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T-shirts and other merch from gaming companies and related businesses!

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The Takarazuka Revue is a legendary musical theater troupe with over 100 years of history but that doesn't mean they're inaccessible to newcomers.

@aliciahaddick.com breaks down the world of the Revue, and gives a look at their new Castlevania show
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June 24, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Zynga The Pioneer Trail launch shirt, dated to 08/08/2011! Zynga shirts 4/4

Zynga is an important part of Austin gaming history, for better and for worse, after picking up Challenge Games in 2010. At the time it felt like Austin was going to be a mobile gaming hub, and we kinda were!
A light brown t-shirt with a cartoon of an Angry Turkey on it. Text reads: The Pioneer Trail with a white Zynga logo A crappy picture of the sleeve, which has a white zynga logo and the date 08/08/2011 The back of the shirt, which shows the turkey from the front both calmed down and surrounded by its feathers which have fallen off.
June 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Words with Friends Zynga launch shirt, dated to August 2011. Apparently this was everyone's favorite shirt, and I can see why! Unclear what exactly launched in August 2011! Zynga 3/4
A black t-shirt with 4 scrabble-style Words with Friends tiles spelling out WORD: W (5) O (1) R (1) D (2) Was it necessary for me to describe the point values of these tiles? It was not. The sleeve of the Words with Friends shirt, it has the Words with Friends logo (words with friends in front of a black speech bubble), a red zynga word mark, and August 2011 in red.
June 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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"Contraband" Longhorn Dog Zynga shirt, undated but likely around 2010. I was told that the CEO did not like this shirt so stopped production, the Austin, TX team members (formerly Challenge Games) who have one are lucky! Zynga shirts 2/4
A red t-shirt, it has a dog logo on it which has the long horns of the Longhorn, symbol of Austin. On its chest is the Challenge Games logo, stylized and interlocking C and G (they don't look like the letters). Under this t says "zynga | austin" in gold text
June 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Zynga dog shirt for TRON: Legacy Zynga company event, 2010! (Thanks to an anonymous source!) Zynga shirts 1/4, keep threadin!
A t-shirt that is a parody of TRON, it features a blue beam of light coming down and where it meets, the Zynga dog who is a blue outline. There is an identity disc with a z on it, and they are standing on a blue disc platform. It says "zynga" in blue, and under that "dog activated"
June 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Today's #RandomGameSaturday is really random and it is GREASE DANCE (2011), a game whose name is extremely unpleasant if you don't see the box. Kinect dance games, yay!
The front cover of GREASE DANCE for the Xbox 360 and Kinect, it is a purple box. It has a Requires Kinect sticker, the title Greast Dance, and the 505 Games logo, it is rated T. It shows a generic 50s man in a black shirt dancing with a generic 50s woman in a red dress. The back cover of GREASE DANCE. Outside of the copyrights, it says: It's the one that you want! Legendary dance steps and karaoke classics combine to deliver the Ultimate Grease™ Experience on Kinect™ for Xbox 360, Tell me more... Tell me more... Hours of fun with Rock'n'Roll routines in Dance Mode Duet chereography from the official movie 20 iconic songs in Karaoke Mode Party Made for up to 8 players You to the One That I Want Jailhouse Rock Summer Nights We Go Together Rock Around the Clock Born to Hand Jive It is rated T for Teen for Lyrics Tobacco Reference The inside of the GREASE DANCE box with the manual, same as the front cover, and the Disc which just has the logo.
June 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Happy pride folks

I'm still fleshing out the entries, but here's a list of over 200 retro games (pre-2010) which were made by trans people or which had trans people on the dev team.

We have always been here.

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A List Of Games By Trans People Before 2010
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June 2, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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🕹️ Bytes of Gaming History ⏳

Sonic looks very smug on this Project Katana logo emblazoned on shirts worn at E3 1998.

Katana was the victor of a bittersweet competition over what should form the basis for the Dreamcast: 3DFX (Black Belt) or PowerVR (Dural/Katana).
A close-up photo of a charcoal grey shirt with a little fabric badge of Sonic emblazoned on the chest with Project Katana in orange text arcing from head to foot at the side and Power VR and NEC logos behind him.
August 23, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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Found this Austin Game Conference artifact I had from 2006. Maybe year 3 or 4 after we started it. Now it is #GDC ( game developer conference ) and based in Los Angeles instead of Austin, Texas. Ha...
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April 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Another classic and thunderous studio intro, this time for EA Canada (most frequently seen for me in the original Need for Speed)
#PlayStation #PS1 #PSone #ElectronicArts #EACanada #StudioIntro
April 25, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Prototypes for the Apple Newton (1995), via MacWorld
April 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Did you know that for as little as $15 we will send you a vintage video game magazine in the mail once a month? All the cool kids are doing it, Be Like Mike the-video-game-history-foundation.myshopify.com/collections/...
April 23, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Q & A from the Quake shareware manual where id answers a question bout whether or not they are satanists
Q: Don't you worry that Quake teaches people that all problems can be solved by the misuse of deadly force? A: No. Q: Did I really see two monsters fighting each other? A : Probably. Some monsters hate one another almost as much as they hate you. You can use this to your advantage (exercise left up to the reader). Q:How do I prevent motion sickness when watching Quake? A : If you're one of the unlucky sufferers from motion sickness in Quake, we're sorry to say the answer seems to differ from person to person. Try sitting closer to the screen, or further away. Dim the lights in your room, or turn them up high. Adjust screen brightness up or down. Take a break from Quake and rest your eyes every hour or so. One or more of these tricks, or a combination, ought to work. Q: Are you guys Satan-worshipers? A: No.
April 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Still here! Been a long week or so (for the human side of this, @dpaulharrison.com), but new posts will happen soon!

Remember you can submit to [email protected], but while waiting for those to be prepped I'd like to spend more time reskeeting people posting swag on here!
April 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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The Adventure of Link Fruit Snacks (1989-1990): As a promotional tie-in for the NES "Legend of Zelda" sequel, each box featured 6 pouches of fruit snacks shaped like characters and items from the game
August 15, 2024 at 11:25 AM
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These don't have a date tag, but based on what I've seen online they are likely from Macworld 2003 or 2004 - the Mac Port of Halo CE came out in 2003.
From Macworld in the early 2000s, the Aspyr booth, a metal frame showing Aspyr's electric jellyfish logo and ASPYR on a black square. On the right is a banner for a Rainbow Six expansion. An image of the Aspyr and mac games section at an early-2000s Macworld, on the right is someone playing the Mac port of Halo Combat Evolved by MacSoft, which came out in 2003. There is an iMac G4 sitting on the booth, the one that is a little dome with an LCD monitor on an arm. An image of the Aspyr booth and Mac gaming area, there are two demos set up with several clear plastic/white plastic Apple cinema displays. On the left is topped by, and showing, the mac port of Star Trek Elite Force II, and on the right is Sim City 4. I have no idea what is going on in the back, but it says IQTVRA, and there are many of what look like matte paintings sitting on easels under it. Several macs and cinema displays set up in a small area, at the top, using comic sans of all things, there is a Macworld banner that reads "Macintosh Gaming Area" and another banner that reads "Special Interest Pavilions."
March 31, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Not necessarily swag, but some pictures from @gmatom.bsky.social fom Macworld 2002! These had date stamps, so very sure of 2002. Also, cargo pants.
An image from a talk at Macworld 2002 in the Mac games section with a crowd sitting down and watching a speaker who is behind a small table, there is a black temporary wall built that has a banner and a screen on it. On the banner it says: Mac OS X Games - Welcome to the next level. There is a video of a Wheel of Fortune game on the screen, showing the spinner and the letter wall. In the foreground one attendee is wearing a t-shirt whose back reads: roxio - Import it Tweak It Master it Turn it - Toast with Jam. The schedule is visible on the right, it is partially readable, if I am unsure I am putting a (?) Games Theater Schedule Thursday MacSoft G(?) Entertainment (?) by Destineer Aspyr Media A picture of a crowd at Macworld 2002, and a couple Aspyr booths, presumably in the Mac Games section of the floow. The booth on the left has a banner at top showing a game I an umable to read, with a visible Aspyr logo. On the right, a booth for the Mac version of The Sims Hot Date expansion pack, with an Aspyr logo, and an original Apple cinema displkay showing the game. The attendees are all dressed very 2002, notably there are cargo pants. An image from MacWorld 2002, two of the attendees are wearing Destineer shirts. This must be the MacSoft / Microsoft booths, and there are three of them in a row, showing three games: Myst III Exile, being shown on an original Apple cinema display (clear plastic over white plastic, with clear plastic legs), there is a stack of paper in this booth for some reason. Age of Empires II Gold Edition Links Championship Edition A picture showing two people bowling at what must be the Macworld 2002 bowling alley, there are 4 signs in the background visible: - A vertical yellow sign where the only readable bit says "strike gold" - A horizontal red sign that says "THE MAC PRODUCT EXPERTS - Macworld" - A black square sign that has the Aspyr electric jellyfish logo and says ASPYR - A clip art bowling ball surrounded by a teal swoosh on a square white sign, that says Mac Bowl
March 31, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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I bought a copy of this book today, and it is VERY good! I was looking up some specific things in there, but definitely waiting for the physical copy to arrive before really diving into it. secrethistoryofmacgaming.com
The Secret History of Mac Gaming
The website for the book by award-winning writer and journalist Richard Moss about the creative...
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March 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Westlake Interactive mug! Westlake Interactive was a Mac game developer and porter founded in Austin, TX in 1997, co-founded by @gmatom.bsky.social. You can read more about Westlake in @mossrc.bsky.social's book The Secret History of Mac Gaming; Glenda went on to be Director of Development at Aspyr!
A white mug sitting on a cream carpet with the Westlake Interactive logo in blue, which is a word mark that says westlake interactive
March 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Madden NFL 2000 Football... football (MacOS, game released December 29, 1999), developed by Westlake Interactive and published by Aspyr Media. Submitted by Westlake co-founder @gmatom.bsky.social
A white football sitting on a cream carpet, the EA Sports Madden NFL 2000 logo is on there, which is an EA sports logo in an offset oval at the top, under which s a larger oval reads MADDEN, with the NFL shield logo and 2000 under it. The reverse side of the white football, it has the ASPYR electric starfish logo (a 6-armed being with a swirl in the middle), and says ASPYR, www.aspyr.com, and then the Westlake Interactive logo which just reads "westlake interactive"
March 29, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Thanks to @menolly52.bsky.social for finding pictures of the @aspyr.com shirt I was talking about on past-me! I was wrong about the sleeves, that must have been a different Christmas shirt than this green one.

Still really cool though! Presumably, these pictures are from 2006 or 2007.
A long sleeve possbly grey tshirt of the Aspyr star logo in green, it is surrounded by a really cool green snowflake that is symmetrical on each side, with detailed lines. On a brown long sleeved tshirt (I wore nothing but long sleeve tshirts in 2006?) of the Aspyr star logo, a compressed six pointed star. It is created negatively by the leaves surrounding it, which are lighter brown than the shirt, yellow, and red in a loose circle.
March 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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I think this is my only remaining swag from my time working in games, other than copies of games.

There was a much cooler Aspyr shirt that was a brown long sleeve with leaves going up the arms I still wish I had, but the one I had would definitely be too small for me now.
Two shirts, front: A blue T-shirt that says Aspyr, with the Aspyr star logo. A red shirt with a white blood-spatter looking dragon on it, that is the Dragon Age logo kind of on the side of the shirt, with Bioware on the sleeve Two tshirts, the backs: The blue Aspyr shirt says, in white block capital letters "amplify your game" and "aspyr.com", the red shirt has the text logo for Dragon Age Origins, and the wings and tail of the Dragon from the front, hugging the side.
March 23, 2025 at 11:24 PM