Remember Sports Games Consoles? (The First Home Video Game System I Ever Played)
While I am delighted with my retro computer and console collection, there is one item missing that causes me sadness. My childhood “TV Sports System”
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What Next for the RetroPie? (My RetroPie is rapidly becoming Retro)
Like most people who are into retro gaming, I have long been a fan of the RetroPie. I would say there are a few categories of retro gamer and I am in multiple: Desktop computer emulation Raspberry Pi/Android-based emulation “Mini” and recreation (eg. TheC64) MiSTer FPGA “Premium” retro consoles (eg. Arcade 1UP) One of the …
Which Retro game can you still play for hours?
I just received in the mail one of my favourite games of all time. Originally Berzerk (I didn’t realize the spelling until now) was an arcade game, and as well as the Atari VCS/2600 version here, it was ported to many, many systems, both officially licensed and ripped-off. My first in-depth experience was playing a …
Which movies inspired your interest in computers?
Can you remember any movies that stand out as inspiring your interest in computers as a kid? For me one of them has to be WarGames: David Lightman (played by Matthew Broderick), is a young hacker who while searching for an unreleased game, unwittingly accesses a United States military supercomputer programmed to predict and execute …