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

Turned off the Bills game last night when it hit 25 - 40. Given that they haven't come back from such a deficit in the 4th qtr since 1967, I feel justified in that decision. But I also don't feel good about it either

It's been a long road, but my C64 Light Cycle Deluxe game is finally "done"! This final update adds a powerup to the game. Enjoy! fuzzybad.itch.io/c64-light-cy...

Sooooo my vintage-computer-themed band (with Action Retro and The Taylor and Amy Show) just put out our first record. We're called "The Stop Bits" and the EP is called "Return From Interrupt." It happens to be Bandcamp Friday. It happens to be $5. thestopbits.bandcamp.com/album/return...

I just have released CVBasic v0.9.0 with the new 15th platform: NES/Famicom! Download now and make games in standard 32K ROM + 8K CHR or 256K/512K ROM with 32K CHR forums.atariage.com/topic/384096... #NES #Famicom #retro #retrogaming #cvbasic

That's two Walkmans (Walkmen?) back in operation!

It's an excellent deep dive series with real research. Can't recommend Gregiffer's videos or Nick Knacks enough.

I recently left my underpaying office job of 11 years to start my own electronics repair/modding business, and here's what I have to say about it so far: memorymachinepod.com/2025/08/22/i...

This an excellent breakdown of the basics. If you want more detail, the @theycreateworlds.bsky.social podcast did a helluva deep dive on the topic.

I will never get tired of how cool it is to wash the toner off a copper clad to see your own foil pattern design underneath

First time doing toner transfer to make a PCB (instead of hand drawing) and I'm feeling pretty good about how well this worked. Now for the etching...

Gggaaaaahhhh accidentally bought bi-polar electrolytic caps when I meant to get polarized

The 7800 version of my 3D printed joystick is coming along quite nicely!

photos from Long Island Retro taken on my Gameboy Camera i had taken some more but they got corrupted somehow. featuring @atariarchive.org @feitclub.bsky.social @onemillionpower.com and the back of @bdjeffyp.bsky.social's head

the Atari 2600 was great but it had its pitfalls

My pickups from Long Island Retro. It seems with every one of these things I go to, I pick up less games/hardware and end up replacing that with books. And I ain't mad about it.

Poll: do I try to re-plate this Atari 5200 RF shield with some DIY electroplating, or do I just chuck it?

Only the finest of art at Long Island Retro

Here at Long Island Retro all day today and tomorrow! If you see me, feel free to say hi!

A bit of Buffalo history for ya this fine Thursday! @buffaloresearch.com

Occasionally on Newspapers, I do a search for early mentions of the phrase "computer game". A lot of pre-commercial results are for kids who made electronic games for science fairs. Today I talked with Michael Wolfberg, who made a digital game in 1959 then worked on the PDP-1 at MIT.

Memories from last year's Save The Games symposium at the Strong Museum, as told by my notes

We've acquired the historic game magazine Computer Entertainer. As in, we got the rights. We own the magazine. And we're putting it into the Creative Commons for anyone to use for free. Learn more: gamehistory.org/computerente...

In Super Mario Bros., the first vertical lift platform in World 6-3 does not have a fixed range like it may seem at first. Instead, it slowly keeps increasing its range, so that keeping Mario on the platform will eventually result in his death.

A very valuable lesson was learned today: don't do soldering work with shorts on

Tentative logo design for my lil repair/modding business; yay or nay?

My mother-in-law got me this tube television for my birthday Pretty damn good birthday.

Deals are still out there - picked up this baby for $30 local to my in-laws!

There's a bunch of you arcades out there that need this only because I need you to need this. get those SFTM boards up and running!

I feel like this solution only benefits a handful of sickos—but all of those sickos are, coincidentally, following me

Here it is! Capcom PCBs use a ‘kick harness’ to connect the extra buttons outside the JAMMA standard. Street Fighter: The Movie was done by Incredible Technologies and uses a completely different (absurd) wiring setup. This board allows you to easily connect SF:TM into any cab wired for CPS1/CPS2

For all you fighting game nerds who were looking for a better way to hook up your Street Fighter the Movie arcade boards.... here ya go, you filthy animals github.com/nateo87/Stre...

Well, here goes nothing

Is it a video game? Or is it EVIDENCE?

Today has been a good birthday

THE GREEN SLIME (1968)

I love etching my own PCBs. It's more tedious than just ordering boards from a manufacturer, but I love putting more of the hand-made back into electronics. The process is very relaxing.

Never forget that #SesameStreet once did a sketch based on Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal, which involved a Swedish fisherman counting seals until he found the seventh one.