The Bloop Museum

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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! http://bloopmuseum.org/

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.
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.
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.
the front doors of the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum. It has a rustic lodge aesthetic.
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.
A packing label that reads "Oops! All arcade PCBs."
VESA Local Bus! It's the local bus before PCI. Picture from wikipedia.
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
A picture of a Bentley Compuvision, its box, and its manual.
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.
A screenshot of Google Maps displaying a pin for "Frankstown Rd at #12245 (Bloop Museum)".
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!
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 shade
A view out Bloop's front door. Slightly more snow has been removed from our last post.
perspective view into our snow shoveling path from our front door, but we've barely started The snow is over a foot deep.
A snowy scene of the street in front of the museum, which is barely visible. A lamp post, tree, and sign for the bus stop are in the foreground. Another parking lot is in the background.
Badge 2000 for Games Done Quick screenshot!
The cargo space of a Toyota Prius entirely filled with glass block.
The cargo space of a Toyota Prius hatchback with 20 of the 27-gallon black totes — we call them bumblebees — surrounded on all sides by the yellow lids that accompany them.
You are standing at a curved table looking directly at some white shelving behind the tables. An Atari 800 and second VIC-20 are connected to TVs on the table, and a boxed Atari 400 and VIC-20 are on the shelves. Also visible to the left and right are a Commodore PET, Apple II, TRS-80, TI-99, IBM PC, Commodore 64, Macintosh, and you can barely see an Atari ST and Amiga 1000 around the bend to the right. There are red and green uplights accenting the furniture and red and blue carpet mats in front of the tables. There are no ceiling tiles but a little fairy told me they're coming soon.
The Weather Channel, retro edition! An "old" Sony Trinitron CRT TV with Weatherstar 4000 emulation.
"If you're cold, they're cold - Bring them inside" meme, but it's a heat pump instead of an animal or pet
An ASR 33 teletype in an attic.
A museum exhibit about volvelles.
A view of a sidewalk in front of an old beige brick municipal building with a red roof, and "coming soon: bloop museum" on a signpost out front. The scenery includes a tree that has lost its leaves from fall near the sign, and a tall radio tower behind the building.
Ripley from the movie Alien in a "ready to fight" stance; her pulse rifle has suspiciously been replaced by an Amstrad CPC 464
4 big boxes full of LED lighting tubes in the cargo area of a hatchback car.
A Bally Computer System in white with box, controllers resting on top of the smoked plastic that covers the game storage area. It sits on a nice woodgrain table, and racks of LPs are in the background.
A view down a PGX vendor aisle, with the Bloop booth on the right.
a pretty sunset, with a few trees and hills in the horizon. shades of pink, purple, and orange.
A view of a Bissell Green Machine, and you can see half of a cleaned floor and half of a not-cleaned floor.
a palletized univac 418, teletype desk on its right, as seen from the front panel, in a parking lot. a forklift is parked to the right of the whole ordeal.
the back of a front-to-back full 26' u-haul with furniture and network equipment
Bloop's input device exhibit, featuring a variety of interesting input devices (and one output device - a braille terminal)
Even though we have a lot more to do, clean, paint, etc, I'm excited to say that we finally got the green light to enter and start moving in about two weeks ago. To boot, when we got the OK, we already had two truckloads basically ready to go. What size truckload? So glad you asked... [image of a truck in a parking lot with a lot of pallets in front of it.] Yep, a 53 foot dry van. And that's 25 pallets in front of it. We filled it to the brim with computers, games, and tech to go in the museum. But here's where it gets real - we're going to be able to fill three of these, maybe four. We delivered the second one yesterday; here's a picture of Brendan, who is forklift-certified, getting pallets off of a truck. I don't know why I'm talking about myself in the third person, probably something to do with the serious look on my face here: [image of Brendan carefully driving a forklift]
a listing for a heavy-duty welded shelf with the entire left side missing
more cute plushies than you can shake a stick at.
The Bloop table at Tekko. A banner with our logo hangs from the front. A box labeled "unboxing today@5pm" and a placard in front of it with basics about our new building and a QR are on the left. Then some flyers and chiptune CDs in the center, followed by a Japanese Sega Pico and a Casio Loopy on the right. A handful of people are at the booth behind us and to the right to see/hold/pet kittens.
three dudes in front of a train simulator arcade game - densha de go!!
an electronic arts sega genesis cartridge with a "be a friend. rewind when you reach the end." blockbuster sticker on the back.
An empty display case with 5 plastic totes on a handtruck in front of it and one on the floor.
A variety of 30 game systems and ephemera in a display case, with six boxes on top. A Sega Master System is running Zaxxon 3D on the left, and a Neo Geo is booting on the right-hand TV.
A large CRT television connected to a russian computer displaying the title screen / menu for the game "Second" in red and green.
"Weatherman said dress for the 90s" with the cast from Hackers
Bloop's MSX corner, featuring several machines and software placed about in the corner of an office cubicle. The Philips NMS8245 (left) is powered on and booting, connected to the monitor in the center.
paper towel covered with gunk from a PC big box game.
Ten 27 gallon black totes with yellow lids in two stacks of five. They are on a plastic blue pallet in a warehouse.
a cropped pixelated duck (?) face from a wheeled flying duck vehicle featured in wanwan aijou monogatari. it seems... afraid.
a collection of wikipedia articles being sold in a book for €35 on ebay. report stuff like this if you ever see it.
A collection of three pallets on a top rack, one containing two arcade machines, one containing a pokemon snap station and an exercise rower, and one containing a 4-player konami cabinet (eg. simpsons) and part of a nintendo cart.
just a section of the japan exhibit at bloop, featuring a famicom, sega mark 3, and more
a nondescript, heavy mainframe computer on wheels that has accidentally broken into the pallet it was shipped on because it weighs a literal ton.
the outside of the case to Robin and Marian, a cassette game for the BBC Micro from The Micro User, Vol. 1 No. 7
a screenshot of bloop museum appearing in twitch's charity picker.
if bloop lived here, we would be home by now - a mockup of what the outside of our building could look like