The Steampunk Compendium!

The Steampunk Compendium is a collabrative archive of all things steampunk! Submissions currently open!

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Hello Tumblr! We are The Steampunk Compendium, a collaborative work to archive and inform on all things steampunk! Currently housing only two members, The Steampunk Compendium aims to hopefully spread the steampunk subculture and genre to more of those it would appeal to, while also talking about the media we love! We are also working on a website, so keep an eye out for updates on that! Submissions are open, so if you'd like us to get to talking about or archiving works of a particular type sooner rather than later, feel free to let us know by sending an ask our way! Eventually, there will be a masterpost of all the tags and medias posted about, but until then, you may have to sort through our tags to find things! We are terribly sorry in advance!

Until next time! --- Mods Cogs and Coil

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Lost Media Spotlight #1 : Steam Punks! on ABC 3

Hello Folks! While we have a lull in website making, I thought we’d start something fun; a lost / obscure media spotlight! This spotlight will focus on steampunk media that is hard to find, or lesser known in the community, and today, we’re talking about Steam Punks!

Steam Punks! was a game show that aired on ABC 3 (called ABC Me at the time), first airing on the 17th of February, 2013. Steam Punks! was a steampunk themed game show hosted by Paul Verhoeven, in which two teams of “Inqusitives” are set a variety of challenges given by an assumedly female robot known only as “The Machine.” Each episode included five different rounds. With what clips and personal knowledge we have (as mod Coil watched the show when young), the challenges were as followed;

The Quizatorium ; The Quizatorium was a simple, multiple choice question game based on scientific knowledge that the contestants had. As of this moment, we do not have any clips of this segment in the archives.

The Storeroom ; Teams were given five different storerooms, each testing one of the five senses. As of this moment, we do not have any clips of this segment in the archives.

Bang , Crash , Splat , Splash ; During this segment, teams were given the first half of an experiment, and were asked to predict the outcome. As of this moment, we have one (1) clip of this segment in the archives.

Feed The Furnace ; For “Feed The Furnace”, one team was tasked with throwing coal into a furnace for points, while the opposing team sprayed them with goo to try and make them slip and slow down. As of this moment, we have one (1) clip of this segment in the archives.

Fast Or Last ; This was a timed, quick fire questions game in which teammates had to use a hammer to hit their buzzer and answer first. Incorrect answers would give the opposing team a chance to win.

The winning team would be dubbed “Steampunks”, while losing teams were sent to work for The Machine in the catacombs.

There was also a website with flash games on it, and while that website has been preserved on the Wayback Machine, it does not appear that anything works through it at the time of posting.

If you or anyone you know has clips, segments, or pictures of this show, or any information you can provide, please DM, or email us at [email protected] !

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I BEG OF YOU. THE MECHANISMS

Worry not! The Mechanisms is most definitely going to be a part of our archived content! In our opinion, The Mechanisms, alongside musicians like Steam Powered Giraffe and Professor Elemental, are some of the most influential steampunk musical artists in the recent years! We will be making a more in depth post about them in the future, but for now, if you or anyone else out of the great lands of Tumblr have any images or pieces of information about The Mechanisms they'd like to submit for archival purposes, feel free to send an ask our way! Until we speak again! --- Mods Cogs and Coil