Podcasting is now twenty years old. And that means plenty of shows that ran for years and pulled a big audience are now just a bunch of URLs that resolve to nothing. Sometimes, some superstar has uploaded a full set of mp3s to archive.org, and that’s great! But you can’t easily listen the same […]

Skin of my teeth, but I did it [checks cherry requirement] …oh.

A tip I've picked up along the way: if in your research you need to email a company with a big PR department, but get the vibe they wouldn't work with a YouTuber or blogger, say you're writing the piece 'on spec’ (i.e. with no outlet lined up). They'll assume you're a journalist.

As promised the first issue of the collection of 1985 magazines I received last week is ready just in time for the weekend. This one is the oldest magazine I've ever worked on up till now. 40 years old, so it only makes sense to start off with CVG 40 - February […] [Original post on retro.pizza]

I actually completely forgot what day it was... Today marks exactly 16 years since I struck out on my own and launched the site. As I was doing a ton of Dreamcast scans, I decided to got the iconic date of 9.9.09, exactly 10 years after the 9.9.99 Dreamcast US launch date […]

what the hell did I get myself into

Humble must be really getting desperate

Hey Fediverse! Bluesky isn’t seeing this… I thought you might appreciate it more. What if listening to a long-dead podcast that only exists in Internet Archive mp3 uploads was as simple as listening to an active one?

Got distracted and accidentally recreated the 1up-era 300x300 Retronauts podcast cover art at 3000x3000

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Heard this earlier (can't remember which podcast, sorry!) and didn't believe it, but it checks out: If Silksong sells half the copies Hollow Knight did (which is more than likely), the series will overtake both Castlevania and Metroid's numbers, becoming the bestselling Metroidvania series ever.

Regretfully, I have had an idea for yet another game-history-adjacent project.

New blog post: the August update. What I've been working on over the last month, what was done, what's still cooking, as well as (in new additions to the format) the games I've been playing and the latest pickups. A longer-than-usual update! Up now on Save State […]

I got nerves that jingle jangle jingle

Issues 4–7 (of 12?) of PC Strategy Games magazine from 2000, a title I’d never heard of before last week. Acquired for scanning. (If you have any other issues of this magazine you’re willing to part with for preservation, please drop me a DM!)

I get that there are good social and technical reasons that YouTube doesn't let us change a video after upload, but come on guys all I want to do is a global find and replace on all the times I've said “follow me on Twitter”.

Just watched a Ryanair plane doing something strange. After taking off from EMA, it did five or six loops and low passes over the runway before landing back there. Landing gear issue maybe?

New scan! MCV #67 from Christmas Eve 1999. • The Review of the 1990s: they pick their Publisher, Developer, and Cock-up of the Decade, among others. • PS1s are now in 25% of British households. Seems high! • Top of the all formats chart this week: Tomb Raider 4: The Last Revelation, FIFA 2000 […]

From a 1999 MCV: announcement of a new magazine that has disappeared into almost total obscurity. Not a single issue on Retromags, OGM or the IA. There's not even much info about it. But I just picked up four issues on eBay to scan!

cooking something up

how did it never once occur to me to swear at the You Don't Know Jack parser i absolutely love that they rewarded the player for this #retrogaming #win95

I put the USB in husband. not figuratively. I plugged a USB cable into him. he and his wife are both quite upset with me

Nobody would have cared that much if it wasn’t, but the New Vegas sign in the Fallout teaser poster is impressively faithful to the source material. Even the sections of the sign that are rusted out are the same. Probability that Obsidian's environment artists get a credit on the show: 0.2%

Went for a long walk, intentionally through places I’ve never been before. Think I racked up around 30km in the course of the day (which has got to be a personal record, for the current decade at least) and my legs are very much feeling it today.

Skycards players, there's an Avro Lancaster flying off the coast of Blackpool right now (airshow)! That's 50% of the world's operational Lancasters. #skycards

signs that a game is being approached seriously

Woke up, glanced at my phone bleary-eyed, and immediately went into full adrenaline-surge panic when I saw a $1200 PayPal transaction overnight. Reader, it said $12.00. And I’m now wide awake at 5am on a Sunday.

But who *is* the Computer Entertainer? Maybe we can finally find out.

From the VGHF on Bluesky: "We've acquired the historic game magazine Computer Entertainer. As in, we got the rights. We own the magazine. And we're putting it into the Creative Commons for anyone to use for free. Learn more: https://gamehistory.org/computerentertainer" 🦋🔗 […]

On the one hand, turning on this switch will attach unregulated propaganda from some of the worst companies, organisations and scammers in the world to your channel, alienating your audience and making the world a little worse. On the other, if you turn it on you’ll be paid a small amount of money.

Surprised you could move anywhere against the surging mass of people coming in the other direction.

I’ve eaten this whole can of Mario ‘mystery flavour’ Pringles and can confirm that the flavour is, indeed, a total mystery

A very special extra release this day, and one which has taken way too long for me to finish. So a massive apology to the kind person who donated this one to be preserved. The reason for the delay is that every page needed at least 7 scans to get the full page […] [Original post on retro.pizza]

A few years ago, when a company raised the price of their online service, they’d at least make a token effort to explain how it was better value now than at launch, how much it’d expanded, how it would help them invest in making it better, etc. When did they stop bothering?

I see NordVPN’s been riding the OSA wave to the top three of the UK app charts for a week now. If that works for you, great, but please bear in mind: if a company spends a boatload of money on advertising and sponsorships, the cost of all that marketing is borne by the customer.

New post: June/July roundup. I spent the long summer days in Norway (where they're even longer), so this is a slimmer update than normal, but I still managed to scan something, index nearly 4000 more magazines, and get a retro Pac-Man T-shirt on to Norwegian TV […]

I've now hit a few of the UK OSA age verification walls, and every one has used some shady-looking third-party verification company I've never heard of. Trust safe-browse-now.biz with a photo of my passport? Yeah I'm gonna take the VPN option, thanks. OSA: keeping us safe through identity theft.

“Capcom veteran says Nintendo was the only one making steady revenue from NES game carts. Capcom’s profits really took off with the PS1” […]

New scan: MCV issue 66 from December '99. (Yeah, this way predates the digital copies in the VGHF archive. Eat that, Phil Salvador!) • 2.5 years before GameCube's launch, retailers were beginning to phase out Nintendo 64 games due to low sales. • Details on the UK marketing campaign for […]

Been crossposting (using Croissant) to Bluesky quite a bit over the last few months. Some thoughts: • More people there who I've known for years, but • The vibes aren't as healthy. Dunking and pile-ons are rampant, it's very Twitter-coded • CWs are only used narrowly. There's no effort to CW […]

what's the phase of life called where you watch every single video on Retro Game Corps and fight the urge to buy every device that got a good review

I'm now 80% of the way through the first Watch Dogs game and still have no idea which of the many groups in the story the title is supposed to refer to.

Deleted some ukpol stuff I posted in violation of the ‘don’t skeet angry’ rule of thumb. Too easy to fall back into 2016 posting patterns

I’ll wait for the Lego Miyoo Mini+ at half the price

Gave my 15-year-old nephew, who’s never played a factory game before, Satisfactory. I should know in a couple of weeks whether that makes me a cool uncle or one whose birthday gifts will be a source of dread.

Twenty points to anyone who can guess what's missing.

https://youtu.be/M_c_vv1Eb04 not dosgaming, but jesus, it gets an A+ for commitment to the F1 aesthetic. #fallout #dosgaming

I rewatched Duck Amuck earlier (as required any time one thinks about it). But Daffy’s insult “you slop artist” hit differently this time.

I'm 45 minutes into this and dropping by to tell you it's very good. https://social.mossrc.me/objects/b8860801-80ba-4937-8dfa-fd69dd576463

way back in 2017, jackson lango started writing a dev log about his passion project: an ascii/ansi adventure called Terminal Rain. i was instantly in love with his lighting and animation. in an era overloaded with knockoff cyberpunk aesthetics, he had a keen eye […] [Original post on dialup.cafe]