Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 3hCorn Dog is really into gourds, he likes to roll around with them 41367
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026We get festive this time of year at @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social 2401
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I had never seen this Game Boy model that came on an action figure card backing, it makes me happy to look at. Man, remember consumer electronics? 281048226
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I don't know if this gets talked about too much, but we are starting to get a lot of archive requests that feel like LLM-generated research slop. The second one was a real bummer, I pulled the book and tried to help them, then got a second near-identical email a week later from a different address. 1017829
Reposted by Frank Cifaldi Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It takes place on the one night of the year where Godzilla is allowed to have sex 191049220
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This is genuinely one of my favorite 1v1 games and I wish there was a way for people to actually experience it, I've only played it at an arcade collector show and haven't seen it in over a decade now 6746
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I drank some water out of the gutter a week ago and now every time I look at the ground I see this 612110
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This is a book about portrayals of librarians in video games, which heavily used our video game research library for reference, and then the final work was donated to our library. An ouroboros of video game library. 024855
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I love the videos we've started producing this year, where @jtsknight92.bsky.social finds something interesting in our library and goes down a rabbit hole, teaching you how to research along the way. Also, look at the comments! It turns out intelligent content builds intelligent communities, weird.youtube.comTakumi Kawagoe - Camera Systems, Cinematics, and Defeating GanondorfYouTube video by The Video Game History Foundation 110223
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 12/09/2026This is a part of the game's second level that exists only for you to go watch the birds and enjoy some serenity. It has its own location and scrolls the rest of the level off screen so you're not interrupted, it's very intentional. It's absolutely wild to see something like this on the NES. 942684
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Park Place's "Roundball: 2 on 2 Challenge" for the NES actually started life as "Dream Team: 3 on 3 Challenge" with player likenesses, as seen in this CES photo. The art kinda sorta survives in the final if you overlay the character select portraits on the photo, though the players got Joe Hoops'd. 1416
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I like to say "we have 500 subscribers!" but last month dipped to 499. I hope to bounce back up so as not to be a liar. 2508
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I've started saving "found photos" of humans with video games as they appear on eBay because, idk, someone's got to 1542450
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026My favorite part of this movie is when Jupiter says "my friends call me Joop," a nickname that is never referenced before or after this line is spoken. 10857
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The Battle of Olympus remake is so cute!!! I didn't realize that it was basically made by two people who ended up marrying each other! It looks like this remaster is meant to also be their last game development project, ending where they began.youtube.com【開発者本人が語る】『オリュンポスの戦い』38年越しの完全リメイクYouTube video by The Battle Of Olympus™ 1126475
Reposted by Frank Cifaldi Kevin Bunch (ubersaurus) @atariarchive.org · 31/08/2026Back in May, I helped dump seven prototype game cartridges that represent some of the earliest steps toward home video games as we know them today. I've published my findings on a new Archive Annex video: meet the FRED III. youtu.be/180erQryZFwyoutu.beFRED III: RCA's Original Prototype Game Console - Archive Annex 6YouTube video by Atari Archive 824887
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 27/08/2026TIL that Meldac, the publisher of an NES game about a giant head that vomits on buildings, also published the debut album from actress Jennifer Love Hewitt 614222
Reposted by Frank Cifaldi columbologist @columbologist.bsky.social · 27/08/202691.8% of players, having waited nearly 20 years for MGS4 to be playable on anything other than PS3, booted the game and immediately made a beeline for a statue's dick 4278682457
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 27/08/2026The most bizarre Comic-Con panel I went to was Larry King doing a live interview with Peter Cullen in 2012 with, as far as I can tell, zero prep or existing knowledge of his work, but Peter was a pro and handled it well. I took the worst photo ever, but I promise Peter's off screen on the right. 310810
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 27/08/2026For my fellow NES weirdos: a long chain of detective work just resulted in these basically-never-seen screenshots of the unreleased Magic of Scheherazade II being unearthed. It looks like more of the same, but there ain't nothing wrong with that. From The Super Famicom issue 1, for future reference! 1328771
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Ah they switched their "everything is an Xbox" campaign to "everything is preservation." 512213
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 26/08/2026This is more effective marketing than any trailer Konami has cut for this collection 134160
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Losing my mind at the "CRT filter" for this new release of Manic Miner that was just announced 2944487
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 24/08/2026This is actual untouched promotional art for Resident Evil 4 that I dug out of the VGHF's stacks, they really did have Ashley just goofin' off on a barrel in the village in front of the fire where they lit that cop on fire 29314
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Continually fascinated by Parker Bros. making its dramatic return to video games in 1990 with a New Kids on the Block game that never got finished and Drac's Night Out, a game about Dracula wearing literal, ad-placement Reebok Pumps that he wears while going into people's homes to murder them. 1924866
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Yes, a very real human artist who knows what udders look like saw this pixel art and made the background fire teets point in directions that make no sense 1621031
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I love that Microsoft literally cancelled the first Psychonauts and 20+ years later they retconned it into being one of the most important games on the system 251616381
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I'm the best there is at what I do. And what I do is strut my stuff. 912312
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Oh good I tricked Esper into making a podcast image out of Daria's Inferno, the Daria PC game you didn't know existed. It's not like, good, but unlike @pushinguproses.bsky.social I respect what it was trying to do with the property on what seems like a tight budget. 3805
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 17/08/2026If you ever get me drunk at a party I'm going to talk about how I deinterlaced this video to make it like 5% sharper 938029
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I saw this game playing on a TV in the mall and thought it was a TV broadcast at first. I am posting this so younger people can make fun of me the way I make fun of people in the old timey theater jumping out of the way when they saw a movie of a train coming at them 111589
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 12/08/2026(on the microphone on C-SPAN talking through the feedback squeal) Pepe Le Pew is the most unkillable of all of the Looney Tunes, there is no escaping his lust, even death has no meaning as he will meet you in Hell with open arms 1655
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 09/08/2026I played the Wild Gunman restoration! Go watch 74XX's video if you haven't! youtu.be/TOfqnomGPkM?...youtu.beWILD GUNMAN: Resurrecting Nintendo's First Coin-Op on its 50th AnniversaryYouTube video by 74XX Arcade Repair 212117
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 08/08/2026I watched this happen in real time on the Something Awful forums, the boat captain posted a thread about him and his passengers being shat on and pages later it was revealed that it was Dave Matthews' shit. 723035
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 04/08/2026I had no idea that records have the video game problem, where what's pressed to the disc is missing content and fixes that are in the final digital version. Except you can't get a day one patch for vinyl! www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...theguardian.comA pressing issue: why are vinyl albums becoming so different from their digital versions?They’re expensive, elaborate – and may not contain all the music. After Olivia Rodrigo, Charli xcx and more sent out incomplete or unfinished vinyl versions, fans are feeling shortchanged 1415025
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Corn Dog's about to give a damning lecture on climate change 216811
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Imagine collecting games and lusting after "Stadium Events" when stuff like this exists and can still be found in thrift stores archive.org/details/craz... 1622658
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Cuphead taught me to kill things like this 141767294
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 02/08/2026This is my favorite retro game con, they put out the good stuff, and it's in a funky air and space museum. I'll be there lecturing, projecting slides into a giant IMAX theater showing Nintendo's abandoned attempt NES as a home lottery system. Later I will sip beer and play Barbie Fashion Designer. 323527
Reposted by Frank Cifaldi Bucket Mouse @mousebitelabs.bsky.social · 29/07/2026The chintzy-looking M64 clone console of the N64 by a company named ModRetro has been released, I think, I don't pay attention that closely to shit. But as the great @frankcifaldi.bsky.social posted before, it is our civic duty to push back against this company and shun ANYONE who doesn't. 4933511740
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 23/07/2026I'm really proud of how we approach cultural history: we curate, collect, interpret and provide access to it for free online. People ask if we'll open a museum and it's like...why? Museums are wonderful and I love them but we have 100x the impact of a museum at less than 5% of the cost. 327136
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Yesss I was hoping someone would find the clip of Charles Martinet doing his weird forgotten Donkey Kong voice in the collection we opened access to today 14835206
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 19/07/2026The hand transparency glitch is hard to do, you have to travel back to the 50s and kiss your mom 41012
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 12/07/2026If I looked down at my hands and saw Gamera looking back at me with absolute trust and affection like this I'm pretty sure all my problems would go away 329173
