Michael Iantorno❄️🕹️
@michaeliantorno.com
Post-doc at the University of Waterloo. Game history and labour scholar.
🎮Dissertation on SNES/SFC preservation, emulation, repros, and hacking.
🦣TTRPGs at Mammoth Island Games.
🕹️Game industry research on unions, worker co-ops, incubators, and more.
🎮Dissertation on SNES/SFC preservation, emulation, repros, and hacking.
🦣TTRPGs at Mammoth Island Games.
🕹️Game industry research on unions, worker co-ops, incubators, and more.
Hello, here are some games I enjoyed in 2025.
January 1, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Hello, here are some games I enjoyed in 2025.
Reposted by Michael Iantorno❄️🕹️
It's Public Domain Day! web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd...
Public Domain Day 2026 | Duke University School of Law
January 1, 2026 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1930 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1925! By Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle[1] CC BY 4.0 Please note that this site is only about US l...
web.law.duke.edu
January 1, 2026 at 5:17 PM
It's Public Domain Day! web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd...
Reposted by Michael Iantorno❄️🕹️
When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like:
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
December 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like:
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
Great thrift shop keyboard find (although it was extremely gross before I cleaned it).
December 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Great thrift shop keyboard find (although it was extremely gross before I cleaned it).
Reposted by Michael Iantorno❄️🕹️
Breaking my self-imposed holiday exile to shout out a new publication: mine!
Cybermania '94: Game awards before The Game Awards is now out through Convergence, fully open access.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Cybermania '94: Game awards before The Game Awards is now out through Convergence, fully open access.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
December 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Breaking my self-imposed holiday exile to shout out a new publication: mine!
Cybermania '94: Game awards before The Game Awards is now out through Convergence, fully open access.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Cybermania '94: Game awards before The Game Awards is now out through Convergence, fully open access.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Also, a reminder to submit to the Satellaview+ Mario Paint art contest.
December 23, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Also, a reminder to submit to the Satellaview+ Mario Paint art contest.
Gonna tell my kids this was Canadian Sesame Street.
December 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Gonna tell my kids this was Canadian Sesame Street.
📝New publication alert!
📡In Satellite Archaeologies, I build upon my dissertation research to discuss the citizen archivists who are keeping Nintendo's Satellaview alive, 25 years after it went off the air.
🔗https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15295036.2025.2591126
📡In Satellite Archaeologies, I build upon my dissertation research to discuss the citizen archivists who are keeping Nintendo's Satellaview alive, 25 years after it went off the air.
🔗https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15295036.2025.2591126
December 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
📝New publication alert!
📡In Satellite Archaeologies, I build upon my dissertation research to discuss the citizen archivists who are keeping Nintendo's Satellaview alive, 25 years after it went off the air.
🔗https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15295036.2025.2591126
📡In Satellite Archaeologies, I build upon my dissertation research to discuss the citizen archivists who are keeping Nintendo's Satellaview alive, 25 years after it went off the air.
🔗https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15295036.2025.2591126
Reposted by Michael Iantorno❄️🕹️
Some will remember.
December 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Some will remember.
"We gotta do this shit every year, Chuck?"
December 23, 2025 at 1:12 AM
"We gotta do this shit every year, Chuck?"
I need to have words with whoever invented the "long unskippable video followed by three easy questions" training module.
December 22, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I need to have words with whoever invented the "long unskippable video followed by three easy questions" training module.
My pal @andreizanescu.bsky.social has been making some awesome @riftbound.riotgames.com content lately. If you're interested in the game, check it out!
Riftbound 101 - Episode 1 - How to Build a Deck
YouTube video by Andrei Zanescu
www.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:01 PM
My pal @andreizanescu.bsky.social has been making some awesome @riftbound.riotgames.com content lately. If you're interested in the game, check it out!
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muppet christmas carol (happy holidays!)
December 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
muppet christmas carol (happy holidays!)
Have you tried paying a living wage?
Quebec A&W owners say stores will close without migrant workers
A&W franchisees in Quebec warn restaurants will shut their doors or slash hours unless Ottawa restores access to migrant labour, arguing local workers are no longer willing to take fast-food jobs.
www.westernstandard.news
December 21, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Have you tried paying a living wage?
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A Mario Paint contest for the Satellaview?!😍
December 2025 Satellaview+ Mario Paint Art Contest! (How to Join)
YouTube video by NintendoDuo
youtu.be
December 18, 2025 at 11:32 PM
A Mario Paint contest for the Satellaview?!😍
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"we only use AI for coming up with ideas" no you don't. you use AI to come up with the a bland version of other people's ideas. there is currently NOBODY more replaceable than you
December 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
"we only use AI for coming up with ideas" no you don't. you use AI to come up with the a bland version of other people's ideas. there is currently NOBODY more replaceable than you
Yeah, it's probably a good idea to block @retrododo.bsky.social.
proceed to glaze over the device for a whole article, and add this as a footnote
a real journalist would have made this part a much bigger part of the article, this piece is a just a glorified ad instead
a real journalist would have made this part a much bigger part of the article, this piece is a just a glorified ad instead
December 19, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Yeah, it's probably a good idea to block @retrododo.bsky.social.
Reposted by Michael Iantorno❄️🕹️
I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.
December 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.
A Mario Paint contest for the Satellaview?!😍
December 2025 Satellaview+ Mario Paint Art Contest! (How to Join)
YouTube video by NintendoDuo
youtu.be
December 18, 2025 at 11:32 PM
A Mario Paint contest for the Satellaview?!😍
Hey Steam. If a game is *always* 10-20% off, that doesn't count as a sale.
December 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Hey Steam. If a game is *always* 10-20% off, that doesn't count as a sale.
Maybe our entire education and service sectors shouldn't be using "exploit international students" as their core business strategy?
Shitty companies are going to run out of international students and non-permanent residents to exploit soon, so brace yourselves for a return of the "no one wants to work anymore" rhetoric.
Canada reports biggest population decline on record
Drop marks the country’s first population decrease outside the pandemic, as Ottawa moves to curb immigration
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Maybe our entire education and service sectors shouldn't be using "exploit international students" as their core business strategy?
An interesting video about the accuracy of the Analogue 3D (N64 reproduction).
Most folks probably aren't interested in the minutia of hardware emulation, but Kaze touches on the challenges of designing FPGAs and emulators (and how they can fall short).
Most folks probably aren't interested in the minutia of hardware emulation, but Kaze touches on the challenges of designing FPGAs and emulators (and how they can fall short).
Analogue Lied
YouTube video by Kaze Emanuar
www.youtube.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:44 PM
An interesting video about the accuracy of the Analogue 3D (N64 reproduction).
Most folks probably aren't interested in the minutia of hardware emulation, but Kaze touches on the challenges of designing FPGAs and emulators (and how they can fall short).
Most folks probably aren't interested in the minutia of hardware emulation, but Kaze touches on the challenges of designing FPGAs and emulators (and how they can fall short).
Shitty companies are going to run out of international students and non-permanent residents to exploit soon, so brace yourselves for a return of the "no one wants to work anymore" rhetoric.
Canada reports biggest population decline on record
Drop marks the country’s first population decrease outside the pandemic, as Ottawa moves to curb immigration
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Shitty companies are going to run out of international students and non-permanent residents to exploit soon, so brace yourselves for a return of the "no one wants to work anymore" rhetoric.
Probably headed for a December 31 release, lol.
New publication brewing, bleep bloop.
December 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Probably headed for a December 31 release, lol.