Opening Lots of Retro Tech Oddities & LGR Mail! March 2024

Whoa, I never thought something I had a hand in would ever show up in an LGR video! I designed the PowerPCMe K-Mart tape (8:45)back in 2016, first cassette I ever designed. I’ve since had a hand in the art direction of over 100 physical music releases.

the CD is likely doing that because the computer it was copied from didn’t “finalize” the disk. it should work on playback only devices like a cd player boombox, car, etc. this has happened to me before with small indie band cds they’ve sold. idk how to get around it but that’s probably what jt is!

my disappointment that someone didn't just send you 5,400 feet of jumbo 2-ply toilet paper is immeasurable

Hey LGR, I am sorry if this sounds cheesy or cringy, but I am around your age and grew up with the same technology and games as you. I had to leave behind the country where I grew up, leaving behind my friends whom I shared wonderful memories with playing the games you review (Dune, Ages of Empire, NFS...etc). Listening to your stories about your childhood, how some of these games helped you through some difficult times makes me feel like you were one of those friends I left behind and terribly miss every day. I empathize the loss of your sister, I lost my dad suddenly who put me on the path of PCs in the early 90s and also played a lot of games back then (NFL95, Sam and Max) and these games help me get through stuff as well. Your videos kind of helps me fill that hole and I thank you for that. I feel like you're a friend I always wanted to have. So...thank you!

Glad to see Sim City 3000 has a good home... Thanks for the shout out! Keep up the great work!

"Give it to your grandparents so they can learn how to... flower." I did laugh.

I OWNED THAT LINUX SIMCITY! Sorry to shout. I thought for a while that all my Loki Games were just a college fever dream. That's fantastic! I ran them on Redhat Workstation and MandrakeLinux I bought at Fry's Electronics in big boxes.

Clint, thank you so much for showcasing CART zine and my comics! I'm so thrilled you enjoyed it and you had so many amazing words for Kid Internet 😭 funnily enough the coolmath person I interviewed left about a month ago, lol. Thank you again for the decade of entertainment 💖

REALLY thought somebody was insulting you with that N64 cart sticker. Boy that name "Clint" can cause trouble

Hehe, the licorice that came with the Ultrasound was made in the same building that used to be my vocational college back in the day. I got a nice Mikromikko 486 from their storage while they were moving out of that building. (alongside a massive pile of old components and server blades)

Always appreciate a fresh new LGR video on a Friday morning! As per usual, thank you very much for having good and accurate closed captioning, even on unscripted content, it is always something I am thankful for.

LoL i my dad had a mouse house on the side of his monitor he kept his pack of smokes in it.

Huge thanks for showing off the print and the website! It's been crazy to map the Vaporwave/Retro CGI/LGR community overlap in real time through people tagging me when they watched the video.

51 minutes of mail ins, count me in! Love seeing all the cool stuff people send. My favorite was the big box Gizmos and Gadgets by The Learning Company in a past episode

Oh sweet, welcome to the Model M trackball world! For the longest time, my white whale was the M5-1. Both examples I own have problems, but c'est la vie. The M5-2's are really fun in a pinch (including the Unicomp USB version) for doing server work without having to make space for a mouse.

Kinda funny that in some 80s anime, they saw the future as MO discs lol

Talk about timing. This whole week I was watching unboxing mail in videos as far back as 6 years ago, and I now see another video uploaded. Thank you LGR for the hours of entertainment of amazing goodies

The mouse house did have a practical use for people with limited space. I distinctly remember having one of those things stuck to the side of our Tandy back in the day because the "desk'" we had for it was just a cart and the keyboard tray didn't have enough room for the keyboard and mouse at the same time. We had to mouse on our leg for things that used the mouse.

Oh man that Memorex 256mb thumb drive. I remember paying a ridiculous amount of money for one of those as a teenager...

These unboxing vids have to be my favorites.