Woohoo! I'm quoted in today's NY Times piece about the 50th anniversary of the gay couple on the 1970s-80s sitcom BARNEY MILLER: Darryl and Marty. #gay #queer #LGBTQ #sitcom

This episode brought to you by me reading the National Archives write up about the lawsuit involving Atari’s Asteroids vs clone game Meteors

absolutely not wading into P&R discourse in the year of our lord 2025, but I will say that the single-best critical account of the show I've seen (er, rather, heard) is this ep from @gayestepisodeever.bsky.social

My latest for @timeextension.com - I spoke to the former Nintendo of America market research analyst Jerry Momoda about how a chance encounter in a Washington bar led to an incredible 25-plus-year career in gaming.

Going to start a business called Spiteful Drum Kits, where you can gift a drum set that will arrive fully assembled. The idea is that you can send these to homes that have children, and childfree people can use the threat of Spiteful Drum Kits as leverage in family negotiations.

The only explanation I can imagine for the entirety of Cuomo’s campaign is that he has some kind of humiliation fetish. If true, I want to congratulate him on what I assume will be an epic nut tonight

*flurmpf*

Did not occur to me until now how sexy/filthy the phrase “have your cake and eat it too” is, out of context

I spent all of Halloween on this, an explanation for the classic horror movie origins of Darkstalkers — now with more Kolchak: The Night Stalker than you ever expected in 2025! www.thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com/blog/darksta...

In the latest Gayest Episode Ever, we look at a 2018 Simpsons that riffs on drag culture — and does a better Drag Race-style musical number than Drag Race actually has. Co-writer @carolynomine.bsky.social explains how this ep came to be. Hint: tupperwear! www.gayestepisodeever.com/episodes/sim...

Thanks Drew! Here’s the drama intro companion piece. youtu.be/uybnh1Ji540?...

And you can listen to @futurehasbeen.bsky.social and I discussing it on @lostturntable.bsky.social's podcast, Cinema Oblivia. The supercut speaks for itself, but there's a lot to make of this work! cinemaoblivia.podbean.com/e/episode-10...

I want to draw everyone's attention to this amazing sitcom supercut by @futurehasbeen.bsky.social. It's a 2-hour celebration of sitcom openings that you don't remember and may not know exist. It's warm nostalgia that gets uncanny as you watch. Hard recommend. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhNB...

Forgotten Fox TV pilot “Hollywood Dog” is a key part of Simpsons history—listen as we finally explore the Hank Azaria oddity on @talksimpsonspod.bsky.social! Out early on our Patreon, we’re joined by @gayestepisodeever.bsky.social’s @drewgmackie.bsky.social! www.patreon.com/posts/140859...

Take two, take one

Can't believe I got through an entire history of Darkstalkers without getting into how Victor has a move where he grabs you with his big, meaty butt. That said, the history I did get is good, including the origins as a Universal Horror fighter: www.thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com/blog/darksta...

Like, Eugene Daniels gave him a chance to step out of it, and instead he's like "No, I was correct to say that diversity is bad" and THEN calls him the other black guy's name. On MSNBC. After: "So how did I do?" "Yeah, NOT GOOD."

Cuomo tries to explain why he said “diversity can be a weakness” and then calls the host of the show Jonathan. Jonathan is the name of the other black guy on this panel.

Apparently @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social thought this version of Mario appearing on the November 1983 issue of Electronic Games magazine was disturbing. Strong disagree here. (Via @mariobrothblog.bsky.social www.suppermariobroth.com/post/7989605...)

I spent all of Halloween on this, an explanation for the classic horror movie origins of Darkstalkers — now with more Kolchak: The Night Stalker than you ever expected in 2025! www.thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com/blog/darksta...

Halloween tradition of blasting this great mix and handing out candy.

New episode of Cinema Oblivia is live, and we don't talk about movies this time! Instead @futurehasbeen.bsky.social joins me, and @drewgmackie.bsky.social from Gayest Episode Ever to talk about his mixtapes that showcase forgotten TV! Give it a listen! cinemaoblivia.podbean.com/e/episode-10...

It is squirrel butt-level hot today.

I am still thinking about the first episode of Welcome to Derry.

“Dad why were your eyes closed? Dad? Dad? Dad? … dad?”

What a fun read!

So anyway I restored Daicon IV from scratch. This was a joint project with Chris Person (papapishu), who sourced the incredibly Rare Laserdisc release. The raw files can be found on the internet archive for those interested in processing it yourself. Enjoy! archive.org/details/DAIC...

I gasped.

Any of the game history folks I know who are familiar with Lynn Griffes? All I know is that she was a creative director for a few SNES games from WaveQuest in 94/95

This is Baby Button Eyes. She is a squirrel who is obsessed with attention. All you have to do to get her excited is just point at her, because she understands that this means you have noticed her. She exists to be adored.

Whoever is doing ads for @gttupod.bsky.social, I want them to do it for my podcast. Sound on! Episode was also good: www.scaryfun.fun/home/gttu414

Did I know that there was a real world referent for Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge and it's actually even weirder than the joke version

@watcherjoshua.bsky.social Hey, this is a long shot, but would you happen to know Lynn Griffes? I am doing research on Nintendo materials and the search kind of led to you, and given that you're a Zelda fan, it seemed like I might as well ask. Do you?

Free, apparently

Ahhh! Real (sexy) monsters! In honor of the month of scares @drewgmackie.bsky.social of Thrilling Tales of Old Video Games returns to discuss the eclectic and dormant “Dalkstalkers” (1994). youtu.be/dp6mmoXdGFk?...

Guested on a podcast with @futurehasbeen.bsky.social and @lostturntable.bsky.social and had reason to recall when I made weird nonsense out of old TV and called it "art" (but called attention ot the quotation marks)

I logged in to LinkedIn to try and contact someone for an interview for a video game history thing, and my GOD the world of people who post updates on that site is confusing and weird

From: Drew Mackie (@drewgmackie.bsky.social) bsky.app/profile/drew... I hereby award this photo "Squirrel of the Day."

The great @drewgmackie.bsky.social returned to the podcast to discuss a game that made me go “ahhh!!” and “oooooh!” (Darkstalkers) youtu.be/dp6mmoXdGFk?...

via @drewgmackie.bsky.social, the realization that "I died" is up there with "I'm asleep" in the set of "simple sentences you can't utter truthfully" -- except in video games! www.thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com/blog/mario-d...

every day is like a horror movie

It is ridiculous that it’s 2025 and Roombas don’t come with an option to make “om nom nom” noises when they’re running

Another Atwater Village sunset

Jack Raichu

obviously, Kirby is my favorite 🤩⭐️💖✨

I made 27 gifs (from scratch!) of video game characters dying like Mario does to discuss the origin of this peculiar bit of pixel animation. Enjoy!

I made 27 gifs (from scratch!) of video game characters dying like Mario does to discuss the origin of this peculiar bit of pixel animation. Enjoy!

Re: Cuomo acting like he can't pronounce Mamdani's name, it's weird how so many English-speakers act like names that come from east of the Caucuses are impossible to pronounce, because a lot of them are just written phonetically in our alphabet. Like, you just have to pronounce the letters in order.

Is Ashley Padilla the second coming of Nancy Walls?