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The Bloop Museum

@bloopmuseum.bsky.social
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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 · 28/09/2026
Want to see the cool stuff that comes through the #museum? Join the #inventory team! Cone get a tour of Bloop and we'll show you what the fuss is about. #pgh #Pittsburgh #nonprofit #volunteer #technology #tech #computers #games #museums
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Game Preservation Society @gamepresint.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Japan's golden age of gaming, from our archive. This week: First Queen (PC-98M, ©KSK 1988) — a hundred tiny soldiers, each with a mind of its own, clash in real time in the "gocha-kyara" swarm. Box art by Yoshitaka AMANO. www.patreon.com/gamepres/pos...
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Game Preservation Society — We're saving Japanese Video Games!
Get more from Game Preservation Society on Patreon. We're saving Japanese Video Games!. Support Game Preservation Society and get exclusive access to their work.
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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 · 15/09/2026
static.klipy.com
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We'll be promoting at @cppcon.bsky.social! What do you want to see at our booth? It needs to fit in @inversephase.bsky.social's carry-on and not raise too many eyebrows at security.
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Inverse Phase @inversephase.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Ok I'm officially putting out the call for help, Wonderbread (my prius) is acting up and I think it's unsafe to drive it to Chicago. Looking for folks driving through Pittsburgh to #VCFMW. I will need a little bit of cargo space.
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Oops, got my own time wrong 😅 Please repost this one instead! Looking forward to seeing y'all at #VCFMW! Come to our talk on Saturday at NOON in the main talk room to hear all of the adventures of moving Bloop over the last year or so! Send questions in advance and I'll include it in the talk!
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Ah yes, that weird Purple Theme Thing they did for a little while...!
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Game Preservation Society @gamepresint.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Japan's golden age of gaming, from our archive. This week: Star Cruiser (PC-88SR, ©Arsys 1988) — fly freely through a solid, full-color universe, then land and walk its towns. A grand space opera that drops you inside an SF movie. www.patreon.com/gamepres/pos...
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Game Preservation Society — We're saving Japanese Video Games!
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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 · 12/07/2026
As Big Boy 4014 makes the news everywhere, don't forget about Big Boy 418!
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Get yourself some classic PC shmup action, or play it in the museum!
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
That's certainly Another Way!
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Museum world problems
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Answer: This song is in a very early PC demo called, you'll never believe this, "Coldcut" by UltraForce. Amiga folks had lots of sampled music but the PC was still catching up. For PC users, this was a very early "cool" thing folks with soundcards would show friends. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMOQ...
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PC Demo: Coldcut by Ultraforce 1080p @ 24
YouTube video by Jim Leonard
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Crypto museum is a great visit too! Can't wait to show you what's new over in 'da burgh!
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Still lamenting the early closing of Filmogs and wondering... What's your favorite "manage my movie collection" database? Is it free? How many formats do you collect? What are the strengths and weaknesses you've found?
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Can anyone suggest a good place for us to recycle Tetra-Pak in Pittsburgh? Our curbside recycler does not take it.
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
So *this* is the Red Baron they were talking about...!
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
interesting! how would you differentiate between different video cassette formats, if you did?
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Kevin Edwards ( Retro game developer ) @kevedwardsretro.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
If you are free tomorrow do you fancy a visit to the Northwest Computer Museum to help them celebrate their 3rd birthday? Entry is free and there's so much to see and do. I hope to see you there, please say hello if you do! It's located in Leigh, near Manchester. Here's a flyer from their socials.
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
....you called the player a cassette?
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
In the day, not many people used that term, we called them "VCRs" (Video Cassette Recorders)
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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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Game Preservation Society @gamepresint.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Japan's golden age of gaming from our archive. This week: Snatcher (PC-88SR, ©Konami 1988) Hideo KOJIMA's cyberpunk masterpiece that still asks the question: who can you trust Help us keep this history alive ! → patreon.com/cw/gamepres #hideokojima #konami #retrogaming #pixelart #gaming
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
ALT text (sorry!): a computer, open, sits right of three LCD monitors mounted vertical/horizontal/vertical (sort of a bow-tie arrangement). on the desk are instructions to do inventory for volunteers, barcode scanners, keyboard & mouse, a box cutter, microfiber cloth, and numerous jewel case games.
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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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Inverse Phase @inversephase.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Headed to #VCFEast for #retrocomputing hijinks this weekend. Ask me for a @bloopmuseum.bsky.social flyer and dump your old junk that goes bleep bloop on me to take back to the #Museum! #tech #technology #vintage #retro #vcf
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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 · 10/04/2026
maybe we'll have to try this at bloop!
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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 · 20/03/2026
eager to show you what's new!
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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 · 10/02/2026
be careful not to list that wireless controller next to the games - that's a real rare one!
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
waiting to purchase - check your ebay messages 😅
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Inverse Phase @inversephase.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
I'm fairly convinced at this point that the secret to longevity is a nice hot shower. In 2024, I went to @revision-party.bsky.social for one and wrote a song about it... inversephase.bandcamp.com/track/hubsch... Inspired by leinad, it's also a @bloopmuseum.bsky.social shill. #demoscene
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Hubschie Duschie (party version) | Inverse Phase
track by Inverse Phase
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
nice! truly bummed that the SMS(1) is an inch or two too wide for a cube
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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Bloop is just shy of $100 from $300K all time donations! Be the one to push us past that mark: givebutter.com/bloopholiday #museum #museums #PGH #pittsburgh #tech #technology #retrocomputing #retrogaming
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Bloop Museum Moves to Pittsburgh
We got the building! Here's what's next.
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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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