Neil Henry from OMN modded an Entex Defender to play the actual arcade game... thus making my dream to hack an Entex Defender into the actual arcade game slightly less interesting. Neil is amazing. pic.twitter.com/UxwaZ0i8mE
— Mike Mika (@MikeJMika) December 22, 2020
We have 8-bit history to share: after Larry DeMar & Eugene Jarvis created Defender, they, as "Vid Kidz", started on a 2D top-down follow-up: Conquest. It only got as far as a VERY early prototype, but we've reconstructed the ROMs & now you can try it out: https://t.co/9uYukmIqUN
— Code Mystics Inc. (@CodeMystics) December 31, 2020
In honor of Alex Trebek's final Jeopardy! broadcast tonight, I played 30+ years of Jeopardy video games, tracking the franchise from the Apple II to the PS4.
— Kyle Orland (@KyleOrl) January 8, 2021
Amid the chaos in the US government, let me distract you briefly with some fun facts. (THREAD)https://t.co/yHrH5QIfq0
For those who missed it, I launched a video over the weekend. It’s about the Easter Eggs that predate Atari Adventure, but it’s also about an extremely important but largely forgotten game called Moonlander.
— "Critical Kate" Willært 🤘🻠(@katewillaert) April 5, 2021
Getting footage was tough. Today’s thread will be about how I did it. https://t.co/fsA0Yqefi2
Depending on where you live, you may think of the arcade as a place with a single type of game.
— Arcade Dreams (@ArcadeDreamsDoc) July 5, 2021
In the UK, however, you often had slot machines alongside video games next to a pool table with redemption games too!
Photos by George Wilson https://t.co/FMLsyEo09R pic.twitter.com/kbbHwSptw0
What a spectacularly detailed article about the making of Snoopy Tennis on the Game Boy Color (of all games!): https://t.co/HbwlynkGQ9
— Video Game History Foundation (@GameHistoryOrg) July 22, 2021
Porno Hustlers Of The Atari Age
— Kotaku (@Kotaku) September 6, 2021
The newly unearthed history behind one of the most offensive video games ever made: https://t.co/tQD3Y3zSNm pic.twitter.com/yNtiD4xpJl
My latest video is my first to clock in at 20 minutes! Also my first to be NSFW, so you'll need to be logged into a Youtube account to view (sorry!).https://t.co/huQKpP09et pic.twitter.com/fHDeCrOcM2
— "Critical Kate" Willært 🤘🻠(@katewillaert) September 6, 2021
1982: I wrote Alien Attack, my first game, on an Atari 400, in BASIC. It had a custom character set for the alien (one at a time) and your spaceship. I advertised it in the Popular Computing Weekly classifieds for £5, for a week. Not much of a campaign. I sold zero copies.
— Shahid Kamal Ahmad (@shahidkamal) September 11, 2021
"This is Jet Set Willy on the Commodore 64. Chris did Manic Miner too. He's been on this for six months, but it's not coming along as fast as we'd like. We've paid him ten thousandâ€
— Shahid Kamal Ahmad (@shahidkamal) September 15, 2021
I'm wondering why the hell he's telling me this and while I'm preoccupied, he's walking us back to the back office and we all flop into chairs.
— Shahid Kamal Ahmad (@shahidkamal) September 15, 2021
"Here's the thing Shaaarheed" he says, his Scouse accent is so musical that I easily forgive him for mangling my name.
"We need the C64 version out soon. Can you do it?"
— Shahid Kamal Ahmad (@shahidkamal) September 15, 2021
WHAT.
— Shahid Kamal Ahmad (@shahidkamal) September 15, 2021
THE.
FUCKING.
ACTUAL.
FUCK.
Jet Set Willy is colossal. It's the biggest computer game in the short history of British video games. It's broken records. And it's a masterpiece. Way beyond me.
— Shahid Kamal Ahmad (@shahidkamal) September 15, 2021
"Yeah, no problem"
— Shahid Kamal Ahmad (@shahidkamal) September 15, 2021
(In my mind's ear I hear Jim Rohn's voice... "Don't let your mouth overload your back". I've made it my life's work to go against his advice.)
"We need it in four weeks."
"Sure, I can do that!"
"We'll give you £3,000 if you can do it, and an extra £1000 bonus if you can do it in three weeks."
— Shahid Kamal Ahmad (@shahidkamal) September 15, 2021
"Oh yeah, I'll do it in three weeks, no problem. Maybe even less.â€