Issue 5 of gaming zine TangoPunk now shipped!
If you're into bright colourful pages about games from all eras, giving inspiration for discovering new titles, take a peek at https://patreon.com/TangoPunk to see if it interests you!
Did I ever upload the full TangoPunk showcase on Tumblr?
I don't think I did!
It's a physical video game zine covering the interesting parts of games from all eras, from the 1980s to the 2020s, in bright colourful pages. There's a cheaper PDF tier, too!
Did I ever upload this showcase of TangoPunk to Tumblr?
I don't think I did!
It's a physical zine showcasing cool video games with pretty pages, and isn't afraid to show adult games and screenshots. There's a PDF tier too if you want a sample!
TangoPunk, a zine for adults focusing on the niche and interesting sides of videogames, now has a vocal theme!
The video contains footage of games that will be appearing in Issue 4!
Subscriptions cost roughly $10 a month (depending on where you live), and you get new physical zines shipped to you every six weeks. This price includes shipping and VAT.
All current subscribers before Issue 4 releases will get PDF versions of Issues 1-3 free as the 30 subscriber milestone is hit.
Music+Lyrics by geno7 / Vocals by dreamkittu
TangoPunk Issue 1&2 out now! A gaming zine with a visual focus and covering niche games!
tangobunny reblogged
‘Henry Explorers’ [aka: ‘Crypt Killer’]
[PS1 / SAT] [JAPAN] [MAGAZINE] [1996]
“Arcades were filled with the sounds of light gun games during the mid-1990s. Everywhere you looked was another Area 51, Point Blank, Time Crisis, House of the Dead or Virtua Cop.
Konami was no stranger to this, putting out its own new arcade game in 1995 called Crypt Killer, or Henry Explorers for the Japanese audience, which was ported to the PlayStation in 1997. Unlike all the above-mentioned games, this one was largely forgotten, and the home version tanked in review scores: 4/10 from IGN, 33% from Absolute PlayStation, and 3.8 from GameSpot.
Big name developers don’t often get hit with low review scores, and there’s no doubt as to what caused the low scores: it simply wasn’t as good as its competition. Time Crisis came out for the PlayStation in the same year, and when comparing the two, Crypt Killer has inferior level design, visuals, and gameplay mechanics.
“Crypt Killer is disappointing, especially considering it came from the creators of Lethal Enforcers” was a common refrain amoung reviewers.
That should be all that’s needed. No need for any more specific information, right?
The comparison to Lethal Enforcers is what interests me, as it leads to an odd conflict: Crypt Killer plays just like Lethal Enforcers, if not better.” ~@tangobunny, TangoPunk (#01)
- Source: Sega Saturn Magazine (JP), 12/27/1996 || RetroCDN; Hivebrain
- Note: TangoBunny’s Patreon-supported zine, TangoPunk, will be having its second issue soon! The first issue contains more of the ‘Crypt Killer’ breakdown that was quoted here and, after reading this and the rest of the issue, Tango definitely has the chops for proper game journalism! You can read it yourself as a PDF, as well as a physically printed zine, when you support TangoPunk on Patreon!
Source: retrocdn.net
tangobunny reblogged
Reblog of the final day... (of the launch weekend)
Anonymous asked:
How far do you send?
Everywhere in the world! International shipping is included in the Patreon price.
Anonymous asked:
How many pages are the zines?
38 pages plus the covers, the main cost goes towards the professional full colour print.
tangobunny reblogged
Another reblog, because it's still the launch weekend!
Now on Pillowfort!
Ever since tumblr cracked down on NSFW content, breaking my tumblr page and disabling the search bar, I’ve been e-homeless for a while. I’ve now switched to Pillowfort, so my new hangout is at https://www.pillowfort.social/TangoBunny !
A couple of important notes for people that held off on it like me:
1 - It still costs $5 to join
2 - Back when tumblr died, there was talk about all the tumblr lynch mob people switching to Pillowfort, which is the main reason I never tried it - I wanted to get away from people like that. Turns out that’s either completely untrue or they all got banned, because every single post I’ve seen on there is completely civil, it’s mostly just people posting their art and being nice.
Anyway, for anyone who’s already on Pillowfort or doesn’t mind paying five bucks for social media, I’ll see you there!
Collecting more and more!
Someone wake me up when there’s a free blog service that isn’t focused solely around smalltalk, pornography, advertising, or censorship.
Until then, I’m hibernating from social media nonsense. If you want to find me, I’ll be in a good Twitch stream chat, probably!
Another quick update:
I’ve pretty much stopped checking tumblr now.
Gonna try and get back into posting more regularly over at kawen.space (which uses Pleroma) because even though it’s a bit too much like Twitter for what I’m used to, it’s still better than twitter and tumblr and everything else I’ve seen.
I finally started getting the tumblr banner saying I have adult posts for review-- I think the reason it took this long is because there’s four years worth of image posts. Some correctly flagged, others not.
I still haven’t found a good alternative.
Mastodon/Pleroma is too much like Twitter for what I usually post - Most people there post in single sentences and lazy shitposts so it’s not worth checking, and all the other tumblr alternatives are focused on people who posted nothing but porn.
All this is doing is reminding me of how few people online post things I actually want to see. I like hearing about people as people, not just as accounts that post porn and momentary gossip that’s never worth reading again within minutes.
Aaaaa there’s a Mortal Kombat 11 exhibition event over on Twitch!
We all know and love bunny girls, but what about bunny guys? How often do girls thing about the bunny bros?
All I know is that they make amazing doujin material!
There isn’t really a good bunnysuit outfit made for actual guys in person.
It’s kind of surprising given how popular the rabbit with a waistcoat was in Alice in Wonderland, you’d think people would make a smart rabbit-lhemed waistcoat outfit for servers at hen parties and the such!
Sonya's P2 colour is red.
I wonder if Red Sonya was a reference to the comic book character Red Sonja or if it was just a coincidence.
How do you like Mortal Kombats more American style setting compared to more Japanese fighting games? And do you have any favorite characters? Asking this as a big Mortal Kombat fan.
I’ve always struggled with Mortal Kombat controls. It’s easy to understand light and heavy attacks in most Japanese games and how they affect speed/priority, but telling the difference between a standing low kick and a standing high kick in Mortal Kombat is much harder– they both seem to do roughly the same thing.
Block being a separate button in MK means I use it much less often, and when MK3 added a run button, it just added to the number of buttons I never actually use.
As for the style itself, I absolutely love the setting and soundtrack to Mortal Kombat 1 and 2. It feels otherworldly, because even though it has inspirations from Chinese martial arts, the stone architecture and vibrant character designs have a really good fictional consistency that make it feel like something entirely unique.
That said, I’m less keen on the Babalities and Friendships in MK2 which are fun easter eggs, but kind of ruin that unique dark action vibe that it has otherwise, and so find MK3 much worse because they went all-in with the silly nonsense. Babalities, Friendships, Animalities, Robot Men, Dudes with Guns, the arenas getting stuck on a tiny loop if you get uppercutted through the floor… it all feels less like the cool setting of MK1+2 and more like a trashy fan-game.
Favourite characters… Mileena always used to spring to mind in the past, but I don’t really have a definite favourite.
One thing I find interesting, on the topic of comparing American games to Japanese games, is that Chun-Li in Street Fighter II was one of the most popular characters, and pretty much every Japanese fighting game has the one ‘waifu’ character that everyone likes. In Mortal Kombat, Sonya was always the most boring character that nobody picked.
It’s rare to see every dude in a fighting game being far more visually interesting in terms of moves and identity than the lady!