Nostalgica

[ChryZ]

I've found this awesome documentation called "Commerical Breaks". It's about the early days of home computing and the dawn of the gaming industry.

Commercial Breaks 1/3
Commercial Breaks 2/3
Commercial Breaks 3/3

While we're on it, anyone got similiar stuff or anecdotes to share?

Old games, screenshots, box arts ... let's reminisce!

EDIT: typo

 

[Simon F]

Old games, screenshots, box arts ... let's reminisce!

I've got some "peril sensitive sunglasses" and a "microscopic space fleet" kicking about somewhere.

(Edit: Found someone else's photo of both!)

 

[Squeak]

I've got some "peril sensitive sunglasses" and a "microscopic space fleet" kicking about somewhere.

(Edit: Found someone else's photo of both!)

Yeah, I really miss Infocom, even though I wasn't old enough to appreciate their games when they were around. They taught me to type and get a reasonable handle on English spelling oops: ).
Best adventure games ever (together with LucasFilm/Arts)!
They just had this air of extreme quality and passion about them that is very rare in the gaming industry of today.


Something I always wanted to see whenever I was reminded of it, is the BBC series that gave the BBC micro its name.
As I understand it Acorn was commissioned to make the machine for that program specifically. Both as an illustration of how a micro computer was made from start to finish and as an educational program on how to program said computer.
Even today that would be great to see (maybe even more so, considering the historic value and the virtual monopoly status of the market).