Scrubbing through this video made me really sad. Imagine missing a storage unit payment and suddenly your entire career is stripped naked and splayed out butt naked for a few YouTube views before being parceled out. I'm not saying they did anything wrong, it's just deeply unsettling to think about.

Chris Kohler@kohler.bsky.social · 2d ago

Storage unit guys buy a unit that apparently belonged to a game developer and find design docs, source disks, etc. No idea what the circumstances around this unit were, but just a reminder: if you think stuff "belongs in a museum" definitely try to do that sooner. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSa6...

We drink. We smoke. We gamble. MILTON.

Thank you to Costco Connection Magazine for coming up with my new bio

Removing the red cast on these Cantina shots is fun, it goes from "alluring red hue of the past" to "dork in Spirit Halloween costume"

Brandon Sheffield@brandon.insertcredit.com · 6d ago

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

Corn Dog is really into gourds, he likes to roll around with them

This is what I look like at work every day

videogame history@vghistory.bsky.social · 2w ago

comic, personal computing, magazine (1978) archive.org/details/Pers...

We get festive this time of year at @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social

I had never seen this Game Boy model that came on an action figure card backing, it makes me happy to look at. Man, remember consumer electronics?

I don't know if this gets talked about too much, but we are starting to get a lot of archive requests that feel like LLM-generated research slop. The second one was a real bummer, I pulled the book and tried to help them, then got a second near-identical email a week later from a different address.

It takes place on the one night of the year where Godzilla is allowed to have sex

Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · 2w ago

'Godzilla Minus Zero' is officially Rated R First Godzilla film to ever receive an R rating

🎵 let's get dangerous

Hot Blooded Tough Guy Rusty Shackles@rustyshackles.bsky.social · 2w ago

Is this a CPAP machine

This is genuinely one of my favorite 1v1 games and I wish there was a way for people to actually experience it, I've only played it at an arcade collector show and haven't seen it in over a decade now

Kevin Bunch (ubersaurus)@atariarchive.org · 3w ago

Real ones know that there has only ever been one true 10/10 game

I drank some water out of the gutter a week ago and now every time I look at the ground I see this

This is a book about portrayals of librarians in video games, which heavily used our video game research library for reference, and then the final work was donated to our library. An ouroboros of video game library.

The Video Game Library 📚@thevideogamelibrary.org · 3w ago

“The perfect book doesn’t exi….”

I love the videos we've started producing this year, where @jtsknight92.bsky.social finds something interesting in our library and goes down a rabbit hole, teaching you how to research along the way. Also, look at the comments! It turns out intelligent content builds intelligent communities, weird.

Takumi Kawagoe - Camera Systems, Cinematics, and Defeating Ganondorf

YouTube video by The Video Game History Foundation

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This is a part of the game's second level that exists only for you to go watch the birds and enjoy some serenity. It has its own location and scrolls the rest of the level off screen so you're not interrupted, it's very intentional. It's absolutely wild to see something like this on the NES.

DOKI DOKI CRT PIXEL@crtpixel.bsky.social · 4w ago

GIMMICK! SUNSOFT 1992 FAMICOM

Park Place's "Roundball: 2 on 2 Challenge" for the NES actually started life as "Dream Team: 3 on 3 Challenge" with player likenesses, as seen in this CES photo. The art kinda sorta survives in the final if you overlay the character select portraits on the photo, though the players got Joe Hoops'd.

I like to say "we have 500 subscribers!" but last month dipped to 499. I hope to bounce back up so as not to be a liar.

Video Game History Foundation@gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 4w ago

You too can receive a random retro game magazine (deaccessioned from our library) every month! It might even have Mega Man on the cover! Can somebody calculate those odds

Un-cancel Virtual Hamster you cowards

I've started saving "found photos" of humans with video games as they appear on eBay because, idk, someone's got to

My favorite part of this movie is when Jupiter says "my friends call me Joop," a nickname that is never referenced before or after this line is spoken.

Helen Rosner@hels.bsky.social · last mo.

icymi I wrote a little ode to “Jupiter Ascending,” a very important film, in Saturday’s @newyorker.com Daily newsletter

The Battle of Olympus remake is so cute!!! I didn't realize that it was basically made by two people who ended up marrying each other! It looks like this remaster is meant to also be their last game development project, ending where they began.

【開発者本人が語る】『オリュンポスの戦い』38年越しの完全リメイク

YouTube video by The Battle Of Olympus™

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I never played this one

Back in May, I helped dump seven prototype game cartridges that represent some of the earliest steps toward home video games as we know them today. I've published my findings on a new Archive Annex video: meet the FRED III. youtu.be/180erQryZFw

FRED III: RCA's Original Prototype Game Console - Archive Annex 6

YouTube video by Atari Archive

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TIL that Meldac, the publisher of an NES game about a giant head that vomits on buildings, also published the debut album from actress Jennifer Love Hewitt

91.8% of players, having waited nearly 20 years for MGS4 to be playable on anything other than PS3, booted the game and immediately made a beeline for a statue's dick

The most bizarre Comic-Con panel I went to was Larry King doing a live interview with Peter Cullen in 2012 with, as far as I can tell, zero prep or existing knowledge of his work, but Peter was a pro and handled it well. I took the worst photo ever, but I promise Peter's off screen on the right.

For my fellow NES weirdos: a long chain of detective work just resulted in these basically-never-seen screenshots of the unreleased Magic of Scheherazade II being unearthed. It looks like more of the same, but there ain't nothing wrong with that. From The Super Famicom issue 1, for future reference!

Ah they switched their "everything is an Xbox" campaign to "everything is preservation."

Mat Piscatella@matpiscatella.bsky.social · last mo.

It took them 13 years, but the original Xbox One premise returns, wrapped in a far better marketing package. news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/0...

This is more effective marketing than any trailer Konami has cut for this collection

maddie ★ othatsraspberry@othatsraspberry.com · last mo.

peace walker is so stupid, i can't wait for more people to experience it ✨