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Chris Chapman

@retrohistories.bsky.social

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Old videogames, cross stitch, and other nerdy pursuits. Occasionally makes short documentaries about stories from videogame history. Somehow they've had a million views?! "Sound[s] bored and enthused at the same time" — YouTube commenter Hoodii

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Kevin Bunch (ubersaurus) @atariarchive.org · 5h

I just want to make clear to everybody that this is a real game written for DEC computers in 1971. You notably do not play as Arnold Palmer, you are his caddy and make recommendations on what club he uses. It might be one of my favorite game concepts

Quarter Past @quarterpast.bsky.social · 7h

no love for Play Golf With Arnold Palmer?

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Chris Chapman @retrohistories.bsky.social · 3h

a man in a suit and tie is smiling and says but i 'm gonna say it anyway

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Chris Chapman @retrohistories.bsky.social · 11h

I play Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor for the dwarves.

Chris Chapman @retrohistories.bsky.social · 11h

thanks, steam discovery algorithm. you know me too well.

(honestly a little disappointed, given I've just rolled credits on Promise Mascot Agency, that it didn't offer me more 'tofu games')

Steam showing me more ‘dwarf games’, presumably because I’ve been playing Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor.

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 14h

Wizardry 44th anniversary sale on Steam buff.ly/FvRdujj

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Bad Game Hall of Fame @bghof.com · 15h

Fun fact: The hilarious cover for the PAL release of Ju-on: The Grudge on Wii attributes a flattering box quote to one "T. Kanazawa," providing no publication source.

Tomio Kanazawa is the senior producer for the game's European localization team; Rising Star Games.

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Hit Save! @hitsave.org · 16h

CORRECTION: It seems the two games were developed separately from each other! Thanks to @jtduckman.bsky.social for sharing this video where Mr. Sakurai goes into more detail! For anyone who isn't familiar, this video series is a treasure trove of info from a development legend! youtu.be/bRDAYgRns4E

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Hit Save! @hitsave.org · 17h

The new Kirby Air Riders comes out next month, but the original Kirby Air Ride for Nintendo Gamecube turns 22 years old today! But wait, WAS it the original? The game actually started life on the Nintendo 64 before being cancelled and developed as a Gamecube game instead!

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 1d

shadowrun, print ad, imagery (2007) archive.org/details/game...

a bald human head with 10 eyes in the back of it, glancing in various directions. super creepy nightmare fuel.
text to the right: in any other game, this might actually help you.

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Rob Caporetto @robcap.bsky.social · 1d

I kind of dig seeing weird little projects like this - kitbashing a model based on the cover art to Asteroids on the 7800.

(Also, there's some other cool projects on their channel worth having on in the background for artistic funsies!)

I Kitbashed the ship from the cover of ASTEROIDS

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Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 1d

VGHF recently archived a LucasArts press CD-ROM from 1996 as part of the GamePro archives, including a full history of the company to date: https://archive.gamehistory.org/item/fc835949-e496-47ff-9800-e8f5428e01e2 (The LucasArts .com website got '5,000 visits a day' back in 1996!)

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Bad Game Hall of Fame @bghof.com · 1d

'Duke Nukem 3D' on the Sega Mega Drive released on this day in 1998.

Tec Toy's "conversion" of Duke 3D to the Mega Drive is nothing short of a technical marvel. Unfortunately; it is also frustratingly clunky, notoriously difficult, and challenging to even visually parse.

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Chris Chapman @retrohistories.bsky.social · 1d

Spending my Sunday afternoon in the traditional way: figuring out solutions to the many stressful problems encountered in migrating a wiki to a new server running a different version of the software, a different version of the operating system, and a different architecture

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 2d

Holy shit someone uploaded the entire stage play adaptation of the Yakuza videogame series with English subtitles and it’s glorious and 500x better than the Amazon show youtu.be/Z2Msr4si6dU?...

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Chris Chapman @retrohistories.bsky.social · 2d

Exists already.

The cover of The Complete Gelatin Cookbook, featuring a photo of a quivering edifice of indeterminate contents.

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Gideon Zhi @aeongenesis.net · 2d

Continuing the spoopy theme for #RandomGameSaturday this week I have something really special. If I know you on discord you've probably already seen this but here's one of two known authentic prototypes of the unreleased NES game "Drac's Night Out". It's the one that the circulating dump comes from!

Drac's Night Out prototype cartridge. It's a blank NES cartridge with a hole cut out of the top cover near the cartridge contacts, with two EPROMs sticking out of the hole.

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Chris Chapman @retrohistories.bsky.social · 2d

a group of people standing in front of a screen that says " see it say it sorted . "

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 2d

BBC Model Linear B

A picture of a very old BBC Microcomputer sporting a keyboard with markings in Linear B.

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Chris Chapman @retrohistories.bsky.social · 2d

oh this is at the very start of Valhalla, it’s not a dialogue thing. you can pick male, female or ‘let the animus decide’ which isn’t explained upfront (but you’ll mostly be playing female Eivor).

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Chris Chapman @retrohistories.bsky.social · 3d

tip: 'let the animus decide' might seem like a weird/non-obvious option in character creation, but it's the canonical choice. just go with it

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Damiano Gerli @damiano.bsky.social · 3d

The first console to appear in Italian cinema was (probably) the Seleco-Zanussi Gun-o-tronic, showing up in 1976 Il Signor Robinson (Mr. Robinson).
The Gun-o-tronic was the official gun accessory for the Ping-o-tronic, an early Italian Odyssey clone released around early 1975.

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 3d

A little something to take the edge off as you head into the weekend @erinbiba.bsky.social

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Chris Chapman @retrohistories.bsky.social · 3d

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Dave, Second Dude Under Heaven @sasuraiger.bsky.social · 3d

One of the weird things about this era was extremely expensive future-hardware that only adults (or rich kids) could afford marketing to the kids who all bought a Genesis because it cost $150 and TV told them it would make them cool. Axe deodorant-ass baby commercials for a $700 game console.

Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 3d

I don't think kids today really appreciate just how tryhard edgy video game marketing was in the 90s.

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NARFNra @narfnra.bsky.social · 7d

emulator filter called gameboy advance at night which looks like this

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