Secret of Evermore History @ Replaying Japan 2026 @evermorehistory.bsky.social Robert Curl - Museum Historian and Board Member at the MADE - www.themade.org. Board Member of the Game Preservation Society - www.gamepres.org. Working (slowly) on a book for Boss Fight about Secret of Evermore. Opinions are my own! 日本語全然OK!
Hubz @dushubz.bsky.social Founder of Gaming Alexandria (https://gamingalexandria.com), author of Rosetta Magazine Researcher (https://github.com/duhubz/Rosetta-Magazine-Researcher)
Steve Lin @stevelin.bsky.social Board member @gamehistoryorg, arcade & pinball enthusiast. Adopt senior pets!
Liam Robertson @liamrobertson.bsky.social Video game historian who uncovers lost video games and other curiosities. Makes videos for DYKG. Freelance writer. I was @doctor_cupcakes on Twitter.
Links to my stuff: https://linktr.ee/liamrobertson
John Ricciardi @johntv.bsky.social ハチノヨンとスパデラのジョンです。Tokyo-based game lover/gatherer and 8-4 & SDX co-founder. EGM alum. 集まり屋。(He/Him) くわしいことは本をみて下さい。
@ourlostarcade.bsky.social @ourlostarcade.bsky.social Discovering the arcade's past!
A journey through the history of coin-op. Games, jukeboxes, vending, and more from the 1st century to the 20th!
Also @playhistory.bsky.social
Zach Aikman @thezaikman.bsky.social Technical Director @ChuhaiLabs + @ViteiBackroom // Former Lead Engineer @17_BIT // Ambling Aesthete Architect and Assembler // Order of Merlin - Zeroth Class
Kinsey Burke 🔜 Tokyo Game Show @kinszilla.bsky.social Games Producer, Bizdev, and Sales at Chuhai Labs | Occasional YouTuber | 日本語 OK! | Lover of Video Games, Craft Beer, Books, and Boardgames! ✨
🌸Kyoto, Japan🌸
It's a me, Scanio! @its-a-me-scanio.bsky.social My scans of rare 80's and 90's retro Japanese art and gaming publications: https://its-a-me-scanio.carrd.co/
Argonaut Games @argonautgames.com We gave Croc his backpack, made Star Fox do a barrel roll, and bumped to the bass with the biggity Buck Bumble. Argonaut is back in the game.
💼 Game Developer 📍Gobbo Valley 🔗 https://argonautgames.com
📅 Joined Croctober 2024
@schooliedee.bsky.social @schooliedee.bsky.social
Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social Atari 8-bit historian, Internet Archive ham radio archivist, interactive fiction podcaster. Portland Oregon.
Matt Parker @kanisama.bsky.social chicago-area game developer and collector, vintage anime and manga enjoyer, language learner, laserdisc watcher. now featuring rhythm games
Atari Scene News @philsan.bsky.social by Filippo 'Philsan' Santellocco, retrocomputers user, coder, preservationist and collector. Atari and Jay Miner's machines (Atari VCS, 800, Amiga) fan.
https://x.com/Philsan69
https://mastodon.world/@Philsan
https://demozoo.org/sceners/62866/
Phil Theobald @whimsicalphil.bsky.social Formerly Player One Podcast, Nintendo Power, EGM, et al. Currently at Pokémon. Ace mercenary pilot and intergalactic wise guy. Opinions are my own, etc.
RandMEyes @realrandem.bsky.social Ah, my friend.
Robyn Miller @tinselman.bsky.social Co-creator of MYST and RIVEN. Co-founder of CYAN, Co-founder of ZOO BREAK PRODUCTIONS. Writer, artist, composer and user of fun and interesting tools.
Cyan Worlds @cyan.com We're a game development studio creating places that become your world: Myst, Obduction, Firmament, and now... Riven. 📖✨
🔗 http://www.cyan.com/games
Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social Non-profit dedicated to preserving, celebrating, and teaching the history of video games. Our free digital archive is now open to the public! http://archive.gamehistory.org
GlitterBerri @glitterberri.bsky.social Japanese-English translator, gaming historian, and video game spelunker.
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/glitterberri
Brian Clark (bclarkomp) @onemillionpower.com Translation, J-Rock, and video games. One Million Power, formerly of mognet.net. 専門はゲームと邦楽ロック. 日本語OK!
https://linktr.ee/bclarkomp
Biz: bclarkomp @ gmail.com
Yakumono @luigiblood.bsky.social aka LuigiBlood. Mage Robot Nerd. I have a thing for mischievous cute characters.
May spam shitty opinions in French/English. I deal with SNES/Satellaview/N64DD.
Website: https://luigiblood.neocities.org/
Profile Banner Artwork by @madelynhimegami.itch.io
Louis Koziarz @koziarz.com Embedded systems farmer. Ex WMS, PLD, Stern Pinball. Randomly posting wacky stuff I saved from my time in the coin-op business and most likely retold incorrectly. No GenAI involved. Ever. |✶✶✶✶|
OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social Building a hub and community for video game art collectors! Posting original art and artist attribution
https://linktr.ee/ovga (what we're up to!)
https://www.fb.com/groups/ovgacollectors (collectors FB group to chat and buy/sell art)
Zelda Dungeon @zeldadungeon.net The official account for ZeldaDungeon.net.
https://linktr.ee/zeldadungeon
Andy “voice of Brak” Merrill. 🦋🦋🦋🦋 @amerrill2.bsky.social I do voices and stuff. I also do marketing for things. I write and produce crap and occasionally get on stage and make people laugh. I’m open for work and comic conventions.
LGR @lgr-yt.bsky.social Profile for the LGR YouTube channel. Covering vintage computer hardware, software, and various retro tech oddities. https://youtube.com/@LGR
Philip Summers @heyphilsummers.bsky.social Retro game fan and artist. Creator of Hand-Drawn Game Guides. Making & sharing cool things.
SNES Central @snescentral.com SNES Central is a website that is dedicated to documenting everything related to the Super Nintendo, including packaging, PCBs and obscurities like unreleased games and prototypes. Also posting random gaming stuff I see in Japan. http://snescentral.com
KungFuFurby @kungfufurby.bsky.social SNES Musician
The Cutting Room Floor @tcrf.net A wiki about cut, unused, and debug content left in video games, as well as things like localization differences and revision changes. Founded by @xkeeper.net & @rachelmae.bsky.social - https://tcrf.net - Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tcrfwiki
The Hidden Palace @hiddenpalace.org We are a community dedicated to the preservation of retro video game development history.
Visit: hiddenpalace.org
Nick Pelling @nickpelling.bsky.social Hand-to-hand punster, cipher mysteries expert, former caveman games programmer: now an embedded developer. He/him. Chaotic good.
Rees @ctrl-alt-rees.com Rees Stephenson from ctrl-alt-rees. Retrocomputing & whatnot. https://youtube.com/ctrlaltrees
He / him
Business Time: rees@ctrl-alt-rees.com 🧦
Chuhai Labs @chuhailabs.com Legally the Best™️game studio located in Kyoto, Japan! We made rad indie games like Cursed to Golf, Carve Snowboarding, and more!
ChuhaiLabs.com
Hit Save! @hitsave.org Hit Save is a nonprofit dedicated to video game preservation, with specific focuses on fostering community involvement and championing the stories of small developers.
Visit us at www.hitsave.org
Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/TCKT6uA
Adam16bit @adam16bit.bsky.social Working with toys in my very own basement.
Writing about toys online and in print since 1995.
http://16bit.com
http://www.galactichunter.com
https://linktr.ee/adam16bit
Some Entertainment Earth/Amazon/eBay/Walmart links may be paid affiliate links
Q-Games @q-games.com Game developer in Kyoto. Always on the look out for new and interesting fun!
Get ready to unravel the mysteries of the dream world in Dreams of Another!
Chat with us: discord.gg/qgamesforever
Steve Mayles @winkysteve.bsky.social Videogame character creator/animator. Father of Banjo and Kazooie! King K.Rool! Yooka and Laylee! Dixie Kong! Many more!
今村孝矢/Takaya Imamura @omega6.bsky.social 2021年に任天堂を退職。大阪国際工科専門職大学教授。フリーランスとしても活動中。スターフォックス、F-ZERO 、ゼルダの伝説シリーズのアートディレクションなどを担当。2022年フランスにて漫画「OMEGA 6」発表。2024年、Switch版「OMEGA 6・ザ・トライアングルスターズ」を発売。
Linksliltri4ce @linksliltri4ce.bsky.social Linksliltri4ce is a cosplayer & crafter at http://www.thelegendofcosplay.com. She also loves Legend of Zelda stuff: http://www.thelegendofcollections.com
Games That Weren't @gamesthatwerent.com Covering cancelled/unreleased video games and prototypes across a variety of consoles and home computers. Preserving unreleased video game history online since 1999, and longer offline.
Check out our archive and more at: https://www.gamesthatwerent.com
David Wise @davidwise.bsky.social Composer for Video Games including the Donkey Kong Country Series.
Andrew Borman @borman.bsky.social Director of Digital Preservation at The Strong National Museum of Play. Video games. "They are going for the Physical Challenge!"
Yamafuda - 山札 @yamafuda.bsky.social Tu aimes l'histoire de Nintendo, le Japon, les voyages et le rétro en tout genre ? Alors bienvenue, tu es au bon endroit ! Donc n'hésite pas à t'abonner 😜
Garry Kitchen @garrykitchen.bsky.social CEO of Audacity Games. Video game designer/executive. Activision alum, Keystone Kapers, GameMaker, Atari Donkey Kong. Experienced software/patent expert witness.
Dylan Makes Games @dylancuthbert.bsky.social Ultra veteran game dev, I have made a /lot/ of games, some of them are hits! Some of them aren’t! But I love every one of them.
Bingchang the QuestFather @q64.tv Quest 64 speedrunner at q64.tv, I retweet Indie Dev stuff and post pictures of my stinky dog Sakura
Inquiries: Bingchang@q64.tv
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social I made GameHistory.org and you can too
History of Hyrule, Zelda Archivist @historyofhyrule.com Melora Hart. Zelda archivist & publication campaigner since 2001. Art, books, manga, the retro & rare. Into Zelda? I've quietly been the source for a lot of what you know. https://historyofhyrule.carrd.co/ artist/animal dork/hiker doin' my nerd shit
Jack Yarwood @jackgyarwood.bsky.social Staff writer @TimeExtension.com
Chris Covell @chriscovell.bsky.social I'll be posting retro gaming, retrocomputing, and retro dev stuff.
Canadian living in Japan
https://www.chrismcovell.com/
FamiWiki @famiwiki.net FamiWiki is a wiki that documents Nintendo's Family Computer
ファミウィキ現在は英語のみです
https://famiwiki.net/wiki/Main_Page
Kevin Edwards ( Retro game developer ) @kevedwardsretro.bsky.social Retired video game programmer. 40+ years developing videogames and software.
Creator of games for the BBC Micro, Electron, NES, SNES, PC, XBox, PS3/4, Mobile, Vita, 3DS.
Former LEGO Developer
I also rescue and archive old game development disks, DM me!
John Andersen @johnandersen.bsky.social Video game history - researching how the games we love to play were made. Documentaries, game historian, writer, movies. Opinions are my own. LGBTQ ally. BLM. Portfolio!: linktr.ee/johnandersen
Time Extension @timeextension.com Breathing new life into old games. Retro gaming news, reviews and features from the lovely people behind @nintendolife.com
@pushsquare.com and @purexbox.com
www.timeextension.com
GDRI @gdri.bsky.social GDRI (Game Developer Research Institute) researches the history of video games and their creators. Since 2006.
kelsey lewin @kelslewin.bsky.social “Compact and laser-focused” - The New Yorker.
Video game history enthusiast and Wonderswan evangelist. LFGM⚾️
Co-Owner: @pinkgorillagames.com
Also at @minnmax.com and @pewpewbang.bsky.social
ozidual @ozidual.bsky.social I did translation hacks, fixes, and re-releases for the N64. Games: OoT/MQ, Majoras Mask, Shiren 2, Getter Love, Doshin, SimCity 64, 40 Winks, Glover, SSSV, etc. Now I do scanning, type-ins, and game preservation with Gaming Alexandria
Retronauts @retronauts.bsky.social A podcast about old video games. 10 years = retro, we don't make the rules. Support us on Patreon for exclusive episodes, Discord access, and more!
patreon.com/retronauts
Martin Lindell @martinlindell.bsky.social Games industry journey man since 1994. Written books about games history in Swedish. Currently at Embracer, previously Raw Fury, DICE/EA.
Max Nichols @maxnichols.bsky.social He/him. Sr. Game Designer. Prev: Epic, Bungie, Turbine, more.
I run @HyruleInterviews.bsky.social
Blog: namelessquality.com
Portfolio: maxnicholsdesign.com
Brenden @bro3256.com the guy who owns a Famicom and admin of FamiWiki (24)
(profile picture by Akfamilyhome)
592/1042 Famicom cartridges
https://famibro.com
Justin D. Berube @jusdberube.bsky.social Nintendo World Report Features Editor
The King Nintendo Fanboy
Nintendo Collector
Former NSider Sage
Cat Dad
@KingNintendoFan on Twitter
🧭NJ
RockmanCosmo @rockmancosmo.bsky.social Game preservationist who specializes in Japanese feature phone (keitai) games.
私はガラケーのゲームを保存しています。
https://rockmancosmo.weebly.com/
Hyrule Interviews @hyruleinterviews.bsky.social A database of interviews with the Zelda team. Our goal is to preserve that legacy, share it here, and build a safe community for our followers!
By @maxnichols.bsky.social
www.hyruleinterviews.com
SUDDEN・DESU @sudden-desu.net レトロゲームを逆アセンブルして調査。メガCD開発キットMEGADEVを作成した。
Retro game disassemblies/research and Megadev, a Mega CD SDK. Occasional posts about life in Japan.
🔗 https://sudden-desu.net
🎉 https://patreon.com/SUDDENDESU
Beforemario @beforemario.bsky.social Blog and book about Nintendo toys and games from 1889 to the early 1980s; from before Mario.
(+ occasional transgression into things more recent)
beforemario.com
Kevin Bunch (ubersaurus) @atariarchive.org Science Communicator, Video Game Historian, author of Atari Archive, old school FGCer, occasional Retronaut host, and chicken owner. He/him
Norman Caruso @gaminghistorian.bsky.social Creator of The Gaming Historian YouTube Channel. Co-host of An Old Timey Podcast. I also enjoy woodworking!
Game Preservation Society @gamepresint.bsky.social A non-profit organization actively preserving Japanese retro games from the 70’s and 80’s as cultural assets.
Critical Kate (A Critical Hit!) @acriticalhit.bsky.social Patreon-supported website investigating forgotten video game history at https://www.acriticalhit.com
Hiccup @hiccup.bsky.social I do game preservation (dumping, data wrangling etc), datamining and modding stuff.
https://twitter.com/HiccupJul
https://mastodon.social/@hiccupjul
🏳️⚧️Critical Kate Willært @katewillaert.bsky.social (Pronounced WILL-ert) | Investigating forgotten gaming history | Creator of the greatest Metroid video on Youtube | Asexual, autistic, artistic, 🏳️⚧️(she/her) | Linktree: https://katewillaert.com/link-tree
VGDensetsu @vgdensetsu.bsky.social Hi! I talk about video games (History, illustrations, graphic design, cancelled games, sales figures, etc.)
By @domauffret.bsky.social
http://vgdensetsu.net/
https://www.patreon.com/vgdensetsu
Dylan Mansfield (he/him) @thatdylanfellow.bsky.social reader / writer / three kids in a trench coat
staff @ Gaming Alexandria
Nathaniel Lockhart @nathaniellockhart.bsky.social Lover of old stuff, primarily ancient tech and old movies. Things like the Commodore 64, reel to reel tape players, and silent film. I talk about all that stuff on my podcast, the Memory Machine. He/him
www.memorymachinepod.com
Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com Tech reporter, tech historian. Bylines Fast Company / The Atlantic / Retronauts podcast. http://www.benjedwards.com Founder http://Vintagecomputing.com
Quarter Past @quarterpast.bsky.social Researcher, pre-20th-C videogames
(Citations available upon request)
The Video Game Library 📚 @thevideogamelibrary.org The DEFINITIVE site for video game literature 📚 🇨🇦
👉 www.thevideogamelibrary.org
Over 15,000 Video Game Books catalogued❗️
New books added daily.
• Join the Discussion: http://discord.gg/4JqJUs2s2n
• Support: https://thevideogamelibrary.substack
Play History @playhistory.bsky.social Independent games researcher, Ethan Johnson. Preserving gaming history!
Patreon: http://tinyurl.com/pdp5pdrj
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@play_history/videos
Blog: https://thehistoryofhowweplay.wordpress.com/
Editor of Gaming Alexandria
Gaming Alexandria @gamingalexandria.bsky.social Website dedicated to scanning/preserving video games.
"Knowledge hoarded is knowledge lost." - Harpocrates (FFXVI)
Website - https://www.gamingalexandria.com
Discord - https://discord.gg/YHZUVaAXw3
Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/gamingalexandria