An Open Letter to Retro Gaming and Vintage Computing fans.
Want to know how to beat Impossible Mission on the C64 (or Evercade)? Want to know how the VIC-20 uses memory expansions? Or Why your Vectrex won't turn on? With modern technology, the answer is...
Not the usual retrogaming fare, but I'd highly recommend checking out what's going on over at cyber1:
https://www.cyber1.org/
This group is preserving and offering access to PLATO software. PLATO was an educational project in the 60s and 70s that ended up...
Anyone have an old rogue-like game they are particularly fond of? I feel like there are a lot of weird ones tucked away that are tons of fun.
Personally, I really enjoy alphaman(http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php?title=Alphaman). It's something between...
Think this counts as retro gaming, but I've been slowly working on a janky DOS game in my spare time.
Here's the codebase:
https://github.com/WizardOfHaas/secret_of_uruk
The good stuff: it's a 100% text mode rouge-ish game written in x86 assembly...
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2021/may/13/15-greatest-video-games-of-the-70s-ranked
Not a bad list. Though I think Colossal Cave Adventure should be there over Zork. And perhaps a nod to Microchess as the first commercial computer game.
https://www.standard.co.uk/reveller/attractions/four-quarters-elephant-castle-video-game-bar-b936904.html
"Rather than replicas, the gaming stations will be the original, vintage machines with period-appropriate releases, including Street Fighter II, Pac...
Let’s see your collections of machines! I’ve just been having a tidy up so it looks a lot neater than usual. (Missing from the pic is the Vectrex, as that’s permanently plugged in elsewhere!)
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