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I could watch this a thousand times. Atari memories:

WHOA—spot the AtariTel video phone (Mitsubishi Luma Phone) on top right shelf I never spotted one of these in the wild before imagine this kid randomly having an AtariTel video phone in the 1990s incredible and already a decade old

Playing Sega Genesis online on XBAND in 2026 I used to play Mortal Kombat against this kid I knew in Little Haiti in the 90s in Miami really cool someone figured out how to spoof XBAND People talk about Xbox live but Sega Dreamcast, Saturn & Genesis / MegaDrive had online 1st

In 1993 TTi was a small group of guys operating on a shoestring budget w no money from NEC to promote the Turbo Duo So they got @tonyhawk to edit an indie VHS in the style of a Powell/Peralta skateboarding video, to get word out about Turbo Duo and the new game Lords of Thunder

every kid in ’89 lined up for Game Boy. safe choice. grey screen I went the other way. Atari Lynx. backlit color blasting like a neon skate video ElectroCop was my gateway drug, 16-bit cyberpunk in my hands some kids followed the crowd Lynx crew jacked in 📷@CoinsNConsoles

TurboGrafx-16 and DUO were tragically underrated in the ‘90s. While PC Engine soared in Japan, tg16 and Duo were almost completely ignored in the US Except by the coolest gamers like us, who enjoyed games like Ys Book I&II, Splatterhouse, & Lords of Thunder 📷@CoinsNConsoles

This book is an example of ignoring Atari Covers NES SMS TG16 SNES GEN NEOGEO Book about Sprites 1983-90, Atari had 7800 MARIA operable in 1983 NES, SMS, TG16/PCE push ~64 sprites on screen at once. Atari 7800 pushed ~200-300 w no hard limit Why ignore that? 8-BIT Narcissism

Which Halloween are you picking? 🎃

Interviewed “Josh” today for my zine. An autistic hacker, he goes by the name “g0z3r”. Insanity. Absolute chaos.

Instead of gold boxes Atari should be making golden cartridges of 7800 Swordquest Timeworld.

Malcolm-Jamal Warner 1970-2025

@american80s Would be nice to see screenshots rather than just cover art. A tasteful, minimalist photo of the system placed at the center would be nice.

Neo Geo CD. I like the minimalism. Nice use of white space. Everyone else was screaming at you to buy something in the mid 90s. This is nicely understated… #NeoGeo #SNK #Art #Design #90s #Japan ☀️🌴

ok Miami Beach I see you 🌊🌴

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@OldInternetFeel Only real ones know what setting the PlayStation aside to play Ninja Golf on the Atari 7800 is all about 🥷⛳️🕹️

True Stories of My Battles Against Technological Ignorance: Part One I’ve been a computer user and enthusiast for 50 years. In 1975, at the age of 10, I first encountered a computer, a PDP-11, at the Children’s Museum in Boston. This sparked my lifelong fascination with technology. By 1978, after months of visiting Radio Shack, I bought a TRS-80 Model 1 with 4K of memory. This early computer couldn’t even display lowercase letters, but it was a marvel at the time. To put it in perspective, 4K of memory is less than what a modern digital watch has today. I used this computer to run programs like ELIZA, a simple conversational program, and games like Moon Landing and Scott Adams’ text adventures. It even used a cassette drive to store data. Bringing the TRS-80 to school was a pivotal moment. I wanted to share this ‘neat thing’ with my classmates. Instead of curiosity, I faced fear and ignorance, resulting in suspension. It was a stark reminder that the fear of new technology isn’t new. Today, I see similar reactions with AI. Just like then, fear and misunderstanding can overshadow the potential benefits. It’s crucial to push past this ignorance and embrace the future.

The Atari "Painter" Microbox030/040 variant (without the top-lid CD-ROM) which was the combination of the Atari Falcon + Atari Jaguar system in one unit with ComLynx support. The things we could have had... and the idea of having a Falcon platform powered by the Jaguar chipset was truly fascinating. But would you have preferred it over the ST-styled Falcon030 that was released?

It's time for year-end lists. What were your favorite #AtariVCS games released in 2024?

We'd love to see @DigitalEclipse bring some of their games natively to the #AtariVCS, but it's good to have PC-MODE as an option.