Retro Gamer Ryan

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Uh, New York Times Bestselling Author of the Stardew Valley Cookbook! https://stardewvalleycookbook.com/ I play video games, and sometimes I write books about them! https://retrogamerryan.com/ https://fangamer.com/

A partial screenshot from a DDR game in which the player has hit a note perfectly, triggering the "Marvelous!!" text. Next to this is a blown-up sprite of Auguste from the Octopath Traveler series, for obvious reasons if you're familiar with him at all.
The stage intro for Titania in Star Fox (2026). The description reads "Titania is a treacherous wasteland. Retrieve Slippy before the planet claims its next victim." But the planet kind of looks like a hamburger.
A close-up view of a 30-pack case of 250ml MAX Coffee cans in their iconic yellow and brown livery
A fancy brick building (Tokyo Station) with a network of stone and metal platforms and other infrastructure mostly blocking the view.
Mikado
A rural Japanese landscape as photographed from inside the Skyliner from Narita Airport
A scene from Tomba 2 in which a woman carrying an empty hexagonal basket on her head is giving Tomba crucial information: "If you put on a Pig Suit, you'll be able to understand the pig language."
Street Fighter II (SNES)
A large white shelving combo made from two wide IKEA BILLY units with a narrow unit between them. Each wide unit has a whopping TWELVE shelves, and the top 8 shelves are crammed full of NES cartridges, 45 to a shelf.
An original Virtual Boy next to the official Switch / Switch 2 Virtual Boy accessory, which is nearly identical, though maybe a tiny bit taller. Two stacks of boxed games sit behind them.
A white plastic plate loaded with chunks of the cheapest meat and cheese money can buy, along with two kinds of mustard, both very yellow
John McClane nervously scuttles through a room with gun in hand shortly after Joe Takagi was killed nearby. A model of some sort of highway bridge thing bisects the scene horizontally, and beneath the arch of the bridge is a little ferry bearing the Sunflower logo.
The princes of Midenhall and Cannock, and the princess of Moonbrooke, from Dragon Quest II. Malroth is visible in the background, but he doesn't count.
An orange coffee mug full of what I can assure you is coffee, topped with "latte art" that looks like a ghost either trying to scare you or going in for a hug
The cover of a mystery thriller book of some sort titled "Pumpkin Spice Peril"
A pair of white faux wood sidelight blinds, held up entirely by the power of magnets; coming up with a way to get them to hold took much longer than I expected.
A screenshot from Yakuza 5 showing a bottle of Herradura tequila. The game's description reads "Herradura Tequila is a premium tequila, 100-548050istilled from the blue agave plant."
A Nintendo Switch 2 system sitting at the main menu while dozens of pieces of software wait to be downloaded.
A fake billboard spotted in Yakuza 5 advertising a non-existent movie called 疾風 鷲伝說 (Shippuu Washi Densetsu). It features a serious-looking young woman in a red outfit with a bag slung over her shoulder, and an eagle is loosely perched on that same shoulder. The art style is VERY strongly reminiscent of Studio Ghibli / Hayao Miyazaki.
A cinematic shot of Kiryu from Yakuza: Dead Souls, the camera pointing slightly upward from waist-level, showing him from the waist up. The subtitle reads "That's Kazuma Kiryu."
Two big bags of Black Thunder, a Japanese candy bar that's like a cross between a Crunch bar and Oreos; it also contains just enough sorbitol to keep me from eating a whole bag in one sitting.
Duo from Mega Man 8
The Blu-ray and crowdfunding-exclusive booklet for Mononoke the Movie: The Phantom in the Rain (劇場版 モノノ怪：唐傘)
A weapon menu screenshot from Tears of the Kingdom showing Link with his favorite Mine-Cart Hammer, a stick with an entire minecart fused to the tip. The minecart is as large as Link himself, and adds a single point of strength to the stick as a weapon.
The surface of a cafe latte in a blue mug with, if I'm being totally honest, a slapdash foam that just happened to coalesce into a shape that resembles a cartoon ghost waving.
An email header from Wayfair that's titled "The Trampolines EVERYONE'S talking about 💬"
A sushi roll getting absolutely bodied by a huge pile of little orange fish eggs
A warning in Spanish on a bag of Cheetos which reads "EXCESO CALORÍAS" (excess calories) and "EXCESO SODIO" (excess sodium)
The original HeroQuest board game system, in box
A screenshot of RAM Test by Karhu Software, showing 0 errors after doing a full pass over all available RAM. The old RAM generated 18 errors at this point.
A regular pink Otamatone and a black Deluxe Otamatone
A traffic light at an intersection; the street sign attached reads "E Friendship St" with an arrow pointing right, and "W Friendship St" with an arrow pointing left.
Several copies of the Stardew Valley Cookbook on the shelf at Barnes & Noble
My street during totality; it looks like dusk, or even a bit darker, though it's the middle of the afternoon on a sunny day.
A selfish with me looking like a doofus in my eclipse glasses
Three of the original Goroneko Summit cats (Itou, Yamada and Watanabe) lying on their backs with their little foot nubbins spread out, enjoying sunbeams~
A ridiculous Balatro hand consisting of 9 stone cards from a 114-card deck that is more than half stone cards. My stone high card strategy got me to ante 12, but no further.
A Balatro hand consisting of A-K-Q-10-8, all spades except the 10, which is clubs. The Shortcut Joker makes this a "valid" straight, while the Four Fingers Joker lets it work with 4 cards. The game therefore considers this a straight flush?
The CHUNITHM Paradise title screen with the card reader mounted above it on the same pole, a small rounded square with a tiny, off-center point of amber light that I didn't think to cover with electrical tape before I assembled the thing.
A 4-panel sequence of the Gokaiger/Go-Busters transition, in which GokaiRed and Red Buster have a fun little interaction to signify the handing off of the Super Sentai reins.
A rectangular white plastic tray loaded with sliced kielbasa and a variety of cheese cubes, with a glob of yellow mustard on the side.
My D&D character's current HP in the final(?) phase of the final(?) battle, showing 12/121 HP after successfully saving against Meteor Swarm. It's the first round of combat.
The arcade cart running CHUNITHM Paradise, with a golden CHUNITHM marquee
The rear of the marquee; it uses a VESA pole mount with adapter bars due to the marquee having no proper mounting holes. The inner ring of the mount is 3D printed in white PLA and fits beautifully.
The arcade cart now features an LCD marquee that updates with a marquee of the game being played, if available. Pictured is Street Fighter II: Champion Edition.
CHUNITH Paradise title screen running on the mobile arcade cart, but with a TASOLLER controller to make it fully playable!
An Xbox Series X dialog box stating: Sign in to start this app You need to sign in to use SONIC FRONTIERS (0x87DD0033)
A mobile computer workstation cart with 32" TV displaying the title screen of CHUNITHM Paradise, though it's missing a proper controller (that part is in progress).
A stencil print on the ceiling of a Wi-Fi icon with the words "THERE IS NO PASSWORD"
A wide vista of Arizona mountains, which look an awful lot like Martian landscape
Cropped screenshot from the Starbucks app stating "It's your season, Ryan"
The superboss battle of Yakuza: Like A Dragon: Amon and his guardian thought entities (Kiryu, Saejima and Majima)
The Part-time Hero quest list from Yakuza: Like A Dragon, showing 100% completion in all categories
A Twitter/X ad for a mobile game claiming the game has no ads, accompanied by a community note stating that the game has ads.
A mound of stuffed cats from Japan
A bee eating barbecue sauce off of a butter knife.