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Vintage consoles, retro software, 80's and 90's video game curios, classic toys and the occasional nostalgic musing.

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Some precious daddy/daughter time in the game room. How are you spending your morning?

retrogaminggeek's tweet image. Some precious daddy/daughter time in the game room.

How are you spending your morning?

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the setup 👾 currently i only have snes, xbox 360 and ps2 hooked up! im thinking of setting up my ps1 too, and pong is always fun if having people over so i need to change its batteries! which consoles do you have up and running?

prinSNESs's tweet image. the setup 👾

currently i only have snes, xbox 360 and ps2 hooked up! im thinking of setting up my ps1 too, and pong is always fun if having people over so i need to change its batteries!

which consoles do you have up and running?

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Just need the cassette tape deck.

ch4os_theory's tweet image. Just need the cassette tape deck.
ch4os_theory's tweet image. Just need the cassette tape deck.
ch4os_theory's tweet image. Just need the cassette tape deck.

This is my muscle memory game. I know every enemy, secret and boss, and can complete without losing a life. And I still enjoy every moment! Do you have a game like that? #TMNT #GameBoy

retrogaminggeek's tweet image. This is my muscle memory game.

I know every enemy, secret and boss, and can complete without losing a life.

And I still enjoy every moment!

Do you have a game like that?

#TMNT
#GameBoy

Something a little more unusual for you all. Nintendo's first foray into 3D gaming with their 1987 Famicom 3D system. With only 7 available games, it was a commercial failure. One of those games was Rad Racer, which retained it's 3D in the West through the use of 3D glasses!

retrogaminggeek's tweet image. Something a little more unusual for you all.

Nintendo's first foray into 3D gaming with their 1987 Famicom 3D system. 

With only 7 available games, it was a commercial failure. 

One of those games was Rad Racer, which retained it's 3D in the West through the use of 3D glasses!

Really enjoying Driver: San Francisco. The visuals stand up really well, especially the car models. Frame rate stays mostly consistent, with only occasional screen tear A solid list of cars, both new and classic. A great sound track evoking 70's car chases. Plus a Delorean!

retrogaminggeek's tweet image. Really enjoying Driver: San Francisco.

The visuals stand up really well, especially the car models.

Frame rate stays mostly consistent, with only occasional screen tear

A solid list of cars, both new and classic.

A great sound track evoking 70's car chases.

Plus a Delorean!

East meets West. Famicom meets NES Gun meets Zapper Disk System meets nothing. Wild at how much regional variation there was in gaming in the early days. Which do you prefer? Standardisation or variety?! #Nintendo #RetroGaming

retrogaminggeek's tweet image. East meets West.

Famicom meets NES

Gun meets Zapper 

Disk System meets nothing.

Wild at how much regional variation there was in gaming in the early days.

Which do you prefer? Standardisation or variety?!

#Nintendo
#RetroGaming

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This is actual life improving knowledge, incredible

spacebruce's tweet image. This is actual life improving knowledge, incredible

Just a reminder that you can plug Atari joysticks into a Mega Drive to give you the proper twin stick experience on Super Smash TV!

retrogaminggeek's tweet image. Just a reminder that you can plug Atari joysticks into a Mega Drive to give you the proper twin stick experience on Super Smash TV!
retrogaminggeek's tweet image. Just a reminder that you can plug Atari joysticks into a Mega Drive to give you the proper twin stick experience on Super Smash TV!


Some freshly acquired Xbox 360 games. I've held off buying any for the last few years, with having a faulty disc drive. But now I've fixed it, it's full steam ahead! Some games I either sold on, or never hand. Does any thing stand out for you? #Xbox360

retrogaminggeek's tweet image. Some freshly acquired  Xbox 360 games. I've held off buying any for the last few years, with having a faulty disc drive. But now I've fixed it, it's full steam ahead!

Some games I either sold on, or never hand. Does any thing stand out for you?

#Xbox360

Some of the games from 2007 - 2008. What a time to be a gamer. I honestly don't think we've quite had it as good since then. Sure we've had great games, but this generation felt like lightning in a bottle.

retrogaminggeek's tweet image. Some of the games from 2007 - 2008.

What a time to be a gamer. I honestly don't think we've quite had it as good since then. Sure we've had great games, but this generation felt like lightning in a bottle.

Are we any closer to decrypting these hard drives yet? I say we, i mean people much smarter than me.

In 2003, Sony revealed the PSX, showing off three color variations of the console that never made it to market.

ObsoleteSony's tweet image. In 2003, Sony revealed the PSX, showing off three color variations of the console that never made it to market.


Just a reminder that you can plug Atari joysticks into a Mega Drive to give you the proper twin stick experience on Super Smash TV!

retrogaminggeek's tweet image. Just a reminder that you can plug Atari joysticks into a Mega Drive to give you the proper twin stick experience on Super Smash TV!
retrogaminggeek's tweet image. Just a reminder that you can plug Atari joysticks into a Mega Drive to give you the proper twin stick experience on Super Smash TV!

The cost of importing an N64 to the UK in 1996. The equivalent of £1344 for the console and 2 games. Did anyone do this back in the day? Little 14 year old me had to wait until mid 1997. #N64 #RetroGaming

retrogaminggeek's tweet image. The cost of importing an N64 to the UK in 1996.

The equivalent of £1344 for the console and 2 games.

Did anyone do this back in the day? Little 14 year old me had to wait until mid 1997.

#N64
#RetroGaming

Can I just ask, regardless of whatever you're doing, that you dash out and pick up this game for £3. A forgotten Serkis masterpiece,.

retrogaminggeek's tweet image. Can I just ask, regardless of whatever you're doing, that you dash out and pick up this game for £3.

A forgotten Serkis masterpiece,.

3mb updates. Those were the days. #Xbox360

retrogaminggeek's tweet image. 3mb updates. Those were the days.

#Xbox360

This is also an 18 year old game. Criminally there is no backwards compatibility for PGR4, so this is running on original 360 hardware. Perfection.

retrogaminggeek's tweet image. This is also an 18 year old game.

Criminally there is no backwards compatibility for PGR4, so this is running on original 360 hardware.

Perfection.

My 13-year-old son had never played an Xbox 360. Yesterday, while playing some games, he came across FEAR 3 and was shocked by the quality and said, "Dad, is this console really almost 20 years old? ... The games are so good! Shouldn't games these days be so much better?"

MXRetroDev's tweet image. My 13-year-old son had never played an Xbox 360. Yesterday, while playing some games, he came across FEAR 3 and was shocked by the quality and said, "Dad, is this console really almost 20 years old? ... The games are so good! Shouldn't games these days be so much better?"


I will add that Go! Explore still works! Took my family to Blackpool!

retrogaminggeek's tweet image. I will add that Go! Explore still works! Took my family to Blackpool!

I mean, handheld gaming is great and everything, but handhelds are also great when they're not gaming! Somewhat sad that mobile phones have done away with this level of ingenuity.

retrogaminggeek's tweet image. I mean, handheld gaming is great and everything, but handhelds are also great when they're not gaming!

Somewhat sad that mobile phones have done away with this level of ingenuity.


My childhood cat, Chocolate, died over 20 years ago. Yet he is preserved forever in an incidental photo I took on my Game Boy camera. Have you got any preserved memories on games machines?

retrogaminggeek's tweet image. My childhood cat, Chocolate, died over 20 years ago. Yet he is preserved forever in an incidental photo I took on my Game Boy camera.

Have you got any preserved memories on games machines?

I mean, handheld gaming is great and everything, but handhelds are also great when they're not gaming! Somewhat sad that mobile phones have done away with this level of ingenuity.

retrogaminggeek's tweet image. I mean, handheld gaming is great and everything, but handhelds are also great when they're not gaming!

Somewhat sad that mobile phones have done away with this level of ingenuity.


I mean, handheld gaming is great and everything, but handhelds are also great when they're not gaming! Somewhat sad that mobile phones have done away with this level of ingenuity.

retrogaminggeek's tweet image. I mean, handheld gaming is great and everything, but handhelds are also great when they're not gaming!

Somewhat sad that mobile phones have done away with this level of ingenuity.

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Gaming Class Of 1982. Picture this, it's 1982 at age 10 and the whole year was full of fun gaming from arcades, home consoles, home computers and hand helds. Every games and units posted here in photos are my from 82 in the US only as others from Europe and Asia we never gotten.

Atariboy1's tweet image. Gaming Class Of 1982.

Picture this, it's 1982 at age 10 and the whole year was full of fun gaming from arcades, home consoles, home computers and hand helds. Every games and units posted here in photos are my from 82 in the US only as others from Europe and Asia we never gotten.
Atariboy1's tweet image. Gaming Class Of 1982.

Picture this, it's 1982 at age 10 and the whole year was full of fun gaming from arcades, home consoles, home computers and hand helds. Every games and units posted here in photos are my from 82 in the US only as others from Europe and Asia we never gotten.
Atariboy1's tweet image. Gaming Class Of 1982.

Picture this, it's 1982 at age 10 and the whole year was full of fun gaming from arcades, home consoles, home computers and hand helds. Every games and units posted here in photos are my from 82 in the US only as others from Europe and Asia we never gotten.
Atariboy1's tweet image. Gaming Class Of 1982.

Picture this, it's 1982 at age 10 and the whole year was full of fun gaming from arcades, home consoles, home computers and hand helds. Every games and units posted here in photos are my from 82 in the US only as others from Europe and Asia we never gotten.

Pfft. We all know which console was rocking video-cd compatibility back in 1995. ... As long as you spent the equivalent of £373 on the video card.

retrogaminggeek's tweet image. Pfft. We all know which console was rocking video-cd compatibility back in 1995.

...

As long as you spent the equivalent of £373 on the video card.

Originally, the PlayStation was meant to support Video CD, but this feature was limited to the SCPH-5903 model available only in Hong Kong and Taiwan

ObsoleteSony's tweet image. Originally, the PlayStation was meant to support Video CD, but this feature was limited to the SCPH-5903 model available only in Hong Kong and Taiwan


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