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Retronauts
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The official Twitter account of your favorite classic gaming podcast. We're also on BlueSky at bsky.app/profile/retron…
Happy 80th birthday to Wendy Carlos, an electronic music pioneer whose early albums and film scores (A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, and TRON) put synthesizers on the map.
- Sad news out of Japan: Takao Saito, creator of the record-setting longest-running ongoing manga series GOLGO 13, has passed away at 84. Saito created the character in 1968 and continued to draw it until his passing. RIP news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/ca8f3… #さいとうたかを
- Today we celebrate what should have been Jerry Lawson's 80th birthday. The engineer was born on December 1, 1940 and would play an instrumental role in developing the concept of cartridge-based video games. vintagecomputing.com/index.php/arch…
- Happy 30th anniversary to The Critic, an animated sitcom created by two veteran Simpsons staffers which only lasted two years (across two networks)
00:00 - while the 10th anniversary of Roger Ebert's passing is a sad occasion, it also means we can celebrate the 10th anniversary of this hall-of-fame tweet
- Happy 20th anniversary to the Game Boy Advance! Nintendo officially made the ordinary Game Boy obsolete on March 21, 2001 with a new gadget that played all the old games, plus a slew of fancy new ones.
00:00 - 20 years ago today, a new age of heroes dawned with the arcade debut of Marvel vs Capcom 2
00:00 - Mario Tennis turns 20 years old today but more significantly - much, much, more significantly - today also marks the 20th anniversary of the debut of WALUIGI
00:00 - Sesame Street's funkier sibling show, The Electric Company, debuted 50 years ago today. It didn't have any Muppets, but it did co-star Morgan Freeman and had periodic guest appearances from Spider-Man!
00:00 - Today is the 25th anniversary of the Sony PlayStation and the synthesizer sweep that changed gaming history:
00:00 - 10 years ago, Sony shook off a generation of bad vibes by releasing a console embraced the world over as a return to form; yes, the PlayStation 4 is now a decade old and therefore RETRO (We don't make the rules)
- on this day in 1984, deep inside the Soviet Academy of Sciences, Alexey Pajitnov put his Electronika 60 to the test with a puzzle program made of ASCII characters. He had no idea he was inventing the most popular video game of all time. Happy Birthday TETRIS!
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