Enhance your Retronauts East experience with Kirin's Retro Closet

This received a mention in our most recent episode, but I forgot to link to the site in the show comments. Whoops! Well, allow me to amend my error now.

Ben Elgin has begun compiling a Tumblr blog centered on classic gaming (and toy) material, including packaging, swag, merchandise, and other odds and ends he happens to have on hand. Best of all, the blog now includes a category specifically designated for posting material related to Retronauts East conversations. Both he and Benj have a tendency to bring along visual aids to our recording sessions, despite the fact that podcasts aren't really a visual medium, so this is a handy way to see some of the stuff we're talking about. Such as some original (and not-so-original, ahem) Macintosh game diskettes:

I didn't even own a Mac until color was the baseline standard, but this is still taking me back. The multi-colored line work on the Somak Software diskette's illustration was a popular visual element for Mac publishers back in the day; I can't even remember where else I've seen it (Aldus PageMaker? ClarisWorks?), but it causes an itch in an underutilized corner of my memory banks.

Anyway, you should bookmark it and see what other weird and wonderful things Ben manages to dig up. And of course, we have Benj Edwards posting retro scans on a weekly basis over at Vintage Computing... maybe he'll throw in some Retronauts East ephemera from time to time as well.

Related: I also forgot to link to Archive.org's Macintosh System Library, where you can play a bunch of the games covered in the latest Retronauts episode in your web browser. No Alice to be found, but you can certainly check out Dark Castle, Scarab of Ra, The Dungeon Revealed, and several others on your next coffee break. Do it... for the Steves.