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Kevin Impellizeri, PhD @tierpargon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Fine, I'll jump on the trend. Here are my 9 games:

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Top left: DOOM II, top middle: Super Mario Bros. 3, top right: Earthbound. Middle left: Chrono Trigger, middle middle: Bloodborne; middle right
Bottom left: Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, bottom middle: BioShock, middle right: Pokémon Silver

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Kevin Impellizeri, PhD @tierpargon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Well that’ll about do it for the Phillies.

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Kevin Impellizeri, PhD @tierpargon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

In embarrassing themselves to UMass, I truly appreciate how Rutgers football freed up my Saturdays for the foreseeable future.

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Kevin Impellizeri, PhD @tierpargon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

One of the most powerful museum experiences of my life was going to a Jurassic Park themed exhibit at the Academy when I must have been about 10, which set me down a path to a career in museums. This is a terrible loss in the Philadelphia museum community.

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Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University to close museum on Sept. 30

The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University will close its museum in Philadelphia on Sept. 30, 2026, NBC10 confirmed.

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Kevin Impellizeri, PhD @tierpargon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Brand new Scandalous Games, and we're tackling a big one! Tabletop gaming historian Matt Shoemaker joins us as we start our deep dive into the controversies surrounding DOOM, specifically its relationship to the Columbine shooting.

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DOOM, Part 1: Knee deep in the details - Scandalous Games

Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends: Kate Lynch and Matt Shoemaker who is a tabletop gaming historian and author of Gathering of Gamers. We continue o...

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Jay Brandstetter @jaybrandstetter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The concluding half of our Mass Effect 3 episodes with @tierpargon.bsky.social is out! Can Bioware turn everything around with a couple more months of crunch? Of course not! Nobody could. Bioware Magic isn't real. shows.acast.com/im-from-the-...

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Mass Effect 3 (Part Two) (with Kevin Impellizeri of Scandalous Games) | I'M FROM THE INTERNET

Marauder Shields, save us!

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Jay Brandstetter @jaybrandstetter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This week we have @tierpargon.bsky.social on to talk about the backlash to Mass Effect 3's ending and how it acted as a dry run for the kind of gamer outrage complex that would dominate the next decade online. shows.acast.com/im-from-the-...

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Mass Effect 3 (Part One) (with Kevin Impellizeri of Scandalous Games) | I'M FROM THE INTERNET

Three hosts, one for each ending!

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Kevin Impellizeri, PhD @tierpargon.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

We're still in Scandalous Games summer, and this month, we have a syncable audio commentary for the 1995 adaptation of Mortal Kombat. Hear about such topics as Johnny Cage's reports on Outworld in the dailies and Steven Seagal's failed run in the MK tournament.

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Mortal Kombat-mentary (Scandalous Games Summer) - Scandalous Games

Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends, but we like to take it easy during the summer months for Scandalous Games Summer, where we offer a syncable audio...

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Kevin Impellizeri, PhD @tierpargon.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Happy Scandalous Games Summer! Beat the summer heat with our syncable commentary of the insane 1994 film adaptation of Double Dragon. Come for histories of rivers catching on fire and Philadelphia-based public access furniture shows, stay for all the Bimmy jokes.

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Double Dragon-mentary (Scandalous Games Summer) - Scandalous Games

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Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Statement from VGHF director Frank Cifaldi on the discontinuation of physical PlayStation media, and the closure of the PS3 and PSP digital storefronts.

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Kevin Impellizeri, PhD @tierpargon.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

New Scandalous Games! We celebrate five years of looking at video game related controversies with an annotated dramatic reading of the closing statement Jack Thompson wanted to make at his 2008 disbarment hearing. Highlights include wild conspiracies and Jack comparing his plight to Jesus

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Jack Thompson's Disbarment Statement (Scandalous Games 5th Anniversary Special) - Scandalous Games

Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends, but this time it's special because it is the fifth birthday of Scandalous Games! In honor of five years of wild a...

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Derrick Bitner @bitnerd.gvg.io · 14/04/2026

One of the things I need to improve on is showing confidence. I worked hard on something and, damnit, people care. And I know I've put my all into my upcoming book, A Communal History of Metroidvania Video Games. I'm truly proud of it and think you'd love it. www.lostincult.co.uk/metroidvania

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A Communal History of Metroidvania Video Games — Lost In Cult

A Communal History of Metroidvania Video Games retraces the genre’s steps back to the 1970s, from there uncovering fifty years of discoveries and dead-ends. Through incisive retrospectives and persona...

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Kevin Bunch (ubersaurus) @atariarchive.org · 03/04/2026

The Universal v. Nintendo court documents are on Archive: archive.org/details/univ... and having used some of them for my King Kong video last year, they are a treasure trove of information about Donkey Kong and the game market at the time broadly.

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Universal v. Nintendo Court Documents (82-4259, 84-7095, 86-7077, 86-7099) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Court documents from the Universal v. Nintendo court case, including the appeals (82-4259, 84-7095, 86-7077, 86-7099)These documents were scanned at the...

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Dot @dotmaetrix.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

In the spirit of trans visibility, lemme just plug my ongoing project to document as many pre-2010 games as possible that had a trans person on the dev team. You might be surprised by what's on there. There's games going right back to the sixties! dotmaetrix.neocities.org/classictranslist

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A List Of Games By Trans People Before 2010

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 27/02/2026

I've been thinking about how this has already played out in games - there was a massive push to convince the industry and world that there was this huge audience of angry reactionary gamers who weren't getting what they demanded. And it turned out there weren't that many and they don't buy games

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Kevin Impellizeri, PhD @tierpargon.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

One of my students got me excited this week when they mentioned that former anti violent video game lawyer Jack Thompson was in the Epstein files. However, it's just a passing mention from a news article shared with JE that briefly mentions his 2008 disbarment. www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Text reads, "Knowingly making defamatory statements can be grounds for disbarment. Jack Thompson, a Miami lawyer who campaigned against violent video games and the group 2 Live Crew, was disbarred for professional misconduct that included making defamatory statements."

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

This is one of my favorite primary sources in our library: a contemporary review of E.T. for Atari 2600 in the rare newsletter The Logical Gamer. Their review is basically "It's meh, but jeez Atari sure sank a lot into P&A for this game. This seems bad?" archive.gamehistory.org/item/f2f37ee...

"It all adds up to a disappointment for me. ET seems like a game with a very high ad budget, and a lot of money has obviously been laid out for licensing arrangements to help insure its success but, if you ask me, it is all lost when the game is plugged into the VCS and you try to play it. If you want to help Atari recoup some of its undoubtedly astronomical expenses in bringing this one to you, then you might want to buy it. As a good game that will be fun to play for months to come, however, I don't think it fits the bill. They shouldn't have been in such a rush to get the thing to market."

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Quarter Past @quarterpast.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Time to kick off a (year-long) commemoration of one of THE OLDEST video games known to history! 🎊 It’s “Bouncing Ball” — a candidate for the first-ever video game — celebrating its (75th) Diamond Anniversary this year! 🧵👇

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Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com · 29/01/2026

My latest co-authored article with Megan Condis was just published in Games: Research and Practice. And it's open access! Check out "Rad Dudes, Rude ‘Tude, and the Family, Too: How Nintendo and Sega Advertisements Shaped the Image of Gaming in the 1990s."

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Rad Dudes, Rude ‘Tude, and the Family, Too: How Nintendo and Sega Advertisements Shaped the Image of Gaming in the 1990s | Games: Research and Practice

The tale of the console wars of the 1990s, the stodgy, conservative, family-friendly Nintendo consoles waging an advertising war against the rebellious upstarts behind the Sega Genesis, has been told ...

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Kevin Impellizeri, PhD @tierpargon.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Brand new episode of Scandalous Games! I examined the Real Game Awards, the paid anti-woke game awards show, so you don't have to watch it. This time, we tackle the moral panic over a small video game script doctoring company and a journalist who dared report on it.

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The Real Game Awards, Part 2: Oh sweet baby (Inc.)

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Kevin Impellizeri, PhD @tierpargon.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Kevin Patullo be like: stop me before I run up the middle again.

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Kevin Impellizeri, PhD @tierpargon.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

A belated happy 2026 from me and my friends at Scandalous Games! In today's episode, I watched and researched the Real Game Awards, the anti-woke video game award show made by gamers for gamers (willing to give its founder money)

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The Real Game Awards, Part 1: And the Scandie goes to...

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Kevin Impellizeri, PhD @tierpargon.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

A new episode of Scandalous Games appears! Today we wrap up 2025 with the finale of our remastered episodes of our look at "Hot Coffee," the infamous 2005 mod for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Revisiting these recordings was a lot of fun, and I hope you all enjoy it!

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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas "Hot Coffee" Mod Remastered, Part 2: Rockstar's multi-million dolla...

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Digital Foundry @digitalfoundry.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

The cable-TV powered Sega Channel for Genesis/Mega Drive has been preserved and over 140 ROMs recovered. Here's the remarkable story: www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2025/12...

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Sega Channel Preserved: Over 140 Mega Drive ROMs Recovered

Unreleased prototypes, never-before-seen MD web browser.

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Kevin Impellizeri, PhD @tierpargon.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I’ve been researching the history of Super Columbine Massacre RPG recently and, comparing it to the controversy over Horses, it’s interesting to see how some of the conversation over what is “allowed” to be depicted in a video game is not that different between 2006 and 2025.

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Kevin Impellizeri, PhD @tierpargon.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Happy December from Scandalous Games! For the holidays, I remastered a fun episode we did a few years ago on the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Hot Coffee mod. I hope it gives you cheer (and helps soften the blow of the recent announced delay for GTA VI).

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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas "Hot Coffee" Mod Remastered, Part 1: Here we go again

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Kevin Impellizeri, PhD @tierpargon.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

RIP Rebecca Heineman. If you haven't seen it, I totally recommend her amazing account of developing the 3DO DOOM port.

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VCF West: DOOM 3DO: Or How I Survived Hell — Burger Becky

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Kevin Impellizeri, PhD @tierpargon.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Brand new Scandalous Games! This time, we talk about the logistics of werewolf death curses and wrap up our look at Pat Pulling and Bothered About Dungeons & Dragons with Matt Shoemaker, recent author of a detailed history of GenCon. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBWx...

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Pat Pulling and Bothered About Dungeons & Dragons, Part 4: A BADD end

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Zophar @zophar.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

29 long years have passed since I founded the emulation archive, Zophar's Domain, on 11.9.96. To this very day, the site still stands as a testament to an era that never actually disappeared but continues to live in the hearts of retrogamers all over the word. Emulation Forever!

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Kevin Impellizeri, PhD @tierpargon.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

New episode of Scandalous Games is live! We continue our look at anti-TTRPG moral crusader Pat Pulling and Bothered About Dungeons & Dragons with the help of Matt Shoemaker, recently-published author of an extensive history of GenCon.

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Pat Pulling and Bothered About Dungeons & Dragons, Part 3: Klaatu, barada, nightly news

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Quarter Past @quarterpast.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

It’s exciting when someone publishes long-form on a subject you’ve been researching for years. Here’s a thread commenting on this article in more detail. If you do the retro computer, read the article & then come back here. Apologies and respect in advance to @ernie.tedium.co 🧵👇

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RF Shielding History: When The FCC Cracked Down On Computers

The FCC took a hard line on the radio frequency interference that computers created—creating huge headaches for early PC-makers. Why? Blame the CB radio fad.

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Kevin Impellizeri, PhD @tierpargon.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

New episode of Scandalous Games. We hang out with Matt Shoemaker, author of Gathering of Gamers, a new history of GenCon, and we talk about the origins of Patricia Pulling's crusade against Dungeons & Dragons.

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Pat Pulling and Bothered About Dungeons & Dragons, Part 2: Pat Pulling begins

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Kevin Impellizeri, PhD @tierpargon.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

New episode of Scandalous Games is live! This time, we talk about the panic over tabletop RPGs with Matt Shoemaker, recent author of a history of GenCon.

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Pat Pulling and Bothered About Dungeons & Dragons, Part 1: William Dear's dungeon quest

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Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

We've acquired the historic game magazine Computer Entertainer. As in, we got the rights. We own the magazine. And we're putting it into the Creative Commons for anyone to use for free. Learn more: gamehistory.org/computerente...

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Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Brütal Legend is free on itchio for the next 666 minutes in honor of Ozzy Osbourne buff.ly/Rj8d5tl

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🏳️‍⚧️Critical Kate Willært @katewillaert.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Worms is part of a genre of “artillery” computer games that we thought went back to the 70s, until we discovered it actually went back to the 60s. In this thread, Kevin Bunch reveals he’s unearthed long forgotten footage of the lost game that started it all.

Example of an artillery game from the Wikipedia article on the topic.

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Kevin Impellizeri, PhD @tierpargon.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

New Scandalous Games episode! We wrap up our look at John DeCamp, the conspiracy-pilled lawyer and disgraced Nebraska politician who filed a $5 billion lawsuit against the video game industry over the 1999 Columbine shooting.

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John DeCamp, Part 2: A journey from Oklahoma City to Columbine to Qanon

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 02/05/2025

In response to the Polygon and Giant Bomb news, I created an indie and worker-owned games media starter pack. I’ll keep adding to it, so suggestions and recommendations are greatly appreciated. Please share!

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The Video Game Library 📚 @thevideogamelibrary.org · 18/04/2025

So great to see @paulwerkema.bsky.social craft this helpful "Beginner's Guide to Books About Video Games" 📚🎮 After cataloguing over 10,000 books at TheVideoGameLibrary.org, I know just how deep - and overwhelming - this rabbit hole can be. Thanks, Paul - this is a perfect starter resource! 👇

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Beginners Guide to Books about Video Games - Talking Pixels

Thousands of books about video games have been published in the last forty years. It’s not just history books. Social Commentary, Psychology, novelizations, strategy guides, and autobiographies have f...

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Kevin Impellizeri, PhD @tierpargon.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

John DeCamp was a former Nebraska politician who veered wildly into QAnon style Satanic panic conspiracy theories. He was also sued the games industry after the 1999 Columbine shooting. In the latest episode of Scandalous Games, we started a deep dive into the life and times of this colorful figure

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John DeCamp, Part 1: The conspiracy-pilled lawyer who sued the games industry over Columbine

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