Earthion was released late last night. It’s a new shmup for the Megadrive, available for download on Steam. I stayed up and played it a bit. I’ll do a write-up after I get more used to the gameplay.
Earthion intro sequence animated GIF gallery
Alexandra from Mystic Defender on the Sega Genesis iron beads sprite
This game is also known as Kujaku-Ou 2 on the Megadrive. I slightly modified this to improve her, giving her a carpet that matches the drapes.
Iron bead pixel art of Lt. Lin Kurosawa from Capcom’s Aliens vs. Predator
I found this fan sprite art on Pinterest. Dunno the original designer, so I can’t credit the person. I made a couple of tweaks to it.
Out Run Ferrari iron bead sprite complete!
I took a pixel dump of the Ferrari from Out Run on the Megadrive from The Spriter’s Resource website.
I wish I had a darker palette of reds to choose from. I used Perler’s Tomato, Cherry, Red, and Hama’s Dark Red to complete this project.
Here is the final result, after ironing.
Taito Game Station in Lirica Mall, Maebashi
These are pictures I took a few months ago in the Taito Game Station arcade in Lirica Mall. From left to right: the sign in front, a vending machine, and Space Invaders Frenzy.
New buttons I got at the Mikado Game Center
Mikado had these pin badge buttons in their gachapon capsule toy dispensers, so I got three. One big one that says “PUSH START” (I’m not sure why it says “2006” because according to the Japanese Wikipedia, it started in 2009), and a set of buttons for the Mikado location in Ikebukuro (top) and the original in Takadanobaba (bottom). As I mentioned in the previous post, Mikado is a legendary spot for retrogaming.
Screenshots of arcade games at the legendary Mikado in Tokyo
I visited Mikado next to Takadanobaba Station in Tokyo. Here are some more screenshots of game screens. (I made an earlier post of closeup screenshots of arcade games in Akihabara’s Hey and Super Potato here.)
Pac-Man donuts at Krispy Kreme!
I bought these today in Shinjuku after visiting the Pac-Man 45th anniversary pop-up event in Harajuku.
I’m a SUPER MEGA DORK!
My new Pac-Man pillow from Shimamura!
I went to Shimamura today and found this lovely Pac-Man decorative pillow! It feels so soft! Here are front and back photos of it. There was another Pac-Man pillow there which featured large sprites of the characters, but I like the design of this one better. Interestingly, it features the English names of the ghosts. There were also Pac-Man bath mats there too, but I didn’t get them because I imagine my wife wants to keep the ones we already have.