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Senior AI Reporter, Ars Technica. Tech Historian. Bylines Fast Company / The Atlantic / Retronauts. http://www.benjedwards.com Founder http://Vintagecomputing.com
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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · Nov 8
Someone suggested I start a retro tech blog—I already did in 2005! 😁 www.vintagecomputing.com

560+ more works: www.benjedwards.com/works.php

Culture of Tech podcast: www.thecultureoftech.com

Retro works for HTG: www.howtogeek.com/826448/best-...

MIT Press book: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204506...
Vintage Computing and Gaming
VC&G is a blog about computer, video game, and technology history founded in 2005 and run by Benj Edwards.
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It’s the day after Christmas, and you know what that means: It’s Valentine’s Day!
December 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Attention new users! I've made a starter pack of Japanese game devs, something a lot of folks miss from Twitter. Please flow and re-share! And if I'm missing anybody let me know! go.bsky.app/5R1tEtT
December 25, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Peugeot Quasar concept (1984)
December 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Ars Technica’s Top 20 video games of 2025 arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...
Ars Technica’s Top 20 video games of 2025
A mix of expected sequels and out-of-nowhere indie gems made 2025 a joy.
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December 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Hot Christmas in the US. Record broken by ~3°C, over 20°C above normal in the center of the country.
weatherprof.bsky.social Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 1d
Astonishing feat!
US will break its record for the warmest Christmas by ~5°F! That’s remarkable.
Anomalies are up to +40°F in the nation’s middle and as you can see the US has the warmest air - relative to average - in the World!
H/T to @BenNollWeather
December 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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On a retail display, Christmas stockings with letters on them are arraigned to spell out WELCOME TO BONER LAND.
December 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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A Rorschach ink blot test. Most people see a moth or their mother’s face in the black stain. You see, and quite clearly, the silhouette of a couple holding hands and walking. The doctor presses you. Tell me more about this couple, he asks, his fingers steepled under his chin. You tell the doctor that the figure in front is an artist and the other is a spy, posing as an art dealer. He’s using her, you say. The doctor nods and says, Fascinating.
December 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Parents Get Up Early To Place Santa Droppings Around Living Room To Convince Children He Visited https://theonion.com/parents-get-up-early-to-place-santa-droppings-around-li-1849919836/
Parents Get Up Early To Place Santa Droppings Around Living Room To Convince Children He Visited
December 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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I got my 15 year old daughter a record player and gave her my mom’s Beatles LPs and its suddenly the best Christmas ever
December 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Dudes Rock
gamesradar▲ SUBSCRIBE Q Modder who first put Thomas the Tank Engine into Skyrim flips the bird at the lawyers, does it again in Morrowind: "| fundamentally do not view toy company CEOs or media CEOs as people" News By Dustin Bailey published 23 hours ago
December 24, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Merry Christmas! If you'd like to spend 45 minutes celebrating video game history with me, we're about to debut The Untold Story of the Nintendo Entertainment System. I worked on his ALL YEAR, and I genuinely think it will reshape how we all think about the system. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJvp...
The Untold Story of the Nintendo Entertainment System
YouTube video by The Video Game History Foundation
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December 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Merry Christmas, bicycle friends!
Antique postcard featuring an illustration of Santa riding a penny farthing bicycle with reindeer following. Santa is holding a holly branch in one hand. There a rabbit in the lower right. Snow is on the ground. It says, Merry Christmas “ at the bottom. Happy holidays to all using text readers!
December 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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December 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Oh man I just accidentally looked up reviews for Ernest Saves Christmas and discovered it isn't a universally-beloved Christmas classic among critics...what a terrible Xmas present

What is wrong with people 😂 It's a masterpiece
December 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Testing a new fullscreen mode for Card Miner by the Xmas tree

Play the test version here: www.bxfoundry.com/cardminer/in...
December 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Merry Christmas!
Dreamcast Santa on jet pack
December 25, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Looking for something retro to play this Christmas?

Check out “The Ghost of Christmas Games Past,” my classic overview of 12 interesting Xmas games from 1984-1999 on VC&G

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Santa’s Xmas Caper screenshot
December 24, 2024 at 8:56 PM
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The family TRS-80 44 years ago, running a sadly illegible Christmas greeting program I wrote to impress my grandmother.
TRS-80 Model III next to Christmas tree
December 25, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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A desktop PC circa 1993. A monitor sits on the beige computer housing, a full keyboard in front. The green light of the floppy drive beckons you. Time to visit the Valley of the Sparrows. “Return to Zork” awaits you.
December 25, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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What’s one toy that never appeared under the tree, but you’d gladly embrace now?

ROM, please!
December 24, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Just imagine if Disney owned Santa Claus. Christmas would turn into a secular, over-commercialized nightmare
December 20, 2023 at 1:33 AM
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Merry Batman Returns for Super NES
Screenshot of "Batman Returns for Super NES" with a Christmas tree in the background
December 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Have yourself
a tiny little Christmas,
Very hard to see

Hang a shing star
Upon the smallest treeeee
December 5, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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Still up for Xmas eve!
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Can someone else jump on this Christmas Roll-Up multiplayer server in their desktop browser and let me know of you can see me talking to you?

I'm trying to get it ready for my kids to play with their friends. You win by rolling up the Xmas tree :)

www.bxfoundry.com/xmasmulti/
December 25, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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Nothing says Holidays like an entire squad of colorful rodents holding a secret gathering in a bone-filled crypt.
The Rat King is thoroughly pleased. Scheming. Unbothered. Flourishing.
The Nutcracker is nowhere to be found.
(Rat King sprite request made today on twitch stream!)
#pixelart
A skeleton-filled crypt, with skulls and bones going up to the dark ceiling. Many small rodents of various colors are holding a gathering. They are eagerly waiting for the next batch of orders from the giant, three-headed, ruff-wearing, crown-holding Rat King.
December 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM