Andy
@lockeboss.bsky.social
He/Him
Retro video game and hardware enthusiast. Dreams of electric sheep.
Likes books that have to be listened to and movies that have to be read.
Retro video game and hardware enthusiast. Dreams of electric sheep.
Likes books that have to be listened to and movies that have to be read.
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Merry Christmas! If you'd like to spend 45 minutes celebrating video game history with me, we're about to debut The Untold Story of the Nintendo Entertainment System. I worked on his ALL YEAR, and I genuinely think it will reshape how we all think about the system. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJvp...
The Untold Story of the Nintendo Entertainment System
YouTube video by The Video Game History Foundation
www.youtube.com
December 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Merry Christmas! If you'd like to spend 45 minutes celebrating video game history with me, we're about to debut The Untold Story of the Nintendo Entertainment System. I worked on his ALL YEAR, and I genuinely think it will reshape how we all think about the system. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJvp...
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The cable-TV powered Sega Channel for Genesis/Mega Drive has been preserved and over 140 ROMs recovered. Here's the remarkable story: www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2025/12...
Sega Channel Preserved: Over 140 Mega Drive ROMs Recovered
Unreleased prototypes, never-before-seen MD web browser.
www.digitalfoundry.net
December 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The cable-TV powered Sega Channel for Genesis/Mega Drive has been preserved and over 140 ROMs recovered. Here's the remarkable story: www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2025/12...
First strong frost for the season.
November 22, 2025 at 11:16 AM
First strong frost for the season.
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The creators of Myst series (@cyan.com) saved hundreds of video tapes from the making of their iconic adventure game franchose.
We helped preserve them. Here's what we found.
We helped preserve them. Here's what we found.
The unseen history of Myst | VGHF Library Highlights
YouTube video by The Video Game History Foundation
www.youtube.com
May 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The creators of Myst series (@cyan.com) saved hundreds of video tapes from the making of their iconic adventure game franchose.
We helped preserve them. Here's what we found.
We helped preserve them. Here's what we found.
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Starts strong, gets stronger, reveals a year of work, achieves a miracle, then then tops the achievement of the first miracle with a second.
It's 2 hours and 45 minutes. It goes by like a musical of code. Make the time.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCuo...
It's 2 hours and 45 minutes. It goes by like a musical of code. Make the time.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCuo...
Resurrecting Sinistar: A Cyber-Archaeology Documentary
YouTube video by SynaMax
www.youtube.com
May 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Starts strong, gets stronger, reveals a year of work, achieves a miracle, then then tops the achievement of the first miracle with a second.
It's 2 hours and 45 minutes. It goes by like a musical of code. Make the time.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCuo...
It's 2 hours and 45 minutes. It goes by like a musical of code. Make the time.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCuo...
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I kind of love the idea that you could be allowed to play old video games for historical research purposes but if you have fun, the government sends you to jail.
April 20, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I kind of love the idea that you could be allowed to play old video games for historical research purposes but if you have fun, the government sends you to jail.
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📢 The Internet Archive needs your help.
At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.
Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.
👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...
🧵⬇️
At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.
Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.
👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...
🧵⬇️
April 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
📢 The Internet Archive needs your help.
At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.
Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.
👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...
🧵⬇️
At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.
Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.
👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...
🧵⬇️
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The Video Game History Foundation Library is now in early access. For free. For everyone. Wherever you are.
Read more: gamehistory.org/vghf-library...
Read more: gamehistory.org/vghf-library...
library.gamehistory.org — Now in early access
YouTube video by The Video Game History Foundation
www.youtube.com
January 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The Video Game History Foundation Library is now in early access. For free. For everyone. Wherever you are.
Read more: gamehistory.org/vghf-library...
Read more: gamehistory.org/vghf-library...
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Hi I wrote about the imminent availability of the @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social digital archive of video game magazines and spoke to @nvmuk.bsky.social about why mags are important to preserve!
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/j...
Scans for the memories: why old games magazines are a vital source of cultural history – and nostalgia
As the Video Game History Foundation opens a new digitised archive, what can titles like Crash, Mega, Edge and GamesMaster tell us about the early days of gaming?
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Hi I wrote about the imminent availability of the @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social digital archive of video game magazines and spoke to @nvmuk.bsky.social about why mags are important to preserve!
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/j...
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Here we go, something I've been drafting for a long, long time: how the US-centric approach to video games and their history / culture basically gaslights us who come from other realities:
felipepepe.medium.com/the-gentrifi...
AKA, why LAN Houses, PokéTibia & Bomba Patch rule.
felipepepe.medium.com/the-gentrifi...
AKA, why LAN Houses, PokéTibia & Bomba Patch rule.
The Gentrification of Video Game History
We’re not all suburban kids who got a Nintendo 64 for Christmas
felipepepe.medium.com
January 3, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Here we go, something I've been drafting for a long, long time: how the US-centric approach to video games and their history / culture basically gaslights us who come from other realities:
felipepepe.medium.com/the-gentrifi...
AKA, why LAN Houses, PokéTibia & Bomba Patch rule.
felipepepe.medium.com/the-gentrifi...
AKA, why LAN Houses, PokéTibia & Bomba Patch rule.
Happy new year everyone! 🎉🥂
January 1, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Happy new year everyone! 🎉🥂
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Merry (S)NESMas, everyone! Presenting a collection of NES and SNES prototypes, courtesy of @frankcifaldi.bsky.social of @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social, Josh Hamblin of SideQuest Games, and Josh Byerly
Tune in tomorrow for our second wave of releases!
hiddenpalace.org/News/NESMas_...
Tune in tomorrow for our second wave of releases!
hiddenpalace.org/News/NESMas_...
December 26, 2024 at 3:24 AM
Merry (S)NESMas, everyone! Presenting a collection of NES and SNES prototypes, courtesy of @frankcifaldi.bsky.social of @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social, Josh Hamblin of SideQuest Games, and Josh Byerly
Tune in tomorrow for our second wave of releases!
hiddenpalace.org/News/NESMas_...
Tune in tomorrow for our second wave of releases!
hiddenpalace.org/News/NESMas_...