Luke and Han getting awards at the end of Star Wars makes perfect sense. Everyone we met in Andor was a spy, and needed stay that way. What better way to protect them than to publicly honor these two expendables in a room most likely filled with a few Imperial double agents?

My PS5 has been used to play the Arcade Archive's versions of Bosconian, Time Pilot and Swimmer, more than every other game combined.

Did one guy create the three best PC-XT Games? youtu.be/IsdDhCoyC6M

Teenager Greg Kuperberg wrote three fast-action arcade games for the IBM-PC in 1982 and 1983 (an almost impossible of feat at the time) and then took another path. Includes new essay on his work (video and text) and brand-new interview (text). intotheverticalblank.com/2025/12/02/i...

I recently discovered the brilliant PC-XT arcade games by Greg Kuperberg, took a deep dive into his history, scored a brand-new interview with Kuperberg, and then created this story and video about all of it: intotheverticalblank.com/2025/12/02/i... @timeextension.com #doscember #pc-xt

Atari ST advert, Nov 1985 (40th anniversary)

1971 ad for pinball machine, at...the AKRON! I only remember the wicker at the Akron.

The state of "arcades" around the USA in 1971. A sampling of local advertisements for establishments that offered coin games to play.

History of Pinball from May 29, 1943 issue of Billboard.

Back on Twitter before the demise, I used to have great fun posting all these old Atari advertisements I dug-up from newspapers while I was laid-out with (possibly) long-covid. Here are bunch of cutting from 1930 when Miniature Golf was the hottest thing in USA, and especially in Los Angeles.

I wrote an obituary of celebrated game developer Rebecca Heineman for Ars Technica: arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

I’m addicted to Peggle 2 on the PS5, released in 2014 where is #3? I’d love to play a new Bookworm Adventures , but I think the last one came out in W. Administration. Hey @popcapgames.bsky.social I’m an adult with $$$ to burn. Let’s do this.

My dad’s been gone 14 years,my mom 8 years, my sister 4 years, but it’s this holiday season that I’m really missing them for some reason. What I’d give to go Xmas shopping with my dad one more time and make sure he didn’t buy cleaning supplies for my mom or insultingly large clothes for my sister!

A.I. writing slop now reads like a stupid persons idea of “smart” - a word salad of the most statistically appropriate words in the context of a system prompt and iterative transformer. I may be fooling myself, but I think it’s getting easier to spot.

Something snapped in my brain when I finally realized , in the 2000s, it was really weird that Richard Dawson kissed every woman on Family Feud. After that the rest of the world’s injustices slowly appeared before my eyes. I guess this is what they mean by “woke”

Umm. Don’t people still have phones to just take a photo of the screen? www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microso...

Crafting night

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wbS... Atari Now! For October (released in November) Complete with annoying audio issues.

I know the world is exploding, but at the same time, I can't get over how much I f*cking love Namco's original "Dig Dug". I must have played it 150 times (one quarter at a time) back in the 80s, then totally forgot about it, and now I'm playing it again, and it's just wonderful.

Evercade Alpha Taito edition is quite impressive . The only I don’t like is that there is no external volume control

I’ve tried Vercel and Lovable and Figma Make, and each is initially interesting, and then terribly disappointing in their own special way. I think a better route to quick prototypes is Python /Flask on my own machine, or at least, that works well for me.

The dad-body-shaming Amazon ad can go f*ck itself

Office Depot appears to be one big printer paper scam now.

A song from my youth. I recently read-up Geza-X, he's still a pretty cool dude. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUdD...

On further review, the Intellivision Sprint looks decent because it supports homebrew via roms. If they release a usb cart reader as an option I think that would be nice.

mau5 x @atari.com :D launches at our Denver mau5hop pop up nov 7!

Atari announces the Intellivision Sprint ? 45 built-in games, HDMI, wireless controllers and overlays for each game. $149.99 and no cartridge port? "USB-A Can also be used to play additional games (sold separately)." In this economy? Huh? Weird choices here. atari.com/products/int...

Ace.

Camp Pendleton has a shooting range and sometimes they shoot missiles there. Don’t get distracted by this non-event.

Chris Crawford sent me this hat in the mail and it be the best day of my retro computing life.

How about Bad Bunny AND Taylor Swift then.

I’ve started a GoFundMe to help with my cancer battle gofund.me/6850175a3

Took two of my adult kids to Dave and Busters yesterday and dropped $150 for about an hour of enjoyment. Most of the games were 25% to 50% more than they were a year ago. I think they have finally end-state capitalized themselves into the enshittification stage.

Play some Atari as the republic falters youtu.be/OMhNSFx6gyg?...

I thought our military was the envy of the world. What have I missed?

Our new story about computer game legend Chris Crawford. This version has been copyedited by Scott Mace who wrote for Infoworld for almost two decades and donated his time and effort help tell Chris's story. intotheverticalblank.com/2025/09/29/p...

After reading his July 29th, 2025 blog entitled "End Of An Era", I was inspired to create this essay about one of my heroes: Chris Crawford. intotheverticalblank.com/2025/09/29/p...

Good morning, I'm back at @retroxp.bsky.social looking at 30 years of the Playstation, this time through the lens of Namco Museum. Namco's celebration of its past was never better, nor a deeper dive, than in its initial Playstation incarnations, and they should look to that fact in the future.

I still don’t “need” Disney+. Over the Past 6 years I’ve paid around $800 for it, and I’ve watched a few old movies and 1/2 dozen series. It’s not worth it to go back any time soon.

Now that Disney had capitulated, I can come out and say it: the Mandalorian trailer is “meh”

So let me get this straight: all of paramount, Viacom, cbs, plus soon wb, hbo, News Corp, Sinclair , WAPO, Facebook, X , and TikTok are all swinging hard right because … (checks notes) Star Wars went diverse and a few trans kids wanted to play sportsball?

In California I was able to walk right into Kaiser and get both a flu and Covid vaccine. Thanks California and Kaiser.

What they say A.I. will replace to get trillion-dollar valuations: "writers, artists, programmers, lawyers, customer service" What A.I might actually replace: "paid search optimization spam, clipart libraries, stack overflow arguments, janky DIY legal web sites, automatically voice response bots"

I wonder if Disney is scared at how easily people made the decision to cancel, and also concerned if people are gone too long they may never come back ?

The funny thing for me about canceling Disney+ and Hulu is that it was so easy to make the decision. Why am I paying these streamers so much every a month for maybe one or two 10- episode series a year? I’ll just watch YouTube for free.

YouTube.tv is pretty good. BTW. Also, most movies are still available on DVD. The new Criterion version of Spinal Tap is awesome. It has 95 minutes of outtakes and all sorts of other stuff you rarely get from streaming

Hulu gone too. Back to YouTube.tv

Personally, I’m cancelling Disney+. It’s worthless to me anyway now that Andor is done.,HBO Max is on the bubble, and Peacock will remain off my TV

Watching KASSO is my new favorite past time. But I’ve watched all of it we need more KASSO