Chris Charla

@iocat.bsky.social

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Videogames at Xbox; zines, books, videogames, and skateboarding very slowly at home. I main Bluesky.

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Jessica poses with some SF skaters showing off their new decks at GDC
Yellow Leuchtturm1917 notebook with stickers from Radical Forge and a great coffee shop in Köln, pressweek.
A crossword with the clue "blank coin here" and the answer is INSERT. 2 Down is RHINE.
A DS box for air traffic chaos.
An article from the Seattle times discussing the real danger of rats crawling from your toilet after the recent floods.
A purple Nintendo Game Boy Color Christmas stocking, standing out incongruously among traditional decorations.
A winner on stage, holding a giant $10K check with a screenshot of Despelote behind them
A King county Washington "I voted" sticker.
A crossword puzzle, filled in, with the clue and answer for "classic video game cheat" and "KONAMICODE" highlighted.
Half timbered buildings in a modern street scene in Strausburg France.
Giant RPG looking Villa in Strausburg FR
A cluster of red edible berries which look like these inedible berries they have in America.
A mountain bike locked to a pole
A picture of a graffiti covered wall in Cologne
A very beat up game boy color cartridge of KLAX
Petz Countryside 3DS cart on a bed of green Xbox DVD cases.
A PSP shaped holder for UMDs with two Death Jr UMDs, a Capcom anime video UMD and a mysterious blank UMD which is probably some lost classic, IDK
A picture of 20 vintage personal computer games on some stairs. Highlights are Beyond Zork and Trinity from Infocom and some SSI games
A picture of a river in Kyoto at night
A view of the bit summit stage in a studio monitor from backstage before the industry welcome mixer
A crossword with clue "Mario's brother" and the answer "Luigi" highlighted
A text message screenshot that says "any idea why we have two boxes of murmada the demon blade for Wii but one has super smash Bros brawl in it?"
A fat bumble bee covered in pollen in a California poppy
Screenshot of the Xbox Experience on PC with some cool games on sale.
An elderly lady smiling and posing with three massive desserts at a restaurant. She could reel off the opcodes for most processors by memory -- even ones she didn't work with -- but GUIs were not her thing, making her maybe the only person on earth who had a full set of the IBM System 360 Operators manuals in her den, next to a copy of AOL for Dummies. She killed it at all math puzzles and word puzzles. I miss her!
4 Xbox 360s 3 of them have custom face plates
Image of the LP Last Wave Rockers by Common Rider lying on top of the LP Energy by Operation Ivy.
An image of a clam shell plastic box with a dramatic helicopter drawing on it that implies the game has a lot of action. Which it doesn't. The action is all in trying to fly the helicopter at all in this realistic simulation for the Apple II.
A special next Gen magazine cover with no cover lines and a foil stamped, embossed, bas relief "Zelda 64" cartridge. This one is signed by Shigeru Miyamoto
Front cover of hype the time quest, a big box PC game from Ubisoft
A picture of a diorama of a Halo battle scene
An old Japanese Game Boy Color game in a zip lock bag with a Japanese label on the bag and a US price tag.
A box of an old game called DEFCON 5, it has a satellite shooting down a missile in space and the subtitle "authentic s.d.i. Star wars simulation," which refers to some old cold war things I suggest looking up on Wikipedia.
It's a screenshot of the NYT mini cross word with the answer WII and the clue "GameCube successor"