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Comment In: How RPGs Were A 30-Year Detour: Matt Findley On Hunted: The Demon's Forge [News - 05/24/2011 - 04:51]

I can't get past the ...

I can't get past the line I think these games always wanted to be action games at their heart. I think all those old turn-based games, it's just that's all the technology would allow. Oh, yeah, if those designers back in the day had only had better tech, they'd have ...

Comment In: The History of Defender: The Joys of Difficult Games [Feature - 07/14/2009 - 03:00]

My friend Mark Vergeer recently ...

My friend Mark Vergeer recently made a video showing all of the hundreds of Defender clones out there...I didn't realize there were quite so many And apparently these are just a selection. http://www.youtube.com/watch v SP-coMuvoKE

Comment In: Feature: The History of Star Raiders: Taking Command [News - 09/08/2009 - 06:24]

I agree very much about ...

I agree very much about Dungeons of Daggorath. Just amazing what the developer accomplished.

Comment In: The History of Star Raiders: Taking Command [Feature - 09/08/2009 - 04:30]

By the way, if you'd ...

By the way, if you'd like to see some of the PLATO games this article mentions, I have a YouTube video that shows them in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch v 5k QQV9sj4I

Comment In: The History of Robotron: 2084 - Running Away While Defending Humanoids [Feature - 08/04/2009 - 05:50]

My fault. We had a ...

My fault. We had a paragraph in there about Bangai-O, but my hand-eye coordination is lacking ever try to type an article using a dual joystick setup My hand slipped at a critical moment, and that whole section got devoured by a Brain. Uh oh, Bangai-O. Sorry, long day. :P

Comment In: The History of Spacewar!: The Best Waste of Time in the History of the Universe [Feature - 06/10/2009 - 05:10]

It wouldn't surprise me at ...

It wouldn't surprise me at all at this point if there were many forgotten videogames of some sort in the 40s and 50s. Who's to say what was happening in all those top secret labs I've also scratched my head a few times at the fuzzy line between videogames and ...

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