Voiding your Sears warranty from 1977. As a follow-up to yesterday's post about my newly-acquired Tele-Games console, I thought I'd make ...
In my day, the console *was* the controller. As part of my 'Videogames and Procedural Media' course at VCU, I've been fortunate enough to have been ...
Despite its weird sci-fi veneer, Atari 2600 shooter Yars' Revenge is one of the greatest sports videogames ever made. Sorry Pitfall, Adventure, and Defender. No offense, ...
Deleuze in the Diving Bell I read B.K. Evenson's Dead Space: Martyr novel per the recommendations of some reading group friends. For those who know me, ...
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In Part I, I introduced the concept of spatial vectors as they apply to the opening screen ...
A design study Poring over NES and Famicom games for the past year and a half has led to a lot of thinking about game design ...
An informal genre survey. Pen-and-paper roleplaying games are a fascinating genre, hovering somewhere between storytelling, board games, gambling, genre fiction, and statistics. And thanks to their ...
Every Cold Run post in a single, tidy package For those of you clamoring for links to every Legend of Zelda cold run session in a ...