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I wrote earlier about Ubisoft's remake of the classic Prince of Persia by Jordan Mechner. Downloaded it last night, and it's fantastic, especially if you remember playing the original for many misspent hours of your youth. I just came across a great video...
Just came across a great post from Wired highlighting some of the lost arcade games of the USSR. I'm an old arcade guy. Back in the day I had a paper route solely for the ability to go collect on bills and get just enough to go and play at the arcade...
Came across this great spoof of the old Interactive Fiction games (aka Text Adventures). In this case the writer sends up Zork (and the IF genre in general) beautifully. Check it out if you have any memories of that golden era and want to relive your...
Care to feel old? Take a read through this great article from 1up. I've been working in the game industry for nearly 20 years now, and I'm always startled when I realize how much older the industry is than that. Especially since when I started, video...
Ubisoft recently announced that they're redoing Jordan Mechner's original Prince of Persia game and releasing it on Live Arcade with updated visuals and puzzles. I can't tell you how much I loved playing the Apple II and PC versions of this game when...
Just saw this over on Kotaku - a flashback to the Atari 2600 days when you'd have to document your video game successes with a camera (film, no less!) and send off a picture to prove it. Activision used to send out patches as a reward. Obviously different...
First, a hand drawn Myst map. Spent way too much time in this world - probably one of the last, great, classic adventure games. And then a map I've never seen before - an incredible map/poster of Zork II. I'd kill to have a copy to frame and hang on the...
Just came across this NeoGAF forum thread and had to point you to it to see some cool adventure game maps. You probably won't care unless you're an oldschool gamer who remembers trying to map out that #!$!% maze in Zork 1 by hand, but these brought a...
Just saw on Joystiq that Computer Gaming World has put a digital archive of its first 100 issues, dating back to November 1981. To quote: CGW archive launched, download first 100 issues free Computer Gaming World has opened a digital archive that includes...
Was pretty excited to see this post on Evil Avatar pointing to Jeff Minter's blog discussing the topic. For those of you who don't know, Jeff created Tempest for the Atari Jaguar - probably the sole reason to own the system (and the reason I still have...
Was really excited to see the reaction to yesterday's announcement at Leipzig about some classic boardgames coming to Live Arcade. To quote a Gamespot article : The announced games include the civilization-building Settlers of Catan, the tile-based city...