Frank Cifaldi
@frankcifaldi.bsky.social
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I've had a promotional VHS for the test animation that became Batman: The Animated Series for a long time, I bought it on eBay in like...1999? The version they put as a bonus on the DVD said they lost the audio but uh, here it is. You're welcome Bruce Timm.
January 27, 2026 at 1:30 AM
I've had a promotional VHS for the test animation that became Batman: The Animated Series for a long time, I bought it on eBay in like...1999? The version they put as a bonus on the DVD said they lost the audio but uh, here it is. You're welcome Bruce Timm.
Someone dorkier than me please ID the artist so I can spend the rest of my life trying to find the original art for Superman Raisins
Superman Raisins (1982-1986): Snack-sized boxes of raisins, bearing the image and likeness of the Man of Steel, who could be seen on every box dumping a presumably gargantuan barrel of football-sized raisins onto a seemingly endless raisin horde, located in an empty, peach-colored void
January 26, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Someone dorkier than me please ID the artist so I can spend the rest of my life trying to find the original art for Superman Raisins
This game was crazy, they were like cars sliding around on the ice into each other. Jersey colors were Invisible Snow Camo vs. Loud Safety Vest. They had to stop throwing the ball because no one could see it.
January 26, 2026 at 12:51 AM
This game was crazy, they were like cars sliding around on the ice into each other. Jersey colors were Invisible Snow Camo vs. Loud Safety Vest. They had to stop throwing the ball because no one could see it.
PS1 Beavis and Butt-Head are here to make your day better
January 24, 2026 at 10:25 PM
PS1 Beavis and Butt-Head are here to make your day better
I didn't know he lived in Vermont, crazy
January 23, 2026 at 6:33 PM
I didn't know he lived in Vermont, crazy
If game jams are still a thing there should be one where every game starts with this screenshot
bar games, screenshot, dos (1989) www.mobygames.com/game/5618/ba...
January 22, 2026 at 7:57 PM
If game jams are still a thing there should be one where every game starts with this screenshot
Please enjoy this nearly three seconds of footage from the original Mother 3, newly captured off of a tape we're working with
January 17, 2026 at 12:22 AM
Please enjoy this nearly three seconds of footage from the original Mother 3, newly captured off of a tape we're working with
Some days at work you digitize long-lost video game ROMs like you're a video game Indiana Jones and other days you babysit a video tape of someone playing "Blasto" by Sony Interactive Studios America for the PlayStation home video game console
January 16, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Some days at work you digitize long-lost video game ROMs like you're a video game Indiana Jones and other days you babysit a video tape of someone playing "Blasto" by Sony Interactive Studios America for the PlayStation home video game console
When shit is bad I seek art with uncompromising beauty, like these screenshots of "KONG KING" recently posted on the bootleg games Discord
January 16, 2026 at 8:32 PM
When shit is bad I seek art with uncompromising beauty, like these screenshots of "KONG KING" recently posted on the bootleg games Discord
If I were hiring games writers I would be laughing like a super villain at my sudden fortune of having Ash Parrish available for work
Breaks my heart to share this, but today is my last day at The Verge and I am looking for work! I'd really like to stay in video games, preferably in some kind of journalistic capacity but I can do PR/Marketing and maybe even a lil Narrative Design. Please get in touch!
www.ashparrish.com
www.ashparrish.com
Ash Parrish
www.ashparrish.com
January 16, 2026 at 7:00 PM
If I were hiring games writers I would be laughing like a super villain at my sudden fortune of having Ash Parrish available for work
Me when you show me an Amiga-ass demo scene thing 🥱
Me when you show me an Amiga-ass demo scene thing but it has Batman in it and is sold by Sega 😍
Me when you show me an Amiga-ass demo scene thing but it has Batman in it and is sold by Sega 😍
Let The Adventures of Batman & Robin's title screen (MD/Gen version) intro loop a few times; that's when you get some extra audio spice from composer Jesper Kyd for its demoscene energy-infused intro.
January 16, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Me when you show me an Amiga-ass demo scene thing 🥱
Me when you show me an Amiga-ass demo scene thing but it has Batman in it and is sold by Sega 😍
Me when you show me an Amiga-ass demo scene thing but it has Batman in it and is sold by Sega 😍
This is sort of a niche topic I guess but I met the author of my favorite Atari 2600 game and he was cool as hell, so I got him on the show. I also brought in my former co-worker Kevin, a programmer who was inspired by the game, and we had a really great chat breaking down what makes it so great.
In the latest Video Game History Hour, Atari game developer John Van Ryzin and Digital Eclipse Technical Director Kevin Wilson both join host Frank Cifaldi to reminisce about the Atari 2600 title, and Frank’s favorite game, H.E.R.O.: https://gamehistory.org/episode-147-h-e-r-o/
January 16, 2026 at 4:07 PM
This is sort of a niche topic I guess but I met the author of my favorite Atari 2600 game and he was cool as hell, so I got him on the show. I also brought in my former co-worker Kevin, a programmer who was inspired by the game, and we had a really great chat breaking down what makes it so great.
Currently watching these guys tell me about ken griffey jr. on the n64
January 15, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Currently watching these guys tell me about ken griffey jr. on the n64
My high school had two cops that hung around doing whatever the hell school cops do, Officer Baco and Office Chavez. Someone, I wish I knew who, started calling them Bacon and Chives one day, and it spread immediately. Just absolutely savage, literally no one took them seriously after that.
January 15, 2026 at 3:36 PM
My high school had two cops that hung around doing whatever the hell school cops do, Officer Baco and Office Chavez. Someone, I wish I knew who, started calling them Bacon and Chives one day, and it spread immediately. Just absolutely savage, literally no one took them seriously after that.
I need you to know that I don't make these posts and that this display of Dizzy does not represent the views of all employees of the video game history foundation, inc.
All hail Dizzy! This early '90s UK magazine ad is for Fantastic Dizzy, ft. a late-period Indiana Jones-y take on, uhh, Codemasters' heroic platforming egg. [Scan via the VGHF Library.]
January 14, 2026 at 9:48 PM
I need you to know that I don't make these posts and that this display of Dizzy does not represent the views of all employees of the video game history foundation, inc.
Reposted by Frank Cifaldi
Can’t believe he said this, seems somewhat disrespectful
January 13, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Can’t believe he said this, seems somewhat disrespectful
Got an email from Shopify letting me know that our items will be on external AI storefronts soon. Asking their AI help page how to turn that off hallucinated a link, then hallucinated connecting me to a human. Made my own way to a human, they made me screenshot the email no one told them about.
January 12, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Got an email from Shopify letting me know that our items will be on external AI storefronts soon. Asking their AI help page how to turn that off hallucinated a link, then hallucinated connecting me to a human. Made my own way to a human, they made me screenshot the email no one told them about.
Reposted by Frank Cifaldi
extremely funny youtube thumbnail I just saw
January 11, 2026 at 8:45 PM
extremely funny youtube thumbnail I just saw
January 10, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Recovering the digital files for a Super Nintendo box feels like forbidden magic. It is the Very Canny Valley. It's like I'm emulating real life without an analog filter.
January 10, 2026 at 1:44 AM
Recovering the digital files for a Super Nintendo box feels like forbidden magic. It is the Very Canny Valley. It's like I'm emulating real life without an analog filter.
I spent the morning going into an unprocessed collection because "I think we have footage of this too!" and it turns out that we have the exact same tape. I think ours is the master shot by @parisi2274.bsky.social
January 8, 2026 at 6:38 PM
I spent the morning going into an unprocessed collection because "I think we have footage of this too!" and it turns out that we have the exact same tape. I think ours is the master shot by @parisi2274.bsky.social
I was already upset about not being there but damn, this really hurts, I'd have loved to have seen this.
Sorry I haven't posted on BlueSky in a while, but if you are at this year's #MAGfest, come over to the Museum/LAN Room to see some of my keitai! To learn more about these amazing phones and their games, check out keitaiwiki.com. To try the games at home, check out keitaiarchive.org.
January 8, 2026 at 5:57 PM
I was already upset about not being there but damn, this really hurts, I'd have loved to have seen this.
I spent this afternoon digitizing "magneto optical" disks, a format I'd never handled myself before today. It's a pile of stuff related to marketing at Time Warner Interactive. Here are some very high res digital paintings made to promote Primal Rage.
January 7, 2026 at 1:14 AM
I spent this afternoon digitizing "magneto optical" disks, a format I'd never handled myself before today. It's a pile of stuff related to marketing at Time Warner Interactive. Here are some very high res digital paintings made to promote Primal Rage.
Thanks to your donation dollars we can do important data recovery work, like uncovering the print art used for Generations Lost on the Sega Genesis, revealing two abs that were thought to be lost due to cropping
January 6, 2026 at 11:17 PM
Thanks to your donation dollars we can do important data recovery work, like uncovering the print art used for Generations Lost on the Sega Genesis, revealing two abs that were thought to be lost due to cropping