The Gentrification of Video Game History

Play old games: They're good and good for you

With prices skyrocketing and more and more bad news about contemporary video games every day, here's a suggestion: play old games!

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Adventures in vintage computers and retrogaming. Includes articles on classic games and obsolete computers.

Our Longing for Inconvenience

People are pining for old technologies—CD players, VCRs, Walkmans. What’s behind our longing for inconvenience?

Retro Games Fan? Atari's $180 Gamestation Go Is Up for Preorder

The company says the console will include 200 games and lots of ways to control them.

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I thought I'd make two of these three classic games available here for people who's old Apples no longer work, only have a PC to use and want a nostalgic trip back to when fuel and beer were cheap, darts were dangerous and everyone was smiling.

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Game and Software Preservation

'The Drama' and the microgenerational digital divide

PLUS: The "forklift model" of A.I. education

This Gamescom Showcase Did A Lot Of Games Dirty

Sorry to anyone who wasn’t Square Enix or CD Projekt Red

Ico, disruptive game design, and experiences that live forever.

100 updates later. Why we enjoy games, why we stop, and how live game design might bring us back.

Child’s Play, by Sam Kriss

Tech’s new generation and the end of thinking

R36S Draagbare Console - 20.000+ Retro Games | Officiële Site

Ontdek de R36S draagbare console met meer dan 20.000 klassieke retro games. Gratis verzending.

This 1986 Japanese adventure game showing up on Steam in 2026 guarantees it makes my GOTY list—you've really got to play it

Relics doesn't belong in a museum: it belongs on your PC.

The End of Software

To understand how software will change, we can benefit from studying how technology has changed other industries. History tends to rhyme, if you listen. Before the internet, media behaved very differently—it was expensive to create. You had to pay people to make content, edit it, and distribute ...