Dank Zine Issue 77

Dank Zine - Issue 77

The retro rabbit hole gets deeper in Issue 77 of Dank Zine, where cursed handhelds, browser emulators, pixelated photography, and cursed blue blobs collide. This issue's a full course meal of weird gaming history, interviews, and community art, made by weirdos, for weirdos. Here's what's inside:

📰 Featured Articles & Reviews:

"Smoking Pixels: The Marlboro Atari Lynx" - AnnK unpacks the ethically gross, tobacco-stained, collector-cursed handheld console you had to smoke your way into owning. Yes, really.

"Don't Play This Game: Flappy (1983)" - Dive into a slow, painful rock-pushing hell disguised as a puzzle game.

"Play This Game Instead: Coca-Cola Kid (1994)" - A fizzy, kick-fueled Game Gear oddity sponsored by Coke. Somehow good, despite the branding overdose.

"Game Boy Camera Retrospective" - Maru shows you how to turn your Game Boy into a lo-fi photography studio and make it look cool.

🎤 Interviews:

Hayesmaker & C64Cade - A deep dive with the dev behind the browser-based C64 arcade that runs without installs, and tracks your cheevos. It's RetroAchievements meets "just one more round."

🖼️ Dank Art Features:

AnnK's Dank Art - Covers, streams, and bad life choices rendered beautifully.

Goemonsama's Pixel Scenes

Chuboh's Grotty Arcade Art

Maru's heartfelt spreads (don't miss his new comic Fernville)

🔮 SNES-Oscopes:

MisterRadon predicts your gaming future with pixel-aligned astrology based on Game Boy classics like Godzilla, Spanky's Quest, Revenge of the Gator, Tamagotchi, and more.

📺 Dank Streams Featured This Issue:

Shadow of the Beast - Amiga, streamed by BardicBroadcasts

Rubble Saver - Game Boy, streamed by Macaw45

T.Rex - Apple IIe, streamed by AnnK

Bonze Adventure, Raimaiss, Kitten Kaboodle - streamed by LordBBH

King's Quest IV - DOS, streamed by HungryGoriya

Pop'n Twinbee - SNES, streamed by Ashsaidhi

Yoshi's Island - SNES, streamed by MidnightMonopoly

Broken Sword: Director's Cut - streamed by CaptainBadgertail

Flappy - streamed by MP83

🧷 Extras:

Dank Collector Stickers are included with every issue.

Dank Movie Night schedule (join the Discord and vote for the next weird VHS-core film)

A heartfelt thanks to MP83 and Dana Crysalis for their contributions

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Shipped from Canada with cigarette-scented nostalgia and the lingering regret of having played Flappy.