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Finger Stinger

Posted by taizou at 2019-01-22 20:49:53 Misc handhelds

If you've heard of Gamze, it may be through Ashens' video on one of their consoles, featuring three of the common Pop Station-type LCD games in an inventive rotating design. But a whole host more consoles were released under the Gamze brand, including multi- and single- game handhelds and virtual pets, sold chiefly in the UK but also in other parts of Europe and occasionally worldwide. Some Gamze products were essentially re-shelled generic LCD consoles like the one Ashens reviewed, but others offered more original concepts like "Digit Dancerz", "Fitboyz" and "Manga All Stars" - a football-training game offering the opportunity to star in your own manga soccer comic live on the internet(!!??!) (its website is sadly long-gone and doesn't seem to be archived). And there are also some with the Annoying Thing (aka Crazy Frog) license, because it was the mid-2000s and of COURSE there are.

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Welcome to 12bit Blog!

Posted by taizou at 2019-01-21 23:09:22 Site news

It is done - supermulti.org is now blog.12bit.club, everything is set up to redirect from there to here, I'll probably have to hold onto that domain until I die because I hate creating link rot, and I've absolutely kept the Super Multi design because I always liked it a lot. Let me know if you notice anything broken from the change, but it should all be pretty seamless.

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The state of Super Multi

Posted by taizou at 2019-01-21 01:22:37 Site news

Hey! I haven't posted here in a while, but I've been changing up a bunch of stuff around my web presence recently: I've established 12bit club as kind of a hub site for all my game-related stuff, plus 12bit repository as a place of documentation of many of my various items (sort of like what I was doing with Super Multi Notes before maintaining a whole ass mediawiki became a bit much)

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