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Comfort Food 🦐 Random assortment in a lil' bowl! Comparing and growing

Tried painting on-stream, and this was the result. Pretty happy with it! The next time I stream art I'll do the piece Keke is painting here, already got the lineart for it.

Hey folks,

After 3 years I'm finally able to announce what we've been working on. An archival album with Edd Kalehoff! The composer of the themes to The Price is Right, Double Dare, Nick Rocks, Finders Keepers, PBS Newshour, and a LOT more.

(Thanks to Michael DeForge for the album art)

We went through hours of unreleased material from 1970-79 (Around the time he composed "The Price is Right") and compiled it on this vinyl. You can buy it right now on vinyl through Light in the Attic or our Bandcamp. Light in the Attic may show up as sold out, if so try the Bandcamp. It's also on streaming anywhere you stream things.

This week's Arcade Archives release is... Turbo Force (1991, Video System)

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A precursor of sorts to the Aero Fighters / Sonic Wings series, while that series' strange sense of humour isn't really present here, some of the style certainly is. Transported to another version of Earth in their car, up to three players (?) drive into fury as a strange mix of military vehicles, robots and alien lifeforms want them dead. Is your souped-up ride up to the task?

Beyond the unusual choice of a flying car as your vehicle, this one has a strange, permanently-decaying weapons system- as you fire your standard weapon (fortunately on auto-fire), it's gradually get weaker and needs to be topped up by grabbing power-ups which act a little different from other shumps- they fall like they're affected by gravity, and if you miss them, they're gone. There's no bombs either beyond a power-up that drops that has a few different effects but activates on pick-up. It's a weird little game but seems like a stepping stone to the more-popular Aero Fighters series. As a neat nod to its roots, the car from this game (named DIABLOON) appears in Aero Fighters 3 as a secret character, piloted either by a new character called Gore in co-op mode or... Captain Waffle from Spinal Breakers!

As for this Arcade Archives release, it's got a few different versions (New, Old and US) with differences between them, full three-player support and the option to control the P" or P3 car with P!'s controls in case you want a change of colour. It even faithfully recreates a wild graphics glitch from the original game! Now that's attention to detail.