The Retro Roadshow

The Watsonville community turned out in style for our recent Retro Roadshow "Mario Through The Ages" event! Everyone had a great time learning and getting hands-on with our vintage consoles. Let us know if you'd like to see it at your local library, school, business, or other venue! #Gaming

We had a BLAST bringing Retro Roadshow's Console Chaos to the Sunnyvale Public Library! This show explores the 'console wars' of the late '70s through the '90s. This is becoming one of our most popular events - let us know if you'd like to see it at your local library, school, or business!  #BayArea

Me: "Huh, why has my lower back been super sore for days?" Also me: "Oh, I forgot to share that pic I took when we were packing out of our Retro Roadshow event in Alameda last weekend!" #Gaming

Hey @gruber.foo, have you seen this?! bryankeller.github.io/2026/04/08/p...

Sega Genesis & 32X playing "General Chaos" on an RGB-modded Sony KV13M. Pretty nice way to pass the time on a lazy Sunday! This game is an awesome mix of realtime strategy and cartoonish humor, but it rarely seems to get mentioned anymore. Definitely check it out if you can!

I hope you all have / find someone who looks at you like Kirk looks at the Enterprise 😍

Hey @actionretro.bsky.social - I'm having no luck accessing FrogFind at the moment. Is the issue on my end or is the frog on vacation this weekend?

Thanks to @willsmith.fun and @retroroadshow.org for a really cool look at the BeBox and BeOS, and a bit of a history lesson. www.pcworld.com/article/3057...

I had a chance to spend some time a super-rare BeBox thanks to the folks from the @retroroadshow.org. The BeBox represents a road not travelled for the Mac, this was the other company Apple could have bought, if they hadn’t bought NeXT and brought Steve Jobs back into the company.

Just watched this PC World video with Huxley from @retroroadshow.org showing the BeBox in action. I need to take my BeBox out soon. This shows the original dual 67MHz PPC model. I have the later dual 133Mhz model. Nice work Huxley! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OHk... #vintgecomputer #retrocomputer

Can't stop, and apparently won't stop?

I've been combining my love of Original Series Star Trek with my complete lack of taste, common sense, and Pixelmator skills. Enjoy? #StarTrek @startrek.bsky.social

It's very much a work in progress, but we're delighted to announce that we'll be exhibiting our new #Apple Lisa 2/10 at several Retro Roadshow events! It's almost impossible to get hands-on with these rare machines, and we really can't wait to share with you all soon

My fun project for the evening: repairing this trash-rescued KEC TV, and doing a total overhaul on this formerly-busted Nintendo GameCube. They look fantastic together! #gaming

User Interface Design peaked with the MacAddict Magazine CD-ROM interface in 1996. Everything prior was just building up to this, and everything afterwards was a mistake. BRING BACK THE “3D PYRAMIDS + HOVERING GLOBES WITH ORBITING PARTICLES” AESTHETIC YOU COWARDS

With the Apple Creator Studio announcement, this old post is even more relevant. Keynote is the overlooked jewel of Apple’s macOS apps - literally the best piece of software they’ve shipped in 25 years. Happy to see Keynote sharing the spotlight and getting some well-deserved love! @gruber.foo

From our family to all of yours ❤️❤️❤️ youtu.be/hMRQi7PMQE4?...

Yesterday was a BIG DAY for us: @marketplace.org aired a lovely segment about our Retro Roadshow! It feels incredible to be getting exposure and recognition like this. 2025 has been amazing, and we're making big plans for 2026 - we hope to see you all in person! www.marketplace.org/story/2025/1...

I was taught that a Chekhov's Gun is something that's mentioned at the start of a story to foreshadow something happening later on. But in 'Santa Baby', they mention a Chekov My Christmas List, and then it doesn't get mentioned again? Is Eartha Kitt just bad at storytelling?

This was so much fun to do! We hope you all enjoy watching as much as we enjoyed filming with Will and the PCWorld crew 🤩❤️

Thanks to Mtn. View Public Library, The Friends of Mtn. View Library & their devoted community for a successful "Console Chaos!" event! The positive feedback we received was truly humbling. Spread the word about the Retro Roadshow! www.RetroRoadshow.org

Go home, Goodwill - you’re drunk 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

20 years ago I was a huge fan and advocate for the gorgeous Mac app called Delicious Library. Sadly that app is dead now, and I'm baffled - what are people using today to catalog books and other physical media? @gruber.foo #macos

The Retro Roadshow is making our 3rd consecutive appearance at the Bay Area Maker Faire! Our exhibition this year is titled "Fly to the Future!" and features an incredible range of flying-themed games running on classic consoles and computers. We hope to see you there! https://youtu.be/MSkDVchVIfk

We had our whole 2025 Maker Faire lineup of vintage computers and gaming worked out weeks ago, but when news broke that Apple co-founder and all-around delightful human being Steve 'Woz' Wozniak would be in attendance we had to make a last-minute change: the Apple IIe is coming out to play! 

Big shout-out to Sean / Action Retro, who not only makes fantastic YouTube videos, but also now offers the ultimate shirt for my regular spelunking expeditions to our local electronics recycler! #EwasteConnoisseur @actionretro.bsky.social

Our thanks to Gilroy Public Library and their devoted community for a successful "Mario Through The Ages" event! The positive feedback we received was truly humbling. Tell your family, friends, co-workers, and employers about the Retro Roadshow - spread the word! www.RetroRoadshow.org

The Retro Roadshow would like to express our thanks to Los Altos Public Library and their community for a successful "Mario Through The Ages" event! Tell your family, friends, and employers about the Retro Roadshow - help spread the word! www.RetroRoadshow.org See you soon! - Sarai & Huxley

TOTALLY NORMAL COMPUTING 😮 This drive was from my main computer when I moved to Las Vegas with my older sister in 2000, and it became the first machine I used to really explore the Internet, downloading music from Napster, burning CD’s at 1X speed… Feels like uncovering a time capsule of 19yo me!

If I can borrow a phrase from @actionretro.bsky.social , pictured here is some TOTALLY NORMAL COMPUTING 😮 I can’t believe I’ve located my old MacOS boot drive from my PowerMac 7100 - last used in 2001! Feels like a time capsule of 19yo me, frozen in digital amber for a quarter century

Remembering when we had to follow "how to" guides shared on random tech blogs to enable Japanese keyboard support just so we could use emojis on Western iOS devices. Only ~17 years ago but feels like impossibly-ancient history now... @mac84.bsky.social @actionretro.bsky.social @gruber.foo

macOS Tahoe is only in beta and maybe things will get better, but never forget the elegant simplicity that was lost between Mac OS X Tiger and macOS Sequoia 💔 @gruber.foo @basicappleguy.com #WWDC25

The “eMachines eOne” iMac G3 knockoff is my sleep paralysis demon

Yes. www.billboard.com/music/music-...

As someone who has been reading @gruber.foo's Daring Fireball for well over 20 years after my prior fav Apple blog ceased (RIP As The Apple Turns), it's a real thrill to see one of my silly Reddit posts linked on DF today! Also, enjoy this addition to the "lowercase a rendering" discourse

My wife and I are SO GRATEFUL to @lindaholmes.bsky.social for recommending the original "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three" during a recent Pop Culture Happy Hour. We'd never seen it before, but OMG it was a total blast. Incredible movie with an unforgettable final shot! @npr.org

Ahh the good old days, when Macs were Macs, disks were floppy, mice were hockey pucks, and power supplies were flying saucers

A philosophical question: if you play Super Mario World on a green-phosphor monitor, does that make it Super Luigi World?

every book at the airport newsstand is called “My Funny Trauma Life” or “She Boss Vibes” or “Tango Down: A John Gribbler Novel”

Gaming has strayed too far from what it once was. We need to go back to our roots. Bring back big head modes and cheat codes that unlock silly costumes

Hey @ismh86.net: do you happen to have any good / high-res pics of the "Blueberry" iMac G3 that came out in '99? It doesn't seem to be featured in your gorgeous array of original iMac colors, and I'm having a terrible time finding good pics of it. Mine is seen to the ⬅ of my Flower Power iMac here

While I'm on the topic of "stuff that's bringing me joy:" I just finished listening to "Starter Villain" by @scalzi.com (and as is tradition, beautifully narrated by @wilwheaton.net). This was a delight from start to finish - a realistic supervillain story filled with touches of whimsey. Delightful!