Retronauts

If I make it to the year 2090 you know I'm gonna be saying 'It is the nineties and there is time for Klax' all the time

Wart, or "Mamu" as he liked to be called, from the Link's Awakening Official Strategy Guide. Imagine a frog in a regal fur-trimmed cloak from an 1800s English postcard representing one of those lesser christian holidays no one celebrates anymore because the traditional species of lamprey the British used to make the cakes for it went extinct.

in honor of wart coming back for a movie I'm probably not going to see let us remember that the best art of this character ever came from a zelda game's strategy guide. look at him.

Sometimes a cover topic comes across my desk and I'm like "okay greggo how're we getting ourselves out of this one"

cover art by Greg Melo: Bucky O'Hare and Batman play an NES as a shark (from Jaws, surely) pops out of the television. Also note a Rambo poster on the wall, a Ghostbusters proton pack on the table, and a small box that says "Willow"

In an episode exclusively for our $5 patrons: @jparish.bsky.social @stuartgipp.bsky.social & @hg101.bsky.social team up to determine the greatest (licensed!) 8-bit games
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Live on the free feed: @atariarchive.org & @onemillionpower.com delivered dueling panels at MAGFest 2026 covering early Star Trek games and Sega's revolutionary arcade cabinet
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What Is the First Nintendo Crossover? — Thrilling Tales of Old Video Games The search for the first instance of one Nintendo product referencing another.

Revel in Nintendo nostalgia as I attempt to track down the first instance of Nintendo crossing over one franchise with another.

Flower Garden | Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island

[lifeline] it is complete. the lifeline archive is up and public!!
please please please go check it out!! it has a ton of cool stuff about everyone's favorite Voice Action Adventure for PlayStation 2
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Resident Evil The Book, the first official translation of ancilliary resident evil lore, features some of the greatest characterisation for Chris Redfield i have ever seen

we workshop an entire character arc for Sakura!

cover art by Nick Wanserski: Rashid (right) decks F.A.N.G. (left) in the F.A.C.E.

One week early for our Patreon subscribers: @feitclub.bsky.social @atariarchive.org @johnlearned.bsky.social & @onemillionpower.com trade (verbal) blows over the newly retro Street Fighter V www.patreon.com/posts/152000...

a close up of a cartoon squirrel wearing a crown and a blue shirt . Alt: Conker sits on a throne holding a glass of milk

Heading to the pub today? Raise your glasses to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Conker's Bad Fur Day

Miyamoto: When pornography escalates, it eventually crosses into the grotesque. I think the world of "hidden secrets" in games has almost reached that same grotesque level. It's reached a point where it isn't measured by common sense anymore. It's just people getting bored and looking for stronger and stronger stimulation. We've hit a wall. When you're at the point where you have no choice but to go "grotesque," you have to start thinking of new ways to use the medium.

I BETTER SEE THIS SHIGERU MIYAMOTO QUOTE ALONGSIDE HIS OTHER FAMOUS ONES

This is a fascinating, unguarded conversation between a young Miyamoto and Itoi, just poised on the edge of the future in 1989 and excited about what was to come.

An old video of Street Fighter meets Duck Hunt.

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"I bought another Super Nintendo. I wonder how many I've bought so far? I used to play when I was still active, but I was busy with matches and didn't have time. One of my dreams was to buy a white house with a view of the ocean after I retired and play games all day. I'm starting to do that now. First of all, I'll play Final Fantasy, but I also want to play Mario World and Sim Earth. I need a CRT TV."

True pro wrestling legend Bull Nakano: lol I bought another Super Famicom today.

doodle of a tiny Grace from RE9 dragging a revolver that is double her size

fbi’s littlest agent (based on supergreatfriend’s stream and chat) #RE9

A photo of a shelf at a bookstore showing various video game related books like: WipeOut Futurism: The Graphic Archives, Joysticks to Haptics, Video Game of the Year by Jordan Minor, Good Game No Rematch by Mike Drucker, and The Art of Battletoads. Faced out is The History of Metroidvania Decade One: 1980-1990 by Jeremy Parish. A shelftalker beneath it reads: “Attention Hollow Knight Silksong fans: learn the early origins of your favorite genre of exploratory platform games with this meticulously researched and beautiful book all about it!”

Excited to tell every customer who comes in at work about the new @jparish.bsky.social book

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Photo of a Super Famicom Bodyguard, a Super Mario World-themed cloth cover for the Super Famicom, in its original packaging.

Back of the Super Famicom Bodyguard's packaging, demonstrating how a Super Famicom console can be put inside while controllers are connected through holes on the front.

Front of a Super Famicom console inside a Super Famicom Bodyguard, showing the opening through which the controller ports are visible.

Upper view of the Super Famicom console inside the Super Famicom Bodyguard. The Super Mario World-themed cloth is open to allow access to the cartridge port and the power/reset buttons.

Today's "I didn't know this existed" is the Super Famicom Bodyguard (スーパーファミコン ボディーガード), a cozy sleeping bag for your SNES with little holes for the controllers. Probably overheats like a motherfucker in summer. Well worth the $200-800 they're asking buyee.jp/mercari/item...
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found an incredibly important Marathon Infinity mod

i beat SYMPHONY OF THE NIGHT and at the end Dracula goes "behold my true form!" and he has three little xenomorph dicks that try to ram you and his son, alucard, whom you are playing as, seems to have no follow-up questions

We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell. Here's how. | Video Game History Foundation We've stopped a persistent copyright troll who was trying to impede our work. Here's everything we learned—and how we beat them.

BREAKING: We've freed Cookie.

Following an investigation by VGHF, Ukie and Web Capio have suspended DMCA takedowns for Cookie's Bustle on behalf of Graceware, SL.

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It's the Pokopia logo, altered to say "Pokopia Renzoku Satsujin Jiken". A play on the original Japanese title for The Portopia Serial Murder Case