Scanline Artifacts
Digging into gaming, tech, and popular culture history for cool artifacts and hidden treasures!
- Created by Sasha McAuliffe
- Located in United Kingdom
- August 2024
- Free
Recent posts
June 12, 2026
In June 1991, during the waning years of the Commodore 64, I picked up my regular issue of Commodore Format, the last great magazine devoted to the format during its commercial life. On its cover tape was a demo for the star of this article: Exile . I’d never heard of the game before or had any…
May 14, 2026
Fallout is a very special game to me. It was one of the first games I ever played on a Windows 95 PC, and squared so nicely with my love for post-apocalyptic fiction and alternate history. I still have my original copy, albeit without the cardboard big box outer. And I’ve played it numerous times,…
April 30, 2026
Ah, the mid-late 90s internet. A time of walled gardens, such as AOL and MSN. Both positioned themselves to be your portal to the World Wide Web, giving you curated access to the internet through bespoke ‘web portals’ and trying to keep you away from the wilder and more freewheeling areas of ‘the…
