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JEAN

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

This is the physical spaceship model photographed to make the player graphics in 1983's Mad Planets, one of my favorite arcade games. Artist Jeff Lee let me hold it! It's a weird feeling, holding the "real" ship in a game.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Want to understand why a game moved you so deeply? Chances are, there’s a book that explains it. Explore the “why” behind your favourite games. #GameStudies

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Saw the unreleased baseball game I helped preserve in a working cabinet today! I felt a sense of unearned pride, like the absent dad of a famous person.

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments

Going to redo this video with the full run

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

If you are able at all to donate towards these lots, it would be very much appreciated. It cannot be overstated how rare an opportunity it is to even see these issues. As ever, they will be scanned by yours truly for all to see.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

I need you all to know that in ten days, in Chicago, there is an official party for a bizarro FMV game for the 3DO that never came out. Yes, I am flying out just for this, it is the only official party for a cancelled 3DO game that I have ever been invited to.

submitted 12 days ago • 22 comments

Multicart getting desperate starting around number 7

submitted 13 days ago • 7 comments

Hi please check your closets for this issue of Play, it's the last one we need and nothing makes my librarian ass grumpier than missing exactly one issue of a publication. Two is fine, one makes me obsessive.

submitted 14 days ago • 31 comments

I just filled out shipping info for a Kickstarter movie I backed...in 2013, so the reward is a physical Blu-ray. Which was the style at the time!

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

Yes, finally, I can reuse and remix "moving pictures of boat, but in color" without legal repercussions

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

This skeet will act as my official endorsement for watching me talk about video game history on YouTube at 2x speed. It is okay and I actively encourage it.

submitted 19 days ago • 6 comments

He really feels like Daredevil in the cutscenes once you put the mime outfit sunglasses on him

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

One time an ex was mad at me and channeled that anger to my browning meat when cooking. I believe her exact words were "fuck the Maillard reaction."

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

I get some wild push notifications from the @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social Discord

submitted 24 days ago • 7 comments

we saw you from across the bar and

submitted 25 days ago • 7 comments