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Category Archives: Gaming
A Glimpse of the Elusive ‘Time Bandit’ for the Sanyo MBC 550
Those who follow me here at my retro blog or over at TouchArcade know that I’ve been a gamer for quite some time, now. And, after all of those years of gaming, I certainly have my favorites that still provide … Continue reading
Posted in Gaming, Multi-Platform
4 Comments
So Long, and Thanks for All the Games
Last week I sent out a tweet marking a rather sad turn of events concerning one of the most notable game studios of all time. On further reflection, I wanted to say a few words here. On Wednesday, Sony shut … Continue reading
Posted in Amiga, Atari, Gaming, Multi-Platform
5 Comments
Glowing Pixels Replace Swirls of Paint at the Smithsonian
This past weekend, my daughter and I attended an exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. that no gamer or pixel artist in the region will want to miss. The Art of Video Games exlores the 40 … Continue reading
Future Games: Ten Years from Now, Thirty Years Ago
I think a lot about video games. I’ve been playing them for about 35 years now, and I’m fortunate enough that video games — playing them and writing about them with the rest of the great crew at TouchArcade — … Continue reading
Posted in Gaming
4 Comments
So, Guess What Came in the Mail the Other Day
In late September, Eric Chahi’s superb sci-fi platform action adventure, Another World [App Store], arrived for the iOS platform. I reviewed it shortly before it launched, over at TouchArcade. It was excellently translated to iOS by DotEmu and I gave … Continue reading
Posted in Gaming
2 Comments
A Home-Made Map Lead to Plunder on the High Seas!
The other night Colette Bennett, a rather savvy freelance writer that works with us over at TouchArcade, tweeted a link to a Kotaku story entitled “The Delightful Home-Made Maps of the Zork Series.” Now, I won’t belittle my readers by … Continue reading
Posted in Amiga, Apple II, Gaming
3 Comments
Of Oldschool Arcades…Decades Apart
When I was a kid, arcades were magical places. They were dark gaming halls lit only by phosphorescence and filled with folks having a white-knuckled good time. The bleeps and bloops emanating from all the cabinets in the room came … Continue reading
Posted in Gaming, Just Rambling
6 Comments
Classic Apple II Game Deaths
Yesterday, Boing Boing posted a video compilation of many classic arcade death scenes, set to a chiptune rendition of Mad World. It’s pretty awesome. After watching it, I was inspired to attempt a similar video, but featuring death scenes from … Continue reading
Posted in Apple II, Gaming
4 Comments
Video Games Live! – An Epic Event for Gamers
As I type this I’ve just returned home from the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, which I coveed for TouchArcade. I also attended the Apple iPad 2 press event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on Wednesday … Continue reading
Can A Computer Make You Cry?
I started life on a TI-99/4A. After a year or so I sold it and got what I considered my first “real” computer, the just-released Apple //c in the first half of 1984. (No offense to TI-99 aficionados intended.) In … Continue reading
Posted in Gaming
Tagged Anne Westfall, Bill Budge, David Maynard, Jon Freeman, Paul Reich III
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