I nominate Nim as 1901 Game of the Year (and it is videogame related 😁) Nim is an ancient matchstick game; the modern form had a complete mathematical theory published by C.L. Bouton of Harvard University in 1901... which later was used in the first electromechanical and computer games!

I made a new free game for the PC Engine / TurboGrafx-16. Trtly it out on your favorite console, emulator, or FPGA! newsdee.itch.io/kex #gamedev #pcengine #turbogragx16 #homebrew

Do you know how your videogames relate to the ENIAC? Here's a family tree of all computer systems created until 1970, compiled by late Dr. Martin H. Weir Jr. (1922-2007) Yellow branch on the left is PDP mainframes, that evolved into Unix, micro computers, arcades, and consoles...

Do you remember Dopewars/Drugwars, a trading game that was super popular on calculators? (buy low / sell high) It was based on "Taipan!" from 1979 (TRS-80), later released on Apple II (1982) and documented in a book with source code to type in. Give it a try on your favorite emulator!

It's kind of sad that as a species we can't get our crap together and collaborate to capture these interstellar rocks for deeper study

Japanese TV commercial for the New Famicom, a top loader NES launched in December 1993. The SNES was out! It also sells its AV port and redesigned the controller. The craziest part though? This new design retailed for $50. Sharing that for no particular reason :) #gaming #retro #Nintendo 🎮

I don't listen to podcasts but I could ask back the 5 games that impacted their lives...

I'm curious, what is your main beef with console "generations"? They are ill defined, are very skewed to the US experience, and many systems straddle between them. But they are still useful to classify things by broad strokes. What would you use instead?

MSU1-enhanced games for SNES are cool, but I'd be really impressed if there were homebrew games/ports made for the (rare but actually released) SuperGrafx+CDROM combo

Reminder that there is a whole world of videogames outside of the English sphere that often get overlooked... go explore!

If you want to make old-school computer music, I can wholeheartedly recommend Furnace Tracker: tildearrow.org/furnace/ There's a bit of learning curve (tied to your target chip) but there is so much you can do with it. And it's FOSS too!

@pixeldailies.bsky.social #2 #pixel_dailies, #ballistic Going ballistic in 64x64 pixels...

@pixeldailies.bsky.social #loading, #pixel_dailies Cyber Pixel Lo-Res Loading Screen 📺🎮

Share the last four games you've played and expose your gaming habits... No game is too old or too new to be enjoyable!

And a not-so-miserable pile of early internet legend was born. Trivia: “What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.” was first used by French minister and novelist André Malraux in 1967. Though given the 18th-century vintage of Alucard's adventures, perhaps André was quoting Dracula!

Ubisoft Brasil's marketing team deserves an award, they evoked our passion for tokusatsus to make this fantastic ad for the game: youtu.be/89bztUO2JuE?... Yes, that's official! And has Edu Falaschi lol

I love dungeon crawlers - here's a great list of suggestions if you want to try modern ones!

I finally got myself 1941 Counter Attack, to complete my SuperGrafx exclusive games collection! (Darius Alpha doesn't count as exclusive... I just pretend it doesn't exist 😅)

Free options for your DOS setups (DOSBox, MiSTer, etc...)

Forgot to mention, the book can actually be downloaded for free at the MITPress website: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon... If the link doesn't work, the Internet Archive has a mirror to all the MIT Press Open Access books: archive.org/details/mit_... There's lots of good stuff there!

This thread has some great memories in it. I really wish I'd taken more pictures of what was really great about Akihabara from 1995 onwards. But I didn't want to look like a tourist, and now the cool things are gone. Ahh, regret. Here are some I took: nfgworld.com/a-view-of-ol...

Tengai Makyou II for the PC-Engine CD was one of the most expensive video games ever made when it was released, featuring incredible production values for 1992. Its creation was considered such an achievement that a TV drama was produced that depicted the game's development. 🧵

Got some new controllers for my living room #MiSTerFPGA - this joystick is a lot of fun with the Atari 2600 core

So glad I picked up a modded FDS drive, I had a disk of Castlevania that had been overwritten (with Ice Hockey, of all things) and was able to fix my disk using the translated game!

Deep inside Internet Archive is a grinder. It has not been grinding in any meaningful way since October 10th. It is now grinding. It has three weeks of back-grinding to do, and then will keep grinding. There won't be anything obvious on the outside but this is the moment Archive came back alive

I've been really into checking the Nintendo FDS library recently, so projects like RndStrager's Year of FDS have become some of my favorite Youtube content: youtu.be/Khb0KLG95WA?...