Half the price of the Shout UHD too!

Remember the seasonal pleasures of Christmas on the computer, when you were a kid and the Internet was still fun? This is a thread for YOUR nostalgic memories about holiday-themed internet sites, applications, and video games. Here's some of my own favorites, from SimTower to Mac Addict CDs:

Pluribus rules because it’s forcing people who wanna see a bunch of sci fi lore dumps to instead watch amazing actors have incredibly interesting conversations about what it means to be a person

Momo is in the hospital overnight. As I mentioned, he is looking a lot more with it, but his kidneys are still looking pretty bad. Hopefully we can determine that this is just a kidney infection that can be treated and leave it at that. Any donations help!!

what do you mean "the near-complete source code to Princess Maker 1 and 2 was quietly uploaded to GitHub a few months ago and nobody noticed" github.com/ritsuro/Prin... github.com/ritsuro/Prin...

I am so deeply sorry to be in the position to have to pull this lever again, but I just watched my car get towed away and I don't really know what else to do anymore. More details in the update & description, but if you're able to help out or share, we would be grateful beyond words.

The most highly anticipated Saturn translation has arrived! Yes, Airs Adventure is out in English, just in time to liven the holidays!! Credits: @hitomi2500.bsky.social - Hacking @snowyaria.goodorevengreat.games - Translation @nichetopic.bsky.social - Graphics @blueskyrunner.bsky.social - QA

I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.

Ok this was NOT the sport I was anticipating.

While most theaters are playing AVATAR: STILL AVATARING, the River Oaks Theatre is playing KRAMPUS with a live burlesque show.

just over here thinking about the best 3-minute stretch in cable television history

He did such a good job raising for three boys

The final Anime Business of the year, with @glider.bsky.social, goes live in 15 minutes!

Bored of Buble? Worn out by Wham? I mean, I'm not, I love Wham 💝 But I put together this red hot hour of weird winter belters JUST FOR YOU * From snow-capped city pop to bizarre metal bangers, I've got you covered. CRANK IT UP! ☃️💥 www.mixcloud.com/alphachromey...

Aww, a package arrived from a dear friend, and one of the things inside it was a floppy disk with photos of Machida and Akihabara taken this year with a late 90s Floppy Mavica. 💜 Will post more below. @letelyre.bsky.social

My uncle who works at Takeda’s Gainax Tomatoes & Eva Merch store said it’s just 15 minutes of Shinji looking directly into the camera and explaining the term “deconstruction” to the audience

Pre-order the Retro Game Zine 2025 ANNUAL now! Shipping starts 12/31. $60 for 418 pages of retro gaming goodness. This collection has an original cover by @wiloverton.bsky.social. Read more about it and get your own copy from the link below! pixelsandpolygons.net/products/ret...

omg happy birthday gregg araki?

Hahaha ever since Craig of the Creek became the latest victim of Zaslav’s merger bloodbath I haven’t been able to find a steady job. This man has ruined careers, ruined peoples lives, and gets paid MILLIONS for it. Hahaha hahaha

fucking RACED over there but alas as of 10:40 am PST it was gone.

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

Always wanted to do a big silly ultra-cheeser of a Christmas track with lashings of crazy sax So I did! 🎷🎄✨🎉 Full thing on the @kaizengameworks.com YouTube channel now 💝

interesting,so the reason mercari has become unusable without checking "show only individual sellers", due to suruga spamming their entire catalog there, is bc suruga is planning on selling to the world through them. i wonder if this means rip suruga-ya.com,as it wasn't mentioned once in the article

MY 4-YEAR OLD: *calmly, while coloring a picture of the Grinch* If baby grinches die, we can eat them. If they’re clean. That’s ok

So you're telling me that Baja Blast lies beyond the time?

I am a 3DO owner

heavily fuck with the energy of Deb from Puzzle Bobble 3 look at this guy he's clearly up to no good but also maybe he's just a little stinker

Genuinely, this INSANE 1997 advert for Murphy's Irish Stout Directed by Hiroyuki Kitakubo, who also worked on Akira and Blood: The Last Vampire I mean just *LOOK* at this, it's amazing! 😍

This isn’t even release 500? What are they going to drop on us next week

The sick thing about the James Brown Christmas album is that it’s just a good James Brown album except he’s hollering about how happy Christmas makes him youtu.be/Vlooi1_CBug?...

Fun bit in the Notenki Memoirs about this one. The only rights Gainax could finagle for Nadia were for the PC game and it sold a record amount of copies for them but they still wound up in the hole to the tune of 80 million yen (not counting their advance) on Nadia as a whole after the movie

“try water fox or ice weasel” try chill penguin. install flame mammoth. you just download bubble crab. literally just use boomer kuwanger. sting chameleon has a search bar, use it to find toxic seahorse.

Last Saturday I went out to Rosemont to see what the first North American Gundam Base is like, and consider what it could mean. You can read about it now on @scanlinemedia.com and @mahqdotnet.bsky.social: www.mahq.net/gundambasech...

DisneyGPT is now available for all cast members.

Here's a Domesday Duplicator extracted LaserDisc rip of Liquid Dreams: a 90s cyberpunk erotic thriller that's like low budget Strange Days/Videodrome. Featuring brief cameos from X's John Doe, director Paul Bartel and John Waters mainstay Mink Stole. Enjoy. archive.org/details/liqu...

Do Your Part t-shirt is $20 at The Yetee (today only) buff.ly/MPV1yjz #ad

don't read thinkpieces. but do listen to "Tarzan Boy" by Baltimora

Cursed notification from YouTube I got a little bit ago opened this weird alternate Game Awards stream I didn’t realize happened

As part of our project to preserve the history of Sega Channel, we have recovered OVER 100 new Sega Channel ROMs, including the legendary lost game Garfield: Caught in the Act - The Lost Levels. Read more: gamehistory.org/segachannel/

Seeing people in the comments saying that To a T was unfun and essentially that he deserves this if he can't make a good game. Gamers, I don't know how else to say this, artists are not supposed to be punished with financial ruin for making imperfect art. That's such a fucked up idea you have

happy anniversary to the thing I wrought

He's also responsible for raising all the money that paid for bringing Hollingsworth v. Perry & even more importantly Bostic v. Schaefer, which created the circuit split that forced SCOTUS to take on Obergefell v. Hodges. The role he played in American marriage equality cannot be overstated.

Who had Wings of Rean on Blu-ray for their year's end bingo card?

I cannot recommend Kimimi's writing highly enough.

the world has changed

Right, if we're all still thinking about Street Fighter adaptations this morning This continues to be one of my favorite more recent pieces I put together www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2023...

The Hareluya II BØY panel at @thecasacon.bsky.social is TODAY! Join Casa Con on Discord at 5:00 pm EST to find out about a great series that until only the past four years had been long forgotten with time... and even now not enough people know of it. Be there... or find your penance at my back!

Excited to announce that my next book, I AM THE NIGHT, not only has a great cover but is available for pre-order now: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...