Video Games
80's A-Z : A
The 80's, 10 years condensed to 26 blog posts in bullet point format...
[ more... ]Homemade Pong Watch
Taking inspiration from Buro Vormkrijgers Pong Clock, each minute the right side scores a point, and each hour the left side scores a point. The effect is that the score is the time.
[ more... ]Mega Man 9
Gamasutra has a great interview with Mega Man 9 producer Hironobu Takeshita about the development process behind the forthcoming downloadable platformer.
[ more... ]Game Over Mug
Play.com have some cool "Game Over" retro gaming mugs at Only £3.99 including Free Delivery!!!
[ more... ]Super Mario in Just 14kb of Javascript
Without a doubt one of my favourite games of all time, Super Mario Brothers and the first level is (more or less) available for everyone to play thanks to some crafty javascript programming.
[ more... ]Nintendo Vinyl Figures
Mario, the iconic Italian tap-twiddler, and a few of his colourful cohorts have escaped their pixellated confines and entered the real world in the shape of these collectable vinyl figures.
[ more... ]CBE for the Darling Brothers
Richard and David Darling, the co-founders of Codemaster, one of the longest running British video game developers, have both been appointed Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2008 for services to the computer games industry.
[ more... ]Pac Boy LCD Game
A new twist on a retro classic...
[ more... ]Lego: Indianna Jones - The Original Adventures
First came the classic Lego: Star Wars, now things just got better.
[ more... ]Zvg Vector Arcade Interface
Asteroids, Tempest, Lunar Lander, Battlezone and of course Star Wars are some of the most memorable arcade games from the 1980s, but they are also some of the hardest to emulate with modern raster-scan monitors because they used vector graphics (all straight lines, dots and gloriously futuristic images).
[ more... ]Arcade Mania - Upright Arcade Machine
Remember those days spent/wasted in dimly lit arcades stuffing 10 pences into the latest arcade machines?! Now you can have one at home!
[ more... ]Milliways: Infocom's Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Andy Baio at Waxy.org, found himself in possession of a complete backup of Infocom's shared network drive from 1989.
He describes it as a treasure chest documenting the rise and fall of the legendary interactive fiction game company
, and in amongst the the archives are details of Milliways: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, the unreleased sequel to Infocom's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Xbox Live Arcade - Retro Games
If you own an Xbox 360, then you are a lucky person if you're a retro gamer.
[ more... ]Wii, A new home for point-and-click games?
Monkey Island, Broken Sword, Day of the Tentacle - all fantastic and still highly playable point-and-click adventure games.
[ more... ]Retro Game Developers
There are still plenty of people making great, simple games that you can sit down at for 20 min and just have fun.