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A 2600 cartridge that has a green label that reads: VIDEO GAMES AUDIO BAZAR Su Garantia GALERIA DE LONDON LOC.18 PARAGUAY 1325 TEL.: 90 04 18 Montevideo Gracias Por confiar en nosotros A logo depicts a stick-figure type family holding hands, superimposed on a TV screen.

Okay, fine, while I’m here… I acquired my first 2600 cartridge that retailed in Uruguay.

(The shop in Montevideo is on a street called Paraguay)

Neat little 8-in-1 cartridge, and one of them is a game you don’t find too often on unauthorized multicarts: London Blitz!

Go have a look!

unauthorizon.org

YouTube video by PirateGameThing Unauthorizon is BACK!!

Popping in for a quick moment from my ongoing, indefinite, self-imposed social media moratorium to say…

🎊 Unauthorizon is back! 🎊

Cheers to @pirategamething.com and everyone else involved. youtu.be/x7hyVVDj1h0

Tengen's NES version of Ms. Pac-Man contains an Easter Egg seen by having Ms. Pac-Man and Pac-Man bounce off of each other repeatedly as they go through opposite ends of a tunnel.

This causes baby Pac-Men to spawn in the middle of the maze! Eating them nets you 5000 points each.

Saquon Barkley rides atop a bus and holds out the Lombardi Trophy for the crowd

Jalen Hurts walks alongside the parade of buses. He’s wearing a black “Love,Hurts.” Nike hoodie, sunglasses, and a black hat.

Brandon Graham holds the Lombardi Trophy atop the lead bus in the parade and points to my dad while holding a cigar.

Parade day. Go Birds. 🦅

More photos later/tomorrow!

THEY’RE CLIMBING THE POLES IN TOKYO GO BIRDS🦅🦅🦅

Had to go celebrate with strangers since I’m not in Philly. What a night!

funniest highlights of the philly police scanner, a thread

It’s time

World fucking champions!!!

YouTube video by The Video Game History Foundation library.gamehistory.org — Now in early access

The Video Game History Foundation Library is now in early access. For free. For everyone. Wherever you are.

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Canyon Bomber – March 1979, Atari Archive March 1979 brought the VCS a slew of new releases, and while some of those were original works, others returned to the tried-and-true realm of...

New post on the Atari Archive website: Canyon Bomber! David Crane's melding of two disparate Atari arcade games from the mid-70s really elevates the experience of playing each of them. www.atariarchive.org/atari-vcs/ca...

I include TV-like controls in my retro emulators but never considered linking preferred settings to certain games.

> NTSC Colour In Vintage Games
> Includes a proposal for a 2600 container format and additional metadata.

via @jetsetilly.bsky.social's Mastodon

jetsetilly.github.io/Gopher2600-B...

1984 ad for the VOICE BOX II speech synthesizer for Atari. Shown is an NEC CRT monitor with a man's pixel art face, and underneath is the text, "INCORPORATE THE SINGING HUMAN FACE INTO YOUR PROGRAMS AND GAMES". From page 26 of Analog Computing Issue 16, Feb 1984.

In speedrunning terms, I performed a sequence break and skipped the entire second phase this week

(HOLY HELL THEY DID IT!!!)

An Atari 2600 game, Halloween, featuring a red, black, and white label. The game title is red on a black field, and is above the Wizard Video Games artwork in B&W on a red field. At bottom is the publisher name and product number “No. 007” in black.

It’s not Halloween, but it *is* Random Game Saturday!

I would never have been able to show this one if not for a recent big trade (yes, an Atari TRADE! in the year of our lord 2025!)

Honestly, I expected never to have this one given where prices for it have gone in recent years.

The Video Game History Foundation opens its digital archives to the public next week The online archive will include over 1,500 magazine issues and other gaming artifacts at launch.

The Video Game History Foundation opens its digital archives to the public next week

I’ve lost months off my life, I’m sure.

Check the replies to that post… apparently this technique was used in at least Battlezone and Space Jockey… likely there are others

Eagles meme with three linear segments: “Oh boy am I excited to watch my team play” “I’m going to kill myself” “Nice we won”

Photo from an early Apple II ad in the 1970s

The PC is Dead: It's Time To Make Computing Personal Again

My new essay on how we lost control of personal computing to Internet surveillance, DRM, and extractive business models—and how we can launch the era of Personal Computer 2.0

www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/ar...

the debris from starship flight 7 caught over turks and caicos.

absolutely unreal.

📸: dean olson on twitter

You Wouldn't Download an Arcade Machine...would you?

New Video: youtu.be/SONO6LTHuR8

Watch as Ed Fries laser scans an entire arcade machine for us to download and 3D print, and not just any machine, this is an incredibly rare #atari model from 1973.

Call the cops!

Another prototype for #Atari2600 console found. It's a diagnostic cart named VCS Vertical Bars by Horace Olive https://forums.atariage.com/topic/378681-new-2600-diagnostic-cart-found-and-released/ #atari #retrogames #retrogaming

wildfire rages through a building in southern california, bright orange against grey arches, with water from firefighting attempts pooling in the foreground

ATTENTION: I am starting a charity bundle to benefit victims of the Southern California wildfires. Game (and other) makers, please submit your projects so we can do some good. There is a call for submissions of projects through the 18th, please share widely! FAQ below:

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Worth noting that the rom's parent directory, at least in our backups at the museum, has a game concept file talking about a fishing game for bars with very similar ideas, wotha file modified date of around a month later than the roms (though the rom was compiled a few months earlier)

A photo of a blotchy tortoiseshell/calico cat peering over and down from a window ledge.

Oh, here’s the culprit.

It’s Random Game Saturday once more. I let one of our cats choose this one!

Here’s 法櫃奇兵 (Raiders of the Lost Ark) from an unknown Taiwan distributor (maybe 立達 “Leader”).

Not sure if the titles on these carts were written at the factory or by the end user. I lean toward the former, but don’t know.

Fish, a prototype game for #Atari2600 console discovered on a tape backup of Atari Coin-Op division's mainframe, in the folder of an employee named Mike Albaugh. Download: forums.atariage.com/topic/378560... Info: www.atariprotos.com/2600/softwar... #atari #retrogames #retrogaming