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If you're in Seattle, then join Ben Hanson and kelsey lewin on Sunday, October 22nd at 7pm at Petoskey's! We're celebrating MinnMax's 4th anniversary with a big community meetup. We hope to see you there, bring a friend.
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Gosh it’s only been like 40 minutes, but thank you so much to everyone who has reached out already or said something kind. I might not get around to responding to everything today but I’m reading everything and so so appreciative — it’s making today much less difficult ❤️

self promotion is cool and all but have you ever heard of mom promotion?

my mom has been working really hard on her charity stream cooking competition and you should go check it out

twitch.tv/danaskitchen

from the credits in the Godzilla Destroy All Monsters Melee manual comes one of video game history’s greatest mysteries:

Who *is* Mr. Soop?

We’re still cleaning up from the flood a little here but the International District store will be open again tomorrow normal hours! Thank you for your patience! 🌊

Our international District location will be closed today due to a flood that happened overnight.

We’ll keep you updated on when we’re able to reopen this location.

University District and Capitol Hill stores are open regular hours today.

‼️STORE UPDATE:‼️ this week we begin transitioning to a new point of sale system at all three stores.

The Capitol Hill location will be closed tomorrow, Monday the 24th, for this project.

We appreciate your patience during this time while we navigate the transition!

Andy’s first book is one of the most comprehensive and impressive deep dives I’ve seen. If you’re at all curious about Nintendo’s merchandising history, I recommend picking it up!

(NSFW) why you teach your employees to check the disc condition before handing the game to a customer

Hearing Steve Inskeep on NPR read the name of the organization I started out loud was kinda surreal, and it was made even weirder by hearing Phil Salvador 30 seconds later talking about Illusion of Gaia npr.org/2023/07/17/118…

not to be lost in all of the news today: my first video game credit is mf’ing Plumbers Don’t Wear Ties

We could NOT have done this study without the thankless work of the MobyGames community, it was absolutely vital.

Jirard and team leapt into action like, *a week* before this study came out to make this happen. I still can’t wrap my head around it.

There has been some really strong coverage of the Video Game History Foundation study in the last 24 hours. This one does a great job of explaining why we’re forced to care about availability in the commercial market, and why it doesn’t have to be that way.

This is important: We didn't just do our game availability study to get some depressing numbers. We did this to support game preservation in libraries and archives.

Hear us talk with with a bonafide copyright lawyer about why this matters!