https://arcadeblogger.com/2017/07/21/a- ... ollection/
Anyway, they're doing a videogames quiz on Friday. Turn up (virtually, obv) and shizz.
https://www.facebook.com/thearcadevault ... 0902687432
A blogger has posted a ton of game center pictures from old Japanese resort/hotel brochures. They are a fascinating look at what you could do on a rainy day or in the evening after a day on the beach in mid-70's to early 80's. Link: https://t.co/9p2RJYqBpZ pic.twitter.com/1ZOXxrP6d7
— John Andersen (@JohnAndersen21) May 17, 2020
https://www.yomogi2017.xyz/archive/cate ... B%E5%83%8F
Loved that. Thanks!
These look to be not bad - solid list and information about a lot of different systems and currently free
What do we define "software"? If it's just code, can it be written down in a book and still be considered software? Was GALAXY GAME the first commercially published computer game with cover art?
— "Critical Kate" Willært 🤘🻠(@katewillaert) May 21, 2020
Again, more in the link:https://t.co/dv0Z82NaaN pic.twitter.com/nUXgnKCUuG
https://www.acriticalhit.com/best-box-a ... ted-paper/
The 40th anniversary of Pacman
https://twitter.com/katewillaert/status ... 1009655810
On the Pac-Man side of things,@Kotaku has a new history piece, and history account @365ofpac is promising some sort of announcement later today.https://t.co/Kfy7AhveWQ
— "Critical Kate" Willært 🤘🻠(@katewillaert) May 22, 2020
The 30th anniversary of the intial release of Microsoft solitaire and minesweeper
https://uk.pcmag.com/games/127086/micro ... ve-players
And the 20th anniversary of Perfect Dark
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020 ... 64-classic
He only lost about £30 on the whole deal.
It was thought to be lost forever, but we managed to rescue and rebuild the unreleased "Days of Thunder" for the NES from a pile of dying floppy disks. In memory of its co-author Chris Oberth, here's the story of how it all came together: https://t.co/knXkMaJ6bJ pic.twitter.com/fREmHhsmR1
— Video Game History Foundation (@GameHistoryOrg) June 1, 2020
https://gamehistory.org/days-of-thunder-nes-unreleased/
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-06-03-sega-celebrates-its-60th-anniversary-with-a-game-gear-micro
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-06-03-sega-celebrates-its-60th-anniversary-with-a-game-gear-micro
This guy's summed it up. Kind - lost.
Got my pc engine mini yesterday, as a pleasant surprise.. (have my amazon at an old mail address i rarely use so didn't have any shipping confirmation and it had been months since ordering)..
Played some nice shooters,, sapphire is really nice in an early nineties demo scene / air wolf kind of way ... (and aparantly difficult to get normally)... nice little discovery project for the next week..
And i can just switch cables with my ones mini so it doesn'take much space
https://www.smythstoys.com/uk/en-gb/vid ... t/p/191617
https://www.smythstoys.com/uk/en-gb/vid ... t/p/191617
They are really trying for that sit down cabinet feeling here :-)
L except that they don’t think a mamecapable computer would fit in a donkey kong cabinet. Something http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/0 ... ld_records
https://twitter.com/sprinter461/status/ ... 6260811777
Let me clear this up regarding my opinion on Billy Mitchell and whether he cheated.
— Tim McVey (@sprinter461) June 22, 2020
I didn't want to believe he cheated. I've known Billy since we were teens. But overwhelming evidence showed he DID cheat.
So until I see new "evidence" proving otherwise... he cheated. OK?
Basically all the evidence says he cheated - even evidence which had sat online for 10+ years showed the game loading levels up in the exact same broken way that *only* MAME did
No one is saying he's not a great player or that he could not do some / all of this stuff legit what is being said is the videos that he sent to 'prove' this to Twin Galaxys were created using MAME
Some other old / interesting reading (you'll probably need to click through to read the thread)
https://twitter.com/CatDeSpira/status/1 ... 1091799042
So this was a pretty advantageous position for Mitchell to be in; both owning Twin Galaxies AND having Walter Day on the editorial board of Guinness Book of World Records. It's worth noting at the time that Mitchell DID NOT have the world record on Donkey Kong Junior or Pac-Man.
— Catherine DeSpira (@CatDeSpira) June 22, 2020
"30 years later, here are all the files from my last Amiga hard drive. Full Agony sources are there, accompanied by some prototypes I did at the end of my Amiga programing era." -- Yves Grolet. Over 170MB archived of HDD dev files and more for download: https://t.co/rSVem9xHp2 pic.twitter.com/ldbT0cp2OF
— Amiga Love ⤠(@AmigaL0ve) July 6, 2020
I bought COMMAND & CONQUER REMASTERED the other day (£18 on Origin) because I do like a bit of gaming nostalgia. Amazingly, as I was playing it Mrs Hearthly came in from the other room and said 'Is that Command & Conquer?', she hadn't even seen it, she literally just recognised the music and voices, on a game I last played sometime in the late 1990s.
Anyway, I digress, the SINISTER ALGORITHMS that rule our lives suggested this NoClip documentary on YouTube to me this morning, and I know some folks here like his stuff.
Enjoy, it's a fascinating and informative watch!
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/ ... rcade_gems
Finished an article on the unused graphics, sounds, and changes between the five currently dumped versions of Jungle Hunt, fka Jungle King.https://t.co/RmqAl6ms1u pic.twitter.com/OdO52sjrjw
— GoldS (@GoldS_TCRF) July 8, 2020
The sight behind this is fascinating - just looking at unused and hidden information in old games and comparing different revisions
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/ ... e_of_mario
(Mario's voice is nice for mario, not sure about 1,5hrs of Charles Martinet though)
https://twitter.com/sprinter461/status/ ... 6260811777
Let me clear this up regarding my opinion on Billy Mitchell and whether he cheated.
— Tim McVey (@sprinter461) June 22, 2020
I didn't want to believe he cheated. I've known Billy since we were teens. But overwhelming evidence showed he DID cheat.
So until I see new "evidence" proving otherwise... he cheated. OK?
Oh I agree, hence my use of inveted comments… last time this came up i spent hours reading all the threads and subtreads about the evidnce (which you probaby posted;)).. This is just some corrupt hand wrestling
Playing Boulderdash (fuck me I love this game) I’d just about managed until I need to actually move accurately and quickly then it was a joyless bag of shit because the little twat wouldn’t go where I wanted him to; the fiddly piece of shit joystick being the culprit.
And how the fuck did anyone get off the first 3 screens of Cybernoid with a joystick? Fuck me. Shooting AND moving? No you ain’t.
I suppose what I’m saying is? RMD alternative controllers to play on this please because it fucking stinks at the minute when I clearly should be having all sorts of groovy retro fun.
The button are you used for entering the code you'll find when completing levels... can't remember it is just for the level of for the whole game
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020 ... holy-grail
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020 ... holy-grail
Thanks - that's a great story
The “gigaleak†is over, but Nintendo’s secrets continue to quietly spill into the open via anonymous 4chan links.
— Patrick Klepek (@patrickklepek) September 11, 2020
They contain answers to questions we didn’t even know to ask. Here’s what you’ve missed. https://t.co/O4Um48IE4S
Main thing from the leak there was an unreleased Ed the Duck game for the GB
Still, best of luck to Ashens. He's doing alright for himself it seems.
This might be the biggest gamble I've ever taken at @IGN
— Dale Driver (@_daledriver) October 31, 2020
If you have a spare 20 minutes this weekend, please check out this mad journey I went on to find the man behind a sound effect I've been hearing for 22 years.
Written: https://t.co/zlx20onvwk
YT: https://t.co/CgPtjOcBsN pic.twitter.com/lHqVD5MB2M
Tracking down an old obscure sound file from Resident Evil (and other places)
The gate opening squeak/sound is the one that follows me around. You'd know it if you heard it.
Was it there first, though? WHO KNOWS?
Someone knows.
Was it there first, though? WHO KNOWS?
Someone knows.
The baby is old enough to tell you him or her self. We should ask them.
