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MrTalida

@mrtalida.bsky.social

Retro and obscure video game enthusiast and archivist.

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Louis Koziarz@koziarz.com · last wk.

Super hidden easter egg in Jack*Bot: This was a tribute to Game & Watch "Fire!", the first Nintendo title I ever owned. I used it as a coding exercise while learning WPC system calls and dot-matrix programming, then made it a full easter egg in attract mode. Which got me in trouble. (more)

A picture of the FIRE model of Nintendo's Game & Watch circa 1980.
Phil Salvador@philsalv.bsky.social · 2w ago

I don't want this to slip through because this is kind of a huge deal: we sat down with the founding members of the IDSA for their first joint interview in at least 20 years (possibly ever) about the founding of E3. Tons of first-hand insight about E3's relationship with the industry

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

On the Video Game History Hour podcast: to celebrate our new E3 collections, we sat down with long-time E3 organizer Carolyn Rauch and IDSA founder Doug Lowenstein for a rare joint interview about the origins of E3. Hear the story of E3 from the people who started it!

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

Today, we want to highlight the Carolyn Rauch event ephemera collection, from the long-time organizer of E3 who oversaw the event for almost its entire run. This is one of the world's largest collections of E3 materials! archive.gamehistory.org/folder/e2f96...

A collection of ephemera from E3, from 1996-2012, titled "Electronic Entertainment Expo event ephemera." "Carolyn Rauch was long-time organizer of the Electronic Entertainment Expo. As senior vice president of the Interactive Digital Software Association (later the Entertainment Software Association), Rauch oversaw the organization's trade show programs, including E3. When the ESA restructured E3 as a smaller-scale business summit in 2007, Rauch joined IDG World Expo to run a public-facing spinoff event, E for All. In 2009, E3 returned as a full-scale trade show, now operated by IDG. Rauch returned as an organizer for the remaining decade of the event, first through IDG and later through Dolaher Events."
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/

The Cutting Room Floor@tcrf.net · 2w ago

We're rolling out a new tool to help compare images throughout the wiki! These are on limited pages currently but the selection is expanding. Shoutouts to Hawk for its work on this!

shmuplations.com@shmuplations.bsky.social · 3w ago

Today we have something special: a newly translated interview from July 1996 between Shigeru Miyamoto and Kenji Eno! Conducted just weeks after the launch of Mario 64, Eno takes Miyamoto to task (in a friendly way) with several fascinating critiques of its design. shmuplations.com/miyamotoxeno/

Shigeru Miyamoto x Kenji Eno (1996) - shmuplations.com

In July 1996, Kenji Eno visited Nintendo HQ to speak with Shigeru Miyamoto as the first of his "cross-talk" series.

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Jason Dyer@jdyer.bsky.social · 4w ago

Last weekend, one of the most important British text adventures was preserved in its original form (Commodore PET!) for the first time. In this post, I examine the circumstances of its rescue and some other details in the starting sections. bluerenga.blog/2026/07/11/c...

Catacombs: The Rescued (Previously Presumed Lost) 1981 Version

(Continued from my previous posts on Catacombs, which you probably should read before this one if you want the full background.) Last weekend, I received a message from Marcel Ingram Lansing that o…

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F_T_B@ftb1979.bsky.social · 4w ago

New scan as part of first video citation correction / massive redo and expansion - the elusive Weekly Asahi July 5 1984 Special issue with pics of ASCII dev house / Koichi Nakamura / Imabayashi and lots lots more. Some samples in thread archive.org/details/asah...

ASAHI WEEKLY JULY 1984 SPECIAL ISSUE : Asahi Press : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Special Issue on Microcomputing for Asahi Weekly. Contains an article on successful personal computer developers, including Koichi Nakamura, Hirokyuki...

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MrTalida@mrtalida.bsky.social · last mo.

A few years ago I ripped all of Quest 64's music data and applied modern soundfonts for a series of "enhanced OST" videos I intended to release. The project got out of scope so I never finished it, but here's the Mammon Battle theme, for which I created a fully playable crane game.

Adam Gashlin@hcs64.bsky.social · last mo.

Rewrite Machine CD-ROM, January 1998 This is an artifact of the Nintendo Power system of convenience store kiosks, for selling Super Famicom (later Game Boy) games on rewritable cartridges. This disc would presumably have loaded kiosks with 104 SFC games in early 1998. Info: redump.info/disc/131221

Label side of a CD-ROM, major text says: ゲーム書き換え　システム ニンテンドウパワー 書き換え機専用ＣＤ－ＲＯＭ １９９８　１月号
MrTalida@mrtalida.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Years ago I ripped all Quest 64's music data and applied modern soundfonts (my goal was to upload a full "orchestral" OST to youtube). I decided to add little jokey animations to each track, but I got carried away, which doomed the project to never be completed. Here's the battle theme.

Hit Save!@hitsave.org · 2mo ago

Sorry but we'll never shy away from an excuse to highlight one of the rarest items in our archive: Check out some clips of Nintendo veteran Steve Okimoto introducing the GBA to Nintendo of America employees for the first time! This tape is dated 9/22/00, nearly 8 months prior to the GBA's US launch!

Hit Save!@hitsave.org · 2mo ago

Happy birthday to the Game Boy Advance, which released in the USA on this day in 2001! Can you believe Nintendo's potent little handheld is a quarter-century old this year? We feel old.