‘Game History’ Archives
Ten Most Significant Games
It's time again for another Top 10 list and the fine folks at CrispyGamer have provided just that. There's not much for me to say other than CHECK OUT THIS LINK
Wolf3D = 16
So here I sit, typing this update on my MacBook, an amazing Apple product, writing about a game I worked on 16 years ago which just happened to be a mere 3 years after I stopped writing for my first Apple love, the Apple II platform. It's been a long time between heavy use of Apple products but now is the time for me to fully switch back into [...]
Blue Oyster Cult Loves Star Blazer?
I was watching some of my favorite Blue Oyster Cult vids on YouTube and when I started up "Take Me Away" I was amazed to see someone playing Tony Suzuki's Star Blazer on a green-screen Apple ]
Happy 17th Birthday, Keen!
As if DOOM wasn't old enough to make me feel my age now it's Commander Keen's birthday and I'm REALLY feelin' it. Today I'll just do a combo birthday announcement for the 1st and 2nd Keen trilogies (1-3 and 4-6) since Keen 4-6 was released on December 15th, 1991 and will be 16 years old. They're like big, old babies! LOL. If you'd like to [...]
Happy 14th Birthday, DOOM!
It's that time of year again; time to raise a toast to the venerable DOOM. Blue's News has a nice comment about DOOM. Also, check out DoomWorld for the official site celebration. I don't really have anything new to say except that working on DOOM was still one of the true highlights of my gaming career. Until you actually work on something as [...]
R.I.P. John J. Anderson
One of my favorite writers and game authors from the 80's was John J. Anderson. I first got acquainted with John from his excellent game Sea Dragon (published by Scott Adam's company Adventure International) and then Eliminator. I used to read his columns in Creative Computing magazine and he was a very bright guy, crossing over between the [...]
The Fracas Reveal
Some of you may have noticed one of the random messages along the top has been "Stuart Smith, where are you?" I am, of course, referring to the author of the great Adventure Construction Set and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves from Quality Software. One of my small hobbies is locating lost greats from the dawn of the game industry with most of [...]
