Notices by Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social), page 41

Entity (Loriciel, 1994) #DOSGaming

@BartWronski I just have to say that it is not a straight adaptation, unlike let's say the old Polish mini series.

@BartWronski Nowhere right now. It was dropped by foreign distributors when the war started. I watched a a CAM in Russian.

@vampiress It's one of my favorite novels. It's the fifth adaptation I've seen, and honestly the only worthwhile one.

I was shocked by how good & timely the newest adaptation of The Master and Margarita turned out to be, and I sincerely hope that everyone directly involved with it had already left Russia. 😯

@vampiress Also because I assume some of the more advanced mapper chips were not easy to copy, some of more technically complicated games haven't made it into Eastern Europe. Like, I've never seen any Mega Man games till emulation & internet started to really become a thing. My Mega Man was Capcom's Disney games.

@vampiress We just Chinese pirate carts, which were dumped from Japanese ones. So I played many Western games in Japanese. I didn't know a foreign language then, but being in Japanese made them even more impenetrable because I couldn't ask anyone or look up words in the dictionary. 😅

@vampiress Just went to double check myself, and looked at the NES best sellers list and...
in number 10, the first party game that beat out TMNT only by 10,000 copies is....

@vampiress Yeah, but that overworld music is instantly in my head. Quite funny, I was playing it on my brand new famiclone once back in Russia when I was a kid, and my mother was tutoring some Americans (adults), and on their way out one of them went "I heard you playing Turtles through the wall!" Makes sense too, since it happened something like 8 years after the release of the game.

@quentincoyote @kiteless If it is, then it would be quite ironic consider I held a copy of Arcticfox today in my hands, and haven't even considered it as a possibility for some reason. 😅

@vampiress I mean, that NES game did sell A LOT though. It was quite literally the *most sold* 3rd party NES game.

@kiteless There isn't really a comprehensive database. MobyGames would be a good place to start since it's the largest user populated database with a functioning search, although tagging is not consistent.
After that just go to every abandonware site you can find and hope that they have a tag called "tank" or something.
That's really about it.
Good luck!

It's still a bit weird to me that the music video from the end of Shiny's MDK (1997) is a totally real thing that can be seen in proper quality & color:
https://youtu.be/ISFXmukrQO4?si=uP5QhpBa6aTBEoNg

Zombie Dinos from Planet Zeltoid (Overdrive Entertainment, Philips P.O.V. Entertainment Group/Interplay Productions, 1995) #DOSGaming

A BlitzBasic demo using Circle command by Joe Lesko set to Quazar of Sanxion's tracker classic "Hybrid Song" aka "Funky Stars":

@spookysquid @christinelove @mcc @spinningmind Well, this is gonna be interesting. 😅

@angelus_04 Lost in Time is not a sequel to Geisha, but to Fascination.

The intro to Coktel Vision's Geisha (1990). French games were freaking weird. #DOSGaming

Dune III (Sergei Bobrovsky, 1994) #DOSGaming #RussianVideogames

@mcc Here it is ported into Super Mario World, at 15:23 mark
https://youtu.be/r2sHrh8oJJU?si=tsH0vkprMHQCNYLX