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My family and I turned my collection of vintage video games into a hands-on pop-up museum!

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A fun recent find: a classic Nintendo Game Boy in an original travel case, loaded with games!

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This NES is clearly better now

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The Retro Roadshow at the Bay Area Maker Faire 2023!

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The Retro Roadshow & Golden Gate University Present: Failure is Just the Beginning

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Unboxing the Apple III: Unpacking Apple's $100,000,000 Mistake

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The Retro Roadshow + The Computer History Museum: TechFest!

The Retro Roadshow was delighted to partner with the Computer History Museum for their amazing TechFest event on July 27th, 2024! We presented a variety of noteworthy classing gaming consoles, each featuring games starring Nintendo’s iconic Mario character. The event was a huge success, and attendees enjoyed learning about video game history while getting hands-on time with some of the most fun and influential games in history. We have several events coming up around the Bay Area, so please check our website or social media for more details - we hope to see you soon!
@ComputerHistory #gaming #retrogaming #nintendo #mario #atari #colecovision #intellivision #nes #snes #n64 #gamecube #fun #sfbayarea #bayarea #mountainview
Music by Eric Matyas - www.soundimage.org

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My family and I turned my collection of vintage video games into a hands-on pop-up museum!

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My family and I turned my collection of vintage video games into a hands-on pop-up museum!

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My family and I turned my collection of vintage video games into a hands-on pop-up museum, and yesterday we hosted a special exhibition of Nintendo games ranging from the 1970s through early 2000s. It was a blast! I’ve been collecting and restoring vintage video games and computers since I was a kid, but keeping a bunch of awesome stuff in storage wasn’t much fun. With full support from my wife...

A fun recent find: a classic Nintendo Game Boy in an original travel case, loaded with games!

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A fun recent find: a classic Nintendo Game Boy in an original travel case, loaded with games!

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I spotted this Game Boy case under a pile of mostly broken toys spread across a tarp at a local swap meet recently. I would've been super psyched just to find the case, so you can imagine my delight when I popped it open and discovered a trove of great games and a DMG-01 in beautiful condition waiting inside. I made an offer, the seller countered with a slightly-higher-but-still-great price, an...

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This NES is clearly better now

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I picked up this used-and-abused NES years ago at a yard sale, since it was part of a bundle with some games I wanted. Its case was very yellowed, and it had other problems too - the power board was flaky, the onscreen image would sometimes go all distorted, and 9/10 times it wouldn’t load a game due to a broken 72-pin cartridge connector. I’ve had it stashed away for ages, thinking that it wou...

The Retro Roadshow at the Bay Area Maker Faire 2023!

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The Retro Roadshow at the Bay Area Maker Faire 2023!

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The Retro Roadshow was delighted to be at the Bay Area Maker Faire 2023! We set up an interactive pop-up museum, in which visitors could get hands-on and experience nearly 50 years of games starring Nintendo's iconic Mario character. Our visitors had a ton of fun while learning about the evolution of video game technology, design and art, and we also shared about how we work to rescue, preserve...

The Retro Roadshow & Golden Gate University Present: Failure is Just the Beginning

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The Retro Roadshow & Golden Gate University Present: Failure is Just the Beginning

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On June 7th, 2023, Huxley & Sarai Dunsany partnered with Golden Gate University to present "Failure Is Just The Beginning: Exploring the most influential failures, flops and disasters from tech history." During this presentation, we explored the often-overlooked stories of four highly-influential companies and products, which have largely been dismissed as failures. Topics discussed and in-pers...

Unboxing the Apple III: Unpacking Apple's $100,000,000 Mistake

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Unboxing the Apple III: Unpacking Apple's $100,000,000 Mistake

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The Retro Roadshow recently received an incredible treasure: three large boxes of Apple III materials! The Apple III was a new computing platform launched by Apple in 1980 in an ill-fated attempt to appeal to business customers. Despite being incredibly powerful and innovative for the time, overheating problems and other issues ultimately doomed the system, which was discontinued just a few yea...

First test of an adorably-tiny Sony Professional CRT!

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First test of an adorably-tiny Sony Professional CRT!

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Follow along as we 'unbag' a beautiful Sony PVM-8045Q CRT - a tiny professional video monitor from 2003! A few links mentioned in the video: Mega Cat Studios (not "MadCatz" as I mistakenly said!) 240p Test Suite for SNES: megacatstudios.com/collections/16-bit/products/240p-test-suite-snes Our previous video covering degaussing: ua-cam.com/video/dEhhC4DaJzE/v-deo.html #gaming #gamingvideos #tech...

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A garbage truck exploded on my car!

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So this is pretty dang random: I jumped in my car to pick my son up from school and noticed that my windshield was really gunky and hard to see through. I pulled up the “parking mode” videos from my dashcam and discovered… this

Apple IIe Disk II drive with problems after repair + restoration

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Apple IIe Disk II drive with problems after repair + restoration

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Trying to bring this Disk II back to life, but it's behaving very strangely: spinning non-stop with or without a disk inserted, and not even attempting to read a known-good boot disk. Tips and suggestions welcome!

First test of my Apple IIe after repairing the power supply! WILL IT BLOW UP??

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First test of my Apple IIe after repairing the power supply! WILL IT BLOW UP??

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Watch along as I test my newly-recapped Apple IIe for the first time! Huge thanks and shout-out to Chris Torrence for his fantastic video covering how to test an Apple II power supply - I would've been lost without this: ua-cam.com/video/tNIjMOF5sx4/v-deo.html Also, here's the link to Console5, who sell great pre-sorted bundles of replacement capacitors for vintage computers and game consoles: ...

Fixing A Tiny Sony RetroGaming TV... With An Electromagnet!

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Fixing A Tiny Sony RetroGaming TV... With An Electromagnet!

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Watch as I attempt to repair this adorably-tiny Sony "KV-8AD10" CRT television with a degaussing coil, hopefully without burning my home down! Here's the degaussing coil I purchased (this is not a sponsored video, I bought this): www.arcadepartsandrepair.com/store/tools-supplies/tools/crt-13-degaussing-coil/ I hope other folks in the #Gaming / #RetroGaming / #RetroComputing #SNES / #Nintendo co...

Building on the Shoulders of Failure: The Forgotten Victories of Tech’s Biggest Flops

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Building on the Shoulders of Failure: The Forgotten Victories of Tech’s Biggest Flops

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On August 13 2021, Huxley Dunsany and The Retro Roadshow partnered with Golden Gate University's "Innovation In Practice" series, to explore four "failures" in tech history which were actually forgotten or misunderstood successes. During this presentation, we explored: - A charismatic CEO who couldn’t resist bragging about upcoming products and inadvertently destroyed his own company, leading t...

Unboxing a forgotten trove of Star Trek collectables!

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Unboxing a forgotten trove of Star Trek collectables!

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I purchased a large container overflowing with vintage Star Trek collectables - follow along as I unbox this incredible collection! #StarTrek #Collection #Collectables