Visited Tumblr for the first time in a while and the algorithmic "you might also like" inserts are all actively directing to me to posts ruthlessly dunking on Charlie Kirk, which really reinforces that site's nature as a weird internet Galapagos untouched by the state of everything else online

DID YOU KNOW: the R.O.B. amiibo works with four times as many games as the actual R.O.B. does

Special thanks to the greatest voter of all… YOU

As a fun weekend bonus, here's the beginning of ANOTHER console chronology. Two kickoffs in one week! Madness? Nah. This is the Microvision. So the whole thing is only like four episodes long. youtu.be/7wGQiA_X5Pc

Me: [my finger in motion to press the "record" button for a video voiceover] My neighbor: This would be a great time to run my backfiring motorcycle engine in the driveway for a while!!

It brings me genuine joy that, in an era where "gaming discourse" is generally just "dogpile on the thing we're collectively angry about today," the response to my TG16 video/series has been purely positive. Just tons of people saying, "Hey, thanks for noticing this weird little system that I love."

Alton Brown fed me insects

Special I-lived-to-see-Friday lunch treat: trying a sample of my peach-infused Chartreuse concoction (strained, frozen for six hours)

I mention this in the video and description, but it bears repeating: this series exists because @stevelin.bsky.social allowed me to photograph a significant majority of CIB TG16 games from his collection. And, once I’m done here, those pics will be uploaded as a public resource at the VGHF

My 16-bit video chronologies are now fully represented (at least until we hit 1991) with the arrival of Turbo Works, a series that will operate under a single unifying premise: "This system was so good, and it sure got totally tripped up by every imaginable setback in the U.S." youtu.be/4s9SVjnsyn8

Just got my flu, COVID, and shingles pt. 2 vaccinations, AMA (If I’m still functional in 48 hours I’ll reply)

One week early for our Patreon subscribers: @jparish.bsky.social @atariarchive.org @feitclub.bsky.social & @stuartgipp.bsky.social lament the worst games they've ever played and offer thoughts on how to fix them Sign up & listen here: www.patreon.com/posts/138868...

Starting a new game and sucking air through my teeth in grim anticipation of another run through the compulsory five-minute “how 2 crawl” tutorial sequence

Happy to say that tonight’s Retronauts panel (1) ruled and (2) kicked ass. Thanks to everyone who came out and voted! I’ll review contest entries once we’ve eaten a meal!!

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No, no. Like the existence of the word "metroidvania," this is someone else's burden, and I do not wish to shoulder it

ALSO: since today is Super Mario's 40th anniversary, I've published the video I recorded during my original NES Works capture session as a public resource for people to use in their own videos. Borrow it! It's absolutely not expert-level play, but hopefully it will be of use. youtu.be/BlIGgWLStvQ

FRIENDS: celebrate the 40th anniversary of Super Mario Bros. with myself, @hg101.bsky.social, and @johnandersen.bsky.social by voting for its place among the NES launch lineup! Also, three lucky attendees will win a first-off-the-presses NES Era book…

Direct announcer voice: “You’ll never believe who was revealed as a part of THIS international pedophile trafficking ring! Now available exclusively on Nintendo Switch Online, it’s the Epstein Files”

These were the single most irritating thing I’ve encountered in a video game since Crazy Frog, and I cannot begin to fathom the notion of paying actual money, in a recession, to invite its physical avatar into the safe space that is your own home

Honestly disappointed they weren’t stealth dropped as an NSO update this morning. Be better, Nintendo

Swear to god, I go offline for a couple of hours and the WILDEST shit goes down Anyway, prepare yourself by buying my book. It will help you to understand how much Innsmouth no Yakata rules limitedrungames.com/collections/...

Can’t believe Moebius penned a sequel to Fist of the North Star

Some big lads have arrived in the warehouse and are making their presence KNOWN on the Press Run bookshelf. If you’re at at Retro World Expo this weekend, I’ll have samples at my table for you to thumb through. Preorders ship soon, and orders for the surplus copies will open next month

From me, a list of Trump supporters who killed, or tried to kill, Democrats and opponents of Trump in recent years (since the right are now claiming all the political violence is from the left!) Receipts: zeteo.com/p/charlie-ki...

Considering a hard pivot to right-wing grift for my YouTube channel just for the comfort of knowing that it guarantees the Democrats I've voted for will give me a nice eulogy

ICYMI yesterday, I'm working on a book about 30 years of PlayStation history, and you can preorder it NOW. Enjoy the page samples! I have acquired a lot of essential visual props for the book's indulgent photo spreads, including a typewriter, toys, a pizza, (It's a hard life)

With this Thunder Force II video, my look at the Genesis launch lineup for the U.S. is now complete: youtu.be/C0QT9cMg8gc

I regret to inform video patrons that they can now watch a video about Keith Courage in Alpha Zones, a bland and toothless start for this new ("new") console. But good news! It's also a video about the excellent (if extremely difficult) Victory Run www.patreon.com/posts/138578...

I still don’t know how to feel about the fact that I have like a 75% wardrobe overlap with Steve Martin’s character in “Only Murders in the Building”

TODAY is the 30th anniversary of the PlayStation's American launch, and I am writing (and laying out) a book to mark the occasion. Available for preorder now! (Shipping later!) limitedrungames.com/products/30-...

You ever go through life, blissfully unaware of all the things you don’t have, only for someone to throw back the curtain and reveal the possibilities you never knew you could dream of, and suddenly that empty shape in your existence consumes your every waking thought?

Tired: “cookie dough” Wired: “cookie sashimi”

Just like anti-vaxers, people who dislike immigrants are a weird terrible fringe group and we should treat them like the weird terrible fringe group they are.

You ever just… macerate a peach in a 50-50 Chartreuse blend?

Just ONE WEEK until @hg101.bsky.social @johnandersen.bsky.social and I present The NES Launch Ranking Hootenanny at Retro World Expo. Another double-length panel! Celebrate 40 years of NES by helping us to definitively rank the best and worst of Nintendo's launch titles! retroworldexpo.com

Writing my Keith Courage in Alpha Zones script tonight the only correct way: by getting liquored up

i don’t think i would do any pedophile stuff even if it helped the fbi. but i guess that’s where the president and i disagree

I am a hypermasculine and extremely powerful alpha male. As such my greatest fears are seed oils, rainbows, people who don't look like me being on TV, and preventative medicine. I cannot explain any of these fears and consider that to be your fault.

I am afraid it’s true, I’ve gone and posted two hours of live banter PLUS all of the video reel material that we bantered about

This is adjacent to something I mentioned on the latest Retronauts—some of my favorite video game storytelling ever was the little blurbs that introduce bosses in Mega Man X4. This stuff is never really explained in dialogue, it's just evocative flavor text that hints at the workings of the plot

[taps mic] TurboGrafx... is good. www.patreon.com/posts/turbo-...

A friend in high school once told me, "You're going to make a GREAT old man," and watching this video I realize he was right

My Long Island Retro Gaming panel, “British Mascots on Parade”, is now available to watch on my YouTube channel! youtu.be/PrGviNoSRM4

Hoping that this afternoon's press conference is an announcement of official plans for the release of the Donald Trump Memorial Epstein Files

It's almost beyond parody how much he looks like the old man costume from the ITYSL "I don't even want to be around anymore" skit in this photo

Ugh, September 1 already? Seems like the time to start gearing up for the war against Christmas comes a little faster each year

I regret to announce that my final video retrospective on the Casio PV-1000 is now online and available for everyone to suffer through. Not that the VIDEO is bad, but the games.... youtu.be/d38eYz4j86s

Some overwhelming “spending like you’ve won the lottery before they’ve even drawn the numbers” energy on here today