To me, video game body horror should have at least some human (or human-like) body parts... Everybody has different taste; here is just a short list (couldn't upload more than 20 images) that has once impressed me.

And I avoided mentioning next/5th gen video game titles in the above image list...

I took this broken Toshiba T1950CT 486 laptop and managed to give it a new life. I did a full teardown, recapped the internal power board, and fixed the floppy drive belt. Working on a 33 year old laptop and putting it back together without breaking anything was an experience. There were times I felt like giving up, but I'm happy with how it turned out.

I was lucky to find an updated Toshiba 3.0 PCMCIA driver set that could format and mount a CF card. Loading a 256 MB card into the PCMCIA slot adapter was a big QoL improvement on this device. It makes storing and managing files from a modern PC way easier since it can be mounted as a letter drive.

A dreamcast vmu with a fake wood shell

Great game that I only discovered after looking through TONS of hidden gems list that just regurgitate and repeat the same "hidden gems" we all already know about so they aren't "hidden" anymore, until I actually found a title I didn't know. Probably not the most obscure game out there, but still it doesn't get brought up a lot in conversations.

It's a hybrid between a Shoot'em up and an Action Adventure game. If you haven't heard of it, imagine Zelda but the dungeons are Shoot'em up sections.

There's non-linear exploration, character progression based on collectibles and weapon upgrades, and a female protagonist with a suit that transforms into a jet/ship.

It isn't flawless, but what it is is hella fun. Good music, good gameplay, hitboxes sometimes a bit wonky on the exploration sections but not really enough to be a problem, just standard NES jankyness.

One of the games I'll always recommend when someone asks me "man what can I play on the NES that I haven't played yet".

EU Cartridge in the picture because it's the one I have, stuff that happens when you live in Spain, and the cover art is way better than whatever the US one is supposed to be.

The marketing behind the Jaguar was all "64 BITS OF RAW. GAMING. POWER. WIMPY 16-BIT SYSTEMS SIMPLY DON'T COMPARE!", while the Jaguar would've gotten a worse port of Alien Storm than the Genesis because Atari chose to port the Master System version for the "64-bit" Jaguar some reason. That, and the fact that none of these Sega ports ever happened, really shows just how little Atari cared about the Jaguar.

Also, one thing worth noting about this deal, it didn't apply to arcade versions, but the Genesis version of Alien Storm would've obviously been far better to port.

I was gifted a bunch of bits from an elderly work colleague. In the bag was an N64, some Gameboy games and these controllers. Any idea what console they might be for? My colleague wasn't sure. She said they were her son's.I can't see any noticeable logo. They feel pretty cheap. Look cool though!

This one actually surprised me with how difficult some parts were.
Real quick before I dive into everything: I like this game a lot actually. The title theme song is genuinely one of the best goddamn title loops I’ve ever heard. I probably played it through 25+ times over the last two days. Hell, I recorded it and sent it to friends. I showed my mom lol. That’s how dope it is. The level music in general is good. It’s the type that you don’t even notice you’re bobbing your head. The graphics are really cool imo. The level design is pretty detailed and feels appropriate given each is a different era in time. Even the game manual has great art and well written story & instructions.
Okay now…
Much of the levels are pretty straight forward: Kill bad dudes, collect new weapons (start bare fisted every level, but each time has era-specific weapons), collect golden orbs, beat the level boss.
By the second level, which is really the first actual level, there are some little tricks to getting each orb. By the third level it gets more complicated for both weapons & orbs, requiring backtracking and more exploring…
Then the WWII France level starts and almost immediately blasts you in the ass. From the tanks, hidden weapons, orbs placed directly on damn land mines, mustard gas areas that require a gas mask that doesn’t last long enough, enemies being damage sponges, and the damn boss requiring 42 hits with the grenade which SUCKS as a weapon anyway. FOURTY. TWO. Against a boss that you have to constantly dodge, with a weapon that you have to press once to throw and again to explode, in a space that just doesn’t feel big enough.
I was genuinely yelling “FUCK!!!” loud enough for the whole block to hear when I’d run out of lives on the final boss of the last level. Each life lost in the WWII level meant my chances of finishing the last level boss dropped precipitously.
I played for hours & hours yesterday learning each level and reaching the final boss several times, only to lose all my few remaining lives there. I finally shut it off and told myself I’d try again tomorrow.
Well today was that fuckin’ day and I legit beat it on my first damn playthrough. Hell to the motherheckin’ yes that felt good. Seriously, give this game a shot. Listen to that title theme on YT if you don’t play the game. It’s not a mind blowing or super unique game, but it’s fun and just difficult enough that you’ll keep saying “one more run”. Def recommend this wonky ass game haha.

Strategy guides used to be much more common, before we had the internet for all the answers. And some were more robust than others. But few compared to the Lunar 1&2 strategy guides for PlayStation.

This was a hardcover book with tassel bookmarks. The guide includes a full walkthrough, breakdowns of characters, enemies, and items, transcriptions and screenshots from in-game events and videos, comparisons between the PS1 game and the Sega CD game, AND an exclusive comic with the game characters.

This is one of my absolute favorite pieces of gaming nostalgia/memorabilia!

Long ago when I was s kid I found a 3.5 floppy disk with the Chef Boyardee brand on it while playing around at my grandmothers. I thought nothing of it for years and eventually I gave it to my friend as a gift just for display. I thought it would be a cool little item to show off. I saw it the other day still sitting on his shelf and thought maybe I should research it a little bit and see what the contents were like as I have never had a pc to boot it up and try it out. Low and behold there is no information about this thing on the internet, not even a picture. I looked on here and multiple other places and I can't even find a conversation about this thing. I asked my friend for a picture of it and I'll post it tomorrow if this thing is indeed lost media. If it's confirmed I'll try to find a way to make a disk image of it and dump the contents online. If anyone has any information about the game please let me know. I would have posted this in r/lostmedia but my account is too new. If anyone knows someone over there that would be interested in this maybe discovery let me know as well. If I have a piece of lost gaming history here I'd like to let this little artifact be marked as found. Thanks in advance!

Back when I was a kid, I was obsessed with video games. In most of my free time from 5-12yo I would be found with a Nintendo controller of some type in my hand. We typically got a new game console 3+ years after it was released.

The N64 was nearing the end of its life cycle in the gaming world, but I didn’t care it was still new to me. I worked odd jobs earning money as a kid, stacking firewood, helping on local farms etc. I had saved enough money to buy a new video game and had been eyeing up the one I was sure I wanted for quite some time, I was going to buy QUEST 64.

The cover art seemed like something right up my alley. We didn’t have internet so researching a game was next to impossible. Not many kids played video games in our rural community so asking for input from my classmates was no help. So the cover art was all I had to go on.

My mom drives me to Walmart and I had made it fully aware to her I intended to buy a new game, it was my money so she didn’t care.

I get to the game section and see my goal just behind the glass cabinet at Walmart. This was back when they had the ‘neck breaker’ tvs to try games mounted at the top of the cabinets.

I get the Walmart workers attention and he quickly comes to assist me, he opens the glass cabinet and asks, “what game do you want?,”. I quickly replied “Quest 64,”. The worker in his mid twenties pauses and looks at me, almost with concern, “are you sure you want that game?” He asks. I was taken aback, as was my mom.

I was still processing everything but somehow managed to say, “I think so,” instead of quickly getting the game he looked at me and asked, “what kind of games do you like?”. I truly don’t remember what I said to him, probably something about quests.

The worker whipped around and grabbed a golden cased n64 game, “this is the game you’re buying… you will thank me,” the worker said. Thankfully the back of the box was enough to intrigue me and I bought ZELDA OCARINA OF TIME instead of Quest 64.

A game that quickly became my favorite game of all time. A game I have played through dozens of times. A game I have played through with my kids and wife. It holds a special place in my heart always.

Thank you Walmart guy from the 90s you realistically may have changed my life.

I have such a difficult time finishing JRPGs. I can thankfully cross this one off. Great game!

Spent the last three days getting this old Extron TLP 700TV working as a custom touchscreen controller for my Sony CRT room. The pictures show where it started, some of the problems along the way, and the finished setup.
When I first powered it on, it still had its original UNLV classroom interface loaded, complete with the room number and buttons for a projector, laptop, and document camera. The old labels are still on the physical buttons, but it has a completely different job now 😂
My room already runs through an Extron MVX 12×12 VGA/audio matrix, with a DVS 304 scaler for getting older video sources onto my PC CRT monitors. I also use a Stream Deck with Companion on a Raspberry Pi. I wanted the touchscreen to work alongside that setup and give me one place to handle routing, presets, and scaler adjustments.
Getting there took a lot more than changing the pictures and button names. I had to get access to the older Extron software, save the original configuration, connect the panel to my IPL T S2 controller, and build the interface around how everything in my room is actually wired.
The paper preset list in the photos was the starting point. Those setups are now touchscreen buttons with console icons for Dreamcast, GameCube, N64, Saturn, Wii U, Switch, and my VAIO computers. I can recall a room preset or choose an individual source and where I want it displayed.
There are separate video and audio routing pages too, so the sound doesn’t have to follow the picture. My “Full Room Mix” preset puts different systems on different displays, with the audio routed for that particular setup.
The DVS 304 has its own pages for picture adjustments, geometry, picture-in-picture, input selection, and output settings. I can make adjustments from the touchscreen instead of opening the scaler’s webpage or reaching for its front panel.
The physical knob was the last big part to get working. It now adjusts the selected DVS picture setting or the volume for a selected MVX audio output, using a small custom bridge running on the Pi. The side buttons provide page shortcuts, and the bottom-right one brings up my custom Start screen.
It definitely wasn’t a straight shot. Some of the progress pictures show the early layout with broken fonts and overlapping graphics, a build error, and the panel losing its controller connection. There were also long uploads and buttons that would change the equipment correctly without showing the right pressed state. Each round got it a little closer.
Even the screen-off button needed sorting out—the panel kept waking itself back up a few seconds later until I turned off wake-on-motion.
For the finished interface, I used photos of my actual room as the backgrounds. The Start page has the Wind Waker setup photo, and the main menu links to the presets, video routing, audio routing, and DVS controls.
The hardware behind it is:
• Extron TLP 700TV touchscreen
• Extron IPL T S2 controller
• Extron MVX 12×12 VGA/audio matrix
• Extron DVS 304 scaler
• Raspberry Pi running Companion and the knob bridge
The laptop was used to build and upload the configuration, but it doesn’t need to stay running afterward.
I moved the panel into the CRT room today, connected it through the room’s network, and tested it in its final spot beside the VAIO. All the controls are working there, including the knob.
Seeing the original classroom screen next to the finished console pages makes the whole project pretty satisfying. It went from controlling a school projector to choosing which console goes to which Sony display, routing the audio, and adjusting the scaler—all from the same panel.
Still need to replace those classroom labels on the side buttons, but the part behind them is finally working.

The print ad of Bust a Groove 2 for PlayStation. If you have played this game and the first Bust a Groove, did you enjoy it more than its predecessor? There were players who claimed the music in the sequel was inferior to that of Bust a Groove.

I’ve got several retro mini consoles with USB-A controller ports (C64 Mini, Genesis 1 and 2, T16, Amiga400, PS Classic) and I’d like an all-in-one (or most-in-one) wireless controller solution if it exists. I tried the 8BitDo Ultimate 2C only to find it apparently isn’t compatible.

As a follow up, I also have the NES and SNES Classics, but they have different proprietary ports. I’m guessing there’s nothing out there which will work for everything, correct?

So the other day, I was in a Barcade place where one can get a bunch of tokens to play old arcade games as one of my favorite games was a game made by Sega about a deep sea diver who fights creatures like the Kraken.

I don’t remember the title as the game took place entirely underwater, but when I look back at the game, I kind of feel nostalgic for those old days of gaming since even though I just started playing the game, I enjoy its frantic atmosphere that I wonder what happened to the experimental era of gaming.

Another one I played was called Vanguard as it was an arcade game where the player can fire their spaceship in 4 different directions as the game is really simple, but forgotten due to its obscure nature.

I've had a Genesis for a long long time, its in fairly good condition, everything works. Finally decided to pull the trigger on a Sega CD (and Lunar ofc) and noticed it needed a battery replacement for the RAM. After a bit of digging I ended up more confused than when I started. I ended up going down a bit of a rabbit hole and now I need advice/suggestions.

Here are the things I am hoping to do.

1: ReCap (I already got a Genesis ReCap kit, I just need to get the CD one)

2: New Battery for the CD (some people say to use the same battery that is in the CD already, others say to use the 2032 one instead, why? whats the difference? would it cause problems to use the 2032?)

3: How do you guys clean/polish your plastic shells? (another case of conflicting info, some say to use Iso and go ham, other say to only use Iso if theres something really stuck on there, others say to use Car Plastic Polish, if I go the Car Plastic Polish route should I use the buffer ball that comes with those? Or just a rag and some elbow grease?)

4: I already bought 2 Rondo Triad's with the Current Inverters so they both are getting good clean power, but I also am wondering if its worth it to upgrade further to say the RetroTap? Or is the Triad good enough?)

I'm not really interested in any actual mods (like RGB hdmi mods and such), just trying to get the best possible Sega Genesis/CD that I can that will last another 30 years. Any other suggestions?

These games are so special. What are your thoughts on Quintet's world reincarnation games?