Daily videos from my YouTube channel The Blocky Dad, and the occasional post from my free Substack, The Antediluvian Gamer.
Joined February 2026
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Feb 13
Become a Blockhead by subscribing to my YouTube channel for daily retro gaming highlights, from the intimacy of my game closet. And stay blocky! youtube.com/@blockydad80?si=… #Atari #Intellivision #Odyssey2 #Atari8bit #NES #TG16
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Jun 12
Decided to sell my NES collection, which was less important to me than all my 2nd gen stuff, to kill three birds with one stone:
1. Pay off a small debt
2. Buy an N8 Pro from @krikzz
3. Buy one of these beautiful creatures:
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Jun 12
#3 hasn't happened yet, currently talking with a guy who restores these as a hobby and will likely be able to pull the trigger on one in the next week. Soon! 👀
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Jun 12
It's not even close.
Jun 12
QOTD
Who is your favorite U.S Men's soccer player of all-time?
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Jun 10
Once or twice per day 😂
Jun 10
As a Gen Xer, how many times have you started typing a reply to a post, gotten halfway through, and then realized you just don’t care enough to finish it?
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Jun 10
This one, because it's actually still here: spacejam.com/1996/
Anyone who surfed the early web between 1995-2009, what’s the one website you still think about?
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Jun 10
Wednesday Short: #SolomonsKey, an addicting action/puzzler with a steep difficulty curve on the #NES! youtube.com/shorts/auFNwaS4H…
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Jun 10
Conversational Gaming! This time, talking through/reminiscing about #Galaga: Demons of Death, an arcade port that figured prominently in my childhood. youtu.be/ZhRapPy0n-k #NES
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Jun 9
Game of the Day: #DonkeyKongJr for the #NES, one of my all time favorite arcade ports! youtu.be/QPKjKFoEoFs
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Jun 9
Jack Sikma
Jun 9
Besides Kevin Durant, Shawn Kemp and Gary Payton, name a Super Sonic…
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Jun 9
Appreciating and enjoying what predates you is what distinguishes the nobles from the barbarians.
Jun 9
the problem with having tastes older than yourself when you were born in 1990 is that your tastes are about as old as non-arcade computer and console games themselves
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Jun 9
Probably revealing some ignorance about the economics, but it's intriguing to me that working #SegaGenesis and #PS1 consoles are so affordable. Neither are high on my list list to acquire, but sometimes I come close to just doing it because they're so obtainable. 🤔
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Jun 7
Rounding out #MOTU weekend, we've saved the worst for last: It's the abismal 1983 #Atari version of Masters of the Universe, from Mattel's M Network! youtu.be/JXlp5jt_6Q0 #HeMan
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Jun 6
🚨BONUS VIDEO🚨
The Masters of the Universe game lost to the North American gaming crash! youtube.com/shorts/3ngOYV8ua… #MOTU #HeMan #ColecoVision
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Jun 6
My "For You" feed is essentially 70% bots ripping off other people's viral tweets, being replied to by more bots who are ripping off each other's replies.
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