Phil Salvador
@philsalv.bsky.social
Library Director @ Video Game History Foundation. Tea, birds, and weird old stuff. Maxis history expert, as seen on TV. ☕🐦📚 he/him
Abe's Exoddus cleared! This is a weird criticism for a game that only took 12 hours to 100%, but there's *almost* too much here. Really fun level designs, but it starts to get repetitive midway into Disc 2. Even still, lots of fun, atmospherically striking, one of the best cinematic platformers
November 29, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Abe's Exoddus cleared! This is a weird criticism for a game that only took 12 hours to 100%, but there's *almost* too much here. Really fun level designs, but it starts to get repetitive midway into Disc 2. Even still, lots of fun, atmospherically striking, one of the best cinematic platformers
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he thinks its all for him
November 28, 2025 at 3:20 AM
he thinks its all for him
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@pkrockin.bsky.social : "I just got .hack/Infection."
@philsalv.bsky.social : "Ah. I know that one from the beginning of alphabetical games lists."
it's thanksgiving at my house
@philsalv.bsky.social : "Ah. I know that one from the beginning of alphabetical games lists."
it's thanksgiving at my house
November 28, 2025 at 1:49 AM
@pkrockin.bsky.social : "I just got .hack/Infection."
@philsalv.bsky.social : "Ah. I know that one from the beginning of alphabetical games lists."
it's thanksgiving at my house
@philsalv.bsky.social : "Ah. I know that one from the beginning of alphabetical games lists."
it's thanksgiving at my house
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This year I am thankful for six boxes of Sour Patch Kids
November 27, 2025 at 7:37 PM
This year I am thankful for six boxes of Sour Patch Kids
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Fun news for puzzle fans! The golden hare from the 1979 armchair treasure hunt book Masquerade by Kit Williams will be auctioned at Sotheby's, estimated at a value of £15,000 to £20,000 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... (Who wants to crowdfund with me? 👀)
Jewelled golden hare that sparked national treasure hunt set for auction
Artist and author Kit Williams hid a golden hare with clues to its precise location given in his 1979 book
www.independent.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Fun news for puzzle fans! The golden hare from the 1979 armchair treasure hunt book Masquerade by Kit Williams will be auctioned at Sotheby's, estimated at a value of £15,000 to £20,000 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... (Who wants to crowdfund with me? 👀)
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Enjoying the traditional pre-holiday Mouse Meal (eating all the loose bits of cheese that fell out of the grater and didn't make it into the bowl)
November 27, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Enjoying the traditional pre-holiday Mouse Meal (eating all the loose bits of cheese that fell out of the grater and didn't make it into the bowl)
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inventing a fun new game where you get really wasted and put all your kitchen knives on the floor with the lights off. i call it Scary Floor
November 20, 2025 at 2:50 AM
inventing a fun new game where you get really wasted and put all your kitchen knives on the floor with the lights off. i call it Scary Floor
I watched the "Kes returns" episode of Voyager
That wasn't very good!
That wasn't very good!
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I watched the "Kes returns" episode of Voyager
That wasn't very good!
That wasn't very good!
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Day #168: The Exciting World of the Metric System (1976)
November 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Day #168: The Exciting World of the Metric System (1976)
The funniest gag in Abe's Exoddus (which they do over and over and it never gets old) is giving extremely specific hints in the form of the bad guys warning you not to do something
November 26, 2025 at 4:50 AM
The funniest gag in Abe's Exoddus (which they do over and over and it never gets old) is giving extremely specific hints in the form of the bad guys warning you not to do something
Shoutout to everyone still using Hyper Scape emotes on Twitch
November 25, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Shoutout to everyone still using Hyper Scape emotes on Twitch
MAGFest roll call! I'm in full planning mode again already and hoping to see all y'all again
November 24, 2025 at 9:42 PM
MAGFest roll call! I'm in full planning mode again already and hoping to see all y'all again
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Thanks to our GamePro art CD archiving (https://archive.gamehistory.org/folder/a5823d80-320b-41c9-9e3c-4dc28f79f2a2), VGHF is preserving hi-res versions of, uh, Bruce Willis being a shoot-y CG guy in Neversoft & Activision's Apocalypse.
November 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Thanks to our GamePro art CD archiving (https://archive.gamehistory.org/folder/a5823d80-320b-41c9-9e3c-4dc28f79f2a2), VGHF is preserving hi-res versions of, uh, Bruce Willis being a shoot-y CG guy in Neversoft & Activision's Apocalypse.
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“Get into my bed and rest,” said Toad. Toad made Frog a cup of hot tea.
November 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
“Get into my bed and rest,” said Toad. Toad made Frog a cup of hot tea.
In case anyone doubts this: here's my bug report about this from 2016 sourceforge.net/p/scummvm/bu...
In The Labyrinth of Time, entering the Ziggurat without a lantern is supposed to show a black screen. However, the developers put in the wrong filename for the black screen, so it fails to render, showing a black screen instead
November 24, 2025 at 4:14 AM
In case anyone doubts this: here's my bug report about this from 2016 sourceforge.net/p/scummvm/bu...
MAGFest panel is happening, more details later! See y'all in... a month? That can't be right
November 24, 2025 at 3:42 AM
MAGFest panel is happening, more details later! See y'all in... a month? That can't be right
In The Labyrinth of Time, entering the Ziggurat without a lantern is supposed to show a black screen. However, the developers put in the wrong filename for the black screen, so it fails to render, showing a black screen instead
November 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
In The Labyrinth of Time, entering the Ziggurat without a lantern is supposed to show a black screen. However, the developers put in the wrong filename for the black screen, so it fails to render, showing a black screen instead
Started on Abe's Exoddus now. That is just a solid chunk of video game. It's almost too big, but it's a great companion to the original. It's like a DLC add-on that's three times as long as the base game
November 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Started on Abe's Exoddus now. That is just a solid chunk of video game. It's almost too big, but it's a great companion to the original. It's like a DLC add-on that's three times as long as the base game
A random game, on a Saturday
November 23, 2025 at 12:58 AM
A random game, on a Saturday
It's Wacky Hat Night at VGHF
November 22, 2025 at 4:29 AM
It's Wacky Hat Night at VGHF