluesky, in response to Ari Velazquez’s comments about The Game Awards and the growing disconnect between gamers and what the industry keeps pushing: […] i think one of the big problems in video games right now is that they haven’t yet identified that the “games industry” as a monolith no longer functionally exists.
Screw all this expensive AAAA crap!
Daily Black Video Game Characters is a Bluesky account that posts one Black video game character every day. It has definitely highlighted how many games I haven’t played and how many Black characters have been present but otherwise ignored or in the background.
DoctorSwellman on why poison is broken in the early Golden Sun games. Hint: it involves jumping.
Francesco Tempra on Instagram posted his portable PS4. He put a lot into this, including the 3D printed case and 18 battery cells!
