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Quarter Past @quarterpast.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks as always Jezza! ✌️

This was the welpiest #AT40 that ever welped

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Quarter Past @quarterpast.bsky.social · 1d

they'll tell stories about the karaoke from that night for years to come

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Quarter Past @quarterpast.bsky.social · 1d

Just make sure to bring it to upcoming #AT40 convention in Vegas 😜

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Quarter Past @quarterpast.bsky.social · 1d

between that and the #AT40 record skips, I'm having a seizure

Quarter Past @quarterpast.bsky.social · 1d

still teasing that Nicks' get up 🫡

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Quarter Past @quarterpast.bsky.social · 1d

ok someone reach out to that Jonathan guy at SXM and let him know their cut of this #AT40 countdown is completely wrought with bad edits and horrible skips

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Quarter Past @quarterpast.bsky.social · 1d

omfg you're not kidding!

thank you for that

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Quarter Past @quarterpast.bsky.social · 1d

it's weird—they don't show up in my own search

With the bad edits in this one I feel like I'm having a stroke

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Quarter Past @quarterpast.bsky.social · 1d

What in the actual fuck is going on?

Songs are dropping wholesale, my #AT40 tag posts aren't showing up in search...

I'm going behind the arcade to hang out with the kids in the Foghat t-shirts — lmk if we get this fixed

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Quarter Past @quarterpast.bsky.social · 1d

Did anyone else just blackout for the duration of this song? #AT40

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Quarter Past @quarterpast.bsky.social · 1d

we're thirsty this week #AT40 rockheads, so you have to make this one count

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Quarter Past @quarterpast.bsky.social · 1d

lol my posts with the #AT40 hashtag aren't showing up in search—I'm clearly being shadowbanned for my hot music takes!

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Quarter Past @quarterpast.bsky.social · 1d

By next week, Bing Crosby will drop dead on a golf course. The following week, half of Lynyrd Skynyrd will die in a plane crash.

We’re headed to the arcade to listen to this week’s #AT40 countdown.

Keep your eye out for this individual, who will kick your ass at the new game, Hustle.

This is Sabrina Osment, a young blonde woman with a smirk on her face, wearing a t-shirt that reads “HUSTLE”. Video-game producer Gremlin enlisted her to promote their new game “Hustle”. Osment would tour with another woman, Lynn Reid, around various arcades, probably enduring a thick misogynist welcome, before they’d challenge newcomers to play the arcade game and summarily kick their asses at it. Their record against opponents after a 12-city tour was reportedly 1233 wins, 7 losses.

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Quarter Past @quarterpast.bsky.social · 1d

October 8, 1977

America, beacon of democracy, is about to get exactly the #AT40 it deserves.

Star Wars is still held over for, like, the 25th consecutive week. The first posthumous sightings of Elvis with a beard are happening in various airports.

Tragedy is just around the corner…

Jezza Morgan ; @porpster.bsky.social · 1d

Stop what you're doing, and join us. We're traveling back to October 8, 1977 for another Casey Kasem American Top 40 flashback #AT40. Who will be #1?

Listen on SiriusXM 70s, and follow this 🧵 to find out.

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Kevin Bunch (ubersaurus) @atariarchive.org · 3d

We conclude the articles on Activision's four initial games with a history of Dragster, David Crane's other game from the lot and, reportedly, one of the company's biggest early successes... as well as a game infamous for a speedrunning scandal. www.atariarchive.org/blog/dragste...

Dragster – August 1980, Atari Archive

While David Crane's other August release, Fishing Derby, was a unique experience in the gaming space, the same can’t exactly be said for his other...

www.atariarchive.org

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Kevin Bunch (ubersaurus) @atariarchive.org · 4d

The blog continues its updates, as Bob Whitehead's Boxing gets its time in the spotlight. Unassuming but a blast to play, particularly if you're using the original joysticks and want to experience actual exhaustion in your boxing match. www.atariarchive.org/blog/boxing-...

Boxing – August 1980, Atari Archive

After exiting Atari upon the completion of Video Chess and participating in the risky venture of starting up the novel idea of a third-party video game...

www.atariarchive.org

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Quarter Past @quarterpast.bsky.social · 5d

you have to wear the mask while you play the game I don't make the rules

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Quarter Past @quarterpast.bsky.social · 5d

Renga in Blue has arrived at what is imo the hardest Infocom game ever

Jason Dyer @jdyer.bsky.social · 5d

in which I embark on Infocom's wildly ambitious Suspended, where you are in partial cryofreeze and can only communicate with the world using six robots, each with their own abilities and methods of communicating

bluerenga.blog/2025/10/07/s...

Suspended (1983)

A bicycle can get you from New York to LA, so will a jet plane. In one sense they are the exact same thing; in another they are nothing alike. In one sense we are working within traditional genres …

bluerenga.blog

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Quarter Past @quarterpast.bsky.social · 5d

Looking forward to this one—especially if you tackle any of the advanced difficulty settings

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On This Day in Simpsons History @dailysimpsons.bsky.social · 7d

#OnThisDay #OTD October 1990, #TheSimpsons pinball game was released by Data East Pinball. It has been cited as helping increase the popularity of pinball machines at the beginning of the 1990s.

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They Create Worlds @theycreateworlds.bsky.social · 8d

Join us for a day of recording the history of Commodore! LIVE!
www.twitch.tv/tcwpodcast

TCWPodcast - Twitch

RECORDING - HISTORY OF COMMODORE

www.twitch.tv

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Quarter Past @quarterpast.bsky.social · 8d

Starting in about 15 minutes from now—it's the 7th (almost) annual They Create Worlds livestream!

Alex & Jeffrey should be able to stream for about 10 hours before they collapse!

Will any audience member be able to last the marathon?

Tune in & learn more about Commodore Intl than thought possible

TCWPodcast - Twitch

RECORDING - HISTORY OF COMMODORE

www.twitch.tv

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Quarter Past @quarterpast.bsky.social · 8d

listen #AT40 rockheads, no spoilers — and while Grand Funk might be by later to save our asses, this is one of your few opportunities to crank the distorted guitar!

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Quarter Past @quarterpast.bsky.social · 8d

Come to the arcade, where there are now as many as 18(!) different Pong clones to play.

I have to leave early and take the DeLorean as far back as 1954 before the #AT40 is done, though, so please arrange your own ride back to 2025.

And also wish @porpster.bsky.social a belated happy birthday!

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Quarter Past @quarterpast.bsky.social · 8d

September 29, 1973

Big day: Rose Mary Woods is busy making transcriptions of President Nixon’s recordings and probably thinking about “Alice’s Restaurant”.

The music industry is in shambles, but still persists in creating enough music to craft a weekly #AT40.

Rose Mary Woods demonstrates the “Rose Mary Stretch,” the explanation given for her role in erasing a big chunk of audio tape that seemed pretty detrimental to President Richard Nixon during the now quaint period in American history known as “Watergate.”

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