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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
rogbrte
Man Steve rules as a guest, infinitely interesting
Jordan Gibson
Now this is some serious rambling. Great stuff!
nextlander
Yup! - Vinny
And the rest!
I 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.
Morgan
Still waiting for fans toys dead end
Tobias Poll
What a perfect guest, loved it
