@robertcrowther.bsky.social
Software Developer who likes retro games, non-retro games and American Football.
Played Seasons today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/10...
16.02.2026 21:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How do you like the self-help guides for retro collectors that @amylherndon.bsky.social and I made for @vcfsocal.bsky.social?
16.02.2026 07:40 — 👍 238 🔁 39 💬 25 📌 7Thanks we had a great time! Those VR machines are impressive, I hope you can keep them working. Now just waiting for Wizball to arrive in the post and my C64U will be getting 'borrowed' 😀
15.02.2026 20:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It was great to welcome Peter Leigh (AKA Nostalgia Nerd) as a visitor today and chat about our museum. If you're not already a follower of Nostalgia Nerd check out his YouTube channel at the link below.
youtube.com/@nostalgianerd
@nostalgianerd.com
#Swindon #Computer #Retrogaming #Museum
I'm not surprised. I managed to break a couple of those joysticks playing Jelly Monsters on the VIC-20, the plastic stick cover would just rip right off. We moved on to Kraft joysticks by the time we got a C64, far more reliable.
14.02.2026 18:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"As Winter transitions into Spring, it's time to turn our attention to what many would consider to be the event of the year ..." - many thanks to @glasstty.com for this very funny (and unofficial!) advert for this year's RetroFest. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DScd...
14.02.2026 15:32 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 2Happy 35th #Lemmings anniversary!
Who'd have thought, 35 years later we'd still be talking about these little guys.
#Amiga #MSDOS #AtariST #Commodore #Atari #DMADesign #Psygnosis #RETROGAMING #Lemmings35th
Read about it's making here
lemmings.info/lemmings-gam...
Angel and myself outside the Retro Computer Museum in Leicester
For Valentine's Day @angel-mhor.bsky.social has bought us both tickets for the @retrocomputermuseum.co.uk
14.02.2026 10:51 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
The box for the UK release of The Three Stooges for the Amiga. Colourized faces of Moe, Larry, and Curly appear along with some other movie cutouts.
The open box of The Three Stooges. The back cover can be seen with blurb, screenshots and popcorn fitting in with the Cinemaware theme. Two 3.5" disks, a manual and a quick start guide are included.
My #RandomGameSaturday this week is The Three Stooges for the Amiga. I got this because I'd enjoyed Cinemaware's Defender of the Crown when I first got my Amiga, but the game loop in this isn't quite so satisfying. Still looked and sounded great, though.
14.02.2026 08:14 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1I've watched this and now I want an action figure.
13.02.2026 11:24 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Have you watched our latest YouTube video?
You may spy yourself in this one as it's our interviews with the brilliant Game Developers from last years Retro Festival!
Watch now 👇
youtu.be/v5CJwTemw-Q?...
The Leader Board after nine holes - player Rob has five bogies, three birdies and one par. Several of the bogies are double or triple. Seven over par.
My first round of Leader Board since the eighties has been a bit up and down. I should have found a scan of the instructions instead of trying to guess what club to use.
12.02.2026 12:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Of course I studied the classics.
10.02.2026 21:03 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Found myself about where I expected to be!
10.02.2026 14:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
All the cool retro developers that were at @computinghistory.org.uk Retro Computer Festival 2025 event, including me.
@onlyretrofans.com
@matteusbeus.bsky.social
@lockfarm.bsky.social
@kevedwardsretro.bsky.social
@breakintoprogram.co.uk
@loudscotsbloke.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5CJ...
Amstrad CPC community: Unknown text adventures have surfaced and more information about them is needed. Were they commercially released? Who was the author Steve Ralph? Any info appreciated:
www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/02/info...
Age verification?
I remember when all these were new.
Photo taken at @computinghistory.org.uk
Inside the CCH classroom, people chatting while surrounded by weird and wonderful old computers.
An amazing custom Commodore 64 with a wooden case playing some tunes through red speakers.
Had a great time this morning at @computinghistory.org.uk for the Retro Computer Club, lots of interesting stuff on display including this amazing custom Commodore 64 with a wooden case.
08.02.2026 15:07 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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07.02.2026 20:01 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
The box for John Madden American Football for the Amiga from Electronic Arts. The cover shows a running back being tackled by a defender while a blocker looks on. Note that the 'American' is in a much smaller font, I expect only added for European markets. See the picture of the manual for a discrepancy.
The back cover of the John Madden American Football box with some text and screenshots under the heading "Big, tough, bone-crunching!"
What's inside the box: a manual and two floppy disks. Note that the manual is for "John Madden Football" and does not include the "American' as on the box art.
Some pages from the John Madden Football manual with diagrams for some of the offensive and defensive audibles.
It's the day before the Superbowl, I've saved the best football themed #RandomGameSaturday until last: it's John Madden Football for the Amiga. I've owned many of the sequels on many different systems but this was my first. It was a new benchmark in terms of combining simulation and presentation.
07.02.2026 14:17 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Are you involved with the upcoming Hyper Sentinel Fusion? The demo for that is on Steam, it switches to top down once you get inside the dreadnought.
07.02.2026 11:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
It was Paradroid`s 40th anniversary last Autumn, and already we are approaching Uridium`s 40th anniversary. I was always chasing arcade quality, and the mindset of the time was to see how far you could get, and have an exciting time doing it.
06.02.2026 13:07 — 👍 90 🔁 12 💬 14 📌 2Event: www.retrocollective.co.uk/view-event.p...
Table Top Sale and a day at the museum.
We've been sorting through duplicates and surplus inventory and will be holding a sale. Also joining us with sale tables are Museum of Computing and Retro Sect so there will be plenty to choose from
book now!
Loved this game in the 80s and I still love it now, I was playing it last night 😁
Thank you for creating it!
It's an AI image of a Commodore PET for no good reason at all. The chickenhead logo is fucked up. There's calculator keys on the bit where the cassette goes on the original PET-2001, and there's *real* keys on the bit where the calculator-style keys would have gone on a PET that actually had a built-in tape drive. They could have used one of many images of a real Commodore PET but someone, in their infinite wisdom, thought "actually nah let's use a fucked up AI image instead". I am properly irked. No reason for it at all.
Saw this on FB and it made me cry a little. The post was for a good cause, nothing wrong with that, but for pity's sake why use a terrible AI image of the poor PET? There are a million pictures of actual PETs online, just use one of those for pity's sake.
06.02.2026 00:53 — 👍 30 🔁 5 💬 4 📌 2
Jerry Lawson, the inventor of the video game cartridge.
This is Jerry Lawson. He invented the video game cartridge for the Fairchild Channel F system. Because of his invention, many consoles had cartridges and CD formats and would become the norm.
The Atari 2600, NES, Genesis, and many consoles wouldn't exist without him.
Happy Black History Month.
Could you do me a favour & share this video pls?
Trying to see something... I know lots of people are experiencing lower YT views, but I want to see if boosting external links/shares makes a difference.
Plus, if you like old vs new T2 games. Pls have a watch :)
youtu.be/VdrwjWOJyFM?...
Something very special today with the release of Jeff Minter's 'Fastlife' for the ZX81 - based on Conway's 'Life', preserved for the first time by Steve Brown of the TZXVault and released by Games That Weren't today! More details and download here:
www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/10/earl...
40 years ago I was playing Uridium. It had (for the time) excellent graphics and felt technically slick and polished, giving it an authentic arcade feel that was very important to us way back when. However, these days its ridiculous difficulty level makes it hard to truly enjoy.
05.02.2026 11:00 — 👍 35 🔁 4 💬 7 📌 0I've been playing this a lot on my #C64U and I'm getting somewhat competent. Managed to get as far as Tungsten the other night but then died several times in stupid ways due to surprise at getting that far.
05.02.2026 11:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
