The Obscuritory

If being rich means I won’t get into heaven, then baby I’m stayin here on earth!!!!

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What’s New in Game History! Hey, my GDC panel is up, and it’s free! Watch me, historian Laine Nooney, Stanford curator Henry Lowood, tech policy lawyer Kendra Albert, and Chloe Appleby fro...

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playstationpark : > Water Ways > ‘Lomax The Lemming’ > PlayStation

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From Emergency Room: Disaster Strikes

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My panel from Super MAGFest 2024 is up! Meredith Rose and I talk about VGHF’s report that 87% of classic games are out of print and the legal battle we’re fighting to make game preservation e...

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Hey! MAGFest is still uploading all the panels from this year. I'll share it once they upload it (I assume they recorded it...?).

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I’m helping run the Game History Gallery exhibit this year for the Video Game History Foundation, AND I’ll be appearing on a panel, “What’s New in Game History!” , to talk about the coo...

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From Robot Writer Plus!

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text-mode : > Compact discs - the wave of the future.  >  > ANSI found by Aaron Kuhn > , > author unknown.

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Incredible. I didn't even know that was a thing! This is inspiring me to actually figure out the mail bag tonight. Send it by Tumblr anyway. The next mailbag is going to have the single coolest...

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cynic-view-ahead : > Final Fantasy 8 is the best, area man claims >  >  >  > The creator of That Amazing Website got interviewed!!! It’s a > great interview and I j...

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Incredible. I didn't even know that was a thing! This is inspiring me to actually figure out the mail bag tonight. Send it by Tumblr anyway. The next mailbag is going to have the single coolest...

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Hahaha I'm glad! Most of the writing I do tends to be something that I want to spend a little more time polishing — analyzing old games; exhibits and archival description for work; and the book...

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shinjiro-aragaki99 : > Final Fantasy VIII is the Best   >  > This is a great Final Fantasy VIII website I found on Bluesky last > night. HMM YES WHO COULD HAVE MADE THIS...

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Tonight on the stream (7pm Pacific!), we’re gonna get as far as we can in The Amazon Trail, the follow-up to The Oregon Trail! It’s a bonafide edutainment classic, but how well does it hold u...

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obscuritory : > Got a POWERFUL new business card holder. This is vintage merch from > 1999. It says “I’m here for business,” but also “Something > is wrong with...

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Got a POWERFUL new business card holder. This is vintage merch from 1999. It says “I’m here for business,” but also “Something is wrong with me.”

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Uhhh holy shit? I’ve been inactive for the last 3½ years so maybe this should say 7.5 instead. Get on that Tumblr. But really, thank y'all so much for your ongoing support. The Obscuritory (...

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I attempted to rank the Real Good Soundtrack of Final Fantasy VIII. No one bothered making this Tiermaker until now, so now you can try it at home!

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It was a fangame posted on a Mario forum almost 20 years ago (!) that parodies pirate game carts. It has extremely low-rent knockoffs of classic games, like Mortal Kombat 7 and Mega Man 10. The...

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