#vintagevideogames — Public Fediverse posts

80 LV: Free Online Archive Of PS1 & N64 3D Models & Game Assets. “Retro gaming fans and game developers looking to learn from classic titles should check out Pardall Games, a solo project by Alfred Baudisch. Essentially, it’s an interactive digital museum and archive of assets from PlayStation, Nintendo 64, and Sega Saturn games.”

Hackaday: How Gold Plastic Syndrome Is Killing Toys And Game Consoles. “In a recent video [Sqwerks] does a deep-dive into the problem of disintegrating plastic enclosures of Nintendo DS consoles. These original NDS handheld consoles have a metallic-like coating that appears to interact with the ABS plastic, causing yellowing as well as extreme brittleness and correspondingly broken hinges. […]

The Virtual Moose: Text Adventures Are Still Doing Alright. “Even though the general narrative online seems to be that text adventures died with Infocom (which I disagree with for many reasons of course), it’s nice to see that there’s two notable Interactive Fiction and Text Adventure events happening at the same time. The first is that the 32nd Annual IF Comp is now live! There are 71 new […]

Time Extension: “I Hope They Choke On An AI-Generated Fishbone” – James Pond Creator On System 3’s “Soulless” Legacy Collection. “When Rogue AI was revealed, Chris Sorrell – who, in addition to creating the character, also served as the programmer, designer and artist on James Pond: Underwater Agent, James Pond 2: Codename Robocod and James Pond 3: Operation Starfish – had some choice words […]

TechSpot: A new coding contest challenges developers to fit an entire game onto a 1.44MB floppy disk. “Korean website 2P Game Arcade recently launched a new ‘1.44MB Game Dev Contest.’ The challenge is simple: developers must create an entire game that fits on a single floppy disk. The maximum file size is 1,474,560 bytes, matching the capacity of the 3.5-inch high-density floppy disks commonly […]

Time Extension: This Cool Project Allows You To Emulate Old LCD Games, Including A Possible Nintendo First. “All of this is me arguing that LCD games did have their place in the wider gaming climate, even if today they are more commonly considered cheap plastic tat you’re more likely to find in a bargain bin than a museum. With that in mind, I was pretty happy to be sent some information […]

TechSpot: Minecraft joins Doom in the “can it run?” hall of fame with Game Boy Color port. “The question of whether something can run Doom is almost always yes, it can. But Minecraft, while not exactly renowned for being graphically intensive, is more demanding and modern, so it’s especially impressive that a YouTuber managed to get the game running on Nintendo’s 1998 Game Boy Color.”

Engadget: Guy who took photo of Jupiter with a Game Boy Camera and giant telescope publishes DIY tutorial . “Musician and retro tech fan Chris Graue made headlines last month after using a Game Boy Camera to take a photo of Jupiter. Obviously, a Game Boy Camera isn’t capable of that kind of range on its own. He and some colleagues connected the novelty camera to the eyepiece of the Hooker […]

Games That Weren’t: Two Long Lost Commodore PET Adventures Recovered After 45 Years. “The original Commodore PET editions of Brian Cotton’s Catacombs and Goblin Towers, published by Supersoft back in 1981, have been recovered after being considered lost for around 45 years thanks to Marcel Lansing.”

Video Game History Foundation: Sonic, Rayman, and more in latest additions to GamePro CD collection. “This week, we added the next 100 CDs from our GamePro press CD collection to our digital archive! As we explained last year, we’ve been digitizing a massive collection of CDs from the art department at GamePro magazine. These discs contain the raw artwork and screenshots that game publishers […]

Ars Technica: “Super ZSNES” is a stab at a modern SNES emulator from the original developers. “ZSNES developed rapidly (alongside the contemporary, competing Snes9x project) throughout the late ’90s and early 2000s. Updates slowed after the original creators left the project, and new releases ceased entirely around 2007. But a successor to ZSNES has arrived.”

The Gamer: Halo Fan Project Has Archived Millions Of Old Gamertags, Stats. “As part of a sweeping sunset, 343 Studios, now rebranded to Halo Studios, announced back in 2021 that Halo 3, along with Halo 3: ODST, Halo: Reach, Halo 4, Halo Wars, Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, and Spartan Assault would all have their servers shutdown, though the offline campaign functionality remained. That […]

Tom’s Hardware: 385TB video game archive saved by fans — Myrient has been ‘100% backed up’ and validated, torrents being generated. “A member of the Save Myrient community has announced that the colossal video games archive has been ‘100% backed up!’ This retro-gaming resource was on the precipice of collapsing last month after collection admins revealed that insufficient funding, rising […]

1990 SNK: Nostalgia Shelf Gem

Get ready for retro action with SNK's 'Coming Soon' Mechanized Attack for NES! This vibrant box art promises an intense first-person shooter experience! Prepare for tanks, helicopters, and non-stop mayhem! 💥🎮

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How-To Geek: The perfect DOS gaming PC isn’t an old 486: It’s a Raspberry Pi. “Raspberry Pis are fantastic if you need a low-power, versatile device for any range of DIY projects, including robotics and simple self-hosted services. With a little bit of work, they can also become a fantastic DOS gaming station.”

Time Extension: “It Has To Happen Outside Of Japan” – Game Preservation Society Launches Patreon And Opens US Office Following Government Fund Freeze. “In April 2025 we covered how Japan’s Game Preservation Society was on the verge of closing. Since then, a lot has happened, with big changes and even bigger plans. The GPS would again like to thank everyone who rushed to its aid. You won’t have […]

BBC: Why are more gamers than ever playing the 2000s classic RuneScape?. “In 2025 RuneScape – the online game where players can go on quests with their friends which first launched way back in 2001 – saw an influx of players. Its number of paid members grew to ‘well over a million’ according to the company, an increase of 30% compared to the start of the year.”

Techspot: Doom can now run as your Windows screen saver. “Developer Wiaam Suleiman recently released Doom Screen Saver, a lighthearted project that turns Doom into a fully functional Windows screen saver. Everything the tool needs is packed into a single .scr file, a portable format that remains in use for modern versions of Windows, even if it has long since faded from the spotlight.”

GameSpot: Lost Sega Channel Games Saved In Latest VGHF Project. “Sega Channel launched in 1994 and was one of the first subscription-based, digital game services, beaming new games and content directly to players’ consoles through a television cable. The service shut down in 1998, and since then many of the exclusive games and content available on the service were thought to be gone forever. […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/16/gamespot-lost-sega-channel-games-saved-in-latest-vghf-project/

Speaking to @arselectronica, Gilbert compared "use verb or noun"- style adventure games to black and white silent movies, expressing that making games like that now would feel similarly dated. https://www.pcgamer.com/games/adventure/monkey-island-creator-ron-gilbert-isnt-interested-in-returning-to-making-2d-adventure-games-when-were-all-dead-it-probably-wont-be-the-kind-of-thing-that-survives/?fbclid=IwdGRleAOmtK9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEe2ohbh3xUxbU2jSmWroivyD3IwhS-mBs81hcDCEfICPO3N20SAhNviQO6EI4_aem_EDOal4_qIKAgPm3KcwQa-w #Gaming #VintageGaming #VideoGames #VintageVideoGames

Engadget: A designer in Singapore created a functional SNES inside a wearable Nike sneaker. “Have you ever been roaming around collecting bananas in Donkey Kong Country on the SNES and thought to yourself, ‘gee, I wish I could play this game on my shoe.’ Well designer Gustavo Bonzanini set out to make this dream a reality. To celebrate the 35th anniversary of Super Nintendo’s launch in Japan, […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/28/engadget-a-designer-in-singapore-created-a-functional-snes-inside-a-wearable-nike-sneaker/

Ars Technica: Return to the year 2000 with classic multiplayer DOS games in your browser. “Over the past couple of weeks, friends and colleagues have made me aware of multiple ingeniously implemented, browser-based ways to play classic MS-DOS and Windows games with other people on basically any hardware.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/23/ars-technica-return-to-the-year-2000-with-classic-multiplayer-dos-games-in-your-browser/

Ars Technica: Microsoft makes Zork I, II, and III open source under MIT License. “Zork, the classic text-based adventure game of incalculable influence, has been made available under the MIT License, along with the sequels Zork II and Zork III.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/22/ars-technica-microsoft-makes-zork-i-ii-and-iii-open-source-under-mit-license/

Ars Technica: This ultra-rare ’90s LaserDisc game console can finally be emulated on a PC. “Here in the year 2025, it’s not every day that a classic gaming console from the 20th century becomes playable via emulation for the first time. But that’s just what happened last week with the release of Ares v146 and its first-of-its-kind support for Mega LD titles designed for the Pioneer […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/11/ars-technica-this-ultra-rare-90s-laserdisc-game-console-can-finally-be-emulated-on-a-pc/

Kotaku: YouTuber Threatened With Jail Time For Reviewing Retro Gaming Handhelds. “As reported by Android Authority, Italian YouTuber Francesco Salicini, aka Once Were Nerd, claims in a video uploaded on July 14 that the Guardia di Finanza—an Italian militarized police force that focuses on economic and financial crimes—raided his home and took around 30 consoles, including retro emulator […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/20/kotaku-youtuber-threatened-with-jail-time-for-reviewing-retro-gaming-handhelds/

How-To Geek: How to Play Classic Arcade Games in Your Browser. “Want to revisit the golden days of coin-operated arcade games? You can do it directly in your web browser without downloading anything. Just load up a gaming website, click play, and you can enjoy classics like Space Invaders, Sonic, or Street Fighter instantly.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/04/how-to-geek-how-to-play-classic-arcade-games-in-your-browser/

Discovered via Calishat Snaps: Invisiclues. From the About page: “This website is a labor of love maintained by an Infocom fan and obssessive archivist who fondly remembers the first time he was eaten by a grue in the early 1980s. The site is dedicated to (1) archiving historical Infocom-related artifacts — InvisiClues, of course, but also magazine articles, marketing material, packaging, […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/20/recently-launched-site-for-infocom-archives-invisiclues/

Massively Overpowered: The RuneScape Archive Project is paying a $500 bounty to folks who can dig up old versions of OSRS. “The RuneScape Archive Project is hoping to collect older versions than the already old [Old School RuneScape] that’s available now. Regular fans may know the game started from an August 2007 build of the MMORPG, but the operators of the archive are trying to gather […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/18/massively-overpowered-the-runescape-archive-project-is-paying-a-500-bounty-to-folks-who-can-dig-up-old-versions-of-osrs/

Zarf Updates: The Visible Zorker . “The left pane is regular old Parchment, the Z-code interpreter, playing Zork 1. You type commands; the game responds. Just regular old Parchment? Not quite! This is Parchment exposed. The upper right pane shows the stack trace for the current turn. That’s all the ZIL functions called, and all the text printed, when executing the most recent command. And the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/27/zarf-updates-the-visible-zorker/

XDA: You can now play Doom in a Microsoft Word document, because no app is too sacred . “It wasn’t too long ago that we reported on someone who got Tetris working in a PDF document . Of course, the next logical step was to get Doom running on it, which they managed to do. However, it turns out that the story doesn’t end there. The feat inspired people to attempt to cram the classic FPS into […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/21/xda-you-can-now-play-doom-in-a-microsoft-word-document-because-no-app-is-too-sacred/

Digital Trends: You can play Halo’s original 1999 demo for the first time. “The Halo franchise has been around for a long time, but we’ve never seen a leak quite this big before. More than 25 years of Halo content has leaked onto the internet, including a playable version of the game from before it was even a first-person shooter.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2024/12/29/digital-trends-you-can-play-halos-original-1999-demo-for-the-first-time/

Tom’s Hardware: Raspberry Pi Pico streams real-time video to Nintendo’s Game boy Color. “Four days ago, YouTuber ChromaLock uploaded a build log of his latest hardware project on his channel. This time, he showcased a Game Boy Color capable of playing back video through its original link cable via a Raspberry Pi Pico and custom software optimized for the workload.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2024/12/26/toms-hardware-raspberry-pi-pico-streams-real-time-video-to-nintendos-game-boy-color/

So, is the Playstation 2 I bought 21 years ago mainly to play retro games on now itself retro?

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1983 ad for the Tron arcade game based on the movie
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