Tag: Arcade game
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Francis Lung – 2p Machine
Every once in a while – in fact rarely, a song stops you in your tracks. This happened today with ‘2p Machine’ by Francis Lung…A wonderful magical story of Sasha and the 2p Machine – oh I was obsessed with those tuppenny falls as a kid too – something very magic realist about this, and…
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The Art of Atari
I’m not sure if today’s generation realise the wonder of arcade and home console/computer game art, travelling into a world of Chris Foss and pulp sci-fi covers crossed with D&D fantasy, cutesy pop art and plain Robert Crumb psychedelic strangeness. The thrill of seeing new worlds, and being able to travel to them on your…
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RC 267: 16-bit Show Part 1 – Dungeon Nightmares
A long awaited (well by me anyway) sequel to the 8-bit Show, here’s double (or in some cases quadruple) the bits, and double the show if you listened to the stream last Wednesday since this is the new improved DLC extended version. EXTEND! NICE 1P! CHECKPOINT! This part is mostly about the video game music…
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RC 248: 8-Bit Music Machine
In the 1980′ and 90’s I like most of my friends spent many hours programming, creating rudimentary digital pictures (I had a mouse for my Spectrum!), playing games and trying to get something vaguely musical from said microcomputers. So in honour of my 8-bit and 16-bit music days, here is a 8-bit/16-bit music special of…
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Let’s Play Global Thermonuclear War
Professor Falken, If you’re bored with GeoGuessr or the Image Atari Breakout you can play a game of Global Thermonuclear War. Well see it played in a haunting video “1945-1998” by Isao Hashimoto. Every nuclear explosion or test, 1945-1998. Scary and sometimes surprising stuff – I had no idea that Britain had detonated 44 nuclear…
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1P Insert Coin to begin! Amazing coin animation
Love the 3D and the how-to at the end…painstaking yet ingenious…and harks back to the days when it was 10p silver coins to play Battlezone and Donkey Kong and the like! Loads of arcade history references here, from Pacman to Doom-type games. (via Boing Boing)