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10 votes
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A brief history of saved games
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King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Cyboogie (2019)
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DF Retro Episode 49: Contra III - The Alien Wars
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Older video game animation may have been limited by technology, but does that make it worse?
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The JRPG Startup Cost - An analysis of how long it takes to reach various gameplay milestones in classic JRPGs
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What are your favorite retro mobile games?
Over 10 years ago the world of mobile gaming was totally different from today's. Still many (if not most) phones could run installable and built in games. Which were your favorite ones? Let's say...
Over 10 years ago the world of mobile gaming was totally different from today's. Still many (if not most) phones could run installable and built in games. Which were your favorite ones?
Let's say the mobile game is retro if released before 2009.
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Thirty-five years ago, Isaac Asimov was asked by the Star to predict the world of 2019. Here is what he wrote.
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Lost NES version of SimCity emerges after twenty-seven years
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The cover of MAD magazine #258 from October 1985 announces a special computer section featuring the MAD Computer Program
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Four perfectly reasonable-sounding 2018 technology predictions that failed
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Atari Asteroids: Creating a vector arcade classic
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Introducing PlayStation Classic, with twenty pre-loaded games - available for $100 USD on December 3
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Webpage That Shows the Startup and Shutdown Sequences for many Retro OSes
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Polymega launch trailer
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Kalashnikov takes on Tesla with retro-look electric 'supercar'
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Unfolding the 8-bit era (8 bits, 8 players, 8 projectors, and one Nintendo Entertainment System)
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Porting [Death Rally] from DOS to Windows
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What is synthwave and its related subgenres?
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The evolution of video game water (part 1)
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What do you remember about the "old" internet?
Inspired by the post on HN, was curious about your favorite memories or nostalgia you feel about internet in the 90's or even earlier. I really didn't come fully online until the early 2000's. We...
Inspired by the post on HN, was curious about your favorite memories or nostalgia you feel about internet in the 90's or even earlier.
I really didn't come fully online until the early 2000's. We didn't have the means to get internet at home so until I could get online unless it was at school. Even so my most pleasant memories were spending time playing games on yahoo (yahooligans), with a tetris like clone being my favorite. Also spent a huge amount of time playing macromedia shockwave based games on various sites that I don't remember anymore. I do remember playing a game where you had to build up your hobo soap box car to see how far you could jump it.
It was soon followed by the discovery of various chat groups, making up identities, lying about age, revealing too much personal information in the process. At one point I even convinced a woman to send me photos that she claimed were for her modeling career. Not sure if it was some creepy old guy trying to lure me in with promises of being a real woman or if I legitimately fooled some poor girl into sending me modeling pictures.
Also remember my first foray into fan theory sites with the show LOST, ended up getting chewed out for suggesting a theory that was apparently well known. Was too embarrassed and scared to post after that and ended up lurking for the duration of my time there.
Some folks say that the "old internet" is now gone with the likes of reddit and Youtube, but for me it seems like what really changed was us and the sense of wonder. For those who are still discovering the internet as they're growing up, that sense of wonder is still there just waiting to be turned into nostalgia as they get older.
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Running Fully Modern Linux on a 486
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A program from a thirty-five year old magazine for “BASIC Month” and a chat with its author
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Mining an old game design for innovative game mechanics
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Remembering an Atari Computer Lab in Hampton, Virginia
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Seventy long-lost Japanese video games have been discovered in a 67GB folder of ROMs on a private forum
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Sunset Neon - Never Dance Again (2017)
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Miaoux Miaoux - Luxury Discovery (2015)
4 votes