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The computer scene in the earlier days was often dominated by “uber nerds” who would collect lots of hardware and not actually have that much to use for it. My impression was that a lot of games were created for this market in the earlier days.
I love my “uber nerd” friends (“omg my new rig [...]
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50 Great Indie Games
There used to be a time when games were made by one individual. In fact, Shigeru Miyamoto is often cited as the first person who designed and directed a game without any knowledge of programming. From then on, games began to get more complicated and the technical challenges during the development process required an ever-greater [...]
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Tetris Turns 25
Ever played a Soviet video game? Of course you have! It’s Tetris, quite possibly the most played game of all time, and arguably the closest thing to a “perfect game design” that the world has (will?) ever seen. Alas, the game’s creator, Alexey Pajitnov, never saw a penny from the unprecedented global phenomenon that he [...]
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Segagaga
Speaking of games that time forgot.
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Game Relatives
A fascinating essay on board games, which I discovered while randomly blog browsing through the ridiculously addictive condron.us.
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