Rich May @richdmay.bsky.social Professional video game programmer and omni-nerd. Space, Cars, Trains, Wargames, Retrogaming, etc. Lead Programmer at Rebellion currently working on <REDACTED>. Previously Atomfall. He/him.
Kim Justice @kimjustice.bsky.social Talks a lot about old games and Japanese wrestling on YouTube, and also streams nonsense on Twitch. Now on here.
L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk Blog: http://www.breakintoprogram.co.uk
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/BreakIntoProgram
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/breakintoprogram
Software developer & electronics dabbler. Restoring & programming vintage computers from Acorn Atom to ZX81.
Laura Kempeneer Van Hoffstratten @laurakempeneer.bsky.social Mother, Collector of Retro Tech, Lover of horror movies..Returning to the software dev world after a little break =) 🏳️🌈
@danrolfe.bsky.social @danrolfe.bsky.social Research scientist. Cyclist. Former astronomer. Linux geek. Beeb & Amiga nerd. Grove Parish Councillor. Views my own.
stevegow.bsky.social @stevegow.bsky.social Retro tech, uncanny, photography, 80s music, books
Chris Needham @chrisn.bsky.social C, C++, Embedded systems, Web standards, House music, Electronica, Retro gaming. Emulators. Open source developer.
Steve Higgins @higgybristol.bsky.social Builder of digital things, Amiga owner, occasional urban explorer, former radio anorak, hardcore day tripper, liker of tropical plants 🌴
Kaiju Wasp @kaijuwasp.bsky.social kaijuwasp.itch.io
Indie developer since some point in the past, former games industry worker, now designing & developing games in spare time.
Blue And Red - Fight The Robots for Amiga/CD32, Neo Geo AES/MVS/CD, and Mega Drive/Genesis out now!
Kev Armstrong @kevarmstrong.bsky.social UK based programming person. Currently working on the Carbon Engine.
I'm a big fan of retro computers, old consoles, emulation and cats.
Andy - M1NER @andytuk.bsky.social Enterprise IT Infrastructure engineer by day, 8 bit gaming and hardware fan & radio ham by night. FreeSTAR Everywhere – 10032. Hams Over IP – 200183
QuangDX @quangdx.com Founder / Technical Game Design Director @Asobitech.com ☯️
Ex @BitmapBureau.com🕵️♂️
Event organiser @BrilliantIndieTreasures.com💎
Column writer @DebugMag.com📝
BAFTA member😉
ENSEMBLE 2019✊
He/Him🙋♂️
Short Circuit @shortcircuit.org.uk Organisers of retro events - see https://retrofest.uk/ for our latest. If you want to talk about prop hire, buying or selling (or donating!) retro hardware or coming to visit us, please come say hi at https://shortcircuit.org.uk/
ImACoconut.ini @imacoconut.bsky.social A coconut. Not really a coconut.
Ian Scott @polpo.org I'm currently cooking up PicoIDE, a hardware IDE/ATAPI emulator, launching on Crowd Supply: https://www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics/picoide
I also made PicoGUS: https://picog.us
Also on Fedi at https://chaos.social/@polpo
In Colorado, USA
CoLD SToRAGE ( Tim Wright ) @coldstorage.bsky.social CEO, Musician, Coder, Green Belt Ninja & Welsh BAFTA Member. Developed (DAW) music sequencers - MUSIC tm, MTV Music Generator & eJay. Composed soundtracks for 80+ games - WipEout, Lemmings, Shadow of the Beast, Colony Wars, Sensible Soccer, Formula One…
Jeff Chen @jeffchen.bsky.social 🇨🇦 I sing Jeff Chang. I design 3D printed stuff with electronics inside. I play games. 【English/中文/日本語】
Ko-Fi☕️ https://ko-fi.com/designerjeffchen
Paul Reeves 🏴 @paulartreeves.bsky.social Artist 🎨 Actor 🎙🎭 Writer 🖊 Video Game Developer 🕹 Film-maker 🎥
𝙅𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙩𝙧𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 🖖
https://linktr.ee/paulreeves
https://ko-fi.com/paulartreeves ☕️
Jason Compton @jasoncompton.bsky.social Writer, tech podcaster, actor, would-be heir to Richard Dawson.
madisonshakespeare.org
retroadventurers.com
thisweekinretro.com
Geekbrigade @geekbrigade.co.uk Website: www.geekbrigade.co.uk
Mike Dailly ™ @mdf200.bsky.social Game programmer, creator of Lemmings and Grand Theft Auto. Comments are my own and those of the voices in my head.
Support my work:
http://www.patreon.com/mikedailly
http://www.lemmings.info
https://mdf200.itch.io/
http://www.youtube.com/mikedailly
Dudley of Yesterzine @yesterzine.bsky.social Yesterzine / Big Red Arrow Club / Doomed Colonist
Ruining magazines forever for fun and profit.
tiny.cc/yesterzine
Jae Bloom 🏳️⚧️ @onejaeatatime.com She/Her 🏳️🌈 A 30-something Christian Geek who is a Trans Woman - Loves to share puns - Content Creator at @crossed.wires.social
Engaged to @james.bilsbrough.com
Peter Gordon 🇺🇦 @gordon.plus Embedded software engineer. Digital security expert. Retro computing enthusiast. Heavy metal fan.
Occasionally known as Xeron from the Amiga demogroup IRIS.
Lumpbucket from off of b3ta.
BraxtonDK @braxtondk.bsky.social BraxtonDK Demoscener, member of Rebels (RBS).
Ruairi (rc55) @rc55.com Electronic Music Culture | Demoscene | Vintage Tech & Retro Gaming
Rich's Random Retro Reviews @richsrandomret1.bsky.social I attempt to make YouTube videos on random retro tech that I lusted after or had chance to use when I was younger. Still learning so be gentle ;)
https://www.youtube.com/richsrandomretroreviews
Garth Beagle @garthbeagle.bsky.social I am a curator of vintage computers, weird creatures, and of course "retro" nostalgia and oddities
Santa Cruz Mountains, California
https://www.youtube.com/c/GarthBeagle
Iain Lee @iainlee.com Counselling - hello@iainleecounselling.com
General iain@iainlee.com
Q @h-a-m.bsky.social You've found Q of Hold and Modify! Welcome!
https://www.youtube.com/@HoldandModify
Grant McLellan @grantm1984.bsky.social He/Him and proud of it
More Fun Making It @morefunmakingit.bsky.social Retro and vintage tech YouTube fun and games over at
Main channel
https://www.youtube.com/c/MoreFunMakingIt
Second channel
https://youtube.com/@morefunmakingit2
Website:
https://www.morefunmakingit.co.uk/
Arcade Archive @arcadearchive.co.uk Hello Arcadians and welcome to Arcade Archive, a classic arcade preservation museum based in Stroud, UK.
Watch our videos at: https://youtube.com/@TheRetroCollective
Book a visit https://retrocollective.co.uk
Retrofied (Dan) @retrofied.uk Bespoke retro computer & video games restoration products. Custom arcade artwork design, print and fitting.
Operations Manager at The Cave 🕹️ and a proud part of the Retro Collective.
https://retrofied.uk
https://retrocollective.co.uk
Richard Horne @richrap3d.bsky.social #3DPrinting #RepRap #RetroGaming #Arcade & #OpenSource hardware developer, Electronics engineer, innovator & salesman, Director of Heber Ltd. Author of 3D Printing for Dummies book.
Based in the UK
This Week in Retro @thisweekinretro.bsky.social thisweekinretro.com
Up-to-date news for out-of-date tech. Hosted by Chris from 005 AGIMA, Jason from The Retro Adventurers and Dave. Edited by Duncan Styles.
Paulio @pauliobee.bsky.social Vintage computing, programming and games. Talks a lot about mental health and football as well.
Martin @martinburch.com Data research and computer history
How Haunted? Podcast @howhauntedpod.bsky.social I'm Rob. A Geordie ghost hunter, author, and the host of the How Haunted? podcast 👻
www.how-haunted.com
https://how-haunted.dashery.com
Sega Mania Magazine @segamaniamagazine.bsky.social The official Bluesky account for Sega Mania Magazine https://www.sega-mania.com
Tom Irwin @tomirwin.bsky.social Member of the public.
Publer @publer.com Schedule your Bluesky posts with Publer!
💚 Social Media Management Platform for Bluesky, Threads, Mastodon, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, X, LinkedIn & more!
Learn more: linkie.bio/publer
Multisystem @multisystemfpga.bsky.social Home of Multisystem gaming products and more. We design and manufacture a range of Retro Gaming, Classic Computer and Vintage Arcade products - Designed by Heber Ltd. (UK) https://shop.heber.co.uk/
Heber Ltd. @heber-limited.bsky.social UK based company since 1984
Electronics design, manufacturing and consultancy.
Inventing, designing and manufacturing electronics products for industry and consumers.
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
Boss Fight Books @bossfightbooks.com Great books on classic video games.
bossfightbooks.com
Latest:
● Dragon Age II by Charlotte Reber
● Life is Strange by Kaitlin Tremblay
● Legend of the River King by Alexander B. Joy
● DDR by Jessica Doyle & Jordan Ferguson
Kurt @ Hardcore Gaming 101 @hg101.bsky.social He/him. Now Playing: The Guide to 1980s and '90s Movie Games now available: https://limitedrungames.com/products/now-playing-the-guide-to-1980s-and-90s-movie-games-hardcover Icon and header by Rusty Shackles. Patreon: http://patreon.com/hg101
Third Éditions @thirdeditions.bsky.social Maison d’édition française dédiée aux jeux vidéo et à la pop culture, créée par Mehdi El Kanafi et Nicolas Courcier.
DeVuego ® @devuego.es La mayor base de datos de la industria de videojuegos en España.
Apoyamos y difundimos los #VideojuegosEspañoles 🇪🇸
🕸️ https://www.devuego.es
Telegram 💬 https://t.me/devuego
Mana Books @manabookseditions.bsky.social Redécouvrez vos jeux vidéo/films/séries préférés dans une collection d'ouvrages officiels, accessible aux néophytes comme aux joueurs les plus chevronnés ! 🎮📽
WarpZone, seu mundo RETROGAMER @warpzone.me Mundo WarpZone: Rua Olga Abujamra nº 106 - Vila Mariana, São Paulo, CEP 04009-020 - https://linktr.ee/warpzone
Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com Publisher of creator-owned and licensed comics, manga, art books, collectibles. Hellboy, The Mask, Umbrella Academy, Berserk, Trigun, many more!
Paul Murphy @pmurphy1978.bsky.social Pretends to write. Owner, Ninty Media. Long time Spurs sufferer, amiibo collector, retro Nintendo fanatic. Liable to moan, swear or talk too much about the gym. Sorry.
Ninty Media @nintymedia.bsky.social Making print products themed around Nintendo properties! Home of the GAMEBOOK Series and Switch Player Magazine - we also made Ninsight and NintyFresh!
https://www.nintymedia.net/
Titan Books @titanbooks.bsky.social Leading independent publisher of Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror, Crime, Pop Culture, Movie/TV tie-ins & much more 📚 Also, @hardcasecrime.bsky.social
UDON Entertainment @udonentertainment.bsky.social Art collective & publisher of original comic books, graphic novels, and art books. UDONStore.com to shop exclusives & collectibles.
Pen and Sword Books @penandswordbooks.bsky.social Independent publisher of military, aviation, maritime, family history, transport, social & local history, true crime & more!
Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social Writer at Crunchyroll, Polygon, WIRED, Vulture, GamesRadar, Inverse, Pokemon, Paste Magazine and other places / Rep'd by Aevitas Creative / Author of MONSTER KIDS ('22), I AM THE NIGHT ('26) and LIFE FINDS A WAY ('28) / Picked Charmander
Darren Hupke @darrenhupke.bsky.social Video game book maker (32 Bit Library, Beat ‘Em Up, Pixels and Polygons Quarterly). Writer. Podcast host (Pixels and Polygons). Owner of @pixelsandpolygons.net
Links to my books, podcast, and creative output below 👇
https://linktr.ee/darrenhupke
Pixels and Polygons @pixelsandpolygons.net Pixels and Polygons: Home of original podcasts, books, and zines! www.pixelsandpolygons.net
Run by @darrenhupke.bsky.social
Part of @soundstone.network
soundstone.network
Webstore links and more below!👇
https://linktr.ee/darrenhupke
Press Run Books @pressrun.bsky.social The dedicated book publishing imprint of Limited Run Games. Not a Wendy's. Official account. 
MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social Committed to the daily re-imagining of what a university press can be since 1962.
Website: https://mitpress.mit.edu
The Reader (our home for excerpts, essays, & interviews): https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
MIT Press Direct: https://direct.mit.edu/
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
Sebastian Deken @sebsational.bsky.social I owe you one, so I'm gonna jam up your opera!
Author of FINAL FANTASY VI for @bossfightbooks.com: bit.ly/final-fantasy-vi
Contributor and executive officer @popheist.com
he/him/homo
Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com Dad, islander, writer, & Hugo winner. Words for WIRED, Kotaku, Vulture, & more. Commodore 1702 enthusiast. he/him.
Rep'd by Eric Smith.
🎧 Co-host of @funfactorpod.com
📚 FIGHT, MAGIC, ITEMS and SUIKODEN 1 & 2
🛰️ Newsletter: astrolabe.aidanmoher.com
Victoria Rosenthal @pixelatedvicka.bsky.social Video Game Cookbook Author (including FFXIV, Fallout, Sonic & many others) | she/her
pixelatedprovisions.com
business: pixelatedprovisions@gmail.com
Dr. Rachel Kowert @drkowert.bsky.social Founder of Psychgeist and DLC Leadership Program. Visiting Researcher at University of Cambridge. Chocobo wrangler. All opinions mine.
e.c. myers @ecmyers.com Author, Gamer, Reader, Dad • He/Him • Assembled in the U.S. from Korean & German parts • NYT Bestseller • linktr.ee/ecmyers • #NoGenAI
Just published: THE STREAM TEAM: PLAY 2 WIN
Recently released: GAMERS: LEVELING UP
Coming soon: QUANTUM CREEP (CYOA)
Square Enix Manga & Books @square-enix-books.com Official Bluesky Account for Square Enix Manga & Books. Publisher of Manga, Light Novels, and Game Tie-In Books from Japan’s top creators. Uncover Unforgettable!
https://square-enix-books.com/
Debug Magazine @debugmag.com The indie games magazine // Available in print and digital // Order support: help@teamdebug.com
Subscribe Now: debu.gg/sub
For Developers: debu.gg/dev
SEGA-16 @sega-16.bsky.social http://Sega-16.com is the premier resource for articles on Sega's hardware legacy! "Sega Goes Handheld: A History of the Game Gear & Its Games" available now at Amazon!
Forgotten Worlds @forgottenworlds.bsky.social Looking back at video game magazines and culture from the 80s and 90s. Check the website for articles / interviews about obscure magazines and retro games… https://www.forgottenworlds.net
💽🕹
Retro Game Books 📚 @retrogamebooks.com Indie retro gaming book publisher. Video Game Maps series, Pixel Art Metroid, History of Rygar, + more.
Store: https://retrogamebooks.com
Contact: retrogamebooks@gmail.com
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/retrogamebooks
Discord: https://discord.gg/mY7JFNcWG6
Marijam Didžgalvytė @marijamdid.com Materialist Videogames Industry Critic │ Author of "Everything To Play For" (Verso Books) with 7 translations
Bylines Vice, Guardian, Kotaku etc.
Bikes, Post-rock, Adorno, Gramsci, Antifascism, Anarcho-Syndicalism, Lust, Negronis 🍸🏴
marijamdid.com
Andy Kelly @ultrabrilliant.xyz ⚡ PR, copywriting, and design for Devolver Digital
⚡ Writer, photographer, artist, etc.
⚡ Author of Perfect Organism: A Celebration of Alien: Isolation
⚡ Glaswegian
📍 Yorkshire, UK
🔗 www.ultrabrilliant.xyz
Kyle Orland @kyleor.land Senior Gaming Editor, Ars Technica / The guy who LITERALLY wrote the book on Minesweeper -- https://bossfightbooks.com/products/minesweeper-by-kyle-orland
Signal: kyleorl.31
Chris Kohler @kohler.bsky.social Editorial Director of the BAFTA-nominated Tetris Forever and more at Digital Eclipse.
Co-host, Good Job, Brain! WIRED editor from 2005 to 2017. Well-known Japanese curry enjoyer.
Games, books, bio, etc: http://www.chriskohler.biz
Laura E. Hall @lauraehall.bsky.social Mysteries, puzzles, adventures. I make games, write books & preserve immersive history. PDX. They/she
Immersipedia coming soon 📖
PLANNING YOUR ESCAPE (Simon & Schuster), KATAMARI DAMACY (Boss Fight Books)
✨ lauraehall.com
🔎 cfia.org
🎙️ secretlives.games
Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com Tech reporter, tech historian. Bylines Fast Company / The Atlantic / Retronauts podcast. http://www.benjedwards.com Founder http://Vintagecomputing.com
Hot Blooded Tough Guy Rusty Shackles @rustyshackles.bsky.social Artist for:
https://www.hardcoregaming101.net/
https://1900hotdog.com/
https://erasofwrestling.com
Store! https://artofrustyshackles.blogspot.com/
Links! https://linktr.ee/rustyshackles
ebay! https://www.ebay.com/usr/artistrustyshackles
Kirk McKeand @mckkirk.bsky.social Microplastics, they’re fantastic. Content Director @ GLHF. Consultancy, mock reviews. Did some writing for a video game called The Axis Unseen.
Marine Macq @marinemacq.bsky.social Directrice de la galerie Gamma 🎨
Assistante éditoriale & autrice de artbooks chez Pix'n Love ✒️
Je parle concept art et direction artistique de jeu vidéo.
www.galeriegamma.com
📚 Mon nouveau livre "The Art of Clair Obscur Expedition 33" est disponible!
Carly A. Kocurek @sparklebliss.bsky.social Experience design, video game history, writing. Prof and associate dean @ Illinois Tech. Books: Coin-Operated Americans (Minnesota), Brenda Laurel (Bloomsbury), Historiographies of Game Studies (Punctum). 
Raphaël Lucas @raphaellucas.bsky.social Rédacteur en chef Jeux Vidéo Magazine. Se croise chez Third Editions ou Pix'n Love. Troisième Gunman de Super Vieux Jeux, par Origami. Ex-plein de magazines JV décédés.
Fanny Rebillard @cactuceratops.bsky.social 🎓PhD student @LiegeGameLab.bsky.social (ULiège) / IreMus (Sorbonne Université) - Bourse FRESH (FNRS)
🗞️ Journalist (CPC HW, Pix’n Love)
📚 Author "La musique dans la série Zelda", "Golden Sun" @Thirdeditions.bsky.social
🎮 Ex-LQA ProCo
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
Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social Brazilian living in Tokyo. Editor of the CRPG Book, a free book on the history of Computer Role-Playing Games: https://crpgbook.wordpress.com/
Thais Weiller @thaisweiller.bsky.social I make games and complain in three different languages ⚫ the person who started the war with the Dominion ⚫50% of
@joymasher, 💯% tired
Stuart Gipp @stuartgipp.bsky.social British one off of Retronauts. Games writer, etc.
All Games Are Good: limitedrungames.com/products/all-games-are-good-hardcover
Merry Hell: merryhellcomic.com
Support me or buy stuff: patreon.com/StuartGipp
Eugen Pfister 🇪🇺 @eugenpfister.bsky.social Historian & Political Scientist / SNF Sinergia project lead #CH_Ludens / SNF Ambizione lead #HorrorGamePolitics / History / Games / Politics / History of Ideas / Opinion must not always reflect object. scient. analysis / AKGWDS
spielkult.hypotheses.org
GTM @gamestribune.bsky.social 📚 Editorial independiente de las revistas GTM y
Kaibun
¡Amor por el #videojuego y el papel! 🎮
✨¡Descubre todas nuestras redes! 👉 http://linktr.ee/gtmediciones
Nicolas Deneschau @nicozilla.bsky.social Plume d’occasion pour Metal Hurlant | L'Ecran Fantastique | Jeux Video Magazine | Third Editions | PixnLove
A Profound Waste of Time @apwot.bsky.social Award winning indie magazine, celebrating games as an art form. 📚 Est. 2016
www.apwot.com
Damien Mecheri @damienmecheri.bsky.social Auteur et éditeur chez @thirdeditions.bsky.social
Author and editor at Third Éditions
Óscar Toledo G. @nanochess.bsky.social ➀MSX/Atari/CV/Intellivision/SMS game dev
➁Princess Quest in Evercade Intellivision
➂Knight of boot sector games
➃IOCCC+JS1K winner
➄IntyBASIC/CVBasic creator
➅Author
https://nanochess.org/
https://lulu.com/spotlight/nanochess
https://ko-fi.com/nanochess
Frans Mäyrä @fransmayra.bsky.social A professor, Tampere University, Finland. Nature photographer. Fan of fantasy, science fiction, new media and old ideas. He/him.
www.unet.fi
www.fransmayra.fi (personal blog)
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
Richard Moss @mossrc.bsky.social Writer/Director: @terrorbytesdoc.bsky.social | @scummdoc.bsky.social
Author: *A Tale of Two Halves*, *Shareware Heroes*, *The Secret History of Mac Gaming*, a book on Age of Empires 1 development
Australian
rich@mossrc.me
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.