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extrametrica
@extrametrica.bsky.social
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streamer of retro educational games on twitch.tv/extrametrica, enjoys math education, not a cat
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extrametrica.bsky.social
Thanks to those of you stopping by my first stream of 2026 tonight, a first time live crafting of a LEGO orchids set I received from @clownscorp.bsky.social for xmas ❤️ For now, more crafting streams until I'm ready to do edu games again ❤️‍🩹
A completed Lego orchids kit with six white and pink orchids in a Lego pot. This is sitting on a desk with lots of wires in the background.
January 11, 2026 at 4:58 AM
extrametrica.bsky.social
Have a peaceful start to a new year 2026 ✨ Thanks everyone who sent me kind words through this difficult time ❤️ I won't be streaming for a little while, as I'm still struggling with the loss of Captain. He was integral in my streams as well as in my life, and I'll need some time. 💐
January 3, 2026 at 4:35 PM
extrametrica.bsky.social
I'm gutted to share sad news that Captain went towards the rainbow bridge today. He was almost 16 years old and surrounded by love and compassion to the end. I just want everyone to know that he was the best boy and to look at him because he was the best. 💔
A top down view of a brown tabby cat named Captain, the best boi, laying in one of his favourite boxes, a Pepsi not-a-box, next to the skirt of a Christmas tree and boxes. He is staring intently into the viewer's souls.
December 31, 2025 at 2:03 AM
extrametrica.bsky.social
In the last stream of the year yesterday, we experienced the frist instance of a retro de-educational game with Daffy Duck P.I.: The Case of the Missing Letters (1991) for DOS. Why the game denied us legitimate words remains a mystery...😭 www.twitch.tv/extrametrica...
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December 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
extrametrica.bsky.social
After playing Amazon Trail (1993) for DOS last night, and given we already play a whole bunch of other retro educational games, I think I should make a Hall of Fame for non-metric unit of measures.
Screenshot of "The Amazon Trail (1993) DOS Edition". It is showing a page from the in-game reference book, of a Bushmaster and a diagram of a brown and orange snake. The text on the left says "Bushmaster Active: At night. Eats: Mostly small mammals; also birds and amphibians. Size: About as long as Shaquille O'Neal is tall." The closed caption under says "anybody know off the top of their head how tall Shaquille O'Neal is". The opposite page provides more facts about the bushmaster.
December 18, 2025 at 12:19 AM
extrametrica.bsky.social
We tried a different kind of retro educational video game tonight with Micro Adventure No.1 Space Attack (1984), a game book for teens with printed BASIC code to type in and run in your home PC! This is the website to experience the fun for yourself: auri-microadventure.azurewebsites.net
Home Page - MicroAdventure - Learn to Code with BASIC!
auri-microadventure.azurewebsites.net
December 14, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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highbury.bsky.social
24 hour Extra Life charity stream begins at 8pm EST! Also my farewell stream, as I will no longer be streaming after this.

Come say hi and bye!

www.Twitch.tv/highbury_hazard
Highbury_Hazard - Twitch
A guy who practices 10,000 punches once. Come and enjoy some retro, indie, classic, and sometimes spooky games!
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December 12, 2025 at 11:59 PM
extrametrica.bsky.social
Tonight, we played Super Solvers: Challenge of the Ancient Empires (1990) on DOS, which inserts superficial educational elements into a platformer. However, a player has to exercise planning, logic, and problem solving skills to pass each level, also important for any learner to practice!
Screenshot of Super Solvers: Challenge of the Ancient Empires (1990). The game screen shows an ancient Egyptian themed platforming scene with the player in a red hat, blue coat and red shoes carrying a backpack. There is a flying frog enemy in the middle of the screen. There are two glass triangular shapes on the left side, a yellow and purple diamond on the top left, and a red block on the right. The bottom of the game overlay shows the number of Artifact pieces collected, the current tool selected which is a pair of jet boots, the player's energy, the Egypt cavern and chamber II of IV. The closed caption from the stream says, "I don't want to look at it is it going to spit at me I bet you it will it's the last one".
December 10, 2025 at 5:37 AM
extrametrica.bsky.social
Last DOSember, we played a bit of Mario's Time Machine (1993) and only managed to return a couple of artifacts. We saved at that point and only returned to this save game tonight 😹 We chipped away at it some more and now have put it away for next year! (Also, they really needed to proofread!)
Screen shot of Mario's TIme Machine (1993) for DOS, with the DOSember overlay on the right side of the image. The scene is a Victorian English styled office where Charles DIckens is sitting in a chair near his bookshelf, with a writing desk on the right facing large windows. The game caption below the scene says "Yes! My inkwell, now ... allows me to continue with my writing: Thank you for it's return. It's these little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness that help us all!" The closed caption says "... with my writing thank you for it's all good every single one of these panels is written wrong"
December 7, 2025 at 5:24 AM
extrametrica.bsky.social
For our inaugural DOSember 2025 stream, we played Math Rescue Plus (1992), a mathematics educational platforming game for elementary students to practice arithmetic operations and intepreting word problems. It's good for a variety of drills and just crazy enough to keep your interest for a while!
Screen capture from extrametrica's stream of her playthrough of Math Rescue Plus (1992). The math word problem says: Jodi's cat, Max, takes 6 naps before breakfast and 6 naps after breakfast. How many naps does he take? The closed caption states" All of them". There are a set of digits from 0 to 9 across the game screen, and a girl character below positioning to jump into individual digits. The stream overlay on the right hand side has the game title, the game cover for Math Rescue and a pixelated cat inside a DOSEMBER frame.
December 3, 2025 at 5:45 AM
extrametrica.bsky.social
The embargo is over-it's the 5th annual recital concert thingy on December 21, 1 PM EST as my thank you for your support throughout the year! You are invited to attend an afternoon with an amateur violinist playing Final Fantasy covers from the NES/SNES era, and maybe say hello to Captain. 😺
Promotional image announcing in the Final Fantasy font, "extrametrica's Final Fantasy 5th recital thing for 2025," on December 21 at 1 PM EST at twitch.tv/extrametrica . The background is white with an image of a cat named Captain cosplaying as a chocobo, in a purple gradient style like Final Fantasy.
December 2, 2025 at 1:08 AM
extrametrica.bsky.social
I am too excited to present my month of #DOSember 2025 schedule, cryptically described as usual! Tuesdays and Saturdays from 7:30 PM EST will feature DOS retro educational games while Sunday December 21 at 1 PM EST will be something different apart from gaming... À suivre!
DOSEMBER 2025 schedule on twitch.tv/extrametrica: Tuesday Dec 2 is "Math(s)", Saturday Dec 6 is "Mario", Tuesday Dec 9 is "Platformer?", Saturday Dec 13 is "BASIC Adventure", Tuesday Dec 16 is "Happy Trails!", Saturday Dec 20 is "SIMple living", Sunday Dec 21 is "Annual Retro Video Game Music Recital", Tuesday Dec 23 is "Licensed games". Tuesday and Saturday streams start at 7:30 PM EST, and Sunday recital starts at 1 PM EST. The background design, border and images are retro 90s inspired colours and shapes with designs in bright neon colours. A light grey cat head wearing a beak and spiky feathers is nearly invisible in the background.
November 28, 2025 at 4:51 AM
extrametrica.bsky.social
(Deleted previous post, tagged the wrong person) Last night while playing Clue (1996), the game crashed just before the final accusation phase and I had to start over but I forgot to save 🙀. So this is just a reminder to always listen to @highbury.bsky.social and Save Often(TM). 🌈⭐
November 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
extrametrica.bsky.social
It's one month out from my fifth annual recial thingy - December 21, 2025 at 1 PM EDT - and the theme will hopefully be a pleasant surprise for fellow retro video game enthusiasts. Will be announcing it by December (when preparations are done). À suivre! 🙀
November 22, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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foolbox.bsky.social
5 months after the jam that brought SCOPECREEP to life, I'm proud to say the Steam Page as now launched! If you like incremental games, make sure to wishlist it!

s.team/a/3595710

Also, it would mean the world to me if you spread the word!
#gamedev #indiedev #godotengine #incremental #scopecreep
September 29, 2025 at 1:50 PM
extrametrica.bsky.social
Thanks to everyone who came by my Busytown-themed Baldur's Gate cakeday stream today! I appreciate the raids from @droulmegus.bsky.social and @highbury.bsky.social. Feeling humbled by all the kind wishes 💐⭐🐱
Showing the character profile of Lowly Worm in Baldur's Gate (1998). His sheet says he is a level 1 Elf Ranger of Lawful Good alignment, and has strength 18/95, dexterity 19, constitution 17, intelligence 16, wisdom 16, and charisma 8. The other five members of his team are also Busytown characters.
September 7, 2025 at 11:51 PM
extrametrica.bsky.social
September: that time of year when my number ticks up another notch at some point, and I forget what that is. 😹 You'll know the day as I'll be streaming absolutely anything that I feel like 🙀
September 2, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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emmfoolery.bsky.social
Psst... hey kid, you wanna make a DOS game?

I'm hosting a DOS(ember) Game Jam! All details are at the attached link.

Please feel free to join in – no experience necessary!
DOSember Game Jam
A game jam from 2025-08-31 to 2025-11-30 hosted by emmfoolery. DOSember is an annual streaming event on twitch.tv Now approaching its 6th year, DOSember participants spend the entire month of December...
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August 16, 2025 at 7:24 AM
extrametrica.bsky.social
No stream tonight. Captain isn't well lately so we're taking care of him and watching over his progress ❤️
July 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
extrametrica.bsky.social
Happy Canada Day! Joyeux fête du Canada! Taking a break from streaming tonight to celebrate. See you next Saturday!
Profile of Captain with a maple leaf backdrop, and two Canadian maple leaf flags on both cheeks.
July 1, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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clownscorp.bsky.social
Now @extrametrica.bsky.social and I are playing Death Unrailed to Canada! Or at least one then the other at twitch.tv/clownscorp !!! We have dynamite and bats!
A promotional picture of extrametrica and clowns in their avatar forms, in the style of the train game unrailed! on the left side, while hordes of zombies face them from the game Death Road to Canada on the right side. The logo of both games are merged together as "DEATH unrailed! to CANADA". June 23,
June 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
extrametrica.bsky.social
Two co-op games in one stream!? Find out if @clownscorp.bsky.social and I survive (possibly) two games this Monday, June 23 at 1 PM EDT, on twitch.tv/clownscorp 😹🤡 Dynamite usage guaranteed 🧨💥💥💥
A promotional picture of extrametrica and clowns in their avatar forms, in the style of the train game unrailed! on the left side, while hordes of zombies face them from the game Death Road to Canada on the right side. The logo of both games are merged together as "DEATH unrailed! to CANADA". June 23, 2025 - 1 PM EDT, twitch.tv/clownscorp
June 21, 2025 at 1:10 PM
extrametrica.bsky.social
We finally came across a retro educational game that teaches music theory in a deeper way-Julliard Music Adventure (1995)-without explicitly teaching modern notation. While it doesn't have a full music composition function, it was interesting and innovative!
Screen capture of Julliard Music Adventure (1995) stream. The game shows a rhythm editing tool consisting of different coloured boxes representing different beats, framed within a measure. These affect the length of the tones in the measure behind the rhythm editor. At the bottom of the frame is the melody being edited to solve the music puzzle.
May 21, 2025 at 3:38 AM
extrametrica.bsky.social
Got a Fun Dip as a party favour recently, haven't had one since I was a kid. Despite being only one third of the usual 3-pack, it was still a lot of sugar ... On the plus side I had fun reliving this experience! 😹
A packet of Lik-m-aid Fun Dip candy, RazzApple Magic Dip flavour. It is 12.1 g of powdered blue sugar and a candy stick, 45 cal only!
May 1, 2025 at 10:51 PM
extrametrica.bsky.social
Tonight, we discovered Mathosaurus (1989), an early edu Apple II math game. Besides extracting educational value, art from this era was also impressive. The dinos' expressions and animations were very cute! Here's a screen cap of a troupe of dinos suspicious of one another... 🦖🦕
Screenshot from Apple II game "Mathosaurus (1989)" with ten different colourful dinosaurs eyeing each other suspiciously, with numbers from 1-10 lining the top and bottom of the group. The Captain-baba avatar is on the side.
April 16, 2025 at 4:04 AM