"Before Cutthroat Island went into production, Geena Davis and Michelle Pfeiffer were in talks to star in a pirate movie called Mistress of the Seas. Paul Verhoeven was in talks to direct."

I don't know what this movie is but I want to live in the alternate universe where it's made.

a stylized 3d render of a realistically proportioned hare and a cute little bunny running at night.

princes with a thousand enemies

Spooky family graves? That'd be this 1994 U.S. print ad for (the possibly under-rated?) Castlevania Bloodlines for the Sega Genesis.

a game boy with a little keyboard peripheral plugged into its side. most of the keys on the keyboard are white but a few are black and a few are red.

workboy, game boy peripheral, cancelled, displayed at the consumer electronics show (1992) 'a pda-style, keyboard addon for the game boy with calendar, phone book & convert measurement functions.' archive.org/details/mico... gamehistory.org/ep-16-the-el...

a black ps2 themed dreamcast.

a blue, silver (w/ black citcle on top) gamecube themed dreamcast, complete with handle.

a black (green circle on top) xbox themed dreamcast.

custom dreamcasts (2004) archive.org/details/emun...

If Sinners came out in the 90s there would be an SNES and Genesis game that would be made by totally different developers. The Genesis version youd play as Smoke and you’d have a gun and in the SNES version you play as Preacherboy and you fight vampires with your guitar

A screenshot of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, with Luke defiantly standing against the Emperor. The 90s-style captions read: "You've failed, your highness. I'm forklift certified, like my father before me."

Pokopia trailer clip of players collaboratively building a large structure.

This is why God punished Pokemon to only speak their own names.

The Japanese logo for the first Zelda game, The Hyrule Fantasy

Today is the 40th anniversary of Zelda 1!

Of all the Zelda titles, this is the one we know the MOST about; they've discussed it in interviews for years. Let's go down memory lane with some fun quotes

#Zelda
#TheLegendOfZeldaQuote
#MiyamotoQuote, #TezukaQuote, #NakagoQuote, #KondoQuote

The title screen of Neutopia for turbografx-16 - a pixel art hero in grey armor with red pauldrons raises his sword whole standing on a cliff, facing a wide plain. The red NEUTOPIA logo is intersected with a sword.

Happy 40th birthday to Zelda

Same Karen... Same.

lancelot in old time silver armour, fair maiden standing close to his left, defeated inflatable crocodile or dinosaur or dragon upside down on the ground. congratulations sir lancelot. text at the bottom: get into some heavy metal (to the right, datasoft logo)

lancelot, commodore 64 (1989) www.mobygames.com/game/7307/la...

My Dreamcast asking me to set the date, and showing the Japanese launch date of 27th of November 1998.

"Dreamcast", a haiku

Each day he rises.
Asks me, "Is it still launch day?"
"Yes," I lie. "Always."

A slide that reads "Presenting games primarily as consumer products undermines arguments to preserve and make them accessible as an art form." from a MAGFest panel. That panel from the Dark Knight Returns where he breaks the gun also is on there.

That's what I'm talking about.

one on one fight character select screen. the character selected currently are ryu vs. sonic the hedgehog. other characters available to choose include mario, a teenage mutant ninja turtle, bison, hagar, the dragon ball z dude(?), etc.

magazine screenshot (1994) archive.org/details/mico...

New addition to the BeforeMario collection...

Vintage Nintendo playing cards from late 1950s / early 1960s, with amazing cool design

Finally did a silly little digital preservation bucket list item: scanned the actual CMYK plates used to print a video game box using an oversized film scanner, and combined them in Photoshop to make a "perfect" digital version.

3d first person view of a desk with a phone (old key pad type), a screen, an atari, and a round atari cartridge holder with atari cartridges in most slots. an atari joystick, a can of drink and an activision booklet are also on the desk. green text font at top: select a game options at bottom: x select < switch >

activision anthology, game selection screen, ps2 (2002) dotmaetrix.neocities.org/classictrans...

large banners: 'famicom space world '95' and inbetween: n64 logos on long white vertical banners. below demonstration prototypes being played by attendees with nintendo staff in branded white jackets watching on.

famicom space world ’95, trade show, chiba, japan (1995) 'the show featured the public unveiling of the newly renamed nintendo 64 console, with thirteen games including the playable prototypes of super mario 64 & kirby ball 64..' archive.org/details/deng... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintend...

#1984 rb.gy/nvdfpo

attendees milling around the expo, men in suits, a woman neatly dressed in a pink shirt and black dress. a large q-bert is on a pedestal.

amusement operators expo, chicago (1983) archive.org/details/vide...

The Legend of Zelda LEGO set coming 2026 buff.ly/fjCHXAd

90s 3D rendering. I've had this rendering on my hard drive for 28 years.

the 64dd n64 peripheral is on display in a glass case on a stand (n64 sits on top 64dd). n64 signage is on the front of the stand. photo caption: our first look at the 64dd. we could look, but we couldn't touch.

zoomed out display of the 64dd display with screens displayed above. attendees are wandering around or looking at the screens. a large n64 controller (attached to scaffolding) and n64 signage is above the screens. photo caption: this is the 64dd display from afar. this setup took pictures of show attendees, then mapped their likenesses in three dimensions on the screen.

shoshinkai software exhibition, tokyo, japan (1996) 'the spotlight was on n64, or "the evolving video game machine," as it was being touted by nintendo. a couple of examples of how the n64 might evolve in the future were on display at the show, including the 64dd.' web.archive.org/web/19961222...

an extremely broken copy of altered beast on Sega geneis

please sir you have altered the beast a little too much

A Discovery Channel store from the 1990s. Shelves are filled with books, globes and model planes. A large telescope is displayed in the foreground, and an interactive kiosk sits in the background. Halogen lights make the lighting dramatic, highlighting the displays, and an illuminated panel shows an image of the Moon.

Stores used to look like this.

a 3d room, bookshelves on the far wall, coffee table and couches, dining table, windows with clouds and blue sky outside, a study desk with a phone on it, lighting.

computer graphics (1998) web.archive.org/web/19981203...

The title card for the 1971 horror film THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES.

Time to learn the true story behind Mr. Pibb

a 3d render of the muppets rowlf and gonzo

theatre 🎭

(been watching the muppets show recently)

Star Trek TOS art, featuring floating heads of Kirk, Spock, and Bones.

Poster for Blade Runner, featuring floating heads of the characters.

Poster for Back to the Future Part II, with Doc and Marty both lifting shades to look at their watches with the Delorean nearby.

Poster for ET, with ET in the woods reaching for a floating UFO, with the lights of a city grid in the background.

RIP Drew Struzan