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Retro Gamer is the deal. Their last issue of 2024 is on stands in the US (Barnes & Noble) now and has Tekken on the cover. It’s always the one I buy off the newsstand now that I have a digital subscription because it has the 2025 calendar! I’ll post a pic when I’m in the office again.
Anyone who loves retro gaming should always be reading Retro Gamer monthly.
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ooo where are those coasters from? and is the calendar any good?
and yeah, i subscribed to retro gamer for years, running lower on magazine space these days but happy for the ones i’ve got! learned a lot about uh, amiga and the EU PC scene in the day
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If you have a tablet, switch to their digital subscription if you’re out of space. It’s a really nice app. You can even click on a story and go right to that page.
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I got the 8bitdo Neogeo CD wireless controller a while ago, despite not having anything that could use it. It uses some newer bluetooth stuff so didn’t work with Switch or 8bitdo adapters. But I’m keen for any KOF97 merch anyway!
But Blueretro added support for it at some point! A cheap Saturn blueretro adapter later and now I can play KOF 97 with a KOF 97 pad! With the nice CD soundtrack and also using Saroo with minimal load times now.
…aaand I don’t like it much lol, I prefer the Saturn pad. Weird because I love the similar stick on Neo Geo Pocket, it’s just not as good as the Saturn dpad at this size.
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Not coasters, if you’re referring to the picture below the calendar, those are actually the separate months of the calendar (a My Nintendo item which they have every year as a “free” reward for accruing platinum points not including shipping cost). They sit stacked up together on a little stand, here’s what it looks like below. It’s all paper and nothing fancy but is definitely a nice little item to have in my home office space.
Had a $5 Best Buy certificate that was about to expire and decided to use it on this:
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No new PCB today 
But I did get a new arcade game in the form of a NeoGeo MVS Cartridge. It’s Fullsets’ Project Neon, a shooter long in development, and boy did the team deliver. Been having a blast with it.
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Got a bunch of Switch games recently, I always wanted to play Lunar, finally getting through it.
My budget is tight right now, between jobs with two kids. But some random small purchases bring have made me happy.
The beautiful vintage point and click film camera - I was watching Dirty Pair and it had ads on neon billboards in the future, and a bit like Blade Runner some are for defunct or merged companies, like Konica. Which sent me down the rabbit hole looking for the most 80s looking thing to match!
Also grabbed this little Casio which has a cartridge feature to plug in various music pieces.
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Nice. I used to have one of those keyboards. Only ever had the 1 ROM cart for it though.
