Tim Walker

@daddymulk.bsky.social

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Father, translator, Sega Genesis collector, G1 fan, Taito aficionado. Arcade Archives Lady Bug Heavyweight Champion. Fighting hard to bring the interjection “Gangway!” back into our daily vernacular. “I’m taking this pretty seriously!”

From Wikipedia: “The US magazine ad for the game, while detailing its features, did not feature any actual screenshots from the game, but crudely drawn ones that did not resemble the game at all.”

Street Fighter Zero 3, featuring Karin Kanzuki on the disc, signed by Little House on the Prairie actress and character inspiration Alison Arngrim.

Excerpt from an interview with one of the World Heroes (Genesis) programmers from GDRI: “It was funny; the original "wunderkind" who was supposed to do the port, a British guy named "Steve," turned out to be all talk. But before he "left," he managed to bilk Sega Midwest out of a fair amount of money (he got a car as part of his deal). Ultimately, I came in to restart the port from the ground up and had very little time to do it. Thankfully, another guy at Sega, whose name was John something>, helped out with certain parts.”

From the page for World Heroes (Genesis) on The Cutting Room Floor: “Unsurprisingly, it had a troubled development; the original lead
programmer Sega tapped to work on this port was a con artist who fled with the money, meaning that to get the game out on time, the bulk of it had to be
programmed in a rush by two people who only had access to the assembly code of the original. And while they certainly tried, the results speak for themselves.”

USPS now charges $7.69 to send a package from Ohio to Kansas via the cheapest method available (Media Mail no longer works on games, at least not when selling through eBay).

Take a nap, idiot

Nimrod is a Sentinel from a future timeline where everyone apparently just bellows, incoherently and often. Accurate.

Nightcrawler does his thing in X-Men (MiSTer FPGA, 50% CRT effect, completely mangled by my shitty phone camera).

Sample Sold listings of eBay showing that high-quality bootlegs are apparently all the rage amongst discerning PC Engine collectors.

A battery that’s been in my multimeter so long that it finally burst open. A bit of cleaning with isopropyl alcohol should make it fully functional again.

Saban’s ER Troopers, starring Anthony Edwards and George Clooney.

A troublemaker and her Bulborb

Bloody Malth from Ninja Gaiden (Tecmo, NES)

DJ, Motorarm, and Gimlet combine to form Tripledacus (“Tri-ple-Da-cus”), but need to crack a few before heading into battle.

Current ACA Lady Bug High Score Leaderboard on Switch. 5 of the 7 invalid scores have been removed via the patch, yet 2 of them still linger for whatever reason.

My Lady Bug score of 1,098,250 points, only 98,250 of which was earned. A glitch is randomly adding a million extra points to some players’ scores currently.

Currently at 146,480 on the High Score Leaderboard for ACA Lady Bug. 9th place overall, 2nd place in terms of legit scores.

One of the illustrious seven players on the LB with over a million points, and apparently he achieved this by Stage 3? The furthest anyone in this group played was Stage 11.

Current rankings in High Score Mode in ACA Lady Bug (Switch). Seven people have scores over a million points, and the next highest is 171K, which says to me that there’s either a secret bonus I don’t know about or there’s tomfoolery afoot.

Me at the top of the heap in Time Attack Mode in ACA2 Lady Bug (Switch 2), with a total time of 8:11:52, 50 seconds faster than the next guy.

Rankings are based first on how many stages you’ve cleared, and then by how fast you did it. So the first three people on this LB cleared 9 stages, the next two cleared 8, etc.

I’m not sure if 9 constitutes a full loop and it stops counting there or not. I suppose it’s possible that it could track your progress forever, if you’re good enough.

Message from one of the mods on the GDQ channel encouraging the children to shut up and enjoy their treats.

Sandra Bullock in The Net (1995).

A low-effort bootleg of Newman Haas IndyCar Featuring Nigel Mansell, the hottest game of the season for the Sega Mega Drive.

Look, I understand wanting to see the PCB when you’re buying a game in, say, the $50+ range maybe. But this is JFG. It’s a $15 cart, Bob.

Photo from a random NES Advantage listing I spotted on eBay where the stick is missing its black border portion that normally surrounds the buttons.

Shout-out to my fellow Key Hoarders.

Testing out a physically-damaged spare Legend of Zelda cart I had lying around. Works fine if you’re okay with the back of the base being a bit of an eyesore.

Calvin made another machine out of a cardboard box and all these weirdos just started parading out of it.

Space Invaders (Taito cab/Midway cab) and Space Invaders Part II/Deluxe (Taito cab/Midway cab). Taito cabs of the first game absolutely existed in significant quantities back in the day in the US. I’m not 100% on whether or not that was the case for Part II.

The back of my Grind Stormer PCB before the surgery. Note how many of the blue holes around the center are clogged.

For our past annual Hexadecathelon retro game tournaments, Queen Slime always made gorgeous hand-painted pictures for the winners of each event. Here’s the one I received for my top score in Lady Bug (Atari 2600).

Currently ranked 1st on the Caravan Mode leaderboard for Arcade Archives Lady Bug (Switch) with a score of 92,100.

Yankee Do! (Mr. Do! romhack)

With a score of 88,500, I’m currently in 3rd on the global leaderboard for Caravan Mode in Arcade Archives Lady Bug (Switch). Just 1,100 points away from tying for 1st.