Steve Fulton
@fultonbot
Smash The Broligarchy
Latest arrival. Side A is fantastic. Bass player is Danielle Faye who was in an early version of the Runaways for a hot minute
Found this piece of vintage computing ephemera at the TRW Electronic Swap Meet this morning. It’s about 100 pages of hand crafted , ink jet printed computer history from the mid 1990s.it feens like folk art to me 30 years down the line.
Galaga personal best busted by 10k points, and I didn’t even start well.
My sister kept a detailed calendar in 1977 to keep tracks of all the bands she saw. This was June 21st at the Whisky in Hollywood . She * starred the bands she liked, and wrote “(fart)” next to the ones she didn’t. God I miss my sister.
I found this buried deep in my sisters personal affects: the flyer she drew for the ever live show by LA punk/power pop band The Last in January 1978
First thing I see at SXSW is this retro tech themed speakeasy that requires a password to enter. I think Ive found my people
For our next podcast we visited VCF So. Cal. 2026. I wanted to create "Pop Art Atari ST" for the thumbnail. I was just curious as to how AI might deliver this. As expected, it "looks very AI". (left) My hand-done version doesn't look AI (right) (to me). I'm going with mine. No. A.I.
My favorite single image from @obsidianent.bsky.social 's Outer Worlds 2: This folding chair set-up on cliff overlook so a (not present or now dead) NPC could look at the ocean view.
Re-Playing Stonekeep programmed (in part) by the late Peter Oliphant. It plays much better in 2025 than it did 2005. Dare I say, it's fun? When I met Oliphant in 2001, he felt ostracized from the game industry after it did not live-up to expectations, but I think it needs a critical revisit now.
1971 ad for pinball machine, at...the AKRON! I only remember the wicker at the Akron.
The state of "arcades" around the USA in 1971. A sampling of local advertisements for establishments that offered coin games to play.
Back on Twitter before the demise, I used to have great fun posting all these old Atari advertisements I dug-up from newspapers while I was laid-out with (possibly) long-covid. Here are bunch of cutting from 1930 when Miniature Golf was the hottest thing in USA, and especially in Los Angeles.
Chris Crawford sent me this hat in the mail and it be the best day of my retro computing life.
I'm not sure how the world of Titan Quest 2 was constructed, but it feels like it's been hand-crafted with the utmost attention to detail.
One of our subscribers did not like the fact that we didn't shy away from the fact that this story took place during the recent and ongoing occupation of Los Angeles. Sorry not sorry. youtu.be/BcZY75f_oEg
youtu.be/BcZY75f_oEg As L.A. "burned" we visited the So. Cal Retro Gaming Expo a couple weeks back.
To me there may be nothing more pleasingly nostalgic than the feel of new inbox, imported Atari ST games. I planned to “crack the seal” on these, but I’m having a hard time giving them up like that so fast. @davevelociraptor.bsky.social @8bitrocket.bsky.social @moorejh.bsky.social
In 2008, when quite literally, NO ONE CARED we published a multi-part series called "Project Save Atari" with ideas and predictions for Atari's future. In 2024 we sat down to revisit it, and see how we did. These are the lost tapes from 2024 and 2008. intotheverticalblank.com/2025/05/04/h...
This was my first creative non-fiction story from 2022 which won The Easy Reader Writing contest. I made video essay out if it, with remastered audio for my new "story only" channel geared towards adults who have adult children named "The Empty Back Seat" emptybackseat.com/2022/08/11/e...
I’ve been playing the sane game of Candy Crush Saga for the past 13 years. Not a flex. A sad state of affairs .