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The Bloop Museum
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We're a 501(c)(3) non-profit electronic entertainment museum! Expect games, computers, interesting media, and tech gadgets. You can see, hold, and a lot of the time, power on a lot of items in our inventory!

http://bloopmuseum.org/
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Ripley from the movie Alien in a "ready to fight" stance; her pulse rifle has suspiciously been replaced by an Amstrad CPC 464
October 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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It's about to get lit ... "lit"erally!

Puns aside, this three-digit number of T8 LED bulbs will drop Bloop's lighting costs by 80~85%!
4 big boxes full of LED lighting tubes in the cargo area of a hatchback car.
October 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Us! @inversephase.bsky.social even has a white bally:
A Bally Computer System in white with box, controllers resting on top of the smoked plastic that covers the game storage area. It sits on a nice woodgrain table, and racks of LPs are in the background.
October 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Last day of PGX! Come by and see us at #Pittsburgh #Gaming Expo in Monroeville, it's been a great weekend meeting folks!

#PGH #PGX2025
A view down a PGX vendor aisle, with the Bloop booth on the right.
October 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Just a quick snapshot out of the back window at the museum.

What do you think, should we mount a camera to capture the sunsets here?

#Pittsburgh #PGH #PennHills #PA #sky
a pretty sunset, with a few trees and hills in the horizon. shades of pink, purple, and orange.
September 29, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Let's hear it for our volunteers who have been vacuuming and @nocturnalplant.bsky.social who has been running the rug doctor for nearly two days on the second floor. We're not realistically opening up there for two years... we just really really really want the new #museum building to be clean!
A view of a Bissell Green Machine, and you can see half of a cleaned floor and half of a not-cleaned floor.
September 27, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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the saga of moving the #univac 418 continues...

#retrocomputing #mainframemonday #retrocomputer #mainframe #forklift #museum #computers #computing #technology #tech
a palletized univac 418, teletype desk on its right, as seen from the front panel, in a parking lot. a forklift is parked to the right of the whole ordeal.
September 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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We're so busy packing trucks, moving, and unpacking, that we don't have time for an email update quite yet - but here's a shot of the most recent truck where we loaded up a bunch of fixtures from a closed-down Joann. Hope this will hold you over!
the back of a front-to-back full 26' u-haul with furniture and network equipment
September 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Our input exhibit has come down, and is packed up for the move to #Pittsburgh!
Bloop's input device exhibit, featuring a variety of interesting input devices (and one output device - a braille terminal)
August 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Even though we have a lot more to do, clean, paint, etc, I'm excited to say that we finally got the green light to enter and start moving in about two weeks ago. To boot, when we got the OK, we already had two truckloads basically ready to go. What size truckload? So glad you asked... [image of a truck in a parking lot with a lot of pallets in front of it.] Yep, a 53 foot dry van. And that's 25 pallets in front of it. We filled it to the brim with computers, games, and tech to go in the museum. But here's where it gets real - we're going to be able to fill three of these, maybe four. We delivered the second one yesterday; here's a picture of Brendan, who is forklift-certified, getting pallets off of a truck. I don't know why I'm talking about myself in the third person, probably something to do with the serious look on my face here: [image of Brendan carefully driving a forklift]
August 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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cost cutting measures are getting out of control, y'all
a listing for a heavy-duty welded shelf with the entire left side missing
August 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Sights from Tekko this past weekend
more cute plushies than you can shake a stick at.
July 23, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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We met a TON of awesome people at our first Tekko! If you talked to us at a panel, in the hallways, or at our table, please reach out!
The Bloop table at Tekko. A banner with our logo hangs from the front. A box labeled "unboxing today@5pm" and a placard in front of it with basics about our new building and a QR are on the left. Then some flyers and chiptune CDs in the center, followed by a Japanese Sega Pico and a Casio Loopy on the right. A handful of people are at the booth behind us and to the right to see/hold/pet kittens.
July 22, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Spotted at #Tekko, these dudes are supporting their Densha de Go conductor by acting out riding the train. いつもお世話になっております!

#Tekko2025 #Pittsburgh #PGH #Conventions #Cons
three dudes in front of a train simulator arcade game - densha de go!!
July 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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girl, same.
an electronic arts sega genesis cartridge with a "be a friend. rewind when you reach the end." blockbuster sticker on the back.
July 16, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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...and like that, the game exhibit is now packed and ready to move to Pittsburgh. 🚚

Thanks to our final tour groups today for checking it out before we tore it down!
An empty display case with 5 plastic totes on a handtruck in front of it and one on the floor. A lonely, empty display case with three unpopulated white pedestals beside it.
July 14, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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Bloop's longest-standing exhibit in our current space, the video game exhibit, is getting packed up for our move to Pittsburgh, where it will be expanded! Here's a look at it in all its glory 👾
A variety of 30 game systems and ephemera in a display case, with six boxes on top. A Sega Master System is running Zaxxon 3D on the left, and a Neo Geo is booting on the right-hand TV.
July 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Our supporter Evgeny donated an #𝘌𝘭𝘦𝘬𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘬𝘢 𝘉𝘒 (Электроника БК) 0010 computer from a parallel-dimension where the PDP-11 was sold as a general-purpose home #computer in #Russia. But actually, it's real! We're working to preserve more foreign tech at Bloop, so get in touch if you have anything!
A large CRT television connected to a russian computer displaying the title screen / menu for the game "Second" in red and green. The same computer and TV later at night, displaying "GAME OVER" (ИГРА ЗАКОНЧЕНА) in Russian, with a final score of 00110.
July 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Stay safe in the heat wave, y'all
"Weatherman said dress for the 90s" with the cast from Hackers
June 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Bloop has over 1600 software items and 150+ hardware items from Japan, and we show them to visitors on every tour. We're very interested in showing off more, and not just from Japan! Let us know if you can help in any way - we want to represent your region!
Bloop's MSX corner, featuring several machines and software placed about in the corner of an office cubicle. The Philips NMS8245 (left) is powered on and booting, connected to the monitor in the center. A boxed Atari 2800, the Japanese Atari 2600, and 3 boxed games. Photo by @amimoregore.com A Sega SG-1000 Mark III and SK-1100 keyboard on the left, and a Famicom with a Disk System and Family Basic and keyboard on the right. Ads, photos, and manuals are scattered about. A lovely orange-red Toshiba Blackstripe sits in the center. A travelling Japanese Sega Pico exhibit with several software titles about. Onscreen is a Hello Kitty game. Above the TV is a special hardware accessory for the Pico. Left is an indie game also on display.
June 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Our commitment to quality: We clean tar off your donation, or your money back!*

*Just kidding, nobody is paying us to clean tar and ash off of things, we just do it anyway
paper towel covered with gunk from a PC big box game. more gunk from the same pc big box game even more paper towel with gunk.... last but not least: gunk! on a paper towel!
June 4, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Wanna know what 700 lbs of floppy disks looks like? Once we get to the new location, we're archiving these!
Ten 27 gallon black totes with yellow lids in two stacks of five. They are on a plastic blue pallet in a warehouse.
June 1, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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a cropped pixelated duck (?) face from a wheeled flying duck vehicle featured in wanwan aijou monogatari. it seems... afraid.
April 25, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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ah yes, one of our most treasured books in the museum (NOT)
a collection of wikipedia articles being sold in a book for €35 on ebay. report stuff like this if you ever see it.
April 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Our last move (into our current space) began with some arcade machines moving from one side of Baltimore to the other. Last night we palletized some of our gear in preparation for the move to Pittsburgh. Thanks to @matt.godbolt.org and @nocturnalplant.bsky.social for their invaluable assistance!
A collection of three pallets on a top rack, one containing two arcade machines, one containing a pokemon snap station and an exercise rower, and one containing a 4-player konami cabinet (eg. simpsons) and part of a nintendo cart.
March 7, 2025 at 7:33 PM