"In America they throw batteries at players" "Hold my crab juice"

everyone who bought a Virtual Boy, this is you

I have an early prototype of that controller!

Blue Prince creator Tonda Ros subscribes to our retro magazine blind box so I said hi at D.I.C.E. yesterday. He was like "I keep waiting for it to be a Nintendo Power," and then paused and was like "Don't game the system and send me one!" which is just beautiful, that's exactly who I'd hoped he was.

Every journey has a first step...

I hadn't seen interviews with Tonda Ros, developer of Blue Prince, before tonight but he's exactly the person who I would have expected to develop Blue Prince

Quick Ed Boon story: He showed up at California Extreme and walked up to our multi-cabinet setup for The Grid. Picked the machine with a wonky control panel and still obliterated everyone playing against him

So happy for @digitaleclipse.bsky.social!

Kasavin!

The guy skidding down the chute at the end is straight up Psyduck

Some stooge on TV tomorrow: ”Back in my day we wouldn’t use profanity and just express our desire for puppies.”

This is who runs this account

There are a ton of horrible things in the latest Epstein file dump but the most unexpected thing for me was supplying Gates with Adderall, an illegal performance enhancing drug w/o medical allowance, for bridge tournaments? Boomer card game doping was not on my bingo card

Someone make this a reality where it's an FMV continuation of the storyline that resolves the final episode cliffhanger. I just want closure.

Reskeet for, like, no reason whatsoever

For all the "Japan fills sinkhole in 24 hours" viral videos there are instances like this where things sit in limbo. The fire was a year ago and I wonder what bureaucratic nonsense is happening in the background

The 3am cheese meetup is where the most deranged attendees come out #MAGFest2026

Union Stock Yards presents: Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"

My partner: Why did you just order 2 theremins?

The first time I read "heavy television support" I interpreted it as something like a Sony PVM

January 01, 2026 #NeoGeo #PocketHoroscope

Sad to hear that Stewart Cheifet passed away. Computer Chronicles is an incredible 400 episode time capsule capturing the evolution of the tech/computing industry. Check out @lgr-yt.bsky.social's watch alongs if you need a fun on-ramp to the show obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com/stewart-chei...

Got to witness a mini soap opera at the tire shop today. Woman comes in and asks if [redacted] is working. Employee says no and the woman rushes out angrily texting and then peels out of the parking lot.

Someone on iomega's marketing team was *screaming* for help

Merry Christmas! If you'd like to spend 45 minutes celebrating video game history with me, we're about to debut The Untold Story of the Nintendo Entertainment System. I worked on his ALL YEAR, and I genuinely think it will reshape how we all think about the system. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJvp...

Everyone wanted the red ring. I just wanted to hear Urshurr. Happy holidays!

If you wanna be one of the last 30 people to sign up for @readonlymemo.com before I do a giveaway to celebrate hitting 3,000 subscribers, now's the time 👀👀 readonlymemo.com#/portal/sign...

Hmmm... my workshop space or 4 linked Daytona USA sit-down cabinets

Sure @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social just released 144 Sega Channel ROMS but the hits keep coming with @frankcifaldi.bsky.social's live stream today! I know some of the things we think are in this lot and it'll be fun to see the data out in the wild.

Well, shit. Going to have to find a way to visit one last time before they close

How amazing is this? VGHF - found a never-before-seen NES prototype - obtained the rights - finished the game using period-accurate tools - is releasing it physically through iam8bit as a charity fundraiser.

Incredible stories shared at the Byte Shop 50th Anniversary from people who were there at the time like Paul Terrell, Lee Felsenstein, Steve Leininger, and Steve Wozniak. Cool artifacts and projects on display as well. Happy 50th Byte Shop!

A treat for helping us reach the goal for our annual fundraiser: We've redigitized the MaxiVision Power Video Challenge, an infomercial for an unlicensed NES multicart, featuring WWF superstars in the WORLD GAME FEDERATION Read more: gamehistory.org/maxivision-p...

Godzilla 70th celebration in Japantown. Byte Shop 50th in San Jose. Alameda antiques fair on Sunday. D&D session, Werewolf party, and a board game night. Prepping for a pretty pretty pretty nerdy weekend

I find these Bob Zed MAME update videos so satisfying. Fuck yeah rando chess computer or slot machine is now emulated. That and exposure to platforms that I have never seen before youtu.be/WvsfFixLCsY?...

Had to do some repairs on my AlphaSmart Neo 2 and figured I’d try out Un Kyu Lee‘s 3D printed Typewriter Transformation Kit. Used that Mac Classic-colored filament and really happy with the results!

Neighbor is moving and now we unexpectedly own their power washer. Is this how the game starts?

Went on a bird walk at Lake Merritt. When we were walking though the community garden a woman was harvesting sunchokes and when I commented on how good they looked she gave me a bag of them to take home. Community gardens rule!

Apologies for the tease but picked up a pretty big lot of game stuff today, some of which I've been trying to shake loose for 15+ years. Nothing earth shattering but rare nonetheless. Getting it over to @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social so that we can properly document and share what we are allowed to!

I had heard about the rapid increase in RAM prices but apparently the market is so volatile that Central Computers stopped printing price tags

did you know that you can find free Cortex M0 development boards at the side of the road? folks call them disposable vapes but they're hackable, and i've reverse engineered a bunch of them! see github.com/schlae/VapeRE/

Got one of my LaserActives back from some @zaxour.bsky.social love and decided to set up a stack of uncommon consoles into the rack. Time for some FMV background shooters and Merlin Racing!

I’m hoping we have a tight enough scene that if someone spots this stuff for sale we can catch these shitheads

Thanks to a generous donation, we've completed our digitized collection of E3 directories from 1995–2006. Every booth, every company, every map. 2400 pages. archive.gamehistory.org/folder/53778...

The more projects I get off the bench backlog the more I realize I like fixing some of these things more than I like owning them. Might have to get a table at the Electronics Flea Market when it spins up again next year to unload stuff

Am I doing this right?

I'll never forget baggage claim at SFO after that E3 where literally a dozen of these came tumbling onto the conveyor belt

This is amazing restoration work and I'm so appreciative of @polymatt.bsky.social's skill and attention to detail. S/O to @bambulabglobal.bsky.social for sponsoring!

Y'all, I know two hours is a big time commitment, but this panel I arranged and hosted last month is one of the most important things I've ever done for video game history. The launch of the NES is a crazier story than most people realize, and my guests were extremely generous with their memories.