BruberryMuffin
I'd nearly forgotten this game. Note, this is not fanart of an adult Sora. 
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oozecat
Sion Barzahd. From a Square game called the Bouncer.
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nothing about these proportions make sense
Glittery Jim
haha the bouncer sure was... a thing
BruberryMuffin
BruberryMuffin
IG image of the character.
Glittery Jim
vitarays it makes more sense if you realize his clothes are just really dumb and baggy
Glittery Jim
classic nomura
BruberryMuffin
But yeah, two years before KH was a thing. And I remember playing this back in college.
Glittery Jim
it's not a great game but I'd love for SE to take another run at it
BruberryMuffin
I think I played it. Hrm.
BruberryMuffin
Like, it looks familiar.
oozecat
I remember you saying like it had too much fighter at the time.
BruberryMuffin
I think that might have been one of the fighting games that Ben had.
sᴀᴋᴀᴘᴀᴛᴀᴛᴇ
god I loved that game so much
BruberryMuffin
And then this one: 
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Bloody Roar.
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Glittery Jim
god I miss bloody roar
Glittery Jim
I hate that konami has the rights to it
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Glittery Jim
: ...and this is why we're friends.
Glittery Jim
♥
Glittery Jim
if you want me to shit talk konami I will happily do so.
Glittery Jim
or obsess about weird fighting games from the early 2000's
BruberryMuffin
How about weird games period.
Glittery Jim
y'all ever heard of mister mosquito
Glittery Jim
it's a game where you play as (you guessed it) a mosquito. your goal is to navigate around this one family and collect blood from them without being swatted
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Glittery Jim
and like, the family has their own weird dynamic??
Glittery Jim
oh gosh. 
BruberryMuffin
That game that's part dating sim, part RPG, where the dating sim is part of the mechanics of the weapon system.
Glittery Jim
that sounds rad as fuck. what is it and tell me that I can afford it
oozecat
It's a vintage PS1 game
BruberryMuffin
Thousand Arms - Wikipedia
Glittery Jim
so.... definitely not then
Glittery Jim
ebay is laughing in my face right now
oozecat
The key to power is dating ,as many and as often as possible.
oozecat
I got lucky at the used bookstore for my copy.
Glittery Jim
you lucky duck
Glittery Jim
boyfriend dungeon might be the closest I get I get for now
Glittery Jim
but for other cool, weird games, Spinch is a really neat little platformer
oozecat
I just love that all the "dates" involved trick questions with multiple choice answers, and one of the girls wanted you to tell her that she looked fat.
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Glittery Jim
: So, uh. Remember how you convinced me to buy Spike Chunsoft games?
BruberryMuffin
May I return the favor?
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<i>Conception</i> (video game)
Glittery Jim
oh hell yeah conception
Glittery Jim
such a weird game. I need to pick this up
Glittery Jim
esp. before they get hard to find
BruberryMuffin
It's on PC, apparently.
Glittery Jim
which is nice, but I'm a magpie. I like physical when I can get it
BruberryMuffin
lol
oozecat
It's harder to lose a digital copy....
Glittery Jim
I want physical danganronpa but I am waaay too broke to afford them
BruberryMuffin
On July 4, 2019, it was announced that the game would receive an English release on November 5, 2019 for the PlayStation 4 and Steam, under the title Conception Plus: Maidens of the Twelve Stars. The PS4 versions were criticized for having varying levels of censorship.
BruberryMuffin
A feature called Touch Communication was removed internationally, while the western versions received additional censorship. The PC versions were completely unchanged.
Glittery Jim
oozecat
until they take away the digital rights/shut down any way to download it
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Glittery Jim
: Also, I sent you a PM.
Glittery Jim
oozecat
as a side-note, ps3 and vita digital stores are shutting down this summer. There are games that exist there that will not be obtainable after the service is shut down
oozecat
I know....it sucks, but it also happens. There are plenty of games that basically no longer exist because nobody bothered.
oozecat
I keep talking about trying to port a shape puzzle game I played the hell out of as a kid on a truly floppy disk back in the day onto mobile.
Glittery Jim
man, I almost guarantee there's a community out there for that
Glittery Jim
game preservation seems to be picking up steam lately, and I want to get in
oozecat
Oh, totally. I miss Gertrude's Secrets/Puzzles.
oozecat
I no longer have the machine that could play it or the actual disks.
Glittery Jim
I guarantee you're not the only person who likes them.
oozecat
Maybe. Although I don't know very many people who are THAT nostalgic for PCjr games.
oozecat
Considering how few people even know that model existed.
Glittery Jim
i work in a vintage game store. you would be so surprised at the shit people try to collect
oozecat
Oh, I'm not. We have a lot of computer kitsch.
Glittery Jim
nice
oozecat
Supposedly there are decks of cards here, one of which is a version of Edith.
Glittery Jim
woah
oozecat
The strip-tease program.
Glittery Jim
how tf
oozecat
My parents were career IBMers.
Glittery Jim
dayum
Glittery Jim
that's one of those things like you look at and say, "how the fuck do I even begin to monetarily evaluate this"
oozecat
Dad sneaker-netted a mainframe version of the old Star Trek text game across international borders, and had to stop them from trying to wipe it. "But you said the data has no value, so you won't mind if we erase it." "It has no value because there are only six other machines to run it on."
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And they're all owned by institutions.
oozecat
The gem of the collection is an actual round-hole keypunch made by The Tabulating Company.
Exacerangutan
whoa someone else remembers Thousand Arms
Exacerangutan
aside from the harem-ness I actually really liked the basic idea of instilling weapons with power through the cooperation of a weaponsmith and a spiritual medium of some sort
oozecat
Right, but the fact that they turned that into an excuse to be a horndog was just....cheesy in the best ways.
Glittery Jim
oozecat
holy shit
Glittery Jim
ngl, if you still have those, I guarantee there's preservation people who would want to get their hands on that
oozecat
Oh, I know. We got an offer in the thousands the first time Dad mentioned he found it at the antique store. The best part is he got a discount for telling them what it was, and the price was already low enough they weren't going to walk out without it.
Glittery Jim
in fact, Jirard Khalil/The Completionist is actually having a charity stream coming up with proceeds going to Preserved Play, which is all about preserving stuff like this
oozecat
I don't think Mom will let go of the 001.
Glittery Jim
can't say I blame her
oozecat
Maybe the keypunch repair manuals...
Glittery Jim
there might be merit in talking to these folks and seeing if they can at least figure out how to make a copy or document the program
Glittery Jim
just so that some record of it actually exists
oozecat
Oh, these are commercially published operators manuals. A box set.
oozecat
As I said, we have computer kitsch. (I'm still sad Dad didn't get the plastic model of Conan the Librarian to go with his ET & Friends)
Glittery Jim
dang. that's sad
Glittery Jim
idk, it was just a suggestion. Y'all are perfectly within your rights/wants to do whatever with your stuff
oozecat
Yeah, I keep thinking about it, but Mom's attached.
Glittery Jim
there's a chance they might even have stuff like this already, but I personally still think it's worth at least talking to them to see what can be done
Glittery Jim
it's data. data can be copied
oozecat
Yep.
Glittery Jim
and preserved in a way that lets your mom hang onto the original, while the code/data is saved and preserved for archival purposes
oozecat
nod.
Glittery Jim
but that's entirely on you guys. I understand the sentimentality, 100%
oozecat
My parents were mostly hardware and architecture. So a lot of it isn't code.
Glittery Jim
but I don't think there's much harm in at least talking to people to see what can be done
Glittery Jim
oh dang.
Glittery Jim
that does change things
oozecat
I mean, there were the decks of keypunch cards, but.
oozecat
And I know we have a bunch of the old slipcover books with things like DOS 2.0 docs.
Glittery Jim
all useful!
Glittery Jim
but again, assuming you want to give them up
oozecat
I've actually used the codepages at times.
Glittery Jim
ooh
oozecat
It was nice having the original ASCII tables.
Glittery Jim
that's so cool!
Glittery Jim
I've flipped through old C64 manuals and stuff trying to figure out how to get things to run, and tbh it's all greek to me
oozecat
My favorite bit was how the old IBM manuals that were model-specific all had the first chapter to be how to unbox and plug together the machine.
oozecat
Like my PCjr BASIC manual shows the various ways one of those were assembled.
Glittery Jim
maaan that's so cool. I love shit like that
antler queen
omggg The Bouncer
antler queen
Thousand Arms omg