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Vix🦊

@dojovictoryfox.bsky.social

Earthworm Jim #myart #fanart #ShinyEntertainment #InterplayEntertainment #EarthwormJim

June 29, 2025 at 3:14 AM

「 ✦ Jd🎃g ✦ 」

@jdogtoocool.bsky.social

Today marks the 30th anniversary of Earthworm Jim 2!
(Multi Platform)
#gamesky #SegaGenesis #Sega #EarthwormJim2 #retrosky #retro #ShinyEntertainment #gaming #SuperNintendo #Nintendo #art #PlaymatesInteractive #SNES

November 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM

Thomas Leroy

@gamrok.bsky.social

Sacrifice celebrates its 25th anniversary today! 🎂 🎉

An innovative strategy game that I bought when it came out and really enjoyed ❤️

I still have the box 😀

#Sacrifice #ShinyEntertainment #Interplay #RTS #StrategyGame #RetroGaming #BigBoxGames

Sacrifice box (2000, Shiny Entertainment)

November 17, 2025 at 10:58 AM

Playstation Datacenter

@psxdatacenter.bsky.social

PS1
Wild 9

Wex Major is leader of the Wild 9 and eight of the nine members have been kidnapped by the evil Karn in an Action Action Platformer by Shiny.

More info:
psxdatacenter.com/games/U/W/SL...

#ps1 #psx #retrogames #playstation #Wild9 #pixelart #ShinyEntertainment #Wildroid9 #ワイルドロイド9

February 17, 2025 at 8:29 AM

Thomas Leroy

@gamrok.bsky.social

Here's what's inside the box 🎁 (French edition)

An 80-page manual, the game CD, and 2 bonus CDs with the soundtrack, a level editor, and additional maps.

Today, we'd call this a collector's edition! 😀

🧵 2/

#Sacrifice #ShinyEntertainment #Interplay #RTS #StrategyGame #RetroGaming #BigBoxGames

November 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM

Ahl {Pi𝕏el Pa🤑🤑ion}

@ahl9.bsky.social

#ShinyEntertainment #Retrogaming

May 11, 2025 at 7:28 AM

Soul

@soul9000.bsky.social

First post in Bluesky, let's see how it goes!
Have you ever seen an earthworm playing an accordion?
Sketch of EWJ playing the accordion.
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#earthwormjim #earthworm #accordion #videogame #videogamecharacter #cartoon #cartoonart #segagenesis #supernintendo #playstation #shinyentertainment

February 4, 2025 at 4:07 AM

Johnny Game Over

@johnnygameover.bsky.social

[RETRO V.G. ADS] (JP) Earthworm Jim (1994) (Super Famicom)

#advertisingvideogame #earthwormjim #sfc #snes #videogame #retrogaming #adstv #ads #cm #games #gaming #shinyentertainment #takara #jp #1994

www.youtube.com/shorts/5n6Yx...

[RETRO V.G. ADS] (JP) Earthworm Jim (1994) (Super Famicom)

YouTube video by Johnny Game Over

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April 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM

Johnny Game Over

@johnnygameover.bsky.social

[RETRO V.G. ADS] (US) Wild 9 (1998) (PS1)

#advertising #Wild9 #PS1 #videogame #retrogaming #adstv #ads #cm #games #gaming #ShinyEntertainment #InterplayProductions #US #1998

www.youtube.com/shorts/y2RrQ...

[RETRO V.G. ADS] (US) Wild 9 (1998) (PS1)

YouTube video by Johnny Game Over

www.youtube.com

May 8, 2026 at 7:12 PM

JC Dendeath

@jcdenden.bsky.social

the original trilogy and you view Resurrections as a subversive masterpiece, only if you are crazy enough to think like that, you might enjoy this turd as much as I do. You have been warned. (20/20) #GameSky #PhysicalMedia #Gamecube #ShinyEntertainment #ScienceFiction #SciFi #TheMatrix #BulletTime

Manual and disc 1 of Enter the Matrix in silver Player's Choice game case.

Original receipt of €29.95 at E-Plaza and disc 2 of Enter The Matrix in silver Player's Choice game case.

Dutch manual explaining in-game actions, picking up and using objects and hand-to-hand combat.

Dutch manual explaying driving/flying/shooting missions with Ghist and Niobe, as well as the game's term for bullet-time: focus moves.

May 15, 2026 at 6:07 AM

BD Jogos

@bdjogos.com.br

Em 1996, há exatos 30 anos, saia o Earthworm Jim 2 da #ShinyEntertainment e #ScreamingPink e #VirginInteractive para #SegaSaturn https://bdjogos.com.br/jogo.php?id=9065

Earthworm Jim 2

Earthworm Jim 2 da #ShinyEntertainment e #ScreamingPink e #VirginInteractive para #SegaSaturn

bdjogos.com.br

May 17, 2026 at 2:40 PM

The Video Game Library 📚

@thevideogamelibrary.org

370. THE WALKTHROUGH: INSIDER TALES FROM A LIFE IN STRATEGY GUIDES

👉 www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/the-wal...

@vdiffuser.bsky.social #Walkthrough #StrategyGuide #Gaming #Booksky #Blizzard #BradyGames #Prima #ShinyEntertainment #RickBarba #Bioshock #Diablo #Daikatana #GearsOfWar #TheMatrix #Xbox

The Walkthrough offers a rare peek behind the curtain of the secretive video game industry from an unlikely perspective, that of a career strategy guide writer. For eighteen years, Doug Walsh was one of the most prolific authors of officially licensed video game strategy guides. And now he's ready to talk.

One part memoir and one part industry tell-all, The Walkthrough takes players on an entertaining march through gaming’s recent history, from the dawn of the PlayStation to the Xbox 360 and Nintendo Switch. Follow along as Walsh retraces his career and reveals how the books were made, what it was like writing guides to some of the industry’s most celebrated — and derided — titles, and why the biggest publishers of guidebooks are no longer around.

Walsh devotes entire chapters to many of gaming’s most popular franchises, including Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, Gears of War, and Diablo, among others. From inauspicious beginnings with Daikatana to authoring the books for the entire Bioshock trilogy, with plenty of highs, lows, and Warp Pipes along the way, Walsh delivers a rare treat to twenty-first century gamers. The Walkthrough is sure to satisfy the curiosity of anyone who grew up with the works of BradyGames and Prima Games sprawled across their laps.

With over one hundred books to his credit, and countless weeks spent at many of the most famous studios in North America, he is uniquely qualified to give an insider’s perspective of a little-known niche within the multi-billion-dollar industry.

November 15, 2024 at 1:52 AM

GenerationAmiga.com

@generationamiga.bsky.social

Inside the Michael Jackson game Shiny Entertainment almost made www.generationamiga.com/2026/06/03/i... #MichaelJackson #RetroGaming #ShinyEntertainment #LostGames #90s #80s #popculture

Inside the Michael Jackson game Shiny Entertainment almost made

In the early 2000s, Enter the Matrix developer Shiny Entertainment explored a Michael Jackson video game that could have put the singer’s next album inside

www.generationamiga.com

June 3, 2026 at 3:53 PM

Neocaron

@neocaron.bsky.social

Today's #GameoftheDay is #TheMatrixPathofNeo on #Xbox! As a huge OG #Matrix fan (in case it wasn't obvious😅), this 2005 game by #ShinyEntertainment & #Atari let you be Neo & relive all the epic fights. Loved the Bullet time combat & the intense fan service. Played it? #retrogaming #classicgames

November 25, 2024 at 6:12 PM

Thomas Leroy

@gamrok.bsky.social

It was the review in the French magazine Joystick (spanning several pages!) that made me want to buy Sacrifice 🤩

I feel like it's been somewhat forgotten, even though it was praised by the press and players.

🧵 3/

#Sacrifice #ShinyEntertainment #Interplay #RTS #StrategyGame #RetroGaming

The last two pages of the Sacrifice review in issue 121 of Joystick magazine (December 2000)

November 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM

Victor Lucas

@victorlucas.bsky.social

Express train to 1998 leaves at 9am PT tomorrow! Jump on board for reviews of Point Blank & Grand Theft Auto! Plus stops at 3DO, Angel Studio & Shiny Entertainment! A hell of a trip!

EP CLASSIC S2E6 (1998) - GRAND THEFT AUTO / DAVID PERRY / KEN GRIFFEY JR - Electric Playground
youtu.be/ENcawGcWHcc