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Are you interested in #gamehistory, #reverseengineering or #gamedev? Then this might be of interest to you.
hogsy.me hogsy @hogsy.me · Sep 10
Today I've published a rather extensive look at Haven: Call of the King, for the PlayStation 2. Not quite as extensive as I was hoping but probably long enough I'm rather doubtful many are going to manage reading the entire thing.

talonbrave.info/2025/09/10/h...

Do let me know what you think!
Poking and Prodding Haven
Haven: Call of the King, or simply Haven, as I’ll refer to it, is a game developed by the British video-game development studio, Traveller’s Tales. It’s quite technically impressive, and certainly amb...
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rezorian.bsky.social
Rezorian
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Just got my signed edition of Make Us Whole in from @lostincult.co.uk today; written by @unabridgedgamer.bsky.social, and including an amazing print of everyone's favorite engineer done by @sebastianpiriz.bsky.social

Been looking forward to this one!

#deadspace #gamehistory
A hardcover copy of "Make Us Whole: The History of Dead Space" by Elijah Beahm, positioned next to an art print depicting Issac Clarke, done by Sebastián Píriz. Both are on top of an admittedly unflattering tan towel.
October 1, 2025 at 8:29 PM Everybody can reply
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Melanie Swalwell
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Excited to see this post about preserving #gamehistory and use of the EU’s Out of Commerce works.
duffadash.bsky.social Allan Christophersen @duffadash.bsky.social · Aug 14
Does anyone know someone who are involved with Norwegian game preservation or video game history? #GLAM #DigiPres
September 23, 2025 at 10:32 PM Everybody can reply
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fugueye.bsky.social
FuguEye 👁‍🗨 Video Games & Unique Gaming History
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These N-Control Avenger adapters for PS3 and Xbox360 controllers are the scariest looking accessories ever created.🕷️😱

They were designed to reduce the time it takes to press down buttons by altering their position so you always have your thumb on the analog stick.
#gamehistory 👁️‍🗨️
June 3, 2025 at 8:57 AM Everybody can reply
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thevideogamelibrary.org
The Video Game Library 📚
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265. GAMEPLAN 1: GAME MACHINES: THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CONSOLES, HANDHELDS & HOME COMPUTERS (1972-2022)
(Gameplan1 - Spielkonsolen und Heimcomputer 256 Geräte von 1972-2002)

👉 www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/game-ma...

#GAMEplan #GameHistory #Retro #Gaming #Booksky
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October 30, 2024 at 6:59 PM Everybody can reply
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The Video Game Library 📚
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73. 8-BITS IN THE 80s: NINTENDO'S MARCH INTO SWEDISH HOMES
(8 bitar på 80-talet : Nintendos marsch in i de svenska hemmen)

👉 www.thevideogamelibrary.org/post/8-bits-...

#GameHistory @martinlindell.bsky.social #Nintendo
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October 26, 2024 at 2:00 AM Everybody can reply
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History Channel
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🎮 #GameOfTheDay: Dive into "Pentiment"! Set in 16th-century Bavaria, this unique mystery game lets you investigate a series of murders over 25 years. It beautifully depicts the era and offers a gripping experience. A must-play for history and adventure lovers! #GameHistory #Pentiment
November 24, 2024 at 7:58 PM Everybody can reply
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The Video Game Library 📚
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297. VIDEO GAMES

👉 www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/video-g...

#GameHistory #Atari #Coleco #Pong #Magnavox #Quadtronics #RCA #RadioShack #Telematch #Entex #ConicInternational #Calfax #Fairchild #Santron #NationalSemiconductor #Videomaster #Gaming #VideoGames #Booksky #LenBuckwalter
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November 1, 2024 at 8:03 PM Everybody can reply
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fugueye.bsky.social
FuguEye 👁‍🗨 Video Games & Unique Gaming History
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A rare #SuperMarioBros tricycle from #Japan! Plays the Mario Bros. theme song at the press of a button.

#gamehistory 👁️‍🗨️ #nostalgia #RetroGaming
June 5, 2025 at 4:08 AM Everybody can reply
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Tom Apperley
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While TSR pushed TV shows and novels, GW built Citadel Miniatures, launched gamebooks, and published Warhammer. The UK scene scaled by blending formats. #Transmedia #GameHistory
May 21, 2025 at 11:27 AM Everybody can reply
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Joker
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9. Playmatic z Madrytu produkował proste, budżetowe flippery popularne w Europie. Firma działała od lat 70., dostarczając graczom przystępne modele, które stały się konkurencją dla droższych, bardziej zaawansowanych maszyn z USA. #VintageGames #Pinball #GameHistory
November 17, 2024 at 4:40 PM Everybody can reply
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boostmixmusic.bsky.social
Boost Mix Music - game music remastering
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Before he got hired at Sega, Tadashi Takezaki was already known within gamers as a Sega fan and collector, he joined Sega then went on to build up the customer relations, early internet/shopping websites and more eventually becoming executive level. segaretro.org/Tadashi_Take... #Sega #gamehistory
Old school photo of a Sega collector's bedroom (surrounded by pristine copies of video games neatly arranged in bookshelves as well as a computer and stacks of magazines), who happened to become a top executive at the company later.
February 14, 2025 at 9:26 AM Everybody can reply
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AwesomeCast: Tech News and Views from Pittsburgh
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#RetroGaming #GameHistory #NintendoPower #GamingNostalgia #AwesomeCast
🎮 Unearthing Video Game History: Classic Mags & Lost Media! 🕹️📜
YouTube video by AwesomeCast
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February 18, 2025 at 2:35 AM Everybody can reply
fugueye.bsky.social
FuguEye 👁‍🗨 Video Games & Unique Gaming History
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The original #SuperMario Bros. manual has some really fun artwork. Check out Mario’s old-school swagger as he flings fireballs. And look at those eyes when he gets a Super Star!

#gamehistory 👁️‍🗨️
May 31, 2025 at 11:07 AM Everybody can reply
historyachannel.bsky.social
History Channel
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#GameOfTheDay: Launched in 1983, M.U.L.E. is a groundbreaking multiplayer game that combined strategy, economy, and collaboration. Designed by Dani Bunten, it set the stage for future resource-management games and became a cult classic. #GameHistory 🎮
January 28, 2025 at 1:43 AM Everybody can reply
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thevideogamelibrary.org
The Video Game Library 📚
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519. THE SECRET HISTORY OF MAC GAMING

👉 www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/the-sec...

@mossrc.bsky.social @bitmapbooks.com #PCGaming #Macintosh #RetroComputing #VideoGames #Gamesky #Booksky #Shareware #GameHistory #PCHistory
The yellow book cover of The Secret History of Mac Gaming by Richard Moss. The cover has a blue retro computer-generated image of an old Mac computer. The Macintosh changed video games. It challenged the medium to be more than child’s play and quick reflexes. It made human-computer interaction friendly, inviting, and intuitive. Mac gaming led to much that is now taken for granted by PC gamers and spawned some of the biggest franchises in video game history — including Myst, Halo, and SimCity. It allowed anyone to create games and playful software with ease, and gave indie developers a home for their products. It welcomed strange ideas and encouraged experimentation. It fostered passionate and creative communities who inspired and challenged developers to do better and to follow the Mac mantra: ‘think different’. The Secret History of Mac Gaming draws on a combination of archive material and around 80 interviews with key figures from the era to tell the story of those communities and the game developers who survived and thrived in an ecosystem that was serially ignored by the outside world. It’s a book about people who followed their hearts first and market trends second, showing how clever, quirky, and downright wonderful video games could be. The Secret History of Mac Gaming also features guest chapters from Craig Fryar, Apple’s first Mac games evangelist and the co-creator of hit game Spectre, as well as specially-created divider illustrations and cover art by graphic designer and pixel artist JJ Signal, all styled in the gorgeous 1-bit aesthetics of early Macintosh games. At 480 pages long, The Secret History of Mac Gaming features eye-catching coloured page edges, a hardback cover printed with pantone inks and a colour-coded bookmark ribbon. As with all our books, we use thread sewn binding for extra durability and print lithographically on high-quality paper to showcase the gorgeous visuals as they deserve.
December 27, 2024 at 6:53 PM Everybody can reply
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thevideogamelibrary.org
The Video Game Library 📚
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203. IT'S BEHIND YOU: THE MAKING OF A COMPUTER GAME

👉 www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/it-s-be...

#RType #BobPape #FlyingShark #Rampage #ZXSpectrum #GameDesign #GameHistory #Arcade #Shmup
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October 29, 2024 at 1:23 AM Everybody can reply
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Van Burnham
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Check out the awesome video @robotkid.bsky.social made to promote the deluxe reissue of Supercade! Link in bio… ⚡️⚡️⚡️

#kickstarter #kickstartergames #gamehistory #videogames #retrogames #videogamebooks #supercadedeluxe
March 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM Everybody can reply
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boostmixmusic.bsky.social
Boost Mix Music - game music remastering
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Mega thread to share photos of article "all the places to buy video games" from 1994/1995 era Japan, some myth busting included...starting with the Harajuku Kiddy Land which had games on 5F #gamehistory
Kiddy Land was one of the stores specializing in selling to English speaking customers, and included manually printed instruction booklets which they received directly from Nintendo (probably only for popular games) The Kiddy Land store shelves today are dominated by Kirby toys but here you can see a wider variety including SFC Goemon on sale as well as of course Super Donkey Kong among many other different types of toys arranged on glass shelves
February 17, 2025 at 12:05 AM Everybody can reply
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fugueye.bsky.social
FuguEye 👁‍🗨 Video Games & Unique Gaming History
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Check out this "Huge Famicom Christmas Sale Event!" advertisement from 1992 for a now-defunct Japanese toy store. There were some really good discounts, like the first SaGa game ( #FinalFantasy Legend in NA ) for only ¥780!

Spotted on gamewadai.com
#gamehistory
May 30, 2025 at 1:26 AM Everybody can reply
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thevideogamelibrary.org
The Video Game Library 📚
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125. PROFESSOR POLYMATHUS IN A BRIEF HISTORY OF VIDEO GAMES
(Le Professeur Polymathus Dans Une Brève Histoire Du Jeu Vidéo)

👉 www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/profess...

#Mario #Minecraft #PacMan #Pokemon #Sonic #Zelda #Booksky #VideoGames #GameHistory @thirdeditions.bsky.social
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October 26, 2024 at 11:49 PM Everybody can reply
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Boost Mix Music - game music remastering
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More files found from scouring the IREM website archives #IREM #gamehistory
February 26, 2025 at 1:03 AM Everybody can reply
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boostmixmusic.bsky.social
Boost Mix Music - game music remastering
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Never heard of this cancelled SFC game before I saw this ad - アルティメットファイター 闘技覇者 ～運命の刻印 / Ultimate Fighter Tougihasha - Unmei no Kakuin (Ultimate Fighter Battle Champion Mark of Destiny) Banpresto - listed on this list of cancelled games www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~comefx99/gm... #gamehistory #sfc #snes
A muscular chest/shoulder/arm scene with just big text saying tentative title will be as described in the post with subtitle Fighting Role Playing, December 1994 release 16M with 64K backup 9800 yen
April 8, 2025 at 12:59 AM Everybody can reply
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havchr
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So lucky to pick up this gem at my local book store, thanks for the great memories #wipeout #psygnosis #gamehistory
A book about the video game wipeout
May 22, 2025 at 10:15 AM Everybody can reply
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FuguEye 👁‍🗨 Video Games & Unique Gaming History
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The Japanese #N64 box art for #BanjoKazooie ("Banjo & Kazooie's Great Adventure").

Banjo doesn't hold the same nostalgic place in JPN hearts that he does for many Westerners, but the game was well-enough received.

The commercial is top-notch: youtube.com/watch?v=kg0m_f…#gamehistoryry 👁️‍🗨️
June 7, 2025 at 2:42 AM Everybody can reply
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