You know the drill: if you've landed here first, you'll likely want to read Part I (at ...
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“What is a role-playing game?”
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 ...
10 PRINT NES
The 10 PRINT book is now available for purchase and download. Its full title is a single line of BASIC code, written for the ...
The Long Walk
Our gaming priorities change as we get older. In my late teens, when I purchased ...
The Famicom Cart Swap Trick
While researching my chapter on the US NES launch and subsequent game localizations, I came across Mato Tree's site. Mato does Japanese-to-English videogame translations ...
Porting the Kill Screen
The 2007 film King of Kong popularized much of the minutia of high-level arcade play. One scene showed underdog Steve Wiebe drawing Madden-esque diagrams ...
‘TV Game System Having Reduced Memory Needs,’ or A Lengthy Tour of NES Patents
If you've ever seen a Famicom alongside an NES, you might be shocked that they're the same system. The NES's older Japanese sibling is a ...
Tool-Assisted: Console Emulation and Platform Plasticity
Since the early 1990s, a special subculture of play, called speedruns, has pushed the limits of videogame skill, performance, and technical mastery. The aim of ...