2 weeks ago
Ready Player One Was Wrong: The First Easter Eggs In Video Games
The first Easter Egg wasn’t in Atari Adventure.
Ready Player One takes place in a dystopian future where people cope with the miserable state of their reality by escaping into …
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1 month ago
Video Dames: The History Of Playable Female Protagonists
Between 1980 and 1989…
…the number of unique video game titles released in America on computers, home consoles or in arcades totalled over 8,000. The exact number is uncountable.
So …
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2 months ago
Wild Gunman ’74: The Forgotten First FMV Game
Wild Gunman was the first Nintendo game in a movie. Marty McFly eyes a vintage Wild Gunman arcade in the future.
But it wasn’t this movie, and it wasn’t this …
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2 years ago
The Origin Of The Term “Gamer”
The term “gamer” predates video games by over six centuries.
The first known record of the word was found in the English town of Walsall and dates back to …
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The Riddler Is Batman’s Greatest Rival
Riddle me this, Batman: What’s the opposite of a sleuth?
The opposite of a bat isn’t a cat, though at least it’s thematic. But why a detective’s opposite number be …
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Moonlander: One Giant Leap For Game Design
Everyone knows Neil Armstrong was the first man on the Moon, but who was the first man in a video game?
Early video game history is littered with “firsts” — …
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Box Art History #3: Fairchild Channel F
Before the NES, before the Atari 2600…
Fairchild’s Channel F was the first video game console to run games directly from a cartridge. While Magnavox’s Odyssey had game cards that …
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Infographic: The Evolution Of Carmen Sandiego’s Crest
Carmen Sandiego’s first showed up 35 years ago today in WHERE IN THE WORLD IS CARMEN SANDIEGO? for the Apple II. But she wasn’t yet wearing her iconic red outfit …
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Box Art History #2: Computer Games On Printed Paper
Early computer game history often gets overlooked.
Maybe it’s because “computer games” used to be considered different from “video games,” back when “video” was defined by the presence of a …
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