Andrew Czudak
@kazoodac.bsky.social
Professional mograph animator and creative generalist. Amateur game preservationist. Jack of all trades, master of none. As easily amused as I am distracted. Occasionally interesting. Cleaning my Nintendo collection on Twitch. he/him
www.andrewczudak.com
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I need more commercials like this in my life.
35 years ago today, Nintendo released the Super Famicom in Japan, alongside F-Zero, PilotWings, and most notably: Super Mario World! The impact of Nintendo's 16-bit system cannot be overstated, and its enormous software lineup contains some of the greatest games ever made. Which is your favorite?
November 21, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I need more commercials like this in my life.
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Their goal is not complicated: This is a deliberate strategy to defund and privatize public education in America.
This is moving us in exactly the wrong direction.
I call on the Department of Education to immediately reverse course and do its job: strengthen our public schools, not dismantle them.
This is moving us in exactly the wrong direction.
I call on the Department of Education to immediately reverse course and do its job: strengthen our public schools, not dismantle them.
Exclusive: The Education Department plans to move multiple parts of the agency to other federal departments, an unprecedented effort to dismantle an agency created by Congress to ensure all Americans have equal access to educational opportunity.
Trump administration to announce dismantling of much of Education Dept.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order in March seeking to close the department, but only Congress has the power to do that.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Their goal is not complicated: This is a deliberate strategy to defund and privatize public education in America.
This is moving us in exactly the wrong direction.
I call on the Department of Education to immediately reverse course and do its job: strengthen our public schools, not dismantle them.
This is moving us in exactly the wrong direction.
I call on the Department of Education to immediately reverse course and do its job: strengthen our public schools, not dismantle them.
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I wrote an obituary of celebrated game developer Rebecca Heineman for Ars Technica:
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
Celebrated game developer Rebecca Heineman dies at age 62
The gaming community mourns a beloved mentor and LGBTQ+ advocate with a storied career.
arstechnica.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I wrote an obituary of celebrated game developer Rebecca Heineman for Ars Technica:
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
I spent SO much time playing these games on the GCN back in the day, especially in multiplayer. Would love to see a remake or remaster of both Nightfire and Everything or Nothing!
Happy 23rd birthday to 007: Nightfire! EA's third entry in the #JamesBond video game franchise made excellent use of Pierce Brosnan's likeness, but it wouldn't be until Everything or Nothing that they got his voice to go along with it!
November 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I spent SO much time playing these games on the GCN back in the day, especially in multiplayer. Would love to see a remake or remaster of both Nightfire and Everything or Nothing!
I know nostalgia plays a major part in this, but god damn do I love the GameCube, and I still miss that controller layout! Those 1.4GB mini DVDs were probably a mistake though!
Happy 24th birthday to the Nintendo Gamecube! We love getting excuses to share clips from one of the rarest items in our archive: watch as Nintendo NTD Software Engineer John Cho debuts the system to NOA employees for the first time! What was your first impression of the funky purple console?
November 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I know nostalgia plays a major part in this, but god damn do I love the GameCube, and I still miss that controller layout! Those 1.4GB mini DVDs were probably a mistake though!
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Rebecca Heineman is a goddamn legend among women. She did SO much great stuff, from her impossible game ports, to tirelessly keeping the mac gaming scene alive, to making sure that the Kinect works when you're wearing a skirt, to making the worst version of DOOM kinda glorious in its own way.
My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away.
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Rebecca Heineman - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Rebecca Heineman is a goddamn legend among women. She did SO much great stuff, from her impossible game ports, to tirelessly keeping the mac gaming scene alive, to making sure that the Kinect works when you're wearing a skirt, to making the worst version of DOOM kinda glorious in its own way.
It really is incredible how good this game and its sequel looked (and still look)
EA's Star Wars: Battlefront turns 10 years old, today! Even a decade later, the game stands out as one of the most authentic-looking #StarWars experiences in any video game, with a level of fidelity and screen-accuracy that few other studios have been able to match! Maybe DICE was using the Force?
November 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
It really is incredible how good this game and its sequel looked (and still look)
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Rebecca Heineman is a legend. If you’re playing video games right now then the work she has done has impacted you.
Rebecca Heineman doesn't have much time left. If you can, please donate for her and her family to make end of life arrangements.
One last kindness we can offer for a legend of the games industry and loud and proud trans woman:
www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...
One last kindness we can offer for a legend of the games industry and loud and proud trans woman:
www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...
Donate to Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer, organized by Rebecca Heineman
I’m Rebecca Ann Heineman. The very first video game champion, creat… Rebecca Heineman needs your support for Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer
www.gofundme.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Rebecca Heineman is a legend. If you’re playing video games right now then the work she has done has impacted you.
Retro Studio’s concept art for the Metroid Prime series is SO DAMNED COOL. I’m super pumped for MP4, thinking I might replay Prime 3 in anticipation.
This preview was found on the Metroid Prime 2: Echoes Bonus Disc that was bundled with later releases of the original Metroid Prime for the GameCube! Along with a playable demo, it also contains a series chronicle, another trailer, and a concept art gallery video!
November 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Retro Studio’s concept art for the Metroid Prime series is SO DAMNED COOL. I’m super pumped for MP4, thinking I might replay Prime 3 in anticipation.
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We've added 100 new CDs to our collection of press CDs from GamePro magazine, with thousands of pieces of game art, screenshots, and more
So, what's the GamePro press CD collection? We put together an explainer
So, what's the GamePro press CD collection? We put together an explainer
The art of GamePro | VGHF Library Highlights
YouTube video by The Video Game History Foundation
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November 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
We've added 100 new CDs to our collection of press CDs from GamePro magazine, with thousands of pieces of game art, screenshots, and more
So, what's the GamePro press CD collection? We put together an explainer
So, what's the GamePro press CD collection? We put together an explainer
I was first introduced to Mass Effect 1 in 2009, which was when I was sharing a dorm with college buddies and they introduced me to the world beyond my Nintendo Wii. Perfect timing too, because the game blew me away and then I barely had to wait long at all for the sequel!
Happy #N7Day, Mass Effect fans! We've got more ME1 content incoming later this month, but we'll kick things off with the Microsoft X05 reveal trailer from '05! @bioware.bsky.social had just released Jade Empire earlier that year, but was already working on something special for the upcoming Xbox 360
November 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I was first introduced to Mass Effect 1 in 2009, which was when I was sharing a dorm with college buddies and they introduced me to the world beyond my Nintendo Wii. Perfect timing too, because the game blew me away and then I barely had to wait long at all for the sequel!
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Last month at PRGE, we held a reunion panel with Nintendo employees who launched the NES. Hear from Bruce Lowry, Gail Tilden, and Lance Barr about how the scrappy staff at NOA defied all odds and released one of the most iconic game systems ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2WDfsiLiRA
November 5, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Last month at PRGE, we held a reunion panel with Nintendo employees who launched the NES. Hear from Bruce Lowry, Gail Tilden, and Lance Barr about how the scrappy staff at NOA defied all odds and released one of the most iconic game systems ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2WDfsiLiRA
Things feel a bit brighter this morning, and not just because of daylight savings.
November 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Things feel a bit brighter this morning, and not just because of daylight savings.
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Episode 2 of @camerabird.bsky.social's Preserving Play Docuseries is offically up on YouTube, and it features Hit Save's own @jonasrosland.bsky.social! Check it out! #gamepreservation
How The Community is Preserving Video Game History (Preserving Play: Hit Save!)
YouTube video by Camera Bird Productions
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November 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Episode 2 of @camerabird.bsky.social's Preserving Play Docuseries is offically up on YouTube, and it features Hit Save's own @jonasrosland.bsky.social! Check it out! #gamepreservation
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Hey everyone, here's a real simple way to disable "Super Resolution" on your channels:
• YouTube Studio
• Settings
• Channel
• Advanced settings
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance visual quality"
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance audio quality"
• YouTube Studio
• Settings
• Channel
• Advanced settings
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance visual quality"
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance audio quality"
October 29, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Hey everyone, here's a real simple way to disable "Super Resolution" on your channels:
• YouTube Studio
• Settings
• Channel
• Advanced settings
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance visual quality"
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance audio quality"
• YouTube Studio
• Settings
• Channel
• Advanced settings
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance visual quality"
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance audio quality"
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No, I don't want to your A.I. Customer Service bot to fail to solve my problem.
I want to talk to an actual person.
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I want to talk to an actual person.
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October 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
No, I don't want to your A.I. Customer Service bot to fail to solve my problem.
I want to talk to an actual person.
No, I don't want to your A.I. Customer Service bot to fail to solve my problem.
I want to talk to an actual person.
No, I don't want to your A.I. Customer Service bot to fail t-
I want to talk to an actual person.
No, I don't want to your A.I. Customer Service bot to fail to solve my problem.
I want to talk to an actual person.
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The early internet was a hell of a thing.
Notice the URL at the end? Thanks to @archive.org's #WaybackMachine, we know that the site looked like this around that time! Nintendo bought rights to the site in 2000, making it the official home of the series online. Zelda.com DID exist prior, but well... let's just say it was a different Zelda.😬
October 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The early internet was a hell of a thing.
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Let's go on a dig into this lovely little GameCube promo CD-ROM from 01/02, which has, right from the off, an adorable GC cube disc icon.
Dig thread, go! 🧵
Dig thread, go! 🧵
October 24, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Let's go on a dig into this lovely little GameCube promo CD-ROM from 01/02, which has, right from the off, an adorable GC cube disc icon.
Dig thread, go! 🧵
Dig thread, go! 🧵
Shiny and chrome on the Fury Road
October 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Shiny and chrome on the Fury Road
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To emphasize a point:
I AGREE that game developers are struggling, and *deserve* to be paid more and treated better.
I also understand that doing so would increase the price of some games.
I actually am *fine* with that, as long as we're getting *finished games* without predatory monetization.
I AGREE that game developers are struggling, and *deserve* to be paid more and treated better.
I also understand that doing so would increase the price of some games.
I actually am *fine* with that, as long as we're getting *finished games* without predatory monetization.
October 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
To emphasize a point:
I AGREE that game developers are struggling, and *deserve* to be paid more and treated better.
I also understand that doing so would increase the price of some games.
I actually am *fine* with that, as long as we're getting *finished games* without predatory monetization.
I AGREE that game developers are struggling, and *deserve* to be paid more and treated better.
I also understand that doing so would increase the price of some games.
I actually am *fine* with that, as long as we're getting *finished games* without predatory monetization.
All bets are off once Metroid Prime 4 comes out, but I think Blue Prince might be my game of the year so far.
October 20, 2025 at 3:39 AM
All bets are off once Metroid Prime 4 comes out, but I think Blue Prince might be my game of the year so far.
Man I remember EXACTLY where I was when I saw this teaser for the first time. College dorm room, sitting around with my roommates (who had introduced me to Fallout 3). All of us were instantly pumped. What a time to be alive.
Happy birthday to @obsidian.net's Fallout: New Vegas, which came out 15 years ago today! This teaser was the first look at FNV for many of us, and set the tone for one of the most interesting stories in the Fallout universe to date!
October 19, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Man I remember EXACTLY where I was when I saw this teaser for the first time. College dorm room, sitting around with my roommates (who had introduced me to Fallout 3). All of us were instantly pumped. What a time to be alive.
Really happy with how this video came out…even if I barely got it out in time for today’s anniversary! 😅
But wait, there's more! In addition to getting this tape out on our stream and in our archive, we partnered with game conservation expert @restoreandreplay.bsky.social to bring you professional commentary! How well do the old methods hold up, and what's the current wisdom? Watch to find out!
Repair Maintain Nintendo: Professional Commentary by Restore & Replay
YouTube video by Hit Save!
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October 19, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Really happy with how this video came out…even if I barely got it out in time for today’s anniversary! 😅
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On this day in 1985, the Nintendo Entertainment System was first released in the United States. That's right, the NES is a whopping 40 years old! For those still using and maintaining the original hardware, we have a special treat for you: A Nintendo Repair and Maintenance VHS tape from 1992!
October 19, 2025 at 12:16 AM
On this day in 1985, the Nintendo Entertainment System was first released in the United States. That's right, the NES is a whopping 40 years old! For those still using and maintaining the original hardware, we have a special treat for you: A Nintendo Repair and Maintenance VHS tape from 1992!