Category Archives: Gaming

A Home-Made Map Lead to Plunder on the High Seas!

Posted on October 1, 2011 by Blake Patterson

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 | 4 Comments

Of Oldschool Arcades…Decades Apart

Posted on August 16, 2011 by Blake Patterson

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

Posted on March 26, 2011 by Blake Patterson

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 →

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Video Games Live! – An Epic Event for Gamers

Posted on March 6, 2011 by Blake Patterson

As I type this I’ve just returned home from the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, which I covered for TouchArcade. I also attended the Apple iPad 2 press event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on Wednesday … Continue reading →

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Can A Computer Make You Cry?

Posted on September 30, 2009 by Blake Patterson

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 →

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‘MYST’ for the iPhone and iPod touch Hits the App Store

Posted on May 4, 2009 by Blake Patterson

I apologize for the lack of posts of late. I’ve been focusing enormous energies towards Touch Arcade, the iPhone game review site that I run with Arnold Kim of MacRumors (and now Eli Hodapp). It’s rather taxing work, given the … Continue reading →

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Flight Simulator: The Difference 25 Years Makes

Posted on October 2, 2008 by Blake Patterson

Ever since I first booted up subLOGIC’s Flight Simulator II on my Apple //c back in 1984, I’ve been a flight simulation fan. No mission or point other than to just fly. Of course, it was a somewhat crude affair … Continue reading →

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Retro Gaming Goodness: Space Invaders Extreme

Posted on July 22, 2008 by Blake Patterson

Space Invaders Extreme. Put out by Taito to mark the 30th anniversary of the release of the original classic shooter, this re-vamped outing is like the offspring of Rez and the 1978 Taito original. If you appreciate retro gaming to … Continue reading →

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Tempest and Jaguar and Nuon — Oh My!

Posted on July 12, 2008 by Blake Patterson

I remember how great video games were when I was a kid. “Real” video games. I’m talking early ’80s. And I say “real” because, quite unlike the situation over the past 10 years, home computers and consoles were not anywhere … Continue reading →

Posted in Atari, Gaming, Other Platform | 15 Comments

Luna City Arcade: A Retro Gamer’s Wet Dream

Posted on February 5, 2008 by Blake Patterson

Peter Hirschberg is my new hero. This retro game-craving lunatic / genius has placed upon this earth a 60’x40′ patch of pure, unadulterated heaven. To the unwitting passer-by, this magical space may appear to be nothing more than a sizable … Continue reading →

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