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We're a 501(c)(3) non-profit electronic entertainment museum! Expect games, computers, interesting media, and tech gadgets. You can see, hold, and a lot of the time, power on a lot of items in our inventory! bloopmuseum.org

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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Not sure what Skynet will destroy between now and 2029 so I can't properly predict items that will still exist in the future. Maybe this?
the front of the PC big box for Terminator 2029, by Bethesda Softworks. It features a big terminator on the front and "The Terminator 2029" in the terminator font.
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Today at #Tekko2026 #tekko #pgh #Pittsburgh #anime #conventions #cosplay #McDonalds
A Ronald McDonald cosplayer holds up a copy of the McDonald's game for the Sega Pico in the Tekko vendor area.
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
We're at #Tekko! Come visit our table in the back of the vendor hall! It's just to the right of the autograph area. #Tekko2026 #anime #pgh #Pittsburgh #conventions #sugoi
a mass of attendees descend upon the dealer room at an anime conventionA Bloop Museum promotion table complete with Casio Loopy and Sega Pico. There's also a little big speaker in the middle.
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Just think what will happen when you bring your kid to the museum and they discover all these other artifacts...
A screenshot of Albysf49's post from r/daddit "7h ago" titled "My 5yo has described an unknown piece of technology":

"At school we have Disney plus, but it's not like the one at home where you see all the films and choose.

There is a small box and inside there's a thing with a hole. Then the teacher presses a button and a small drawer comes out, then she puts the thing with the hole into the drawer, presses the button again and the drawer goes back.

Then the film starts”

2.9k upvotes, 178 comments, 2 cute pink heart things.
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Here in the states, we called that autoflip! It was on a lot of players. And before you complain that many movies came on multiple discs, behold, the LD-W1, with four-sided play! www.lddb.com/hardware/075...
A Pioneer LD-W1, which has a fairly clean look. There is an array of indicator lights at the top left, buttons on the right, two major "sections" to the player (which is all one unit), and a large loading bay below (closed in this picture) that accepts two laserdiscs. Power is still on the upper left and a headphone jack on the lower right. A remote is left of the player and A/V cables are on the right.
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
a rather indescribable rendering of pac man, but I'll give it a go. in a castle setting, walls on both side and one at the back, so that there's a corridor with left and right turns in the back, pacman is in the foreground. the head is the pacman you know, maybe a bit cartoonish, but then it's on the body of a yellow jogger with a pacman on his green t-shirt. he is eating power pellets that look like hockey pucks, floating in thin air, while looking anxiously at three ghosts with devious looking faces, red closest, green further back, and then orange on the left turn and purple on the right. the red one has a hand reaching out at pac-man as if he wants to steal the hockey puck/cookie/whatever.
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The inventory battlestation is ready! We've repurposed a donated computer from our neighborhood and some screens from a local coder. #tiefighter #museums #tech #computers
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Amyone out there in #Washington #PA? Today we're at the #Pennsylvania #Trolley #Museum's #vintage #tech #fest promoting Bloop! #retro #hashtagcity
the front doors of the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum. It has a rustic lodge aesthetic.A skirted table setup with a Bloop museum poster, four CRT televisions with video games, VHS / laser discs, and flyers.
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Yo #Pittsburgh! Bloop is streaming @revision-party.bsky.social live this weekend! Drop by and hit the doorbell anytime 9a~6p today, Saturday, or Sunday to discover the #demoscene at the official US watch party! You can even vote on entries - we've got the codes! #PGH #events #easter #PA #tech #art
A cartoonish 3D render of an evil robot is being projected onto a wall between two stereo speakers amongst some arcade stars-and-wavy-lines carpet, game consoles, arcade machines, and chairs.
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
It's been 10 months since we bought our new building. I'm at the bitter end of getting the #Museum stuff out of Baltimore, and just a little bit loopy.
A packing label that reads "Oops! All arcade PCBs."
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
we prefer this local bus
VESA Local Bus! It's the local bus before PCI. Picture from wikipedia.
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Ominous #Pittsburgh storms loom, but we are still open for business today until 6pm. It's Walk-in Wednesday at the #Museum!
A posted real estate sign has been replaced with a sign board that says, "Book a tour today - It's free!" Also the Bloop Museum logo and website, bloopmuseum.com
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
You're not getting 32 *or* 64 bits, the Bentley is a Pong 😉
A picture of a Bentley Compuvision, its box, and its manual.
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
In the hunt for a good 386 to put on the time line, we found some #demoscene goodness! #retrocomputing #msdos #pc #gaming #museum #tech #pittsburgh #pgh
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
That's okay Google, we can't confirm *you're* an adult either.
A screenshot where Google complains that it can't confirm that the Museum is an adult, and has enabled several safety features that keep kids safe on the Internet.
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Apparently editing your place on google maps from a government building to a museum gets your business account suspended 😅 Anyway, Bloop is hard at work on getting our places in order so it's easier to find us, and recently, PRT renamed our bus stop to include us! Victory!
A screenshot of Google Maps displaying a pin for "Frankstown Rd at #12245 (Bloop Museum)".
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Bloop Museum version 0.7 is now OPEN! Today is "Walk-in Wednesday" and the first day that we're open all day from 10am to 6pm. Swing on by, #PennHills and #PGH folks! Time to show you all the cool stuff we're working on.
It's a big room with computers and games, fairly well organized, with some flamboyantly tableclothed tables, red and blue pixelated designs, a big "room-size" univac in the middle, and more!Our International (up/left) and Arts&Culture (down/right) corners are still being worked on, but they were deemed good enough to open and there's still a lot to see and talk about in those areas. Come take a closer look!It's our Japan room! Densely populated because I need more shelves, there's Sharp, Fujitsu, NEC, MSX, Nintendo vs Sega, and more obscure stuff to see. I went for a wood-and-white theme, just like those Japanese house pictures you see.It's a 1982 living room! With the exception of the cheap pacman rug I ordered, I think we hit the mark on this one. Everyone had that brown/orange plaid 80s couch, console TV, Atari 2600, and computer hutch. You can also see a Wurlitzer jukebox sneaking into the bottom of the photo.
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Code clearance bonanza! Bloop version 0.7 is about ready to go. The #museum had a few problem areas that we are cleaning up over the course of the next month to get to 1.0. In the meantime, we're going to try and pass code. #PGH #Pittsburgh #tech
A woman in a jacket covered in patches for metal bands, painting a bathroom door with a paint roller. The door was the color of expired Pepto Bismol, and will soon be a maroon shadeA man in a beige shirt has painted the other bathroom door with the same shade of maroon paint and is now working on the trim with a paintbrush
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
YOU ARE IN A TWISTY MAZE OF PASSAGEWAYS, ALL DIFFERENT
A view out Bloop's front door. Slightly more snow has been removed from our last post.A view from the previous photo to the street. One vehicle can enter the parking lot. We are hoping that vehicle will be the mail carrier and our other couriers.A view up the hill to the street from our other parking lot. Again, there is basically room for one car to go up or down the hill: Us.
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
YOU ARE IN A MAZE OF TWISTY LITTLE PASSAGES, ALL ALIKE.
perspective view into our snow shoveling path from our front door, but we've barely started The snow is over a foot deep.
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Weather report from the museum
A snowy scene of the street in front of the museum, which is barely visible. A lamp post, tree, and sign for the bus stop are in the foreground. Another parking lot is in the background.
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Shout-outs to @gamesdonequick.com which is already underway. Not a low badge number but still a cool one! Brendan's doing a late night #AGDQ2026 panel about how he ended up running #MAGFest back in the day and then Bloop #Museum, and doing Q&A - come on by Friday night at 10PM! #Pittsburgh #PGH
Badge 2000 for Games Done Quick screenshot!
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Just #Pittsburgh things
The cargo space of a Toyota Prius entirely filled with glass block.
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
“20 totes a-packing” isn't really a lyric to 12 days of Christmas but it IS the most we've ever stuffed into the Prius! #museum #storage #tetris #moving
The cargo space of a Toyota Prius hatchback with 20 of the 27-gallon black totes — we call them bumblebees — surrounded on all sides by the yellow lids that accompany them.
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Happy #Holidays from the #museum! Our timeline is almost fully populated and we're building out exhibits as fast as we can. Check out the cool lighting from one of our volunteers! #Pittsburgh #PGH #museums #technology #retrocomputing #retrogaming
You are standing at a curved table looking directly at some white shelving behind the tables. An Atari 800 and second VIC-20 are connected to TVs on the table, and a boxed Atari 400 and VIC-20 are on the shelves. Also visible to the left and right are a Commodore PET, Apple II, TRS-80, TI-99, IBM PC, Commodore 64, Macintosh, and you can barely see an Atari ST and Amiga 1000 around the bend to the right. There are red and green uplights accenting the furniture and red and blue carpet mats in front of the tables. There are no ceiling tiles but a little fairy told me they're coming soon.
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Picked up a cute little TV, what do y'all think?
The Weather Channel, retro edition! An "old" Sony Trinitron CRT TV with Weatherstar 4000 emulation.
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Our heat pump had icicles on it, so I had to do the obvious
"If you're cold, they're cold - Bring them inside"  meme, but it's a heat pump instead of an animal or pet
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Attic find. How'd I do?
An ASR 33 teletype in an attic.An ASR 33 in the passenger seat of a car.
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
You mean like this one? 😉 (to be fair, this exhibit is at our former host museum. But we're the ones that convinced them to include code wheels from games)
A museum exhibit about volvelles.
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
We've been working hard, and things are coming along! Please support the #museum this giving season - givebutter.com/bloopholiday #retrogaming #retrocomputing #gaming #games #computer #stem #technology #tech
A view of a sidewalk in front of an old beige brick municipal building with a red roof, and "coming soon: bloop museum" on a signpost out front. The scenery includes a tree that has lost its leaves from fall near the sign, and a tall radio tower behind the building.
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Ripley from the movie Alien in a "ready to fight" stance; her pulse rifle has suspiciously been replaced by an Amstrad CPC 464
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
It's about to get lit ... "lit"erally! Puns aside, this three-digit number of T8 LED bulbs will drop Bloop's lighting costs by 80~85%!
4 big boxes full of LED lighting tubes in the cargo area of a hatchback car.
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Us! @inversephase.bsky.social even has a white bally:
A Bally Computer System in white with box, controllers resting on top of the smoked plastic that covers the game storage area. It sits on a nice woodgrain table, and racks of LPs are in the background.
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Last day of PGX! Come by and see us at #Pittsburgh #Gaming Expo in Monroeville, it's been a great weekend meeting folks! #PGH #PGX2025
A view down a PGX vendor aisle, with the Bloop booth on the right.
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Just a quick snapshot out of the back window at the museum. What do you think, should we mount a camera to capture the sunsets here? #Pittsburgh #PGH #PennHills #PA #sky
a pretty sunset, with a few trees and hills in the horizon. shades of pink, purple, and orange.
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Let's hear it for our volunteers who have been vacuuming and @nocturnalplant.bsky.social who has been running the rug doctor for nearly two days on the second floor. We're not realistically opening up there for two years... we just really really really want the new #museum building to be clean!
A view of a Bissell Green Machine, and you can see half of a cleaned floor and half of a not-cleaned floor.
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
the saga of moving the #univac 418 continues... #retrocomputing #mainframemonday #retrocomputer #mainframe #forklift #museum #computers #computing #technology #tech
a palletized univac 418, teletype desk on its right, as seen from the front panel,  in a parking lot. a forklift is parked to the right of the whole ordeal.
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
We're so busy packing trucks, moving, and unpacking, that we don't have time for an email update quite yet - but here's a shot of the most recent truck where we loaded up a bunch of fixtures from a closed-down Joann. Hope this will hold you over!
the back of a front-to-back full 26' u-haul with furniture and network equipment
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Our input exhibit has come down, and is packed up for the move to #Pittsburgh!
Bloop's input device exhibit, featuring a variety of interesting input devices (and one output device - a braille terminal)
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Want to get nice updates about our #museum news in a digest in your email? Support the museum for $1 on givebutter or DM us with your email address - it's a great way to stay up to date on everything going on. bloopmuseum.com
Even though we have a lot more to do, clean, paint, etc, I'm excited to say that we finally got the green light to enter and start moving in about two weeks ago. To boot, when we got the OK, we already had two truckloads basically ready to go. What size truckload? So glad you asked...
[image of a truck in a parking lot with a lot of pallets in front of it.]

Yep, a 53 foot dry van. And that's 25 pallets in front of it. We filled it to the brim with computers, games, and tech to go in the museum. But here's where it gets real - we're going to be able to fill three of these, maybe four. We delivered the second one yesterday; here's a picture of Brendan, who is forklift-certified, getting pallets off of a truck. I don't know why I'm talking about myself in the third person, probably something to do with the serious look on my face here: [image of Brendan carefully driving a forklift]
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
cost cutting measures are getting out of control, y'all
a listing for a heavy-duty welded shelf with the entire left side missing
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Sights from Tekko this past weekend
more cute plushies than you can shake a stick at.
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
We met a TON of awesome people at our first Tekko! If you talked to us at a panel, in the hallways, or at our table, please reach out!
The Bloop table at Tekko. A banner with our logo hangs from the front. A box labeled "unboxing today@5pm" and a placard in front of it with basics about our new building and a QR are on the left. Then some flyers and chiptune CDs in the center, followed by a Japanese Sega Pico and a Casio Loopy on the right. A handful of people are at the booth behind us and to the right to see/hold/pet kittens.
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Spotted at #Tekko, these dudes are supporting their Densha de Go conductor by acting out riding the train. いつもお世話になっております! #Tekko2025 #Pittsburgh #PGH #Conventions #Cons
three dudes in front of a train simulator arcade game - densha de go!!
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
girl, same.
an electronic arts sega genesis cartridge with a "be a friend. rewind when you reach the end." blockbuster sticker on the back.
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
...and like that, the game exhibit is now packed and ready to move to Pittsburgh. 🚚 Thanks to our final tour groups today for checking it out before we tore it down!
An empty display case with 5 plastic totes on a handtruck in front of it and one on the floor.A lonely, empty display case with three unpopulated white pedestals beside it.
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Bloop's longest-standing exhibit in our current space, the video game exhibit, is getting packed up for our move to Pittsburgh, where it will be expanded! Here's a look at it in all its glory 👾
A variety of 30 game systems and ephemera in a display case, with six boxes on top. A Sega Master System is running Zaxxon 3D on the left, and a Neo Geo is booting on the right-hand TV.
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Our supporter Evgeny donated an #𝘌𝘭𝘦𝘬𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘬𝘢 𝘉𝘒 (Электроника БК) 0010 computer from a parallel-dimension where the PDP-11 was sold as a general-purpose home #computer in #Russia. But actually, it's real! We're working to preserve more foreign tech at Bloop, so get in touch if you have anything!
A large CRT television connected to a russian computer displaying the title screen / menu for the game "Second" in red and green.The same computer and TV later at night, displaying "GAME OVER" (ИГРА ЗАКОНЧЕНА) in Russian, with a final score of 00110.
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Stay safe in the heat wave, y'all
"Weatherman said dress for the 90s" with the cast from Hackers
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Bloop has over 1600 software items and 150+ hardware items from Japan, and we show them to visitors on every tour. We're very interested in showing off more, and not just from Japan! Let us know if you can help in any way - we want to represent your region!
Bloop's MSX corner, featuring several machines and software placed about in the corner of an office cubicle. The Philips NMS8245 (left) is powered on and booting, connected to the monitor in the center.A boxed Atari 2800, the Japanese Atari 2600, and 3 boxed games. Photo by @amimoregore.comA Sega SG-1000 Mark III and SK-1100 keyboard on the left, and a Famicom with a Disk System and Family Basic and keyboard on the right. Ads, photos, and manuals are scattered about. A lovely orange-red Toshiba Blackstripe sits in the center.A travelling Japanese Sega Pico exhibit with several software titles about. Onscreen is a Hello Kitty game. Above the TV is a special hardware accessory for the Pico. Left is an indie game also on display.
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