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30丨Game developer丨Music composer丨Professional web developer丨Does a little bit of everything丨Language aficionado 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🇪🇸丨Loves old Sega games and lava lamps https://gensakudan.com

Seven sheets of paper on the floor, each one with a different template for concepts. The Retrograde Road logo is shown in the corner of each of them.
A piece of scrap paper with the phrase 本日は晴天なり (today will be sunny) repeated several times. The first two times with a regular ballpoint pen in square grids, the third time free-form with a brush pen. The remaining space in the first column was also used for brush pen testing.
Left: A tile grid for planning out the layouts of game screens. Right: Six storyboard panels, with lines below each one for notes.
An inbox filled with emails marked as spam. The sender for most of these is listed as some variation of "Amazon"/"アマゾン".
Two Bluesky posts, one from @speedrun-new.bsky.social, the other from @speedrunwr.bluesky.bot. Both are about a new world record for Phantom 2040 on the Game Gear, clocking in at 16 minutes 31 seconds, played by WhiteHat94. The link to the run itself shows that it was submitted two years ago, making it anything but "new".
A pagination element, now much better-looking than the image in the quoted post.
The inside of the box. To the right is the cartridge, to the left the manual, whose corners someone apparently took a pair of scissors to.
Hang-On and Safari Hunt for the Sega Master System. This is the box for a combo cartridge containing both games in one.
Four paper sleeves with game names written on them in Japanese. From left to right: 倉庫番, チャックンポップ, チャンピオンシップロードランナー, どきどきペンギンランド
Two videos on Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu for the TurboGrafx-16, uploaded by RndStranger and Pixelmusement respectively within literal minutes of each other.
An excerpt from a cookie consent banner, showing categories that include anywhere between 130 and 854 partners. "Legitimate interest" is checked by default, and each of these checkboxes (and more) has to be unchecked manually.
The Japanese box art for the original Super Famicom version. Five of the game's eight party members are in battle-ready poses in front of a large, red, serpentine dragon.
Boxes of nine Master System games, aligned in a grid. All of them are games released on cards. From left to right, top to bottom: Bank Panic, F-16 Fighter, Ghost House, Great Soccer, My Hero, Spy vs Spy, Super Tennis, Teddy Boy, and TransBot.
Two Master System games: Great Soccer on the left, Golden Axe Warrior on the right.
A collage of all the games I've beaten in 2025. From left to right, top to bottom: Stinky and Loof in Wonderland, Shinobi, Jaseiken Necromancer, Chiki Chiki Boys, Atomic Runner, Michael Jackson's Moonwalker, Ghostbusters, The Addams Family, Wonder Boy, Tomb Raider: The Last Reveleation, Tomb Raider Chronicles, Touhou Kinjoukyou ~ Fossilized Wonders, Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies, Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice, Estpolis Denki, and Estpolis Denki II.
Box art for the game. The four heroes are riding an airship through the sky, looking out towards a floating island.
The box art for the game, showing the four protagonists standing on a cliff, looking out to a fortress on a floating island.
The box art for the game.
The box art for the game
A clamshell case of Disney's Aladdin for the Sega Mega Drive.
Ariya Iwanaga from Touhou 20.
A cropped snapshot of the Retrograde Road blog, showing a new navigation section to jump between pages of blog posts.
Store shelves filled to the brim with Buzz Lightyear action figures
A white hardback book titled "The History of SEGA (Unofficial)", by author Joe Douglas. The cover depicts various Sega consoles: The Master System and Saturn above the title, and the Mega Drive and Dreamcast below.
An arrangement of clamshell cases. Going from left to right, top to bottom: Alex Kidd in Miracle World (Master System), Alex Kidd: The Lost Stars (Master System), Alex Kidd: High-Tech World (Master System), Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle (Mega Drive), and Alex Kidd in Shinobi World (Master System).
Jewel case cover for the game. The background consists of blues, greens and whites, with a faint silhouette superimposed on top.
RETURN OF GANNON THE END
One of the game's box arts: A bust shot of Lara Croft holding one of her pistols while surrounded by dark blue clouds and lightning.
Box art for the game. Lara is exploring an Egyptian tomb, holding a flashlight in one hand and a pistol in the other.
The cover art for the game, showing a minimalist illustration of Tom-Tom (blond-haired boy wearing a leaf skirt (?) and holding a stone hammer) jumping over a snail that's at least twice his size.
Excerpt from the feed settings for the Sega 8-bit feed. It shows that the input is indeed from the past 7 days, at least on paper.
Many, many instances of death and failure in Atomic Runner for the Mega Drive.
A physical copy of Atomic Runner for the Sega Mega Drive. The box art depicts a helmeted man in a metal suit (the protagonist, Chelnov) is shooting lightning from his fists. A city skyline at night serves as the backdrop.
Lara is visibly shocked.
The box art for the game, showing the family posing for a group photo. Gomez and Morticia are in the center, embracing each other. Behind them is Lurch, brandishing a feather duster. To the left (from the viewer's perspective) are Grandma and Wednesday, to the right are Fester and Puggsley. Thing is standing on its fingers on the ground, in front of them.
The box art for the game, depicting the iconic Ghostbusters logo: a surprised ghost poking through a "no entry"-like red sign.
POV of the cockpit of Michael Jackson's battleship. An exploding vessel is seen in the crosshairs. Below that is an incoming message saying "Noooo...", and to the left of that is a portrait of Mr. Big, the game's antagonist. To the right of the message window is a radar, showing the position of Mr. Big's ship as a blue dot.
A plastic clamshell case of Michael Jackson's Moonwalker for the Sega Mega Drive. The cover art shows Michael dressed in white and red, posing with a finger raised up high, with a rainbow and a close-up shot of his face in the starry night sky serving as the backdrop. There is also a flying car and some other people in the back, presumably characters from the movie this game is based on.
Box art for the game. A helmeted man in a metal suit (the protagonist, Chelnov) is shooting lightning from his fists. A city skyline at night serves as the backdrop.
Close-up shot of a 14-inch CRT screen. The shadow mask can be clearly made out.
A black screen with the twin brothers (the red twin's graphics are unfortunately garbled) waving at the player. It says "Congratulation!" in big blue letters while the credits roll below.
A boy swordsman in blue jumping high up in the sky among some overgrown ruins. The game is paused, this photo having been taken right as the final score finished tallying up.
Fighting a corpulent clown in a throne room while taking the opportunity to pilfer a chest that contains the key required for getting the good ending.
A saucepan on a stove, filled with instant ramen. I only used half the flavor packet for the broth, adding in my own spices and chili flakes instead. Other ingredients include one chopped green onion, two eggs cracked into the broth and allowed to cook in there, two chicken cutlets sliced into strips, and sesame seeds on top as garnish.
Baba Is You
"hey guys" "POPE FRANCIS" "NOT WHAT I'M CALLED"
A photo of the clamshell case, depicting cover art of the titular boys in the sky. The blue sibling is in the foreground, riding on a cloud. The red sibling is in the back, fighting a dragon who is very much *not* enjoying himself.
Confirmation of the deactivation of my Twitter account.
A CRT TV showing gameplay footage of Streets of Rage II for the Mega Drive.
A TV screenshot of Columns on the Mega Drive, specifically Original Mode with four jewel colors. The score and jewel counts are maxed out, and the level goes as high as it possibly can.
Poll of the Day: Do you still regularly play games on any cartridge-based console systems? Yes, my Nintendo 64 is always hooked up and ready to play. Yes, I still play a 16-bit console (SNES, Genesis, Turbo). Yes, I'm still using my 8-bit system (NES, Master System, Atari). No, any console I play today runs on discs, downloads, or cards. No, I don't even have a dedicated game console.
An ad that Discord started showing in the bottom-right corner, blocking everything else behind it. It's an announcement trailer for a game called "The Last Meadow". The button to close the ad is labeled "didn't ask".
Two pigeons sitting on a tree branch. One of them is preening its feathers. The picture quality is pretty bad because I had to set the zoom to max to get a decent shot of them.
"SpellCaster" for the Sega Master System. The blue bubble in the top left identifies it as an adventure role-playing game, the green text in the top right gives away that the game has password saves. The box art shows two men doing battle: In the foreground, a black-haired man in a white shirt and purplish-blue vest and pants, wielding a sword. In the background, a blond-haired man dressed in all blue and attacking with fire magic, shaped like wisps with skull heads.
DOSBox-X, a DOS emulator, showcasing an installation of Windows 3.1.
A truck whose side reads "Get Trans".
World map of Palma, one of the planets of the Algol solar system in Phantasy Star 1.
Passwords and notes, written entirely in Japanese. (Pages 1 and 2)
The cover art for the game, showing an illustration by H. R. Giger of a multi-armed skull holding a sword between its teeth.