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Monthly Archive for December, 2014

Holiday memories from The History of Personal Computing podcast

Holiday memories from The History of Personal Computing podcast

Dec 24, 2014

The History of Personal Computing podcast, hosted by Jeff Salzman and David Greelish, has a special holiday episode, entitled: Special Episode: Holiday Memories. In the podcast, holiday memories for various computer- and videogame-related gifts are recounted, with segments from several different contributors. I contribute the second segment, where I talk about receiving my first printer, a Commodore...

Videogame Documentary “Gameplay” Premieres Exclusively on Vutopia in January!

Videogame Documentary “Gameplay” Premieres Exclusively on Vutopia in January!

Dec 22, 2014

Our feature film documentary, Gameplay: The Story of the Videogame Revolution, in partnership with Gravitas Ventures, will have an exclusive 30 day premiere on Vutopia. The premiere will begin on January 6, 2015, and run through February 6, 2015. Vutopia is the movie lover’s ultimate destination. It’s all of your favorite movies On Demand, available...

Nova Phase, a new digital comic inspired by 16-bit videogames

Nova Phase, a new digital comic inspired by 16-bit videogames

Dec 18, 2014

Described simply as a "treasure hunt in space with old school video game graphics," Nova Phase is a creator-owned six issue digital comic series created by writer Matthew Ritter and artist Adam Elbatiny. A better description is a pixel art space western, and, having personally reviewed the first four issues,...

New power supply for the Coleco Adam

New power supply for the Coleco Adam

Dec 16, 2014

Thanks to enterprising hardware hacker, Rey Lopez, there is now a new replacement for the Coleco Adam's power supply, which, if you're unaware, was placed inside its enormous printer. Many modern users of the Coleco Adam, such as myself, have typically pulled the power supply out of the Adam's printer...

Hemingwrite Kickstarter and the promise of distraction-free writing

Hemingwrite Kickstarter and the promise of distraction-free writing

Dec 11, 2014

As a professional writer, the new Hemingwrite Kickstarter certainly caught my eye. Its tagline is "A Distraction Free Digital Typewriter," which certainly has its appeal. I can speak from both my own personal and extended social experiences with fellow writers that the collective we often like to romanticize the concept of...

Review of Lamb Chops! and Retro Fever for the Apple II

Review of Lamb Chops! and Retro Fever for the Apple II

Dec 8, 2014

NOTE: A version of this review appeared in issue 6 of RETRO Videogame Magazine. The Apple II series of computers, which first came to market in June 1977, and didn’t end production until November 1994, were a premiere videogame platform throughout most of the 1980s. What’s interesting is that, as...

A quick look back on the Sony PlayStation’s 20th Anniversary

A quick look back on the Sony PlayStation’s 20th Anniversary

Dec 7, 2014

Inspired by my colleague's video of his thoughts on the Sony PlayStation's 20th anniversary, I thought I would share my own remembrances. The original PlayStation console was released on December 3, 1994, in Japan, and in the US on September 9, 1995. While it was on the latter date that I...

The design of the Nintendo 3DS was rendered back in 1983!

The design of the Nintendo 3DS was rendered back in 1983!

Dec 3, 2014

Thanks to Kris Pyrz in the Facebook Group, I Am a Classic Videogamer, for the heads-up on a rendering of Palmtex's PVS handheld videogame system in the May 1983 issue of Video Game magazine. Here's what the bottom half of page 10 of that issue looks like: Notice anything familiar?...

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