Ain't it the truth.

My most millennial take is that software as a service and anything explicitly browser based that requires an internet connection and does not run off the drive inside my machine is a fucking scam

see how settled science suddenly gets turned into something unclear as soon as conservatives make it a political issue? this has happened on dozens of issues.

Live on the free feed: @jparish.bsky.social @atariarchive.org @feitclub.bsky.social & @stuartgipp.bsky.social wish they could fix the worst games they ever played retronauts.com/article/2432...

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The leaves are changing, it’s misty and cool out this morning, it’s time to post a Spooky Gamer😈👻🦇 Careful, don’t slip!⚠️🩸 Had a little vote on Patreon for which games to include in this illustration🎃

This is a pretty big deal; Heavyweight Champ is an early predecessor to fighting games, is TTL-based (and therefore difficult to emulate) and there are no extant units that I'm aware of. All we've had is a few precious seconds of it being played from a newscast. Here's hoping it lives again soon.

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

Xfiles understood the three type of nerd. Hippy, square, pervert

Podcasting is now twenty years old. And that means shows that ran for years are now just a bunch of URLs that resolve to nothing. Sometimes, someone uploads a full set of mp3s to archive.org, and that’s great! But you can’t easily listen the same way as your other podcasts. What if you could? 🧵

The devil you say

The 1912 article gets rolled out a lot but it’s my solemn duty as a historian to remind folks it’s *worse* than that Eunice Foote published greenhouse gas studies in EIGHTEEN-FUCKING-FIFTY-SIX (of course, as a woman she couldn’t read her OWN paper at scientific conferences - god FORBID 🙄) 🗃️🌎🏭

Machine acquired

this is completely false. the "unanimous" vote consisted of one person, Rick Scott, voting. The chamber was entirely empty except for him and Tommy Tuberville, & both of them had to be prompted as to how to execute the vote:

I feel like it would be far more productive to pass legislation clarifying that the president doesn't have authority to arbitrarily set tariffs, personally, especially since there's an ongoing lawsuit exactly to that point

As someone who worked at a Nexstar station, this would be a 5 alarm all hands on deck fire for even one account

On track to get my first(?) arcade cab this weekend, extremely excited for this one

I suspect the answer to the "why" is "to see how far an arcade cabinet can launch its monitor across the room as the shape settles"

Thomas Kurtz, co-inventor of BASIC, passed away last week at 96. I spoke to him in 2017. He was generous and as brilliant as you'd expect. I wrote about it here: annettevee.substack.com/p/thomas-kur...

One thing that authoritarian governments rely on is making people feel alone, wholly reliant on the state to tell them what to do, think, and feel. Seeing polls like this should hearten you: the general public is not falling for the Trump admin's lies. In fact, they're seeing through them.

Are you pitching a major mainstream outlet (think TIME, CNN, NBC, etc) about NES 40th anniversary coverage? Get in touch. ONE PR is working once again with @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social director (and the best Nintendo historian!) Frank Cifaldi and organizing limited interview opportunities.

trump’s numbers are tanking and there is a palpable desire in the electorate for a real alternative and yet the only money in democratic politics is for doing starmerism

This should’ve been a plot point in X-Terminators

My biggest criticism of parks and rec is that it actually didn’t go far enough in showing how unhinged the average public commenter can be

Bugs and Drugs (1978) released on the PLATO mainframe by Mark Gorback, Dave Tanaka, and Paul Alfille is an early edutainment RPG. Targeted mainly towards medical students, players explore a hospital "dungeon" fighting diseases with fists or with medicine! (a deadly residency thread)

btw Costco seems to have the cheapest updated COVID vax. You can get it without a card at the pharmacy and they do take walk-ins. If you’re also uninsured due to the massive amounts of layoffs this year, they also take this goodrx coupon to lower the cost of www.goodrx.com/comirnaty?sr...

The Weisbecker digital library is a very cool resource for early computer game materials and is routinely KO'd by these damn scrapers.

Plink to the Past 🛡️ Ohh so pleased to complete this one! Pink Link & Zelda, ready for battle ❤️❤️❤️

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How has Sideshow Bob Roberts been so perfect a description and satire of the past decade of politics

Happy 40th birthday Super Mario Bros.

The next gen of preservations are trying to figure out how to revive their childhood mobile games that were delisted when Apple removed all the 32-bit apps from their store.

DoDonPachi DaiOuJou DX Reco.ver (大往生DX-ﾚｺver.-) was preserved by Yuuku! Only sold on December 30, 2007, this is a score competition variant of DoDonPachi DaiOuJou DX. Given how it was only available for one day, this may be one of the rarest i-mode games preserved so far.

We appreciate we've not announced anything in quite some time, so we'd like to share our current development progress. Our main focus has been getting EA's online services working so we can restore Xbox Live functionality in EA titles. Here's where things stand right now: (1/6)

I love that the spirit of Star Trek zinemaking is alive and well

Waiting for my daughter to get off the bus like a completely normal, non-embarrassing dad

This is relevant to all media, music, art, etc. Review that album or video game that came out six months ago, write about a movie you missed when it was in theaters, repost “old” art you like. Everything moves too fast and 90% of the people who want to know about stuff miss it the first time.

*pinches bridge of nose* Even if, somehow, this DoE statement were true (which it isn’t), it would STILL BE GOOD to use solar and wind energy for the goodly fraction of the time it’s sunny and/or windy. Jesus Christ.

My presentation from Replaying Japan 2025 on eremeka is now online. earlyarcadesjapan.blogspot.com/2025/09/repl... I do not have the Q&A from the live portion, but hope to go back and add that eventually. #retroarcade #eremeka #japan #arcade

losing my shit at tom clancy's daughter immediately setting this to her banner after seeing it

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I finished it a few days ago and I can’t stop thinking about how absolutely pitch perfect the climactic final act and boss of Donkey Kong Bananza are, just tying together everything in that game in such a perfect way

Oddly reassuring to know the rich and powerful everywhere in the globe are utter dumbasses

I just want to note I was going through industry trade magazines from 1982 last night and they were calling ColecoVision and its cohort the “third generation” of consoles, the first gen being the 2600 and Channel F. These things have always been arbitrary and silly

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

oh no it's me

Tsuneki Ikeda of CAVE on the value of hard games shmuplations.com/ikeda