Exposing my socks to the world

MAME is an emulator for a lot of arcade games. A version of the emulator is available for almost every platform imaginable, even the Kodak DC265 Digita OS based digital camera.



So now our cameras can run games that could only exist in arcades a few years ago… What’s next? NES games on playing cards, I suppose.

If you’ve never hunted a wumpus, you should really give it a try.



Clone of the original text-based game that runs in DOS,



A Flash-based adaptation

It’s not something that crosses my mind often, but there are actually females that play games. Three of my cousins and my sister, all of whom are females, are gamers, so I know there has to be more of them out there. But women who design and even program games are rarer still. It’s still amazing to me that after all this time female programmers are virtually unheard of.



The only other prominent female video game figure I could find was Dona Bailey who was the designer for the arcade game Centipede.



There have to be more out there.



Other River Raid links:

• River Raid
• The Many Faces of River Raid

Mr. Crane was the programmer behind Pitfall! (as well as several other games for the Atari 2600) , and A boy and his Blob(maybe not remembered as fondly as the others).



Here is another interview with him.



Mr Crane is apparently now working at Skyworks Technologies, making games on a contractual basis.

To take the guess work out of creating games, I have begun compiling How-To guides.



Up first is How to make an RPG.

The Azure Heights Pokémon Laboratory has way, way more information about the Pokémon in the Red, Blue, and Yellow Pokémon games than is healthy.

Really great for research, though.

Space Shuttle Project for the NES is a simulation of virtually all aspects of launching and flying a space shuttle.



It’s every bit as exciting as it sounds.

I remember renting Shatterhand several years ago and really not liking it.



Apparently, I’m in the minority on that: that game gets favorable reviews here, here, here, and several other places.



I just can’t find a bad review of this game, am I really the only person who didn’t like it?

I will be attending AsylumLAN 11 this weekend.



Regular updates should resume on Monday!



-basscomm

Shadowgate is one of those kind of games that you really like, or you really don’t. Fortunately, I liked it when I bought it for my Game Boy Color.



The official site has a lot of information on this series of games.



They also have a lot of information on another good NES/Game Boy Color game, Deja Vu.