Damiano Gerli
@damiano.bsky.social
Gaming historian / digital archeologist @ https://genesistemple.com
Ex-music critic / Twitch streamer/podcaster - https://www.twitch.tv/thegenesistemple
Support https://www.patreon.com/thegenesistemple / https://ko-fi.com/thegenesistemple
Ex-music critic / Twitch streamer/podcaster - https://www.twitch.tv/thegenesistemple
Support https://www.patreon.com/thegenesistemple / https://ko-fi.com/thegenesistemple
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Damiano Gerli
@damiano.bsky.social
· Jul 11
I thought it was time to make a Twitch trailer, a selection of the kind of crap that I take on stream, random singing / laughter / bad jokes / banging the keyboard / dying inside.
Plus the song everyone loves.
All this and very much less on www.twitch.tv/thegenesiste...
Plus the song everyone loves.
All this and very much less on www.twitch.tv/thegenesiste...
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Wow it's already been four years since I was on the @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social podcast to talk about Nintendo in Italy. How time flies when you're talking about Italian rappers. https://gamehistory.org/ep-56-nintendo-in-italy/
Ep. 56: Nintendo in Italy | Video Game History Foundation
Gaming historian and journalist Damiano Gerli shares the details of how exactly Nintendo marketed itself to the Italian consumer in the 80’s and 90’s as laid out in his article Selling Mario to Italia...
gamehistory.org
November 24, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Wow it's already been four years since I was on the @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social podcast to talk about Nintendo in Italy. How time flies when you're talking about Italian rappers. https://gamehistory.org/ep-56-nintendo-in-italy/
Wow it's already been four years since I was on the @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social podcast to talk about Nintendo in Italy. How time flies when you're talking about Italian rappers. https://gamehistory.org/ep-56-nintendo-in-italy/
Ep. 56: Nintendo in Italy | Video Game History Foundation
Gaming historian and journalist Damiano Gerli shares the details of how exactly Nintendo marketed itself to the Italian consumer in the 80’s and 90’s as laid out in his article Selling Mario to Italia...
gamehistory.org
November 24, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Wow it's already been four years since I was on the @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social podcast to talk about Nintendo in Italy. How time flies when you're talking about Italian rappers. https://gamehistory.org/ep-56-nintendo-in-italy/
I just got ahold of a very rare game. Like literally thought to be lost media at this point.
Now I have to figure out how to release it without uuuh... consequences. 👀
Now I have to figure out how to release it without uuuh... consequences. 👀
November 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I just got ahold of a very rare game. Like literally thought to be lost media at this point.
Now I have to figure out how to release it without uuuh... consequences. 👀
Now I have to figure out how to release it without uuuh... consequences. 👀
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Nostalgia in a random side street in Ankara.
November 22, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Nostalgia in a random side street in Ankara.
Nostalgia in a random side street in Ankara.
November 22, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Nostalgia in a random side street in Ankara.
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Since I'm sick and on a break from Twitch and everything, anyone interested in more gaming history, Twitch shenanigans and Italian memes could do much worse than join my new Discord server. Hold up, not much worse. https://discord.gg/t9kSHPxn3
November 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Since I'm sick and on a break from Twitch and everything, anyone interested in more gaming history, Twitch shenanigans and Italian memes could do much worse than join my new Discord server. Hold up, not much worse. https://discord.gg/t9kSHPxn3
Since I'm sick and on a break from Twitch and everything, anyone interested in more gaming history, Twitch shenanigans and Italian memes could do much worse than join my new Discord server. Hold up, not much worse. https://discord.gg/t9kSHPxn3
November 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Since I'm sick and on a break from Twitch and everything, anyone interested in more gaming history, Twitch shenanigans and Italian memes could do much worse than join my new Discord server. Hold up, not much worse. https://discord.gg/t9kSHPxn3
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Open sourced Zork today opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11... and ran it on a swarm of containers in the cloud 😂
Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source
Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), Team Xbox, and Activision are making Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III available under the MIT License.
opensource.microsoft.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Open sourced Zork today opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11... and ran it on a swarm of containers in the cloud 😂
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Welp, I finally made it. My new video on The Museum of Anything Goes is out. I talk about this pretty obscure piece of 90s multimedia that was among the first to blur that thin line between art, games, VR museum and uh... Twin Peaks?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQwz...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQwz...
The Museum of Anything Goes: Blurring the Line Between Art and Game and CD-ROM dreams
YouTube video by The Genesis Temple
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Welp, I finally made it. My new video on The Museum of Anything Goes is out. I talk about this pretty obscure piece of 90s multimedia that was among the first to blur that thin line between art, games, VR museum and uh... Twin Peaks?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQwz...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQwz...
Was happy to discover that Arklovich's works have FINALLY been recovered and have a chance to be read by people!
Today is the day to tell a strange story.
The long version we'll tell later, but the short version is this. In an attic, in his late great-uncle's house, @jon.inkle.co found a locked trunk. It took twenty years to open. Last summer he did.
Inside was a wiring diagram, and a stack of books.
The long version we'll tell later, but the short version is this. In an attic, in his late great-uncle's house, @jon.inkle.co found a locked trunk. It took twenty years to open. Last summer he did.
Inside was a wiring diagram, and a stack of books.
November 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Was happy to discover that Arklovich's works have FINALLY been recovered and have a chance to be read by people!
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You know Steins;Gate is old when they are talking about CRTs monitors as something of a worthless niche that nobody is interested in.
November 19, 2025 at 8:48 AM
You know Steins;Gate is old when they are talking about CRTs monitors as something of a worthless niche that nobody is interested in.
You know Steins;Gate is old when they are talking about CRTs monitors as something of a worthless niche that nobody is interested in.
November 19, 2025 at 8:48 AM
You know Steins;Gate is old when they are talking about CRTs monitors as something of a worthless niche that nobody is interested in.
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Being sick was the perfect opportunity to catch up with Mouthwashing. A game better written, paced and structured than many horror movies I've seen in the last ten years.
Despite my patience running thin with derelict space stations, couldn't put it down until the end. Little gem.
Despite my patience running thin with derelict space stations, couldn't put it down until the end. Little gem.
November 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Being sick was the perfect opportunity to catch up with Mouthwashing. A game better written, paced and structured than many horror movies I've seen in the last ten years.
Despite my patience running thin with derelict space stations, couldn't put it down until the end. Little gem.
Despite my patience running thin with derelict space stations, couldn't put it down until the end. Little gem.
Being sick was the perfect opportunity to catch up with Mouthwashing. A game better written, paced and structured than many horror movies I've seen in the last ten years.
Despite my patience running thin with derelict space stations, couldn't put it down until the end. Little gem.
Despite my patience running thin with derelict space stations, couldn't put it down until the end. Little gem.
November 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Being sick was the perfect opportunity to catch up with Mouthwashing. A game better written, paced and structured than many horror movies I've seen in the last ten years.
Despite my patience running thin with derelict space stations, couldn't put it down until the end. Little gem.
Despite my patience running thin with derelict space stations, couldn't put it down until the end. Little gem.
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In 2006, Rule of Rose had quite the troubled time getting published in Europe. It all started in October from Italian magazine Panorama, which denounced the perverted content in the game (that wasn't there). The article was also mostly plagiarized from an online review.
It didn't end there🧵
It didn't end there🧵
September 6, 2025 at 8:06 AM
In 2006, Rule of Rose had quite the troubled time getting published in Europe. It all started in October from Italian magazine Panorama, which denounced the perverted content in the game (that wasn't there). The article was also mostly plagiarized from an online review.
It didn't end there🧵
It didn't end there🧵
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Sick today but I'm not going to let that stop me from my last stream before a bit of holidays (kinda).
When you're sick what better comfort than random kids multimedia from the late 90s? I mean plenty other things but there ya go. 6.30 join and bring the paracetamol www.twitch.tv/thegenesiste...
When you're sick what better comfort than random kids multimedia from the late 90s? I mean plenty other things but there ya go. 6.30 join and bring the paracetamol www.twitch.tv/thegenesiste...
November 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Sick today but I'm not going to let that stop me from my last stream before a bit of holidays (kinda).
When you're sick what better comfort than random kids multimedia from the late 90s? I mean plenty other things but there ya go. 6.30 join and bring the paracetamol www.twitch.tv/thegenesiste...
When you're sick what better comfort than random kids multimedia from the late 90s? I mean plenty other things but there ya go. 6.30 join and bring the paracetamol www.twitch.tv/thegenesiste...
Sick today but I'm not going to let that stop me from my last stream before a bit of holidays (kinda).
When you're sick what better comfort than random kids multimedia from the late 90s? I mean plenty other things but there ya go. 6.30 join and bring the paracetamol www.twitch.tv/thegenesiste...
When you're sick what better comfort than random kids multimedia from the late 90s? I mean plenty other things but there ya go. 6.30 join and bring the paracetamol www.twitch.tv/thegenesiste...
November 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Sick today but I'm not going to let that stop me from my last stream before a bit of holidays (kinda).
When you're sick what better comfort than random kids multimedia from the late 90s? I mean plenty other things but there ya go. 6.30 join and bring the paracetamol www.twitch.tv/thegenesiste...
When you're sick what better comfort than random kids multimedia from the late 90s? I mean plenty other things but there ya go. 6.30 join and bring the paracetamol www.twitch.tv/thegenesiste...
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In 1990, fourteen-year-old Travis Fowler wrote to Origin Software to plead his case as a devoted follower of Lord British, to see if he could get a discount on Ultima VI (70$ was too much).
He actually got a free copy of the game. He continued writing to the company in the future, too.
He actually got a free copy of the game. He continued writing to the company in the future, too.
November 15, 2025 at 9:36 AM
In 1990, fourteen-year-old Travis Fowler wrote to Origin Software to plead his case as a devoted follower of Lord British, to see if he could get a discount on Ultima VI (70$ was too much).
He actually got a free copy of the game. He continued writing to the company in the future, too.
He actually got a free copy of the game. He continued writing to the company in the future, too.
Time to update this classic game for a new audience
November 15, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Time to update this classic game for a new audience
In 1990, fourteen-year-old Travis Fowler wrote to Origin Software to plead his case as a devoted follower of Lord British, to see if he could get a discount on Ultima VI (70$ was too much).
He actually got a free copy of the game. He continued writing to the company in the future, too.
He actually got a free copy of the game. He continued writing to the company in the future, too.
November 15, 2025 at 9:36 AM
In 1990, fourteen-year-old Travis Fowler wrote to Origin Software to plead his case as a devoted follower of Lord British, to see if he could get a discount on Ultima VI (70$ was too much).
He actually got a free copy of the game. He continued writing to the company in the future, too.
He actually got a free copy of the game. He continued writing to the company in the future, too.
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ICYMI, I was able to finish a video that I was close to deleting because for two months, I was depressed and had writer's block. I guess sometimes publishing a video is its own reward.
Come visit The Museum of Anything Goes, a capsule of the internet... before the internet??
Come visit The Museum of Anything Goes, a capsule of the internet... before the internet??
The Museum of Anything Goes: Blurring the Line Between Art and Game and CD-ROM dreams
YouTube video by The Genesis Temple
www.youtube.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:24 AM
ICYMI, I was able to finish a video that I was close to deleting because for two months, I was depressed and had writer's block. I guess sometimes publishing a video is its own reward.
Come visit The Museum of Anything Goes, a capsule of the internet... before the internet??
Come visit The Museum of Anything Goes, a capsule of the internet... before the internet??
More MYST tonight and of course more random AGS adventurin'. Also SPADONI. Oh lord.
9.30 here www.twitch.tv/thegenesiste...
9.30 here www.twitch.tv/thegenesiste...
November 14, 2025 at 8:19 PM
More MYST tonight and of course more random AGS adventurin'. Also SPADONI. Oh lord.
9.30 here www.twitch.tv/thegenesiste...
9.30 here www.twitch.tv/thegenesiste...
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Witchswitch is a unique 1984 Commodore 64 game, with the classic (for the time) multilevel mechanics.
As for me, any game that starts out with a baboon being pulled by a rope hanging from the neck of a leprechaun jumping on mushrooms over a black swamp has my undivided attention immediately.
As for me, any game that starts out with a baboon being pulled by a rope hanging from the neck of a leprechaun jumping on mushrooms over a black swamp has my undivided attention immediately.
November 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Witchswitch is a unique 1984 Commodore 64 game, with the classic (for the time) multilevel mechanics.
As for me, any game that starts out with a baboon being pulled by a rope hanging from the neck of a leprechaun jumping on mushrooms over a black swamp has my undivided attention immediately.
As for me, any game that starts out with a baboon being pulled by a rope hanging from the neck of a leprechaun jumping on mushrooms over a black swamp has my undivided attention immediately.
Witchswitch is a unique 1984 Commodore 64 game, with the classic (for the time) multilevel mechanics.
As for me, any game that starts out with a baboon being pulled by a rope hanging from the neck of a leprechaun jumping on mushrooms over a black swamp has my undivided attention immediately.
As for me, any game that starts out with a baboon being pulled by a rope hanging from the neck of a leprechaun jumping on mushrooms over a black swamp has my undivided attention immediately.
November 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Witchswitch is a unique 1984 Commodore 64 game, with the classic (for the time) multilevel mechanics.
As for me, any game that starts out with a baboon being pulled by a rope hanging from the neck of a leprechaun jumping on mushrooms over a black swamp has my undivided attention immediately.
As for me, any game that starts out with a baboon being pulled by a rope hanging from the neck of a leprechaun jumping on mushrooms over a black swamp has my undivided attention immediately.