Ask any British coder of a certain age what it was that got them into the technology business in the first place, and the chances are high that they’ll say it was a childhood encounter with a Sinclair Spectrum, a BBC Micro, or an Acorn computer.
Back in the 1980s, these three UK-designed computers were a massive success story. They …
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Sad but true: We have no national holidays in this country that pay tribute to our great technological heritage. But if we did, April 3rd would be a good candidate. On that day in 1981, at a trade show in San Francisco, a startup called Osborne Computer Corporation announced the Osborne 1, the first mass-produced portable computer. That …
Oh hey, childhood, early teens, high school, college, post-college and modern day memories. What are you guys all doing here?
An angel of a saint of a man on YouTube has documented the installation of Windows 1.0 followed by an upgrade to every subsequent version of Windows thereafter. He opts for Windows 2000 instead of Windows ME, …
Long before Axl Rose was suing his former bandmates over Guitar Hero, or professional orchestras performed live overtures from Final Fantasy, all gamers had to listen to were chiptunes— video game music composed from 8 bits.
Which isn’t to say that they weren’t any good. Quite the contrary, actually. This might just be nostalgia …
If you’re looking for a nostalgia fix, the 1980s made up the golden age of computer games.
Remember GeoCities? Did you even notice it got shut down about a year ago? Yahoo bought GeoCities and took all the sites offline on October 27, 2009. For the uninformed, GeoCities was THE premiere place to get a free website a million years ago and all the websites looked like the worst MySpace page you’ve ever seen, times a …
If you’re like me, your entire childhood basically consisted of King’s Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest, Gold Rush!, Hero’s Quest followed by Quest for Glory, Manhunter, The Colonel’s Bequest—you get the idea.
Did you know that you can play some of these games online at Sarien.net? It’s true. If you’re a Sierra fan and you haven’t …
Retro gaming and personal hygiene are two things that go together like peanut butter and chocolate. Maybe not, but you have to admit these replica Super Nintendo cartridges look an awful lot like the real thing.
They’re actually bars of soap. Soap!
Weighing around seven ounces and “scented with Mountain Dew-type fragrance oil,” you …
The year was 1994. Figure skating fans all over the globe were reeling from the Nancy Kerrigan/Tonya Harding incident, O.J. Simpson learned the hard way that a single Ford Bronco can’t outrun every police car and helicopter in the Los Angeles area, and Timex released one of the weirdest-yet-coolest watches in the history of …
Ah, the single biggest hurdle of the retro gaming movement: Playing all your old favorites with anything other than the original controller. The $70 RetroN 3 Video Gaming System appears to have that base covered, though.
The console not only plays Nintendo, Sega Genesis, and Super Nintendo game cartridges, but it features two …
In less time than we’d probably like to imagine, there will be only a few people left on earth who remember life without the Internet. Those early computing days will be remembered as a novelty, full of 8-bit integers and pin feed paper and – oh, who could forget – the reign of Solitaire.
New blog How I Met Your Motherboard is …
Happy Birthday, PlayStation!
It’s hard to believe that it’s been 15 years since you were born in Japan. You brought us so many good times during your prime. Let us count the games… er, ways:
— You scared the crap out of us with the first Resident Evil.
— You gave us what is perhaps the most beloved RPG of all time in Final …
