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.

Today I learned that there are Czech games for the Atari Portfolio. I hope the platform is easy to emulate. Found all but one for download too! I am now wondering if any of them got onto the PD disks distributed by the local game store JRC (the biggest and still exists, they loved everything Atari).

I had a dream today about the woes of dumping 8 inch floppies. I guess I need to get to the stack of them I want to do all summer ^^

Working on a list of local games that are unpreserved. It is surprising how many titles haven't been found yet, but I think Czechia and Slovakia is still in a very good place compared to the rest of the world. There are over 500 games archived for the ZX Spectrum alone!

Enjoying my first Ceegs in Wrocław! I had a workshop about my research into Czechoslovak pong clones and visited the Museum of Games and Computers of the Past. Lots of interesting panels and connections being made. I am already looking to future attendances.

The Pokéwalker is one of my treasured memories, hit at just the right time for me. I am very glad that there is now a new emulator that hopefully implements all of its features. github.com/h4lfheart/Po...

I have been following the diligent work of GBA emulator developers and I have made a massive update to the GBA accuracy test results page on emugen wiki. The overview is getting bigger with each update and showcases nicely where different emulators stand. emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/GB...

It is extremely hard to get these publications and I hope that VGHF can slowly fill out the holes in this collection. But releasing such a huge batch is already an enormous boon to game researchers!

Sooo, I have successfully finished my masters in digital game theory, even somehow managing to pass with straight A's. It has been a challenge to travel to a neighboring country every week while working full time, but I managed and am happy with the results.

One source for totally lost games is the desk-sized Noval computer by Gremlin Industries. I just finished going over that portion in my book and it bums me out that none of the software is preserved. There were really advanced arcade and educational games on it.

It costs a pretty paltry annual sum to support the Game Preservation Society, which has been doing the heavy lifting of safeguarding Japan's game history. It's a shame they're in such dire straits, so if you've got the ability to help support I highly recommend it.

A new video update on '4500 pages of game conference history', newly added to the VGHF Digital Library: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lemN...

One of our projects, Ruins of Alph Research, is seeking lost information and media from Pokémon's past, along with information that isn't well documented. If you attended an official Pokémon event, own rare merchandise, or ran a fan page we haven't covered, contact us [email protected]

Pics of a train simulator running on a computer with a screen that appears to be vector-based. It was presented at the Japan World Exposition in 1970, but there were already traces of it in 1967. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gM0... Via @michelentongs.bsky.social, @adoru.bsky.social and Florent Gorges

My recently-taken-down video essay on the history of 177 and media depictions of sexual violence in Japan is now available in a more heavily censored version. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gHr... Shares and watches would be tremendously appreciated, thank you.

Making good progress decoding the #MegaDuck Laptop printing protocol. Prob make a test ROM eventually to verify. REQUEST: If anyone has a working #MegaDuck Printer, laptop and flash cart and can do testing later on, let me know. (I don't have the printer)

In 2022, I introduced the project DISCMASTER, which is a unique project to make the internals of tens of thousands of 1990s-2000s CD-ROMs findable in a semantic search. Today, I'm announcing the team has now made DISCMASTER 2, a ground-up rewrite with so much improvement. discmaster.textfiles.com

I will hopefully have another rare home pong variant on my way from Singapore. Big thanks to several people who provided me with possibilities of working out the transport, especially @atarispot.bsky.social and @marklincadet.bsky.social!

I have purchased an intriguing console, the Multiplay 80. It is a home pong clone, but given it's size and unusual layout of the buttons, it probably doesn't run on the usual AY-3-8500 chip. It is now on its way from France.

Here's Famitsu Quest, a RPG Tsukuru 4 game by Famitsu, which you could get by mailing PS1 memory cards to them and then sent back with the game. archive.org/details/fami... But this is a partial recovery, because the Scenario 1 data is missing, replaced by FF7 saves. #RPGMaker #PS1 #Preservation

EFGAMP continues to grow. 📢 We are glad to announce, that @hernihistorie.cz becomes a new member. Herní historie is a Czech collective of quite young retro game enthusiasts doing a lot of interesting stuff with a focus on Czechoslovak gaming history. Full news: efgamp.eu/2025/02/18/c...

HxCFloppyEmulator v2,16,10,1 released First online/browser experimental version : hxc2001.com/hxcfesw/ And many more new features and fixes ! Please have a look to the release notes for the details ! github.com/jfdelnero/Hx... hxc2001.com/download/flo... #hxc2001 #floppyemulator

New scan: MCV Magazine 650 (August 2011). Inside: • Lots of useful info if you're heading to Köln for Gamescom 2011. • Dancing games go from strength to strength. #1 on the sales charts: Zumba Fitness. • A look at Namco's slate, including some game called 'Dark Souls’? archive.org/details/mcv-...

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Tommorow and on Saturday I will be attending Game Developer Session, one of the two big gaming conferences locally. I have some other duties and wasn't planning to attend, but I got a free ticket. So I will probably use my time there to greet some people and enjoy indies, just relax a bit.

Continuing to ease my suffering with catching up to Skeleton Crew. I am loving the visuals and variety and the show is pleasantly adventurous. We will see about the central mystery, but it seems to work very well as a piece of TV media, something that sadly can't be said about most of SW shows.

Got my wisdom tooth extracted and now I am in pain. But it gave me time to finish Echoes of Wisdom. It's a nice little game, but I think I like the concept more then the final result. Always waited for combinations of the echoes being demanded. On the other end, it's huge, I still miss stamps.

It's been two days and I can't stop thinking about this

I was quite surprised to see that there are no premium quality transparent cases for Switch OLED. All of them have reviews mentioning the risk of a poor fit or not being dockable. In the end I just ordered one and will hope it can protect my Zelda edition I got for my birthday.

Been a bit busy and also was feeling kinda down lately. I missed the window to talk about the conference on game archival and exhibiting, so I will post once the talk recordings are online. Also I got a new phone, so I finally have a decent camera and apps don't open for several seconds.

Mentioned in the recent Retronauts episode, Maneater is a 1975 TTL arcade game with a stunning cabinet, capitalizing on the Jaws phenomenon. I got to see a non-working cabinet in-person at Midwest Gaming Classic. We need more enthusiasm for the early stuff!

Japanese Computer Game Preservationist Krugman has dumped the insanely rare CD-ROM version of Dios for the PC-8801MC. Read about it here - dirtyfloppies.com/2024-11-22-d... Download it here - archive.org/details/dios...

K1rkl4nd who has previously released PS2 and SNES Manual sets is now close to finishing up PS1 and needs just handful of manuals if anybody has them. www.reddit.com/r/GamePreser...

All set up at KoprCon! I tried Steel Battalion after a long time, as a friend brought it to showcase. I think this is my eight time in this classroom!

On my way to KoprCon, a local convention that seems stuck in the early days of cons meaning small community gatherings (in a good way!). Will be presenting what's new in our non-profit, showcasing retro games and throwing a TowerFall tournament on the Ouya. Expect some pictures over the weekend.

Wow, one more and it's an overflow :D Welcome all, folks! I am trying to get back into the mood of posting quality content after a long time of not seeing worth in it on the *other site*.

Save Page Now is back online via the Wayback Machine: web.archive.org/save Web pages archived since October 9 will start being added to the Wayback Machine.

Recently started reading The Cyberiad and I am also researching Sim City for a small exhibition I will be curating. Was nicely surprised that one of the short stories from the book was a direct inspiration for the game's concept!

Honored to be among the bunch :)

Been doing my semi-yearly review of the accuracy of GBA emulators, updating the table at emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/GB... It has been amazing seeing the passionate community pushing the boundaries of hardware research!

Yesterday I played some Triforce Heroes locally with friends. It's nice to relax a bit with some multiplayer fun. Also the games is really fun! We have now finished most of the levels and unsuccessfuly tried to run ahead to the final boss. Anyone got any stories about TH?

Last weekend, I was at representing @hernihistorie.bsky.social at ByteFest, a Czech meet for 8-bit microcomputer affectionados. And I was working there saving old data from bitrot by digitizing floppies!

Has anyone here ever purchased any iPod Clickwheel Games from back in the day on iTunes? We currently have a lost media preservation project to archive all 54 Clickwheel games and make them available for all iPod users. We have archived 16/54 so far! Here is the GitHub: github.com/Olsro/ipodcl...

Decided to research an obscure Slovak game and I am now translating a Russian interview with a German studio head that worked on some games with a Czech team and outsourced some graphics work to the Slovak developers I am trying to find more on :D Also featuring Battle Isle connections!

Now this is a piece of history! This video is in defense of Data East the famous case in which Capcom sued Data East over game similarities and lost. One of the big early cases attempting to nail down what a "clone" actually is

Finally scored a Tesla XD8000 home pong console. It was the last missing piece in the collection, the first model of a three revision lineage. The first Czechoslovak commercial game and one later leading to a unique integrated chip, which is usually reserved for the big players! No AY-3-8500 here :D

In the last few days, I have been working on imaging floppy disks. Mainly a big collection of Atari 8-bit floppies from a personal collection. I have been learning the ins and outs of the platform and how to best work with it on our Pauline setup.

Well, I guess I should start being active here! Heard another big migration is in progress.