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I visited a mechanical museum and played a canceled arcade game, while also picking up a new baseball game, a new-to-me Castlevania game and more magazines! There was also another April Fool’s speedrun and more NES shorts.

One of the staples of the GemuBaka event reports returns with BASHCon 38! There were nine arcade cabinets at the event, with one cabinet I’ve never seen before.

Recapping February’s big features on Dragon Power and Walk it Out!; summarizing the Tecmo Super Bowl 2024 season; talking about the SEGA Master System; and checking out the new Splatoon 3 DLC and season.

I’ve been wanting to start publishing occasional GemuBaka newsbits, and I figured 2024 would be a great time to get going on this. Includes items on the Detroit Retro Video Game Show, Capcom Vs. SNK 2 preview trailer, recent professional wrestling, weird PocketStation games and proof other DCM issues exist.

On a first play, this Gottlieb table from 1992 seems to check all of the boxes for a decent pinball machine based on Mario – powerups, Yoshi, destroying castles … and a Charles Martinet Mario voice?

This bonus installment of Combing Through the Pages comes at the most opportune time – Santa Claus himself is on the cover!

I found a Konami Punk Shot cabinet in the wild today. I haven’t been this excited since I finally encountered a U.S. Konami Martial Champions cabinet.

It turns out the missing ingredient in enjoying this game to the maximum was in having other humans to play this game with.

Digging deep into a variety of games, you’re bound to learn a couple of ways where playing as player two instead of player one actually changes the game in some way. This was common in shmups where the player two ship might have different movement, or playing on that side decreased the difficulty a little. […]

I’ve been quite busy the past couple of weeks, so my attention has temporary shifted from having larger talking points. In that stead, I’ve used the little free time I’ve had to churn out arcade videos and live streams that take less effort. There has been a lot of activity lately on the GemuBaka YouTube channel as […]