I found this page of SEGA promotions on the SEGA Retro website and they’re so cool. I especially love the Coca Cola brand stuff.
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An interesting look at Atari’s assembly line screen printing process on arcade cabinets by The Arcade Blogger: When you see a Missile Command cabinet with bright blues, vivid reds and crisp graphics, you’re looking at the result of multiple carefully aligned printing passes, each adding another layer to the final image.
There’s a new ROCKNIX build (20260601) and it’s available for a variety of devices including Retroid Pocket 5 + 6, AYN Thor, and Anbernic RG DS.
Apparently Sony has sold fewer copies of first-party PlayStation titles every year since 2020. Yikes!
dcharlie on Flickr took a variety of shots from Japanese arcades from the past few decades.
Peter Knetter on every Sonic arcade games, including Sonic Athletics, Waku Waku Sonic Patrol Car, SegaSonic Bros, and SegaSonic Cosmo Fighter
Famidawg has built Chocolate, a small USB dongle that connects your Wii U GamePad to your computer wirelessly.
tschicki on GitHub designed a PlayStation 2 portable from scratch by reverse engineering a PS2 mainboard (not made by Sony). You can check the repo even though he recommended not to build one yourself!
Title Scream is a site that collects title screen graphics from 8 and 16-bit games. I miss the care that designers put into the UI of games back in the day.
Check out these incredible playmats by Astrawitch featuring Lugia, Ho-Oh, Kirby, and more!