Chris Chapman
@retrohistories
Perennial project-starter. "Sound[s] bored and enthused at the same time" — YouTube commenter Hoodii
Nintendo's official Star Fox 64 site; the earliest Wayback Machine capture (February 1998) and today.
Checking in on 2026 bingo progress. Going to have to make up lost ground on at least one square to be in with a chance of a line by year's end. (Ironically, Microsoft adding another year of support to Win10 kind of screwed me on the top row.) But it's looking better than last year's card, at least.
Browsing the Christmas 1982 issue of the TV Times on the Internet Archive; got chills when I saw this ad and realised what I was looking at. Source: archive.org/details/1982-12-2...
"Nintendo's the future and will be for a long time, along with the M2"
TBH, the writing was on the wall when they stopped making Entertainment Packs.
Part of me wants to be rational about this but it's being overruled by the 90% that's jumping up and down and screaming.
Hey, look who just showed up in the index (between @retronauts.bsky.social and @sharkabytes.bsky.social; who could ask for better neighbours than that?). Thanks Wes, that was fast!
There's been a post-it note that says 'make an 88x31' on my door for the whole year and after this sends I can take it down.
yesss, fuck 'em up, cows! cripple our infrastructure! bring the country to its knees!
Name a TV show you’re positive no one remembers but you. (I'd have posted a clip, but THERE ARE NONE ON THE INTERNET.)
If I can get one person to try multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams with their friend(s)/crush(es)/partner(s), then this was worth doing
BeOS-style icon of an Altair 8800, the 1974 machine that kickstarted the home computer revolution. #pixelart
fed up with space games? leave them in the arcades where they belong.
Any guesses what hardware this sentence is about? (Clue: it was mid-1981.)
Pick a Bond villain from the photos you already have on your phone.
There's no in-game achievement for this, but yesterday in Skycards I caught a plane I was physically on
This cover art is supposed to evoke "Creator", but all I can see is a naked Patrick Bateman shitting coins into a giant's palm.