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philsalv.bsky.social
Library Director @ Video Game History Foundation. Tea, birds, and weird old stuff. Maxis history expert, as seen on TV. ☕🐦📚 he/him
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BIRD PROTOCOL activated. Take a bird, leave a bird. Bird. 🪶

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

lmao it took about ~4 hours for the weirdos to show up in my mentions because I posted a terrible sexist game ad from 20 years ago and said it was bad. Weird Angry Internet Men are gettin tired out there

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

Video game ads in the 2000s were a mistake

submitted 13 hours ago • 47 comments

"Don't wear the band's shirt to their own show" is chump shit. I want everyone to know how excited I am to see them. Especially if they're the opener

submitted 15 hours ago • 7 comments

Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 17

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Our GDC panel is up, for free! We gave a crash course on what's happened in the last year in game history (feat @lainenooney.bsky.social @anneladyem.bsky.social @kendraserra.bsky.social @textfiles.com)

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I found my Yakuza heat action

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Thank god I wrote this important cataloging note three years ago

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Our GDC panel is up, for free! We gave a crash course on what's happened in the last year in game history (feat @lainenooney.bsky.social @anneladyem.bsky.social @kendraserra.bsky.social @textfiles.com)

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I had a dream that Werner Herzog went on Hot Ones and called Sonic the Hedgehog "vile"

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Curious what PlayStation's IP Preservation Team has been up to? Have you heard about vaults and mineshafts and wondered what that is all about? Well you're in luck! Our talk is now live and available for free in the GDC Vault gdcvault.com/play/1034952...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

The neighbors have named the alley cat Skirl, which is a Scottish word for a wailing sound Behold his mighty skirl

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

From EGM2, March 1995

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

After years of avoiding it, I finally watched TNG season 1. It's as bad as everyone says, but it hints at a different metaphysical direction they wanted the show to take. It was the right call to abandon that, but it could've been interesting if it was done better

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Hastily jotted down some thoughts at 1am about how a single small design choice in FF8 marked the series finally breaking from its origins as a D&D clone

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

A random game? On a Saturday?

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

If there's one person who knows how bone-crunching NFL Blitz 2000 is, it's @jeffgerstmann.com (from a promotional disc from Midway that we just digitized)

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Tonight's tea is one of my tariff panic purchases: amaretto cherry black tea. This is everything I hoped it would be. Tastes like cherry brandy. It's a great substitute for one of my favorite discontinued blends (Outlaw from August Uncommon)

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I am not joking: Today, while I was blasting Eyes On Me in the office, @kohler.bsky.social knocked on the door and handed me a copy of Final Fantasy VIII. Every day of my life is like this now

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

We're still scanning the game industry magazine Games Business and finding some real gems, like this interview with Superman 64 technical director Rob Stevens about what the hell went wrong. "[W]e could see the things that were going wrong, so it didn't teach us anything we didn't already know."

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

I love video game trade magazines because they'll have articles titled things like "A Man with a Vision" and it's about a regional sales manager

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Happy Balamb Garden (Extended 3 hour loop) Friday

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment