Posts by shadsy@digipres.club
(DIR) Post #ASbyHrjxx1DwQ3FBgm by shadsy@digipres.club
2023-02-12T18:21:22Z
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@misty Yes good
(DIR) Post #ASknxSDHtr0mL0E6nQ by shadsy@digipres.club
2023-02-16T20:29:00Z
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Well folks, I can finally announce my secret project...I'm writing a book about the history of Maxis Software for Limited Run Games. Stay tuned for info about the book currently known as SIMEVERYTHING!
(DIR) Post #ASknxTV37IoUKNXo7U by shadsy@digipres.club
2023-02-16T20:45:54Z
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Finally announcing the absolute worst-kept secret in the game history community
(DIR) Post #ASuhgFHm3SeXAzKrGS by shadsy@digipres.club
2023-02-21T19:10:32Z
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@misty I think the degree to which people are totally fine using/reading AI-generated pulp makes me realize that they've always treated writing as just an information delivery method, or think that reading a Wikipedia summary is the same thing as watching a movie, etc. Very easy to distrust those people
(DIR) Post #ATjKN0OMOg8zwZWf4q by shadsy@digipres.club
2023-03-18T05:23:54Z
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@misty I'm very glad I am not being associated with all the "leak" stuff from before that
(DIR) Post #AU7SS5Mhf1qLMCAusS by shadsy@digipres.club
2023-03-27T17:39:33Z
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Panel from MAGFest 2023 is up! We talked about our vision for the VGHF library and showed off some of the cool items in our collections.I'm proud of this one. Come see what we've been up to! 📚https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoVPHwbzxRc
(DIR) Post #AUGFXqn0lPhA8TzLRw by shadsy@digipres.club
2023-04-02T22:32:22Z
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I'm in Walnut Creek and I really wanted to go to the former offices of Walnut Creek CDROM, but like hell I'm walking 2 miles to see an abandoned office building
(DIR) Post #AVKh3PXx6DqO98yVX6 by shadsy@digipres.club
2023-05-05T00:00:58Z
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Today a high-ranking executive from Maxis told me I knew the history of Maxis better than they did. I think I'm going to spend the rest of the day vibrating out of my chair in excitement
(DIR) Post #AWe4FR8ZGt3tyOMVGK by shadsy@digipres.club
2023-06-13T06:44:54Z
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@misty Manual speed CD is a very unpopular format
(DIR) Post #AWwS7uZ0hGdhLZkBtY by shadsy@digipres.club
2023-06-21T05:09:09Z
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Been taking a break by making💾🍪 COOKIES 🍪💾
(DIR) Post #AWwfFuyAN3xqKHetou by shadsy@digipres.club
2023-06-22T07:54:50Z
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Cookies, round 2 💾
(DIR) Post #AWxmUV4znx9rD9iIxU by shadsy@digipres.club
2023-06-22T22:21:09Z
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@lamp @kalich I I used a food coloring marker! Safe to eat, I promise
(DIR) Post #AXYngaF7oF6qr9JAAK by shadsy@digipres.club
2023-07-10T16:43:14Z
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We just dropped a big new study that proves that almost 9 out of 10 classic games are out of print, and it's not gonna get better.Libraries/archives need more exemptions to close the game preservation gap! https://gamehistory.org/87percent/
(DIR) Post #AcPuWSb0jORJdY9Y12 by shadsy@digipres.club
2023-11-28T22:23:25Z
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VGHF is kicking off our annual fundraiser with a video game history advent calendar! Every day next month, we're sharing a cool treat from our collection.Sign up for our mailing list and get them sent to you every day! OR, join our Patreon and get them a day early! Patrons can see the first treat right now, and it's real goodhttps://gamehistory.org/donate/
(DIR) Post #AcPuWTi8aNjb5wUklM by shadsy@digipres.club
2023-12-02T22:32:41Z
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VGHF Winter Fundraiser Day 1: We remastered the 1998 documentary The Making of Riven from the original master tape from Cyan. You've NEVER seen it at this quality before!https://gamehistory.org/making-of-riven/
(DIR) Post #AcPuWVAXAI2jcImwfA by shadsy@digipres.club
2023-12-02T22:33:53Z
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VGHF Winter Fundraiser Day 2:We're sharing the only known surviving flyers for the Nintendo AVS, their first attempt to bring the Famicom stateside. It's an alternate timeline for game history!https://gamehistory.org/nintendos-lost-8-bit-console/
(DIR) Post #AcSZpUvykMXYpN4psm by shadsy@digipres.club
2023-12-03T20:40:20Z
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VGHF Winter Fundraiser Day 3:We dug up what might be one of the first magazine articles about retrogaming... from 1997! It's from an obscure magazine called Digital Diner, which is one of the *1200 game magazines* we've scanned so far!https://gamehistory.org/what-retro-gaming-was-like-in-the-1990s/
(DIR) Post #AcSZpWGDoaKKwRYW4e by shadsy@digipres.club
2023-12-03T20:42:00Z
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I want to emphasize this: we have scanned 1200 video game magazines that weren't previously available online! When we get duplicate issues, if they aren't already scanned, we send them off to a local vendor.Twelve hundred!!! And we have another 300-400 we need to send still!https://gamehistory.org/what-retro-gaming-was-like-in-the-1990s/
(DIR) Post #AhckZbxcXoGXu8WuxM by shadsy@digipres.club
2024-05-06T18:41:17Z
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I think I have an academic article in me about the "peperony and chease" tombstone form The Oregon Trail as an artifact of the game industry's failures to preserve its own history
(DIR) Post #AjJ7eaMBr1UjshfHmq by shadsy@digipres.club
2024-06-26T03:50:16Z
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@foone I assumed you were involving with the tape backups somehow, but this makes sense to! The last I heard from Cyan was they were able to recover "some" assets but most backups were unrecoverable and the recoverable stuff wasn't usable because it was too low-fidelity for VR. This fills in the gap in the story!