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videogame history
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a meditation on videogame (w/ occasional technology and web) history. donate to my ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/moshboy/ also find me on mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@moshboy nfaq: https://pastebin.com/vUmrYKx6
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tales of mystery, back cover screenshot, commodore 64 (1984) www.mocagh.org/loadpage.php...
a graphic of a grinning white ghost in a doorway, holding its arms/hands up, something in one of its hands.
November 10, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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maxell floppy disks, print ad (1996) archive.org/details/Mac-...
imagery is a woman in pink, holding up a piece of paper or sign with what looks like a cute pixelated black cat drawn on it with a pink love heart in front of its face and the word 'lucky' printed in pink. it also has the name reiko chiba printed/signed on it, who, according to wikipedia is a "japanese actress, voice actress, gravure idol, and occasional j-pop singer." so that's who the woman is.
November 10, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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stairway to hell, amstrad cpc (1988) www.mobygames.com/game/211006/...
chickenshit indiana jones-like dude w/ a line of bullets strung over his shoulder and around his body, has quit the game before he even started and is running away from the stairway to hell (through the jungle), the entrance of which is a huge stone skull with glowing red eye sockets, surrounded by stone pillars. the entrance is blocked by a devilish monkey-like creature hanging on a vine(?) and another that is peeking its head around the corner of the inner entrance.
November 10, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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mario paint, magazine screenshot, recreation of a scene from star fox, snes (1993) archive.org/details/Nint...
small winged craft facing off against a large grey shaded polygon head. background is curved browns, oranges.
November 10, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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magazine screenshot (1987) archive.org/details/MSX-...
decapitated bloody hand and almost skeletal head in a puddle of blood. the almost skeletal head has its eyes knocked out and in the blood.
November 10, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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akira, $5 rebate card, included w/ the 1994 vhs release of the movie. the rebate was to be obtained via proof of both vhs & 16-bit video game purchase. although the game was intended for release on various systems in 1994, it was cancelled. lostmediawiki.com/Akira_(parti...
akira title font (big black english letters, lightly overlaid with red japanese) with the protagonist on his red futuristic bike above. blurry night city can be seen in the background. text: coming soon to your 16-bit home gaming systems $5.00 rebate when you buy an akira home video & an akira 16-bit video game (details on back)
November 9, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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computer graphics (2000) web.archive.org/web/20000407...
two close-ups of woman's faces, one upside down, one right side up. the upside down woman has slightly longer hair, hanging down over her eyes, dark/black hair for both. only faces and necks visible. expressions neutral. by takuya tanaka w/ lightwave 3d.
November 9, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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carmageddon 2: carpocalypse now, modified car skins, pc (2003) web.archive.org/web/20030814...
3d red brown car with a skull on the side. black beetle(?) with a red skull on the side. black monster truck with huge, chunky wheels with a large white skull on the hood and a smaller but still large white skull on the side. a sports car that looks like its made up of a bunch of pieces of rusted metal. it has a small black skull on the front of the hood.
November 9, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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magazine screenshot (2000) archive.org/details/inte...
a screenshot of a browser application (on shockwave.com) called south park toonmaker text: create your own cool toons and send them to your friends on the right: the south park kids and chef, standing on a road with snow and snowy trees behind.
November 9, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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infocom, game studio, catalog, back, excerpt (1983) archive.org/details/vgmu...
black outlined image of a human, standing outside, their arm on a computer on a desk, at sunset time, trees/shrubs around. text" "a human never stands so tall as when stooping to help a small computer." -infocom motto
November 9, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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thief: the dark project, screenshot, pc (1998) web.archive.org/web/20040825...
dark 3d first person environment, within a church. red robed/cloak skeletons with swords are in front of you.
November 9, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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derek yu's top ten favorite games (2002) www.classicgaming.com/blackeyesoft...
text: derek's top ten favorite games 10. star control II (pc) 9.. metal slug III (neo-geo) 8.. nethack (pc) 7.. final fantasy VI (snes) 6.. phantasy star II (sega genesis) 5.. castlevania: symphony of the night (playstation) 4.. doom II (pc) 3.. liero (pc) 2.. street fighter II: championship edition (snes) 1.. legend of zelda: a link to the past (snes) (bottom shows the same title as the top as a drop down menu, except it appears above).
November 9, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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shoshinkai software exhibition, tokyo, japan (1996) 'the spotlight was on n64, or "the evolving video game machine," as it was being touted by nintendo. a couple of examples of how the n64 might evolve in the future were on display at the show, including the 64dd.' web.archive.org/web/19961222...
the 64dd n64 peripheral is on display in a glass case on a stand (n64 sits on top 64dd). n64 signage is on the front of the stand. photo caption: our first look at the 64dd. we could look, but we couldn't touch. zoomed out display of the 64dd display with screens displayed above. attendees are wandering around or looking at the screens. a large n64 controller (attached to scaffolding) and n64 signage is above the screens. photo caption: this is the 64dd display from afar. this setup took pictures of show attendees, then mapped their likenesses in three dimensions on the screen.
November 8, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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simuleyes vr, print ad, excerpt (1996) archive.org/details/pc-e...
black text font on a white background: admittedly, without simuleyes vr, pc gaming only requires half the equipment. (below, on the right is a disembodied eyeball that almost looks real with a sludgy bit trailing behind it).
November 8, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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takanari suzuki (2005) '..programmer & doctor of medicine. in the early 1980s, he wrote unofficial conversions of popular arcade games for 8-bit computers (published in the japanese magazine i/o). he joined enix in 1983.' archive.org/details/ASCI... www.mobygames.com/person/37241...
takanari suzuki, holding up what looks like a scrap book of magazine material about regarding his time in the game industry, including the cover of an issue of i/o).
November 7, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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bothtec, game studio, print ad (1985) archive.org/details/logi...
a large illustration of a woman who has just fired a pistol (she is holding it downward and there is a small trail of gun smoke in the air). the japanese and english text to her right advertise bothtec's various games and software.
November 7, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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super street fighter II championship, tokyo, japan (1994) archive.org/details/the-...
a line of boys/young men sitting down in front of systems, watching super street fighter II match being played on a big screen, as well as some women employees in branded clothing, standing neatly up the back and people to the side. above the big screen is a large circular sign for the event. to the sides are lighting. four guys holding tall trophies of slightly varying degrees.
November 7, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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knightmare II: the maze of galious, boss, msx (1987) www.mobygames.com/game/19474/k...
in a room of grey brick walls and platforms is a large disembodied mouth, thick red lips, purple tongue, spitting out white things (teeth?). a tiny knight is off on the middle right platform. user interface is up the top.
November 7, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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super pitfall, magazine screenshot, famicom (1986) archive.org/details/fami...
protagonist has falling down a small pit, sad mouth. to his left is a huge stone face. a ladder looks to be out of reach.
November 7, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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deep fear, magazine screenshot, sega saturn (1998) archive.org/details/sega...
camera has fingers streaks of blood down it, fingers at the bottom with other blood splattered on it. this obscures what the camera is showing. a man is standing, looking down (the camera is at a low point). the faint reflection or overlay of a pair of large eyes can be seen. the room looks like it has metallic or concrete walls.
November 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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magazine screenshot (1995) archive.org/details/the-...
a thicc standing pig, dressed in shades of blue, holding a red tennis racquet, very large kinda flat feet.
November 6, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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skull & crossbones, universal kit installation instructions, excerpt, screenshot, arcade (1989) archive.org/details/skul...
vicious pixelized naked skeleton, wielding a sword, thrusting it in a forward motion to the left.
November 6, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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electronic arts, game studio, multiplayer matchup, banner, from the official website (1997) web.archive.org/web/19970605...
one computer on either side of the hyperlink web banner connected by bolts of electricity. inbetween white text font overlaid: multiplayer matchup click here !
November 6, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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illustration, login, magazine (1984) archive.org/details/logi...
a computer with arms, hands, legs and feet, holding a mostly empty bottle of sake, screen is a face, eyes are x's inside circles, screen is mostly full of liquid. implication is that the computer is drunk.
November 5, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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print ad screenshot (1984) archive.org/details/logi...
black haired person, wearing glasses and a yellow top with blue straps is standing next to a desk with a computer on it with two vertical disk drives.
November 5, 2025 at 4:57 AM