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Kevin Bunch (ubersaurus) @atariarchive.org · 1d

The blog continues its updates, as Bob Whitehead's Boxing gets its time in the spotlight. Unassuming but a blast to play, particularly if you're using the original joysticks and want to experience actual exhaustion in your boxing match. www.atariarchive.org/blog/boxing-...

Boxing – August 1980, Atari Archive

After exiting Atari upon the completion of Video Chess and participating in the risky venture of starting up the novel idea of a third-party video game...

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Quarter Past @quarterpast.bsky.social · 1d

you have to wear the mask while you play the game I don't make the rules

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Quarter Past @quarterpast.bsky.social · 1d

Renga in Blue has arrived at what is imo the hardest Infocom game ever

Jason Dyer @jdyer.bsky.social · 1d

in which I embark on Infocom's wildly ambitious Suspended, where you are in partial cryofreeze and can only communicate with the world using six robots, each with their own abilities and methods of communicating

bluerenga.blog/2025/10/07/s...

Suspended (1983)

A bicycle can get you from New York to LA, so will a jet plane. In one sense they are the exact same thing; in another they are nothing alike. In one sense we are working within traditional genres …

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Quarter Past @quarterpast.bsky.social · 1d

Looking forward to this one—especially if you tackle any of the advanced difficulty settings

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On This Day in Simpsons History @dailysimpsons.bsky.social · 4d

#OnThisDay #OTD October 1990, #TheSimpsons pinball game was released by Data East Pinball. It has been cited as helping increase the popularity of pinball machines at the beginning of the 1990s.

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They Create Worlds @theycreateworlds.bsky.social · 4d

Join us for a day of recording the history of Commodore! LIVE!
www.twitch.tv/tcwpodcast

TCWPodcast - Twitch

RECORDING - HISTORY OF COMMODORE

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Quarter Past @quarterpast.bsky.social · 4d

Starting in about 15 minutes from now—it's the 7th (almost) annual They Create Worlds livestream!

Alex & Jeffrey should be able to stream for about 10 hours before they collapse!

Will any audience member be able to last the marathon?

Tune in & learn more about Commodore Intl than thought possible

TCWPodcast - Twitch

RECORDING - HISTORY OF COMMODORE

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Quarter Past @quarterpast.bsky.social · 4d

listen #AT40 rockheads, no spoilers — and while Grand Funk might be by later to save our asses, this is one of your few opportunities to crank the distorted guitar!

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Quarter Past @quarterpast.bsky.social · 4d

Come to the arcade, where there are now as many as 18(!) different Pong clones to play.

I have to leave early and take the DeLorean as far back as 1954 before the #AT40 is done, though, so please arrange your own ride back to 2025.

And also wish @porpster.bsky.social a belated happy birthday!

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Quarter Past @quarterpast.bsky.social · 4d

September 29, 1973

Big day: Rose Mary Woods is busy making transcriptions of President Nixon’s recordings and probably thinking about “Alice’s Restaurant”.

The music industry is in shambles, but still persists in creating enough music to craft a weekly #AT40.

Rose Mary Woods demonstrates the “Rose Mary Stretch,” the explanation given for her role in erasing a big chunk of audio tape that seemed pretty detrimental to President Richard Nixon during the now quaint period in American history known as “Watergate.”

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Quarter Past @quarterpast.bsky.social · 5d

Live yodeling always better than the canned studio stuff

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Quarter Past @quarterpast.bsky.social · 5d

tfw you crack the code on what was going on in 1974

An ad for Ramtek's Clean Sweep, a 1974 video game, reads: "Streaking is New | Clean Sweep in Newer." It's overlaid on top of the Cash Box Top 100 Singles from the same issue, which features Ray Stevens' "The Streak" as the #1 song that week.

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Kevin Bunch (ubersaurus) @atariarchive.org · 6d

New Atari Archive piece is up, centered on the birth of Activision and David Crane's Fishing Derby! Activision had a very distinctive and color visual style quite unlike anything Atari had been putting out to that point, and it shows clearly here. www.atariarchive.org/atari-vcs/fi...

Fishing Derby – August 1980, Atari Archive

Since Space Invaders kicked off the 1980 lineup of VCS games, it’s clear that this is the year that the platform as we know it today truly started to...

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Juggalocalism @outside.bsky.social · 7d

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Quarter Past @quarterpast.bsky.social · 7d

aw man, I love the Shoog-a-loos!

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Quarter Past @quarterpast.bsky.social · 7d

In about an hour from now Ethan will be doing much of the heavy lifting in our research while I drone on about Terry Jacks or some pop culture references from 1974.

Join us—hilarity will ensue... or else!

Play History @playhistory.bsky.social · 8d

Did you think you had enough of myself and @quarterpast.bsky.social?

PSYCH, we'll be back tomorrow at 7PM CST streaming even more dating of arcade games. Hold onto your hats.

www.twitch.tv/play_history

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Quarter Past @quarterpast.bsky.social · 7d

they did call it a carousel

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Nicole Express @nicole.express · 8d

government shutdown means analog tv broadcasts can come back, who's going to stop you, the fcc?

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ourlostarcade.bsky.social @ourlostarcade.bsky.social · 8d

A quiz for you:

What pioneering coin-op machine released mid-decade drove electro-mechanical amusements into new locations and pushed a new coin price for games?

Would you believe that it happened twice?

These are the bizarre, parallel tales of the quiz game booms in the 40s and 60s.

1968-05-17 Quad-City Times pg Focus 14. A man eyes an illuminated Computer Quiz game.

1947-06-23 Cash Box pg 39. A man stands with the Telequiz unit.

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Quarter Past @quarterpast.bsky.social · 9d

well shit, another year older — congrats and happy birthday

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F_T_B @ftb1979.bsky.social · 10d

Gaming Alexandria has acquired and scanned the entire run of Technopoiis, and I have provided a history overview .Thanks to @playhistory.bsky.social and @marklincadet.bsky.social for editing and factchecking, and for Hubz for putting up with me summarizing many magazines on a hunch.

Gaming Alexandria @gamingalexandria.bsky.social · 10d

Thrilled to announce the release of scans for the entire run of Technopolis! Read about the history of this Japanese computer gaming magazine written by @ftb1979.bsky.social and download/view the scans. Enjoy and please RT to help spread the word. www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2025/09/t...

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Quarter Past @quarterpast.bsky.social · 11d

me and Bluesky decided that it would be in your best interest if we put you somewhere you could get the help that you need

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Quarter Past @quarterpast.bsky.social · 11d

having to make obscure references about Pepsi just to circumvent the suspension bot

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Quarter Past @quarterpast.bsky.social · 11d

it's a very different world over here on the album charts, isn't it

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Quarter Past @quarterpast.bsky.social · 11d

and though it wouldn't have helped without Elton John, Canada took three craps in this #AT40

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