Paku Paku, a one-button "one-dimensional" Pac-Man game (abagames.github.io)
Link's Awakening DX HD - a PC port of the GBC game with multiple enhancements (linksawakeningdxhd.itch.io)
How Popeye Changed Video Games — Thrilling Tales of Old Video Games (www.thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com)
Out-of-Print Archive • Preserving Classic Gaming Articles (www.outofprintarchive.com)
Cool site I stumbled upon! I never read any gaming magazines back in the day so this is really neat to be able to look through.
Ever wanted to play nethack on your phone? This apk is updated to 3.6.6 and runs on modern android devices! (github.com)
NGL, mobile interface takes a minute to get used to, but it works surprisingly well
Urban Dead - A Free Massively Multi-Player Web-Based Zombie Apocalypse (www.urbandead.com)
I played this game so much back in the day. It was one of the few sites not blocked by my school and I thought the idea of having so many action points to use in a given day was really cool. Usually played as a zombie as it is very fun to break down a barricade and deal a bunch of damage. The community is mostly gone but it...
AYANEO REMAKE Collection Unveiled: A Celebration of Retro Gaming Culture (theinspirationgrid.com)
Cool collection of retro consoles! I’ve never owned a MAC so the apple 1 inspired one is very cool to me.
Choicebeat - a zine that "covers text-heavy, choice-heavy digital games from around the world" (choicebeat.wordpress.com)
DOS Game Club - a site/community for playing and discussing DOS games, including a featured game of the month every month! (www.dosgameclub.com)
Stumbled across this today and I think its awesome! No affiliation between this gameclub and that one, just similar names.
An article from 2007 about a woman who accidentally finds out she's a world champion Tetris player. (archive.boston.com)
Maybe you’ve heard this one before, but somehow I’m learning about this for the first time today and I think the story is pretty dang charming. What starts as a journalist interviewing a Twin Galaxies ref for a story results in his wife breaking the world record for Tetris DX.
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith – The Almighty Backlog (thealmightybacklog.com)
The Subtle Art of the Jump Scare (cohost.org)
A Cohost post from user PhormTheGenie. I haven’t played Rescue on Fractalus myself, but I’ve definitely heard people talk about the big twist.
Interview with Dwarf Fortress devs from 12 years ago (archive.ph)
Found on Mastadon, this is back before the game was as big as it is now
Satebo's Wordgame - A homebrew Wordle for the SNES Satellaview (krokodyl.github.io)
Early designs for Mario had him using a gun (thelinguistgamer.wordpress.com)
How the Hapland games were converted from flash to C++ (foon.uk)
Club Nintendo Archives - neocities (clubnintendoarchives.neocities.org)
Unearthed: Kirschen's Apple II games for Gesher (breakintochat.com)
Young Scrolls - musician creating fantastic tracks using vocals from the Elder Scrolls games (youngscrolls.bandcamp.com)
Young Scrolls creates tracks using voice clips mostly from Elder Scrolls games. If you have never heard their music I would recommend Dagothwave, The Fine or Balmora Blue off of this album....
Fixing E.T. for the Atari 2600 (www.neocomputer.org)
I’ve actually played the fix, and while its still not an amazing game, its pretty decent for the 2600.
Japanese Obscurities - articles by Hardcore Gaming 101 (www.hardcoregaming101.net)
Really cool series of articles going over some Japanese games you have probably never heard of. As a retro pixel art fan this feels like a gold mine.
Triple Jump: A platformer multi-cartridge for the NES by Morphcat Games — Kickstarter (www.kickstarter.com)
I think its awesome devs are still releasing games for retro consoles. NES is my favorite sytem and I think these games look fantastic.