I'm live now on Twitch covering the 37th anniversary of the game the defined run & guns, CONTRA! Looking at the history of the first title in the series, and then taking down Red Falcon on real NES and MSX Turbo-R hardware! twitch/neon_arcade

Yep, @vincenzo_salvia gets it.

Tomorrow Rewind returns to Twitch, and I'm bringing you a stream celebrating the 37th Anniversary of Contra on the FC. I'll be covering the history of the game that kicked off the run-and-gun genre at 10 PM EST twitch/neon_arcade

RT @DoesItPlay1: Snapshot from the future. Shows exactly why online dependency will become a problem. Just a temporary outage today, but it…

@miss__slaughter Out of all devs it's been sad to see Monolith turned into a IP churn factory under WB. There's a lot of wasted creativity there.

Let's kick off something big tonight. I'll be on Twitch with the brand new 0.85 translation of Princess Crown ⚔️for the Saturn, all on real hardware. Considered by many to be the first Vanillaware title despite being an Atlus game, this is not to be missed - it has some of the finest pixel art you'll ever see. Live 10 EST twitch/neon_arcade

Going live on Twitch in 30 with the Ace Combat 4: Shattered Skies on the PS2 - along with a HORI Flight Stick 2 HOTAS I refurbished just for this. First playthrough of this one, so get in here in time to take off with me. ✈️ twitch/neon_arcade

So it's actually a Sunday evening Grab Bag as we're still dodging Internet issues, but I'm LIVE NOW on Twitch with a real hardware viewer's choice stream. Come pick some crap for me to play. ----> twitch/neon_arcade

A NEON stream while the sun is still out? 🌞 I'm live now with a JANKUARY ENCORE as we check out some of the worst console beat-em-ups of all time on real hardware.💪Get in here! twitch/neon_arcade

RT @psykomantis: I feel like I'm the last foreigner to visit @acho_kyoto #japan. Thank you for your service to the #arcade and #fgc communi…

Live now with a very special Jankuary Action 52 stream on Twitch. We're going to spin the wheel of trash until there's no more Action 52 left to play, while also learning a little about the history of this thing. Come hang out: twitch/neon_arcade

Yeah, it's pretty bad alright. 👊 Tonight we check out the history of terrible console Beat-Em-Ups with a nightmare of a stream featuring the worst brawlers ever to hit your television, all on real hardware. Are you tough enough? We'll see! Be there at 10 EST. twitch/neon_arcade #JANKUARY

I suit up tonight for a deep dive into the darkest parts of the PC Engine's Library with a special JANKUARY Twitch stream! We'll check out some of the worst titles we can find on real hardware. How much trouble can we get in? Be there at 10 PM EST to find out.🧑‍🚀twitch/neon_arcade

RT @CobraCommanda_: It's going great so far! Get in there!

Live on Twitch tonight with a tribute to horrendous 90s fighting games as part of JANKUARY. ⚔️ Rock some of the most awful MK and SFII clones as I jump on the Egret II for some truly terrible arcade deep cuts. Be there around 11 PM EST! twitch/neon_arcade

Losing Lynch makes it all the more apparent how few masters of the craft are left out there. RIP, you madman.

Gunblaze Assault, the latest from @MiamiNights1984 dropped today, and it's the perfect soundtrack to weaving your way through a deadly curtain of high-caliber enemy fire in a mech STG that never existed, but really needs to. Summoning the style of 90s video game soundtrack legends like Yuzo Koshiro and Hyakutaro Tsukumo, MN84 has forged a concept album that could easily be mistaken for the actual score to the lost Mega-CD sequel to MUSHA Aleste. From the title screen stinger to the game over melody, even the menu screen music bumpers are somehow intact here, blending both retrogaming and retrosynth into a seamless package. As an album, Gunblaze Assault keeps itself short and sweet while at no time deviating from the stated mission of creating an intense OST for a lost Japanese mech-based shump. While I'm sure they'll be some who consider this theme to be more of a gimmick than an fully-realized Synthwave album, MN84's ironclad adherence to a solid concept, right down to the sublime album art and promo material, is *exactly* the kind of unwavering creative vision that we need to rescue a genre currently adrift in a vast sea of indistinguishable laser grids and neon sunsets. I've been ranting for years that Synthwave is the perfect scene for hardcore concept albums outside of the nostalgia trap of "Wasn't the 80s cool?", and listening to Gunblaze Assault confirms the fact that this fully armored synth attack is precisely the type of robot hero we need. 🤖 Lock, load, and listen now: