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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 12/02/2026

New book! I am excited to unveil Frenzy: The ColecoVision Games That Brought the Arcade Home. A celebration of a short, thrilling time in video game history centered on this console. Available in print www.amazon.com/dp/1957932139 and Kindle www.amazon.com/dp/B0GMXSD4YN #retrogaming #colecovision

The cover of Frenzy, which shows the left third of a ColecoVision console at a slight angle and some fun red digital-ish graphic designy stuff behind it

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 03/02/2026

Trying to add a Canon laser printer on Wi-Fi to a new Mac. These are my only choices. Am I in 1988

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 30/10/2025

Of course I saw the photo and want to play this now. (Not the same exact cartridge but still)

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 18/10/2025

Wait, let me lob over an Atari ST crash screen for support

A blank white screen showing four bomb icons in a row near the left, in classic Atari ST fashion—it warms my heart seeing it

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 19/08/2025

Dire Straits had better graphics in 1985

A screencap from the "Money for Nothing" music video that somehow looks more detailed than Zuckerberg's metaverse

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 06/08/2025

AARP just sent me a Rewards Statement showing that I haven't done whatever is on their to-do list for me, in case you're wondering how my life is going right now

A July AARP Rewards Statement showing I have failed in achieving any awards, with zeros across the board

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 08/07/2025

Legit scrolled too fast for a moment and saw this

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 28/04/2025

Alas, we had to wait another 12 years for the real Maltese Falcon

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 21/04/2025

Rogue on the Atari ST. Never gets old for me.

An in-game screenshot of Epyx's Rogue for the Atari ST, running in the Hatari emulator (not visible). I'm on level 8 of the dungeon and not doing all that great this time, honestly.

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 08/02/2025

My wonderful mom, Barbara Lendino, passed away last Saturday from pneumonia. I haven’t been able to bring myself to write this because of the grief. Everyone needs to know she was the most amazing, friendly, and patient person, and I was incredibly lucky and fortunate to have her as my mother.

My mom holding my daughter in 2016 outside

My mom at our dining room table in October 2024

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 26/01/2025

Oh, I'm not even sure I know more than you on it; I was just curious to hear more about the job you had. Either way, it always seemed like an awesome setup. I did a spot check of PCMag and found two tests and at least one ad (I remember a bigger ad than this but didn't find it yet)

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 20/01/2025

The "Feels like" line in macOS Sequoia's weather drop-down looks like a slider. I should be able to click and drag it right or left to change the weather.

The macOS Sequoia weather drop-down, showing an 18 degree temperature and "Feels like: 9 degrees," with a blue line that looks like something you can click and drag

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 17/12/2024

I'm personally offended that a new game called Exodus is coming out. Have people no sense of game history

A screenshot of the start of Ultima III: Exodus running on an Atari 800 with artifacting enabled.

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 07/12/2024

That's what these slots on the hood are for

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 01/12/2024

Age yourself with your first computer. (First on the left, second on the right.)

An Atari 800 and Commodore 1702 monitor on the left side of a table, and an Atari ST and SC1224 on the right side, with various mods from recent years attached. Photo by Jamie Lendino.

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 30/11/2024

That's awesome—very late 50s/early 60s "rocket" styling! ('61 and '62 Thunderbirds as random examples for comparison)

A 1961 Thunderbird at a slight angle showing the fins and taillights

A 1962 Thunderbird from the back, showing the fins and taillights

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 26/11/2024

First time I’m launching a book on Bluesky, so here goes: I’m excited to announce my latest, the Second Edition of Adventure: The Atari 2600 at the Dawn of Console Gaming! Now with homebrews, mods, and more. Available on Amazon in paperback/Kindle: www.amazon.com/dp/195793207... #retrogaming #atari

A zoomed-in portion of the Adventure book cover, which shows a “heavy-sixer” Atari 2600 sitting on a wooden table with an Adventure cartridge perched on the front panel.

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 29/06/2024

Finally playing Ultima I all the way through. When I was 11, a big Ultima fan friend of mine told me it wasn't worth it and to start with Ultima II, but the first one has always been on the bucket list. ('86 remake)

A screenshot from Ultima I, showing me in an Air Car that's not at all out of place in a fantasy CRPG

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 23/05/2024

I should probably also mention that I wrote separate books about the Atari 2600 and the Intellivision and in fact put this exact console war in the subtitle of the second one, but I am terrible at marketing myself, so I didn't mention them earlier www.amazon.com/stores/Jamie...

The cover of Space Battle: The Mattel Intellivision and the First Console War, by Jamie Lendino

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 17/05/2024

Seven of Nine would approve.

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 22/03/2024

Welcome! Here, I'm following you in both places now because I can't figure out where to live lately.

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 21/01/2024

I question the ergonomics of such a setup.

An old DataSoft ad for "Le Stick" shows a guy playing Star Raiders on an Atari 400, sitting at his desk in a way that would be impossible in real life.

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 11/01/2024

The Atari 400 Is Getting an Awesome Mini Edition www.extremetech.com/gaming/the-a...

The400 Mini, which looks like a miniaturized Atari 400 from 1979

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 08/01/2024

Space Battle: The Mattel Intellivision and the First Console War is a #1 New Release in the computer nerd category on Amazon! Available now for $14.99 in paperback and $9.99 for Kindle ebook, with hardcover and EPUB versions coming later this week: www.amazon.com/dp/1957932104

A screenshot from Amazon's product description for the book Space Battle, with a nifty "#1 New Release" icon in orange next to the cover

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 04/01/2024

I'm excited to announce my latest book, Space Battle: The Mattel Intellivision and the First Console War! www.amazon.com/dp/1957932104/ A love letter and overview of the Intellivision, details on its greatest games, and emulating and collecting for the system today.

A close-up of the top right corner of an Intellivision sitting on a desk, with a screenshot of Space Battle overlaid above

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 11/12/2023

They did say it was going purple, so we just have to get it to go all these other colors.

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 25/09/2023

Cosmos and Carl Sagan vibes

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 25/09/2023

My eight-year-old daughter has a 103 fever and wants me to post her creation on the Internet, so how could I say no? It's her first time using Photoshop. Allow me to present: The Catmolisa.

The Mona Lisa with a cat head drawn on it

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 17/08/2023

I’m excited to announce my latest book, and it's been a long time coming—the Second Edition of Breakout: How Atari 8-Bit Computers Defined a Generation! www.amazon.com/dp/1957932023

A copy of Breakout on an old wooden floor, which is even older than I am.

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