Finger Stinger
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.
Welcome to 12bit Blog!
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.
The state of Super Multi
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)
Announcing Super Multi Notes
Some of you may have noticed the lack of posts here since, ooh, a year ago. A large part of the reason for that is I don’t like writing a blog post about a thing unless I can cover the thing totally comprehensively, which always feels like a huge undertaking when it’s something like a console with 200 games built in, and I’ve decided I want to take a screenshot of every single one of them, delve into the history of the company that made it, take photos of it from every angle and do a bunch of other stuff on top of that. But with that coupled to my limited free time lately, it just seems overwhelming and I end up never doing it. Which is not ideal! Because I think this stuff is interesting and I want to share my knowledge about it with the world - I don’t want to turn into some cranky old dude with an attic full of weird shit that nobody else knows or cares about. I want to turn into some cranky old dude with an attic full of weird shit that a handful of people on the internet know about!
PGP 256
Hey, it's been a while! Sorry about that. But I'm back! With one of the countless weird handhelds that are cluttering up my house at the moment... the PGP 256!