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40 Years Of Atari All At Once, All For You
240 years ago today, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney got together and founded the company that catapulted the world into the video game era. It was called Syzgy. Or it would have been, but Syzgy wasn’t available, so they called it Atari. The rest is a gigantic, four decade-spanning infographic celebrating the company’s rise from…
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The History Of Early Computer Games. In Iraq.
There’s a really interesting piece up on HG101 in which Iraqi gamer Salwan Asaad, now living in Egypt, recounts his experiences growing up in the 1980s with the region’s fledgling scene.
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I Played Myst At The Museum: Visiting The Art Of Video Games
This weekend, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington DC opened the long-awaited exhibit The Art of Video Games. Walking into the museum, one immediately feels the whispered air that says: this is the home of Serious Art.
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Piracy Is The Only Thing Keeping Many Old Video Games Alive
Pirating new video games is a crime. But there’s long been a rather grey area around the piracy of old games. And when I say old, I don’t mean 2008 old. I mean 1988 old.