A MOST AGREEABLE PASTIME
Video Games, Victorian Style
Tag: Commodore
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I decided to treat myself. I bought the rather lovely book Commodore Amiga: A Visual Commpendium from Funstock, and it is awesome. At 30 quid it’s not cheap, but it’s worth the money – the book comes in at around 400 pages and has beautiful colour images throughout, in addition to some fascinating developer interviews. I…
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At last, the first of my articles for Kotaku UK has gone live: http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2014/10/13/people-used-download-games-radio Quite a while ago, a Dutch work colleague of mine mentioned a radio show called Hobbyscoop that was broadcast in the Netherlands in the 1980s. The DJs would play the sound of data tapes (like simple games or programs), and people…
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We all talk about piracy now as it is this killer of consoles. For a while there it was the killer of the PC until steam came along. And then it was the killer of the PSP. Now people are all on about how it’s going to kill retail. Kill video games. Kill the world.…
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GORF on the Vic-20 is one of the most derivative games I ever played as a very, very young lad. But what wasn’t at the time, right? In the 1970’s and 80’s ripping stuff off was just a bi-product of an industry that was well and truly in its infancy; so much so that even the…
A MOST AGREEABLE PASTIME 