NGC-281 "Pac-Man" Nebula in HOO (pseudo-natural color) - From Ryan Kinnett (rkinnett.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2m8D7na

Howell Ivy turned familiar arcade ideas into something fresh, from his early work at Ramtek and Exidy to his later impact at SEGA. #ArcadeHistory #Ramtek #SEGA #Exidy #RetroGaming youtu.be/fHoRfn1uh3o

TCW 263 - Howell Ivy

YouTube video by They Create Worlds Podcast

youtu.be

"saudi arabia owns EA" is going to be the headline you see basically everywhere for this one but "jared kushner is about to use EA as a vehicle for trump administration bribes" is equally relevant imo

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 21h ago

EA Announces Completion of Acquisition by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners www.ea.com/news/ea-anno...

Really have been encouraging anyone who works with game history and preservation in some capacity (or even just has an interest in it) to consider attending! This was a great conference and I'm looking forward to the next one in a couple years. Maybe I'll even have something to present!

Play History@playhistory.bsky.social · yesterday

Gaming Alexandria contingent from Save the Games: @crespiguillermo.bsky.social, me, @nathaniellockhart.bsky.social, Shinobu, and @atariarchive.org

girls love DEC computers

Maybe Miri@mirimiri9999.bsky.social · yesterday

Girls only want one thing

boy a whole bunch of classic American Dipshits in this story heated.world/p/the-influe...

The influencer teaching millions to fear solar

Alexandra Fasulo says she’s protecting farms and wildlife. How much of her rhetoric is actually true?

heated.world

It. WORKED!!! The calling and comments and yelling! It works. It's a temporary stall but it can be made permanent. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sena...

U.S. senators push against giving political appointees control over science funding

These proposed changes have seen significant bipartisan pushback and have been criticized by scientists across disciplines

scientificamerican.com

I'm excited to announce that @theyetee.com's first two Moon Child items are available for pre-order now: a cool pin and T-shirt! ➡️ theyetee.com/collections/...

No one prepares you for the parenting moment when your 4 year old is upset that you can’t buy an atomic microscope so he can look at the atoms that make up his plush dog toys.

Realizing my son's primary game struggle nowadays is moving and doing other stuff, I had him try a turn-based two-player game, Artillery Duel. By the time we stopped he had whomped me 1-5 and was giggling maniacally every time he fired a shell at me. Fair, given how many of them hit.

huge fan of the cropped versions bluesky shows you as well

Becca Petunia 🏳️‍⚧️@tallgirlpetunia.bsky.social · 3d ago

Some great new reaction images to use when people are obtuse on BlueSky.

If you missed it… hey, I’m alive! I’ve got a new site going so that I can put things somewhere that isn’t social media. The first truly new post is about a heretofore undocumented 2600 clone console manufactured in a state-owned factory in China. Much more to come! theatari.spot/blog/2026-07...

Shanghai's Dazzling 2600 Clone: Apollo-8 TV GAME

The 新建 (Xinjian) XJ 8811 -- a beautiful Atari clone console from a Chinese state-owned factory.

theatari.spot

AtariSpot // rob@atarispot.bsky.social · 4d ago

*blows 14 months of dust off Bluesky* Hi to friends old & new, and to so many followers amassed for no good reason! 😸 I’ve started a website with help from a good friend. Only a few things are there so far, but more will come now that I have a non-social-media place to put things! theAtari.spot

Even if you only get halfway through I think Zelda II is worth the experience

Freddie@cabanafred.bsky.social · 3d ago

It took me until I was 40 to realize what Zelda 2 was doing. I now Enjoy it a lot more than I did at 10 but it’s too damn difficult to complete still

touhou memes

*blows 14 months of dust off Bluesky* Hi to friends old & new, and to so many followers amassed for no good reason! 😸 I’ve started a website with help from a good friend. Only a few things are there so far, but more will come now that I have a non-social-media place to put things! theAtari.spot

theAtari.spot

Highlighting the unusual side of Atari 2600 collecting.

theatari.spot

What goes into designing a video game logo? To get the story behind the creation of the logo for XCavator 2025 — including never before seen early sketches and variations — I went straight to the source: Myself. katewillaert.com/xcavator-2025

KateWillaert.com - XCavator 2025

XCavator 2025 is a previously unreleased NES game newly published for the original hardware, for which I was commissioned to design its logo and packaging. Below I detail my design process.

katewillaert.com

Getting vaccinated against communicable diseases is only a personal decision if you never leave your home and have no contact with the outside world

Having recently purchased a tripod I've started a playlist on YouTube of video recordings of arcade machines, primarily those that are rare, quite old, and/or unemulated. Feel free to pull from these as you see fit! They're all creative commons. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Video recordings of arcade machines - YouTube

Video footage of various arcade machines of interest that I've come across, typically ones that are pretty uncommon, old, or unemulated. Since these are gene...

youtube.com

I was going through notes and found an email from KOEI-TECMO that sheds some light on the 1981 arcade game "PLEIADS". The idea for the game came from TECMO founder Akihito Kakihara but the programming was outsourced. They claim it has no connection to "Phoenix" but it could have the same programmer.

What's the over-under on the Saudis merging EA with SNK with a latter becoming a studio of theirs, because I personally expect that as an even worse possible outcome

Rock Paper Shotgun@rockpapershotgun.bsky.social · 5d ago

EA expect their $55 billion sale to Saudi Arabia and private equity firms to close next week, with "all regulatory approvals required" in place. https://bit.ly/4pLSNnD

JAM KURADOBERI

it's actually sad as hell to use AI for research when research is the fun part. you can just email people and call them on the phone and ask them questions about the thing that they have expertise in. you can read documents & learn cool shit. ok now i'm just talking about how being a reporter is fun

I took a good half-page of notes playing Invisible Monsters for some 20 minutes. It's clear why it got reworked further for Wizard of Wor - the game really encourages you to play very defensively, and that's not ideal for an arcade setting (though it is cool for free play)

Play History@playhistory.bsky.social · 5d ago

In the research room, I did some examination of the troubled Microprose RPG Darklands as well as a unique version of System Shock. @atariarchive.org also got to play the prototype Wiard of Wor, Invisible Monsters. Thanks to @borman.bsky.social et al!

okay frog detective, get in the forever box

The Strong Museum’s arcade is designed to appeal to @plasmasword.blacksky.app

History repeats itself, @gamedocs.bsky.social explains that he found a note in the Broderbund archive materials saying “more BS from EA”!

It's official: emulating Windows 9x in a scaleable setting is, in fact, hell

Played some absolute Bronze Age beauties at Arcade 80s today. Much obliged to @nathaniellockhart.bsky.social and @atarispot.bsky.social for getting in on these matches!

Bring it back, Sega

Dr. Lauren Liebe talking about students learning how to play PLATO games. The early graphics are so abstract by today's standards that they couldn't even tell what they were looking at