#MAGfest is like the Pink Pony Club for neurodivergent people

My favorite cosplay of MAGfest so far

MAGfest panel starts in less than 1 hour!

Make sure to stop by the Museum at MAGfest and see one of my TTL game builds! Currently Tag is being played, might swap it out for pinball at some point.

Happy 55th, BASIC Star Trek! @atariarchive.org

Makin' my way over to the Gaylord convention center

Made it to my hotel in Alexandria and now I'm gonna CRASH

It's always crazy right before I leave for these things. On my way to MAGFest 🫠

Anybody going to MAGfest? I'll be giving a talk on Saturday at 2:30pm in Panels 5, titled "Fun with Hardware Logic: A DIY TTL Primer"! I'll be teaching the basics of digital logic electronics, showing some examples, and hopefully recruiting the next generation of hardware weirdos!

Happy New Year from the Buffalo Mayoral Inaugural Ball! @helloktee.bsky.social

Wouldn't it be nice if every day were Cave Christmas?

Hear me talk about the weirdness of being a teenager collecting Atari games in the early 2000's! Always a great time talking to Josh.

A Harlequin 128k kit I bought and built from Ben in the summer of 2020 put me solidly on the path that brought me to doing electronics full-time. I'll be forever grateful.

I'm saddened by the news of Ben passing away. I first spoke to him pre-ByteDelight around the time I was starting to get into restoring vintage and retro computers. I needed some RAM chips for my borked Spectrum and someone pointed me in his direction. He had loads, and gave me some helpful advice.

When Rob Reiner was on his all-time epic run at the start of his career, he had an opportunity to read a script that was looking for a production partner, and he lost his mind for it. He decided Castle Rock had to have it, no matter what.

I love my new job

Me too kitten, me too…

And here's some loose games with manuals I'm looking to sell. The manuals for SMB and SMB3 are pretty beat up. Asking $55 for this lot.

Anybody interested in some NES games with "eh" condition boxes? Looking to sell these as a lot for $135. Only Tetris and Marble Madness have their manuals, and the Spot box has the top ripped off and writing on it. T&C Surf Designs has cool old mom-and-pop video store stickers on em!

Made a lil box so I won't have to drill holes when I mod ColecoVisions!

Hope you enjoy your migraines! You're welcome!

Ta-da! Shoulder buttons! These act as the two other action buttons from the ColecoVision Super Action controller.

Did you know that your donations today are DOUBLED? That means if we raise another $424, it'll magically become $848, which will put us HALFWAY TO OUR GOAL on day one!

Here's a go at a 3D printed ColecoVision controller... thinking about turning the other two Super Action buttons into shoulder buttons.

42 years later and I think maybe a dozen or so 70s TTL games are playable via mame or fpga platforms. The process is tricky and needs very specialized skills and specific information… but frankly I don’t know how many more decades these surviving machines still have in them.

These Atari Parties are always so much fun. Thanks so much @rectapete.bsky.social for doing all the hard work of making it happen!

Atari Party 2025 was amazing. It was great catching up with @nathaniellockhart.bsky.social and @atarispot.bsky.social. I got to meet up with @atariarchive.org for the first time too! An absolutely gigantic thank you to @rectapete.bsky.social and @billlange.bsky.social for organizing the event.

Ta da! I made a lil 2600 controller that has a paddle knob built in! The switches determine what paddle is being used and whether or not the B button acts as a joystick fire or a paddle trigger. Start/select toggle whether A is up (handy for C64 games) or joystick fire.

Didn't wanna drill holes in a Famicom, so I designed and 3D printed this lil guy here. Turned out pretty well!

It’s exciting when someone publishes long-form on a subject you’ve been researching for years. Here’s a thread commenting on this article in more detail. If you do the retro computer, read the article & then come back here. Apologies and respect in advance to @ernie.tedium.co 🧵👇

Question for you Intellivision heads out there - can you think of any Intellivision games where it's required to press two keypad buttons at the same time? Or if it's even possible for the console to recognize that via hardware?

Anybody need some zinc electroplating solution? I made like, 4 gallons of it. Because of course I had to re-plate a rusted Atari 5200 RF shield

Cool things happening thanks to @nathaniellockhart.bsky.social ‘s Street Fighter: The Movie: The Arcade Game CPS1/2 harness! Now I can easily swap in the board for a quick fix instead of re-wiring the cabinet github.com/nateo87/Stre...

Generally speaking, it's a good idea to get Game Gears recapped

Me: about done with this KIM-1 replica! Now to just put the pinheaders on for the keypad... My supplies drawer: you're fresh out. Me: fffuuuuuuuUuUUUUUU

ONE OF MY GRAILS HAS BEEN FOUND

Pro tip: your spouse will love it when you etch PCBs in the bathtub! But don't take my word for it, ask @helloktee.bsky.social herself!

Panel submission completed for MagFest. Had a lot of fun doing it last year; it'd be great to get to do something again for it!

The cover artwork for the PAL release of Mr. Do! for the ColecoVision, which features a rather interesting interpretation of both the visuals and general gameplay.

got this patched up just in time for the end of the season shout out to @nathaniellockhart.bsky.social for his amazing work as usual

Awesome bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/project...

Good news, everyone! The Video Game Research Library has pushed past 3,000 links! Get a huge does of video game history from 1962 until today right here! www.patreon.com/posts/video-...

This is the best/dumbest $20 I have ever spent #vcfmw

VCF-MW 2025 Pics

VCFMW is probably my favorite show of the year. #vcfmw

Garbage plate

Dr. Scott M. Baker has designed a single-board computer that reaches right back into the earliest days of microcomputing — picking Intel's first commercially-released microprocessor, the 4004, as its heart.

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