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Gamers young and old dream of the possibility of being sucked into the world of their favourite video game. Over the Weekend I witnessed live action renditions of Atari classics Kaboom and Asteroids at the Come Out and Play Festival. More »
This has been a week unlike any other for celebrity deaths. Billy Mays, the cheerful, if relentless pitchman who hawked such items as Oxiclean and Orange Glo, was found dead in his home today. More »
Those of you read closely might have noticed that yesterday’s mention of the Bandai Airport Panic LCD Game included a coy “part I” in its title. That’s because I had another early videogame with airport terrorists up my sleeve.
Activision gets the credit for being the first third-party developer, but Apollo followed shortly after, in 1981 (Imagic was also started in that year, by a second round of dissatisfied Atari developers). More »
