Weekly Ramblecast 200: Larry Sunsoft
Added 2025-04-08 13:00:07 +0000 UTCOur good friend Steve Lin drops by this week to bring his prodigious knowledge of classic gaming to bear, telling us about his involvement in the Video Game History Foundation and its sprawling archival library project, reducing the size of your collection, the rediscovered "NBA Jam for baseball," reverse-engineering games that were never released, the requisite Transformers block, and more.
Check out the VGHF Library: https://library.gamehistory.org/
The resurrection of Power-Up Baseball: https://gamehistory.org/powerupbaseball/
CHAPTERS
(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:01:48) The Video Game History Foundation's library
(00:17:54) Reverse-engineering games that were never released
(00:23:48) Game devs: safeguard your data!
(00:37:00) The resurrection of Power-Up Baseball
(00:39:18) Housing arcade cabinets is not a small task
(00:41:19) The Strong Museum of Play
(00:45:16) The (physical) video game magazine archive
(00:54:42) Steve's CRTs
(01:02:03) Power washing your CRTs
(01:10:56) The Transformers block
(01:25:00) Content and bye!
Comments
Man Steve rules as a guest, infinitely interesting
rogbrte
2025-05-14 01:55:52 +0000 UTCNow this is some serious rambling. Great stuff!
Jordan Gibson
2025-04-14 15:37:25 +0000 UTCYup! - Vinny
nextlander
2025-04-10 15:25:27 +0000 UTCI didn't know they started digitizing. I looked up a couple old Game Informers my childhood best friend and I would constantly flip through while the other played whatever game had come out. Man, what a time to be a young gamer.
And the rest!
2025-04-10 12:58:30 +0000 UTCStill waiting for fans toys dead end
Morgan
2025-04-10 01:18:29 +0000 UTCWhat a perfect guest, loved it
Tobias Poll
2025-04-08 15:06:17 +0000 UTC
