The Rise and Fall of the Lone Game Developer – Holy Ghost Stories
In the early 80s, all it took to make a game was a computer, some graph paper, and a lot of determination.
triumph of the nerds
Computer Plant Life
"Thе Commodore РЕТ offers you а safe passage through the primeval swamр of computerization," says the ad copy accompanying this uncredited illustration in a June 1981 issue of Personal Computer World: That image and ad copy offers a perfect example of how most retro tech illustration works: Visualize the hell
Scientists Are Discovering Long-Lost Rules for Ancient Board Games
You can play reconstructions of ancient board games thanks to these scientists and their algorithms.
Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power since 1500
Explore how technical and social structures co-evolved over five centuries in this large-scale research visualization.
GameSpot's SIMply Divine: The Story of Maxis Software
GameSpot action adventure driving puzzle role-playing simulation sports strategy hardware
The hidden ‘rules of the game’ that dictate how we navigate the world | Psyche Videos
How free are we really, if human behaviour embodies the complex, intertwined webs of society and history?
The Art Of Marathon
A look at some of the work that went into one of the coolest-looking video games in recent memory
30 Years of Google Search Website Design History - 41 Images - Version Museum
A comprehensive visual history of Google.com from 1996 to 2026. See a gallery of the Google.com evolution from the beginning to present day.
What Was Alan Turing’s Imitation Game?
December 31, 2014 Picture: David Perry/Flickr.
Will Wright on Designing User Interfaces to Simulation Games (1996) (2023 Video Update)
A summary of Will Wright’s talk to Terry Winograd’s User Interface Class at Stanford, written in 1996 by Don Hopkins, before they worked…
Web Design Museum – Discover old websites, apps, software & Flash Games
Web Design Museum exhibits thousands of screenshots and videos of websites, apps, software, and Flash games from the 1990s to the late 2000s.
VC&G | » My memories of what life was like before the Internet
Adventures in vintage computers and retrogaming. Includes articles on classic games and obsolete computers.
Jeux | Every Game a Museum