I had a fantastic talk w/ John Szczepaniak, badass author of "The Untold Story of Japanese Game Developer" books: a one-of-a-kind endeavor that'll never be repeated. Please share his story! Game-mag BS, Kojima, interviewing 80+ JP devs in 90 days! gamesdonelegit.com/found-in-fan...

One of the benefits to things like BadAvatar/Update is that it expand the pool of compatible hardware, minimizing use of rarer pieces to only when necessary. Tested it out today at work!

Need to check out the two demos on the right sometime at work. I did see a CD-r of the True Motion disc showed up recently online.

It’s going to be great!

If you're a fan of classic hand-drawn animation, Disney's Robin Hood, Don Bluth, or Redwall, we think you'll enjoy what we've got cooking! Want to try it for yourself? Now you can! War of the Western Deep now has a playable demo on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/2976440/...

Not food-related, but important information! The National Toy Hall of Fame at the Strong Museum (in beautiful Rochester, NY) has just announced the 2025 players' choice nominees for induction into the HoF! Thoughts? See link in replies to cast your vote!

Do you think unbending Clippy until he was a long piece of metal would be painful for him. Or do you think it would cause him to feel a great sense of relief

It's pronounced "Bros" as in "gross"

coming from a film background the misuse of the phrase "lost media" makes me INCREDIBLY ANGRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we're not talking about "the warehouse full of silver nitrate masters blew up" or "they had to record over the existing footage because they didn't have any more tapes"!!!!!!!!!!!

Some early Sega Saturn tools backed up at the museum today

Have to get this fixed up sometime, it's the arcade version of the M2

The 'does not respect your time' thing is so relative because I feel like all those like super smooth high production games have absolutely no respect for my time, they just want to consume it and give me nothing back in return.

Sunfaded or not, I love these big display boxes from Volitions office.

Imagine: You're a cow with no legs. Imagine: You're a human with a Steam account and a craving for tiny one-button endless runner games. Stop imagining. Face reality. Udder is here! Now with leaderboards! 🐮🏆 store.steampowered.com/app/3934200/...

A miss TechTV. So much good information, a lot of it hard to find elsewhere at the time if you didnt know what to look for. The excitement for tech in general made things so much fun.

Some of my favorite people

Anyway here's the source link that actually details what happened and they say it in a way that's easy to understand www.thepopverse.com/gaming-final...

all the best windows software in history is called something like "joe's thing doer". it does the thing and nothing else and is available on a html website in plain text and takes up under a megabyte of space and uses default windows ui elements and will work until the heat death of the universe

Motor City Online died 22 years ago today. Nothing since has touched what it was.

Was able to recover data from almost all of the Pinnacle Micro disks, minus one marked bad from the developers due to a missing part of the spindle. Some great Freespace stuff on them.

Can't believe it's been a year since I gave my Importance of Game Merchandise Preservation talk at The Strong National Museum of Play. Was an honor and I still hope more collectors can come together to help take this seriously. Enjoy a poorly recorded version below. m.youtube.com/watch?v=ABqx...

Love the box on these

Shots around my office from yesterday with the Mavica, so I think it counts for #mavicamonday

Me finishing Resident Alien season 4, not realizing it was the last

Before Bananza

The source code of the SlaveDriver Engine, powering the 1996 game PowerSlave for the Sega Saturn, is now published under the GPLv3. github.com/Lobotomy-Sof... archive.org/details/slav...

Always cool to see the world's largest Donkey Kong at night from the street. Bonus of our carousel.

Some great Red Faction Guerrilla behind the scenes up now at the museum

Wasnt expected to see an October 2007 meeting (partial) recording on a MiniDV tape. Interesting to hear a little bit about how Volition was monitoring GTA.

Indie Retro News: Cubix - The first 3D platformer of its kind for the ZX Spectrum! www.indieretronews.com/2025/08/cubi... #retrogaming #gaming #games

Sorry, but I just could not pass up this bad joke.

i invite you to pause today’s bad energy & black candles with the fact that preservationists like @borman.bsky.social at the strong museum are not deterred by the video games industry’s present — they’re letting love carry them through the next 100 years www.gamesradar.com/games/i-visi...

Just swapped the physical controller port, luckily that seems to have fixed it. Will have to look at the pins later, but for now, that bad controller is out of rotation.

Throwback to testing screens for what would become our giant Donkey Kong, this time with our outside sign.

This is neat, an early version of Descent Maximum for PS1.

Local pickup today.

You know what? Let's shout out our local PBS affiliate, and share our favorite memories/show some love WXXI Rochester!! A true gem!

I completely forgot that in 2002, Yahoo! launched a digital game rental service. It even had GTA2! (Also mentioned is the RealOne Arcade, though that seemed like less big games?) www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna3073250

you may know that my game industry podcast @unboxingpod.bsky.social is back. Did you know we also switched frm Substack to Buttondown? But this hasn't been great for our discoverability, and ppl unsub b/c they prefer ST's format. So sub & share, if you dare: buttondown.com/unboxingpodc...

A cool box today at the museum...

Finished Final Fantasy III Pixel Remaster last night. First time playing any amount of the game, can easily see how it influenced other games in the series. Also nice that it wasn't super long.

This is an insane thing to write about game development. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/a...

Setting this up for the first time for our intern/researcher.

We are officially less than two months away from #ROCGameFest 2025! If you’re a developer, there’s still time to fill out the Exhibitor Application and showcase your game at this great event. www.rocgamefest.com

I pushed out an impromptu Archive Annex video to Patreon the other day about POTSHOT and its status as the original artillery game, which is now public: youtu.be/zaLG1C069Gw

Want to play a casual game on your phone? Google recommends a little game called Chrono Trigger.

"I asked chatgpt" "I asked grok" well I asked Achenar from the best-selling point&click adventure game Myst and he told me to bring him the blue pages and NOT to touch the red ones

With all of the news about itch.io, I decided to look to see if a downloader tool had been made since the last time I asked. And there was! @dragoonaethis.bsky.social made itch-dl, and it seems to be working great.

If because of itch.io, you're looking to understand how obscenity law in the US came to be functionally obsolete in favor of payment card standards, may I recommend the piece I wrote about this a couple of years ago? yjolt.org/imagine-comm...