Whew, 100 years ago (a few days late!) one of the first animations ever, Gertie the Dinosaur was created ( Read more... )

Nintendo is in dire straits. They messed up this generation pretty badly. What went wrong? They were doing so well last generation ( Read more... )

Yeah, I've been writing a lot of lists the last few months ( Read more... )

Up through about the end of the NES period of gaming, when everyone was pretty much sick of it, the idea that the protagonist is going to rescue his girlfriend or whatever was extremely prominent. Here's a list, looking through the games at the Spriter's Resource ( Read more... )

I picked up a 3DS and I've kind of gotten addicted to Streetpass, where you have your 3DS in sleep mode in your pocket and if you pass another person with a 3DS in their pocket, you swamp Miis and can play games. It has a weird fascination. There's a girl somewhere on my walk route -- I'm not quite sure where -- that I keep passing. Heh!

I was looking at the great NES game Iron Tank the other day and it occured to me how the lineage of SNK's shoot-em-up games (like Contra) came to be ( Read more... )

Since there's only 5 weeks until Halloween ( Read more... )

A strange video game. I watched some longplays of this on YouTube recently. I was intrigued by the comments so I watched multiple versions: the Amiga, Genesis, and NES ones. Each has its own strengths. But first I should summarize the game ( Read more... )

Through the wonders of YouTube, I have been reconnecting with some awesome old computer games. The first is Master of Magic. Man, this game could be the greatest game ever made. Imagine if they combined Civilization with Magic: the Gathering (unliscensed, but distictively Magic). You play a wizard, choosing a premade character or creating your own ( Read more... )

One of the Starcraft II groups posted this on their site:

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=128252