I'm Remembering has pics of things that people aged 30-40 will remember from their childhood and adolescence. Who could forget
Tiger Handheld games,
Hypercolor shirts,
Paint With Water books,
Surge soda,
Scholastic Book Club,
Slice cola,
Madballs,
Ring Pops, and, last but not least,
Zack Morris's cellphone?
posted by reenum
on Oct 3, 2010 -
136 comments
Did you grow up anticipating sports where death would be likely, if not certain? Almost certainly played by convicts, possibly with robot limbs? And which would be even more likely to have chainsaws and flamethrowers not usually found in the sports of today?
Those We Left Behind’s look at Future-sports of the past, in
videogames,
movies and
comics is for you!
posted by Artw
on Sep 11, 2008 -
41 comments
Steem is an
Atari ST emulator for Windows and Linux that is very simple and user-friendly. More details on installing are in a helpful
beginner's guide, but you're probably most interested in the
games, of which there are lots [more inside].
posted by greycap
on Apr 1, 2007 -
22 comments
c64s is a pretty amazing site. Much of the popularity of the old c64 was in its wide array of games and this site offers a way to play most of the popular ones all in your browser (in java). Waste time today by reliving those old early 80s memories.
posted by mathowie
on Jan 23, 2006 -
44 comments
Doom ,
Doom2,
Duke Nukem 3d,
Heretic,
Hexen,
Hexen II,
Quake,
Quake 2,
Return to Castle Wolfenstein : Enemy Territory, plus
dozens more.
posted by crunchland
on Feb 21, 2005 -
20 comments
A Scranton, PA man is
auctioning 250,000 pieces of software mostly games from the 80s and early 90s
composed of around 20,000
unique titles (2MB Excel Spreadsheet) for $250,000. He says its the worlds biggest collection and many games are rare and in
demand. You will need trucks and warehouse. If anyone can afford to sit on these for a few decades untill the 80s generation gets old and nostalgic it could be the
Schoyen of early computer gameing software.
posted by stbalbach
on Sep 8, 2002 -
16 comments
Save pinball! "It's an American icon," said Stern, ever the salesman. "Pinball is cool because it is retro. It's a Volkswagen bug, a PT Cruiser, khaki pants."
posted by justgary
on Aug 3, 2002 -
23 comments
The giant list of classic computer programmers takes you back to a time when one person could realistically author a computer game and have it published. Of course most of the people on this list will have worked on small teams to produce games, but the diversity of the games on these people's resumes is awesome. In particular, I notice Michael Cranford (responsible for The Bard's Tale I and II, the Centauri Alliance, and ports of Donkey Kong and Super Zaxxon) and Robert Woodhead (Wizardry 1-5). As an interesting sidenote, Robert Woodhead went on to
Animeigo, a japanese animation publishing company in the US. What memories of these old sk00l games do you have?
posted by moz
on Jul 6, 2001 -
34 comments
Remember the old Sierra Games? Remember back in the early 80's when
King Quest hit the streets? Did you ever think to your self how they created that game? Sierra used a gaming engine called Adventure Gaming Interpreter, or AGI for short, for many of their popular adventure games. This engine which was "hacked" in the early to mid 90's, and there are groups of people that still develop games to be used with home made hacks of this engine. Find out how you can make your own games like KQ or take a look at what have people created or are creating right now,
here. There's even someone saying that they are porting the
hacked AGI stuff to Dreamcast.
-Ellis of the now dead Geeknews.com
posted by ellis
on Apr 5, 2001 -
19 comments
I found these FUTURE JOES (GI Joe 2010 series) while following a
link from
Rebecca Blood's site for the
Navajo Code Talker GI Joes. Perhaps it's showing my age, but I really want one. Of course, I also want some of the
Nisei soldiers so that I can reenact those POW camp scenarios that I used to subject my GI Joe to as a kid.
I know where the bodies are buried.
Hey, how come
The Grim Reaper Site didn't have questions about GI Joe?
Was your GI Joe a) home on leave when you were concieved b) 12" c) 12" with lifelike hair and beard and realistic scar d) 12" with Kung Fu Grip e) really an Action Man f) a little pussy 3" action figure g) $50 and from the "Collectible Collection"? h) dolls are for girls.
posted by CrazyUncleJoe
on Mar 3, 2000 -
9 comments
