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Never let people tell you the internet isn't great!!!!!!!!

To the person who came up to me after a talk I did yesterday and said they had been following this Tumblr since high school: WOW THANK YOU, YOU MADE MY WEEK.

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To the person who came up to me after a talk I did yesterday and said they had been following this Tumblr since high school: WOW THANK YOU, YOU MADE MY WEEK.

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The Plaza. From Artrageous!

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The food: Great! The restaurant layout: Lacking!

Sharing a corner booth in Spokane with @obscuritory ➡️ saddest photo ever taken

Sometimes it's like I can still hear his voice...

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Hear me talk about game preservation in Toronto!

Hey Toronto followers! Next weekend, I'll be speaking about the state of video game history and game preservation on Saturday, June 15 as part of Toronto Games Week. We'll be going over everything happening at the Video Game History Foundation and the response to our game availability study, one year later.

It's all happening at the Toronto Reference Library at the Retro Games Play and Preserve Forum. Free to attend!

This is my first time in Toronto, so I'd love to see y'all there!

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In a surreal maze, facing north. From The Labyrinth of Time

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Title screen from Math Castle

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Setup is going great. Very safe.

See you at 8pm Eastern time on the ROMchip fundraiser stream, running all day tomorrow!

Support game history and watch me possibly break my wrist playing with an experimental controller

ROMchip, the first ever video game history journal, is going independent! They're doing their first-ever fundraiser stream on Saturday, featuring gaming notables like Bennett Foddy, Rami Ismail, Nina Freeman, and John and Brenda Romero!

And also, I'll be there! Last month, we were donated a Novint Falcon, an experimental 3D haptic controller released in 2008. This thing is absolutely hogwild. It can exert several POUNDS of force feedback. And I'm gonna put it through its paces.

As an incentive, if ROMchip raises all $6000 they need to keep running, I will go into the Falcon settings and turn force feedback up to maximum. Will I get hurt? WE'LL SEE.

The fun begins Saturday May 11 at 11am Eastern and goes late into the evening!

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Support game history and watch me possibly break my wrist playing with an experimental controller

ROMchip, the first ever video game history journal, is going independent! They're doing their first-ever fundraiser stream on Saturday, featuring gaming notables like Bennett Foddy, Rami Ismail, Nina Freeman, and John and Brenda Romero!

And also, I'll be there! Last month, we were donated a Novint Falcon, an experimental 3D haptic controller released in 2008. This thing is absolutely hogwild. It can exert several POUNDS of force feedback. And I'm gonna put it through its paces.

As an incentive, if ROMchip raises all $6000 they need to keep running, I will go into the Falcon settings and turn force feedback up to maximum. Will I get hurt? WE'LL SEE.

The fun begins Saturday May 11 at 11am Eastern and goes late into the evening!

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If being rich means I won't get into heaven, then baby I'm stayin here on earth!!!!

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GDC 2024: What's New in Game History!

Hey, my GDC panel is up, and it's free! Watch me, historian Laine Nooney, Stanford curator Henry Lowood, tech policy lawyer Kendra Albert, and Chloe Appleby from the Powerhouse Museum talk about what's been happening in the field of game history.

We cover a lot of ground in an hour. This is a great way to get up to speed on what's been happening with game history/preservation, the challenges we're facing, and where we see things going in the next year. And yes, we talk about Yuzu.

(If my line "Today's piracy tools are tomorrow's preservation tools" ends up getting quoted, I won't be mad.)

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Water Ways ‘Lomax The Lemming’ PlayStation

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From Emergency Room: Disaster Strikes

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My panel from Super MAGFest 2024 is up! Meredith Rose and I talk about VGHF's report that 87% of classic games are out of print and the legal battle we're fighting to make game preservation easier for libraries and archives.

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Hello. Is there a way I can view your Game Preservation Crisis talk online? I just discovered your blog, too late to attend, but the questions of availability have been on my mind lately.

Thank you!

Hey! MAGFest is still uploading all the panels from this year. I'll share it once they upload it (I assume they recorded it...?).

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Heading to the Game Developers Conference!

I'm helping run the Game History Gallery exhibit this year for the Video Game History Foundation, AND I'll be appearing on a panel, "What's New in Game History!", to talk about the cool things the community has been up to in the world of game history/archiving. Say hi!

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