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Buried video treasures, ancient gaming lore, cool artifacts of a cathode ray past – come with me on an expedition through AV and video gaming history!

Tag: retrocomputing

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Treasure Vaults of Y2K Anime Fandom: The Dokan Magazine Cover CDs

15th Jun 202515th Jun 2025 Sasha McAuliffe

Spanish language Y2K-era CD-ROM anime fandom at its finest and a resource for web historians of the future.. Continue reading Treasure Vaults of Y2K Anime Fandom: The Dokan Magazine Cover CDs

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Pac-Man with a Gun – Amiga PD Arcade Anarchy

10th Feb 202510th Feb 2025 Sasha McAuliffe

Wobbly Legs, Blobs from Space, Pac-Man plus Firearm; all these I played instead of the real deal. Continue reading Pac-Man with a Gun – Amiga PD Arcade Anarchy

Computing, dos2 Comments

Adventure Log #2: Darklands (1992)

30th Jan 202531st Jan 2025 Sasha McAuliffe

Join me as I go adventuring in Darklands’ vision of a dark fantasy 15th Century Europe. Continue reading Adventure Log #2: Darklands (1992)

c64, Computing1 Comment

Keeping Up with Commodore in the USA, Part One: Setting the Scene.

20th Jan 202527th Jan 2025 Sasha McAuliffe

Part one of a deep dive into the Commodore 64 on the other side of the Atlantic. Continue reading Keeping Up with Commodore in the USA, Part One: Setting the Scene.

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My First Gaming Generational Shift

8th Sep 20248th Sep 2024 Sasha McAuliffe

Where I wax nostalgia about a great leap from 8 to 16 bit. Continue reading My First Gaming Generational Shift

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The Adventures of Robin Hood: The Forgotten Open-World Game Pioneer

3rd Aug 202424th Nov 2025 Sasha McAuliffe

What if you wanted to be part of a living sandbox world that, given the opportunity, runs independent of your involvement but will react and change according to your actions? Such a game would be years away from those 16-bit days, right?

Wrong. It existed in 1991. Continue reading The Adventures of Robin Hood: The Forgotten Open-World Game Pioneer

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