I had no idea that records have the video game problem, where what's pressed to the disc is missing content and fixes that are in the final digital version. Except you can't get a day one patch for vinyl! www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...

A pressing issue: why are vinyl albums becoming so different from their digital versions?

They’re expensive, elaborate – and may not contain all the music. After Olivia Rodrigo, Charli xcx and more sent out incomplete or unfinished vinyl versions, fans are feeling shortchanged

theguardian.com

Corn Dog's about to give a damning lecture on climate change

Imagine collecting games and lusting after "Stadium Events" when stuff like this exists and can still be found in thrift stores archive.org/details/craz...

Cuphead taught me to kill things like this

old roadside pics@roadside.xor.blue · 3d ago

freezo ice cream sign, knoxville, tennessee, 1984

This is my favorite retro game con, they put out the good stuff, and it's in a funky air and space museum. I'll be there lecturing, projecting slides into a giant IMAX theater showing Nintendo's abandoned attempt NES as a home lottery system. Later I will sip beer and play Barbie Fashion Designer.

LI Retro@liretro.bsky.social · 3d ago

Import retro games are more than just foreign exclusive titles, they’re completely different experiences like a rapid-fire light gun Famicom game found only in Japan as seen here with @frankcifaldi.bsky.social of VGHF. Check out the Retro Import showcase this week, Aug 7-9 at LI Retro. LIRetro.com

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The chintzy-looking M64 clone console of the N64 by a company named ModRetro has been released, I think, I don't pay attention that closely to shit. But as the great @frankcifaldi.bsky.social posted before, it is our civic duty to push back against this company and shun ANYONE who doesn't.

I'm really proud of how we approach cultural history: we curate, collect, interpret and provide access to it for free online. People ask if we'll open a museum and it's like...why? Museums are wonderful and I love them but we have 100x the impact of a museum at less than 5% of the cost.

Video Game History Foundation@gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 2w ago

New in our digital archive: We're taking you back to E3 like you've never experienced it. Explore thousands of pages of ephemera and nearly 24 hours of video from the history of the Electronic Entertainment Expo Read more: gamehistory.org/e3-history/

Yesss I was hoping someone would find the clip of Charles Martinet doing his weird forgotten Donkey Kong voice in the collection we opened access to today

Nintendo Metro@nintendometro.bsky.social · 2w ago

Oh my god

The hand transparency glitch is hard to do, you have to travel back to the 50s and kiss your mom

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

BASEBALL STARS 2 SNK 1992 NEO GEO

If I looked down at my hands and saw Gamera looking back at me with absolute trust and affection like this I'm pretty sure all my problems would go away

Random gashapon! ランダム・ガチャポン@randomgacha.bsky.social · 3w ago

https://gacha.o0o0.jp/gp/archives/36524 『抱きつきシリーズ ガメラ 大怪獣空中決戦』5月再販予定。 "Gamera: Hugging Series - Giant Monster Aerial Battle" is scheduled for re-release in May. #ガチャポン #gachapon

The VGHF Discord (patreon.com/gamehistoryorg) has a channel dedicated to documenting golf games and it has its own hyper-specific memes now

I guess I'd never really seen a modern Fire Emblem before the GDQ stream that's on right now, it doesn't look BAD but it looks way more like A Video Game than I'm used to from a Nintendo product, it's kinda interesting. The English type face looks so...normal

GG to GDQ

I don't have comparisons yet but we came to this conclusion with some official B-roll footage of N64 games, on a dark level it was like some of the game fog lifted and you could see more of the environment off in the distance. RF capture of rare material has become almost mandatory for us

Kenny Lauderdale@kennylauderdale.bsky.social · last mo.

Insane detail gain from my hacked VCR. Dark scenes got crushed so bad. This is why I got so insane over needing VHS-Decode. Some tapes are basically unplayable without it.

@decafjedi.com @lgr-yt.bsky.social Idk if either of you are interested in the very obscure Space Quest comic but Roger Wilco number 3 is in stock and that basically never happens (I've had an alert for years that I never turned off even after I got mine) www.mycomicshop.com/search?ItemI...

The previously-lost NES game that we published is out now and it looks great! @katewillaert.bsky.social really crushed the packaging design, look at this thing.

Caræsten 🇵🇸@cara.city · last mo.

this is such a neat Object

Very good bsky ID for this r/confidentlyincorrect statement polluting my mentions

God I didn't realize they were shutting down the PS3 and Vita stores too. Honestly, in our game availability study, we didn't even count PS3/Vita games as "available" because the stores were so broken that they barely worked. That's the long-term state of digital storefronts

As the director of a historical video game preservation institution, and someone who has dedicated his entire adult life to this cause, this is accurate. We have attempted to work with the industry's trade organization to find a legal path forward, but they refuse to offer a meaningful alternative.

Chloe "in ✈️ at home" Adams@addamschloe.bsky.social · last mo.

piracy is the only extant form of media preservation that exists in games right now, you might find it morally reprehensible but there is literally no other institution that will keep games alive in 25, 50 years' time

Spending my morning writing a statement for press inquiries about all this when all I want to do is say "consumers haven't had purchasing power in about ten years now because we gave all of our money to like ten weird guys, what did you all expect"

I will forever go to bat for this game, I have converted people into respecting it. It has clunky systems and feels kind of bad to play, but the level design is so good at understanding its own clunkiness that it comes full circle into being good, if you take the time to respect it.

DOKI DOKI CRT PIXEL@crtpixel.bsky.social · 9mo ago

BEETHOVEN: THE ULTIMATE CANINE CAPER RIEDEL SOFTWARE 1993 SNES

Nintendo Power Vol. 1 nice come!!! Has pullout!

This is a picture from our "Staying With Power" museum exhibit from 2018, about the longevity of the NES! We are the only organization that gives Zdog, history's greatest console, the respect and reverence it deserves.

BootlegGames Wiki@bootleggameswiki.bsky.social · last mo.

The ZDog was released roughly 20 years ago! It is the last NES-based release by Hummer Technology, in collaboration with Zechess! bootleggames.fandom.com/wiki/ZDog

As a bluesky user I am legally obligated to post about finding this in the wild

I really, really, really hope that something we can encourage with our library. I want a general audience to be able to tell better histories than summarizing Wikipedia and remembering a game at you

zøë wolfe@glitchwolfe.studio · 2mo ago

I keep clicking on video game retrospective videos thinking I'll learn something new about the development of a beloved classic but no, it's just some guy describing a game they played once I desire something greater. Tell me what coffee the devs drank. I wanna know if they used tabs or spaces

My dream project at Digital Eclipse was making a light RPG out of the Namco Museum concept, think Game Center CX but in an elaborate arcade museum with a Da Vinci Code/Night At the Museum narrative. I wanted the challenge because I don't like playing these games as is but think they're kinda neat.

Andrew Elmore 💽@elmore.zone · 2mo ago

AFTER NEARLY THREE LONG YEARS, THE SINGLE BIGGEST CREATIVE PROJECT OF MY LIFE IS FINALLY COMPLETE!! THE NAMCO MUSEUM MUSEUM - EVERY COLLECTION, EVERY GAME, EVERY REGION, EVERY PORT RELEASES FRIDAY 6/26/26 @ NOON PST youtube.com/@MythicResonance

I'm encoding a VHS tape from an Atari enthusiast group from 1995 and pretty much all of the Jaguar developers they interview have long hair and bare feet