where are you getting all this from? you seem to be pulling this stuff out like a machine

 
mostly vague memories + googlin'... plus skimming through sites like videogameauctions.com & lostlevels.org for retro curios
 

our own irc regular dajhail covered Pepsiman PSX on his (great) gaming blog http://superadventuresingaming.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/pepsiman-psx.html

 
ooh that IS a great blog, thanks for mentioning it! I'll have to take a proper look through the archives

actually i think i first knew about Pepsiman from reading through the big ol' Dump Topic here on Salt World...
 
(also i just found out that pepsi invaders never had a box or even a label on the cartridge, that pic i posted is a fan-made one... i'm gonna leave it in though)

early Dr. Mario prototypes:




featuring Dr. Mario's patient, Sneezing Dog

also the game was originally literally a modified version of Tetris... Tetris music data is even present on the prototype ROM (replaced in the final version though)

(thanks to fine folk at the LostLevels.org forums for this!)

We definitely need to bring back checkerboard main menus.

my proudest hope would be to inspire this legacy
 
 

e-prom is the most amazing thing i have ever seen oh my god this pun has killed me

same.... you only get to see e-prom in original Atari Lynx version (best version)

30 mins footage of what Conker's Bad Fur Day used to be before it was Conker's Bad Fur Day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6ceNFV2yz4

the 1991 Sonic the Hedgehog Bible was an internal document produced by Sega of America, to establish Sonic mythology/brand
 
 
 

there don't seem to be any full scans of the final doc online, but several purported draft versions provided by Dean Sitton were posted on the SonicRetro.org forums

extracts in no particular order from various draft versions:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

unauthorized famiclone bootlegs of late-'00s casual gaming hits:

 


 
 

(info & cart pic from the Bootleg Games Wiki)

oh gosh, that sonic stuff reads with the same vaguely autistic ring of terrible fanfiction, that is marvelous
 
 
yer a gem, denzquix

unused 2005 design/prototype for a special-edition Legend of Zelda GameCube controller:
 

well what about this, the prototype's fleshy hindquarters
 


kinda inappropriate imo

finally a controller that, if I hold it backwards, will make me feel like im spreading an unrealistically small person's ass, awaiting my pulsating "input."
 
edit: forgot that sonic bible sounds amazing, sega should do something with it. imagine a cell-shaded, cartoony sonic game based off the "sonic bible" complete with jaleel white's spot on sonic characterization...
 
omg if sega made a sonic game based off the funny cartoon sonic, with colorful outliney graphics........  be so good. well sega, I'm waiting
 

 
 
 
 

Dundee, Scotland (Perth Road, near site of DMA Design offices)
sculpture by Alyson Conway

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Austin, Texas (Vivo Tex/Mex parking lot)
anonymous artist



photo credits:
Tracey Dixon
DC Thomson
Todd Ross Nienkerk

fan project "BB4CPC" by César Nicolás González sets out to prove that a much more faithful adaptation of Bubble Bobble was possible on the Amstrad CPC:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBlBB2_4rfg

...than the officially-licensed 1987 port (video is from a cracked version, ignore the first couple of screens):
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiQlR_1PCtI

original Zork I box art: