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Category Archives: Historical
Atarians of Note
Back in 8-bit days it was quite common for people to actually know the names of the individuals who made some of their favourite games (for back then many games were made entirely by individuals, before it became the huge-team-effort … Continue reading
A8 Arcade Ports: Win some, lose some…
Some Atari 8-bit cartridges. The brown ones are Atari releases. In the early days of the Atari 8-bit machines, pre-5200 era, Atari came out with a bunch of arcade game cartridges; as mentioned in the introduction Atari owned the rights … Continue reading
A British Person’s Introduction to Atari 8-Bit
British people are eminently sensible (or at least they are in some things, but obviously not when it comes to Brexit or voting Tory, but let’s not dwell upon that) and as such many of them will have owned an … Continue reading
Fun for the Whole Family: Old Computer Ads Revisited
You may remember a few months ago I did a bit of a pisstake of some old ads from out of ancient computer magazines, concluding with this memorable “OH HOLY FUCK, LOOK AT THOSE KNOBBLY GREEN TRIANGLES!” one for the … Continue reading
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The odd little world of Commodore 16/Plus 4 Llamasoft game ripoffs
Trawling through my emulator bin the other day I became aware of an odd little subcategory of games I had no idea even existed: C16/Plus4 games that are either copies of, or heavily influenced by, my own games on the … Continue reading
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The Psychedelic World of Old Computer Ads
I have a bunch of old copies of BYTE magazine and suchlike stashed away on my iPad which I sometimes like to have a read of when i can’t think of anything else to read. It’s kinda fun to see … Continue reading
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You’re Having A Giraffe: More Vic-20 Smeg
Sunday again so it’s time to have a bit more of a rummage through the back cattle-log of the good old Vic. The first game took me rather by surprise as I was trawling through Gamebase, since at first I … Continue reading
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Fat Pixels, Fun Times: Great Vic-20 Games
I wanted to do a bit of a balancing entry to the one I did yesterday where I took the piss out of several bad Vic-20 games, lest I give the impression that I am a complete curmudgeon and that … Continue reading
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I’ve Turned Into a Green Thing: Terrible Vic-20 Games
While twittering on the tweetatron this morning the subject of “Asteroids” by S. Munnery came up. This legendarily terrible version of Asteroids was, as I have documented before in the History of Llamasoft, at least partially responsible for the very … Continue reading
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Happy birthday C64!
So they are saying that today is the 30th birthday of the c64. Well that’s true for certain values of “birthday” I guess. When was the C64 born? Was it back in 1981 when the designers first began work on … Continue reading
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