Headed to #VCFEast for #retrocomputing hijinks this weekend. Ask me for a @bloopmuseum.bsky.social flyer and dump your old junk that goes bleep bloop on me to take back to the #Museum!
#tech #technology #vintage #retro #vcf
the front doors of the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum. It has a rustic lodge aesthetic.
A skirted table setup with a Bloop museum poster, four CRT televisions with video games, VHS / laser discs, and flyers.
Amyone out there in #Washington #PA? Today we're at the #Pennsylvania #Trolley #Museum's #vintage #tech #fest promoting Bloop!
#retro #hashtagcity
maybe we'll have to try this at bloop!
A cartoonish 3D render of an evil robot is being projected onto a wall between two stereo speakers amongst some arcade stars-and-wavy-lines carpet, game consoles, arcade machines, and chairs.
Yo #Pittsburgh! Bloop is streaming @revision-party.bsky.social live this weekend! Drop by and hit the doorbell anytime 9a~6p today, Saturday, or Sunday to discover the #demoscene at the official US watch party! You can even vote on entries - we've got the codes!
#PGH #events #easter #PA #tech #art
eager to show you what's new!
A packing label that reads "Oops! All arcade PCBs."
It's been 10 months since we bought our new building. I'm at the bitter end of getting the #Museum stuff out of Baltimore, and just a little bit loopy.
we prefer this local bus
A posted real estate sign has been replaced with a sign board that says, "Book a tour today - It's free!" Also the Bloop Museum logo and website, bloopmuseum.com
Ominous #Pittsburgh storms loom, but we are still open for business today until 6pm. It's Walk-in Wednesday at the #Museum!
A picture of a Bentley Compuvision, its box, and its manual.
You're not getting 32 *or* 64 bits, the Bentley is a Pong 😉
In the hunt for a good 386 to put on the time line, we found some #demoscene goodness!
#retrocomputing #msdos #pc #gaming #museum #tech #pittsburgh #pgh
A screenshot where Google complains that it can't confirm that the Museum is an adult, and has enabled several safety features that keep kids safe on the Internet.
That's okay Google, we can't confirm *you're* an adult either.
A screenshot of Google Maps displaying a pin for "Frankstown Rd at #12245 (Bloop Museum)".
Apparently editing your place on google maps from a government building to a museum gets your business account suspended 😅
Anyway, Bloop is hard at work on getting our places in order so it's easier to find us, and recently, PRT renamed our bus stop to include us! Victory!
It's a big room with computers and games, fairly well organized, with some flamboyantly tableclothed tables, red and blue pixelated designs, a big "room-size" univac in the middle, and more!
Our International (up/left) and Arts&Culture (down/right) corners are still being worked on, but they were deemed good enough to open and there's still a lot to see and talk about in those areas. Come take a closer look!
It's our Japan room! Densely populated because I need more shelves, there's Sharp, Fujitsu, NEC, MSX, Nintendo vs Sega, and more obscure stuff to see. I went for a wood-and-white theme, just like those Japanese house pictures you see.
It's a 1982 living room! With the exception of the cheap pacman rug I ordered, I think we hit the mark on this one. Everyone had that brown/orange plaid 80s couch, console TV, Atari 2600, and computer hutch. You can also see a Wurlitzer jukebox sneaking into the bottom of the photo.
Bloop Museum version 0.7 is now OPEN!
Today is "Walk-in Wednesday" and the first day that we're open all day from 10am to 6pm. Swing on by, #PennHills and #PGH folks! Time to show you all the cool stuff we're working on.
A woman in a jacket covered in patches for metal bands, painting a bathroom door with a paint roller. The door was the color of expired Pepto Bismol, and will soon be a maroon shade
A man in a beige shirt has painted the other bathroom door with the same shade of maroon paint and is now working on the trim with a paintbrush
Code clearance bonanza! Bloop version 0.7 is about ready to go. The #museum had a few problem areas that we are cleaning up over the course of the next month to get to 1.0. In the meantime, we're going to try and pass code. #PGH #Pittsburgh #tech
be careful not to list that wireless controller next to the games - that's a real rare one!
waiting to purchase - check your ebay messages 😅
I'm fairly convinced at this point that the secret to longevity is a nice hot shower. In 2024, I went to @revision-party.bsky.social for one and wrote a song about it...
inversephase.bandcamp.com/track/hubsch...
Inspired by leinad, it's also a @bloopmuseum.bsky.social shill.
#demoscene
nice! truly bummed that the SMS(1) is an inch or two too wide for a cube
Bloop is just shy of $100 from $300K all time donations!
Be the one to push us past that mark:
givebutter.com/bloopholiday
#museum #museums #PGH #pittsburgh #tech #technology #retrocomputing #retrogaming
A view out Bloop's front door. Slightly more snow has been removed from our last post.
A view from the previous photo to the street. One vehicle can enter the parking lot. We are hoping that vehicle will be the mail carrier and our other couriers.
A view up the hill to the street from our other parking lot. Again, there is basically room for one car to go up or down the hill: Us.
YOU ARE IN A TWISTY MAZE OF PASSAGEWAYS, ALL DIFFERENT
perspective view into our snow shoveling path from our front door, but we've barely started The snow is over a foot deep.
YOU ARE IN A MAZE OF TWISTY LITTLE PASSAGES, ALL ALIKE.
A snowy scene of the street in front of the museum, which is barely visible. A lamp post, tree, and sign for the bus stop are in the foreground. Another parking lot is in the background.
Weather report from the museum
so glad you're archiving all this - let's build a display for some of the stuff you've preserved or include some of it at bloop!
Doing any hax for it? 👀
We have three language variants you can play with at Bloop!
Yeah, Selectavision was a name for a whole line of RCA products. For example, we have a selectavision VHS VCR. But people tend to remember the CED discs the most, so that's often a nickname for them.
The RCA format is called CED, and they're vinyl records that aren't writable. Laservision is Philips/Pioneer/MCA, also known as Laserdisc, Laser videodisc, CD-Video (CDV), and Discovision.
For pro/commercial markets, there are disc recorders for both.
Badge 2000 for Games Done Quick screenshot!
Shout-outs to @gamesdonequick.com which is already underway. Not a low badge number but still a cool one!
Brendan's doing a late night #AGDQ2026 panel about how he ended up running #MAGFest back in the day and then Bloop #Museum, and doing Q&A - come on by Friday night at 10PM!
#Pittsburgh #PGH
Just wanted to comment and say I'm truly honored by everyone who has supported this year - our newsletters and posts make this look like we have this all planned out - and while there is definitely a plan, this has been a very difficult move. Thanks for hanging with us and sharing our news!
