grabbing the golden coins

I love reading competing histories. For instance, Gamasutra published an interview covering the evolution of Sega, makers of several video game systems and a damn hedgehog game. That article prompted a heated and funny debate on Slashdot. There's nothing funnier than riled-up nerds.

a good kind of murder

The Federation of American Scientist has come up with yet another use for video games. They have recently released "Immune Attack," which "introduces basic concepts of human immunology to high school and entry-level college students." Yes, video games can be homework! What a world!

It's a shame I never came up with a justification for my love of "Yar's Revenge.

deciding who kills whom

I've thrown a decent number of links to stuff about the video game industry up here (surprising, as all I own is an Atari Flashback), but here's another good one on video game writing

card tricks

A cool article on Solitaire as the best time-waster ever. Personally, I'm a Tetris man when it comes to my procrastination.

the man responsible for video games

Shigeru Miyamoto is a video game designer behind much of the products of the Nintendo corporation. The New York Times recently profiled him, calling him the Walt Disney of video games.

come play with me

Those of you who know me know my love of Douglas Adams. I don't write much about him either here or at my other blog because there's not much news about him...because he's...well...dead.

Amongst Mr. Adams' works, though, was a video game adaptation of his novel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Never played it...didn't have a computer back then...but I have heard good things about it.

Anyway, I just found a very cool article about the struggle to make a sequel video game. It's required reading for anyone interested in Adams or the early days of the video game industry.

have you played atari today?

Ever wonder what it was like to work in the biggest of the home video game companies? Then read Donkey Kong and Me, written by a former Atari programmer.

but can I ever sell a pizza game?

In a wonderful reversal of expectations, James Silva, a former dishwasher, has designed a video game on his old job.

How could you make, I wonder, a video game about my time painting lines on parking lots?