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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 24/09/2026

Spy vs. Spy ~ Spent hours playing this with my brother. It's such an entertaining two player experience, yet also so easy to grasp.

A white spy stands in a room above, and a black spy below

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 21/09/2026

An Acorn Archimedies running the Drax Coal Fired Power Station laser disc. A perfect pairing.

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 10/09/2026

Released for the BBC Micro in 1984, Elite was one of the first home computer games to use wire-frame 3D graphics with hidden-line removal.

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 08/09/2026

Rescued a lamp from the rubbish tip. Dont @ me

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 06/09/2026

Today we're skipping Granny's Garden and going straight to Bubble Bobble.

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 04/09/2026

Having a lil look at a prototype Quarter Scale Battlezone. Anyone got any questions about it?

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 03/09/2026

Went to the tip, found a matching school chair for my BBC Micro school desk 😍

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 21/08/2026

These bad boys are ICL 7181 Visual Display Units. Introduced in the 60s as mainframe terminals, they actually used nickel delay lines as memory. This stored data as acoustic sound waves in a coiled wire 🤯

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 20/08/2026

This majestic DEC VT240 from 1984, impressively ran on a single chip microcontroller version of the PDP-11. A system that took up an entire room the prior decade.

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 19/08/2026

Another ICL Terminal. 7501, used as a mainframe operator console, and featuring a memory mapped display 🫪 These things could literally run Pac-Man or Space Invaders, and indeed, did.

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 18/08/2026

This little wedge is a DEC VK100 GIGI. Here it's hooked up to a PDP-11, but in 1981 it was intended for education and massively outsold by competitors.

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 18/08/2026

Thank you to everyone who donated during our @su2c.bsky.social @su2c BIG BUILD! Still *quite* a lot do to, but... THE GATES OF MINAS TIRITH ARE ERECT.

Marta sitting defiantly behind the gates of Minas Tirith

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 17/08/2026

This hot piece of ass is an ICL 7700 Terminal from 1979. Commonly used to connect to ICL mainframes, but also with its own built-in computer.

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 17/08/2026

Incredibly excited to see an ICL 2966 Mainframe system from 1982.

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 14/08/2026

The board is set, the pieces are moving. We come to it at last, the great battle of our time.

Marta and Snerd on the left. A massive fuq off castle on the right made of plastic bricks. God help us all.

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 12/08/2026

The Swindon Advertiser showing how not to look at the eclipse in August 1999

A woman using a mirror, hands and something else to try and shield her eyes from the sun

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 14/07/2026

Thank you so much to everyone who donated to @specialeffect.org.uk @specialeffect to help with their amazing work! We managed to get across the line before the end of race car swept us up 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️🚗 @thisismarta.bsky.social @myunie

Nerd and Marta at the end of the London10k, with medals and sunburn

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 09/07/2026

This weekend @myunie and I are running @thelondon10k raising for the amazing @specialeffectteam If you'd like to sponsor us and help this super cause, link is in my bio. Thank youuuu!

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 07/07/2026

Being a nerd of these things, I had a nice chat to BBC Look East about dying physical media and technology.

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 27/06/2026

Argh, it's really annoying when you spend over a month on a video, and you realise you've made a dumass mistake. But yes, as correctly pointed out, I flash up an image of Alexey Pajitnov instead of Henk Rogers for a couple of seconds 🥴😫 Please forgib.

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 26/06/2026

The Atari Lynx Story premieres at 8pm BST 26th June 2026. Join us youtu.be/RcjbMCRErz4?...

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 24/06/2026

I literally found mine a few days ago!

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 23/06/2026

Wild that my child brain didn't get the correlation to the cops being freakish pigs.

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 16/06/2026

Playing modern games is cool, but have you tried Sim City 2000?

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 13/06/2026

The Amstrad Integra all in one, launched 30 years ago, making it Amstrad's final PC.

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 07/06/2026

If we focus less on those who make things worse, and focus more on those who make things better, then things will get better.

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 26/05/2026

You've got £400. What you having?

Dixons newspaper advert from 1991 with an Amiga 500 Cartoon Classics pack for £500. An NES for £99.99. Mega Drive for £129.99. Game Boy for £69.99. Atari Lynx 2 for £84.99. Game Gear for £99.99. Commodore 64 Pack for £99.99. Atari STE Pack for £329.99 and a few other bits.

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 26/04/2026

Blessed to see so many familiar yet wondrous faces at Debug Games Festival. Sorry if I missed you! Great work by The Debug Team 👏🏻

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 13/04/2026

Yup, that's me, live on the @Warhammer Classics @Steam page. You're probably wondering how I got here. I AM TBH. BUT IT'S OK, BECAUSE I HAVE SOME CLASSIC WARHAMMER TO PLAY.

Warhammer Classics Franchise Sale Steam Page with Nerd in the middle

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 05/04/2026

Spent a week trying to recreate the vibe of my 90s computer setup. It was worth it 👌🏻

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 03/04/2026

Xerox Alto II c.1979. The birthplace of our modern GUI. Without this, there would be no Windows or macOS.

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 01/04/2026

Post Office Telecommunications unit from 1977. When video calling was very cool and very yellow.

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 27/03/2026

The golden BBC Micro, famously excavated from Tutankhamun's tomb by Howard Carter. It was also a prize for The Micro User magazine's second birthday 🎂

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 25/03/2026

Setting up a new machine. Searching for that 90s vibe.

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 20/03/2026

LET'S LOOK AT 30 YEARS OF THE WEB. YES. WHY NOT. LET US DO THAT. youtu.be/2rbPzbL1i64 THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

30 YEARS OF THE WEB (in big text) IN 10 MINUTES (in smaller text). An array of websites sit inbetween, like the fools they are.

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 14/03/2026

Ladies and gentlemen, The IBM System/360. Launched in 1964; The first family of computers designed for both commercial and scientific applications.

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 10/03/2026

I just found this stock photo, and suffice to say, I'm livid.

It's an old tower computer, but turned on its side, with a monitor on top. The humanity.

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 07/03/2026

This is the C64 pack I had as a kid, but the story behind it is much more interesting than I realised at the time... youtu.be/-yBYfd-Q2l0

"THIS WAS UTTER GENIUS" on the left. Terminator 2 Judgement Day Commodore 64 Box on the right. Very exciting.

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 28/02/2026

Before Task Manager there was MEM. Giving us an overview of our memory usage since 1988.

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 21/02/2026

The drawing is awful, but the machine is glorious.

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 20/02/2026

The Acorn Archimedes A3000. What your school might have if it still had funding during the early 90s.

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 17/02/2026

You wake up. The room is spinning very gently round your head. Or at least it would be if you could see it, which you can't. It is pitch black.

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Nostalgia Nerd @nostalgianerd.com · 16/02/2026

Prince of Persia running on a Sinclair PC200; a 1988 IBM PC compatible aimed for the home. Hence the similar profile to the Amiga 500/Atari ST.

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