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Just added to the collection: a Philips in2iT! This is an unreleased handheld device for girls, from 1996. Only an estimated 100-1000 units were made, and were sold internally after the cancellation. Learn more: computinghistory.org.uk/det/66854/Phil…

All in one integrated keyboard. 1996. kazuokawasaki.jp/kkk/2_works3.p…

#BlackHistory matters. As the very right to teach about racial justice is under attack, it's critical that we support Black educational institutions and civil rights projects. #BHM Please donate and share to help the National The National Black Doll Museum reopen: LaunchGood.com/Blackdolls

elden ring is such a pretty game honestly

If you're a games researcher, historian, student, or creator who has used resources from the FEMICOM 🎀 Girls' game and toy preservation collection, I'd love to know what kind of content has been most useful to you (interviews, scanlations, etc.).

This style of "floating puffball" animated GIF is called "kaoani" (顔アニ, animated face) and was popular on websites in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Plain kaoani GIF templates allowed creators to use pixel art software to customize looks and expressions frame-by-frame.

✨Putting out into the universe right now that my dream job would be lead producer on a Barbie MMORPG✨

A year-long search for a lost video game pioneer comes to a happy conclusion today. It is our honor and privilege to introduce you to Van Mai, the innovator who brought female representation to home video games 40 years ago. gamehistory.org/wabbit/

Are there any preservationists working on recording audio from talking board games and similar toys (e.g., Mall Madness, Talking Battleship )? Or is that... uh... gonna be a task for Someday-Me? (RTs welcomed!)

Are you my 5 star? 💖✨

c. 1994, SEGA made an advertisement for the Genesis targeting tween girls. It never aired. Watching the ad is like a portal into an alternate history.

Computer Designs for Counted Cross Stitch, 1983

The year was 2003, and *you* were busy as a me/you/site hostess adding patches from your latest affies to the qbee quilt in your toybox. If you understood this sentence (or want to), check out my ongoing web-based installation at the welcometomyhomepage.net residency this month!

The Casio Loopy has a register which triggers this jaunty music. I'm not sure if any of the games use it. The music data appears to be stored inside the sound ASIC.

The Casio Loopy remains one of the most intriguing mysteries in retrogaming, in part because the 90s-era console has never been emulated. But thanks to the efforts of folks like Phil Bennett, that is finally starting to change. femicom.org/research/emula…

I might have made a Casio Loopy Eurorack module... youtube.com/watch?v=0D3cou…