Atlas of video games: backdrops and maps from the classics
Jonathan Leung made The Video Game Atlas, a site that collects backdrops, maps, level art and other similar resources from…
Six-Sided Streets
Six-Sided Streets is a town-building puzzle game by Chris Krimowsky. The map is hex tiles, and the game feeds you…
Playing Doom on the teeniest-tiniest gaming machine
DOOM is often the “hello world” for what’s possible on hardware, particularly when there’s a screen and some button inputs.…
Exhaustive tour of video game bathrooms
Boing Boing reports: It’s been four years since Cory posted a supercut of video game bathrooms, but the industry hasn’t…
The evolution of snooker video games
Boing Boing reports: Starting with a 1984 version of snooker (kind of like pool with more balls and smaller pockets)…
Microsoft Solitaire enters video game hall of fame
Included free of charge with Windows since 1990, Microsoft Solitaire has finally achieved immortality in the World Video Game Hall…
Mega Man 8-bit Deathmatch
My friend Tom recommends Mega Man 8-bit Deathmatch, a free project created by CutmanMike and Team MM8BDM who consist of…
Artificial intelligence finds surprising solution to Q*bert
Artificial intelligence sometimes solves problems using solutions which surprise humans. I find this quality charming — menacing*, but charming. The…
Carrion: you are the alien blob monster
This looks like fun: in Carrion, you play an alien blob monster, hunting and devouring humans in a failing space…
Stone Story RPG uses text-based animation
Stone Story is an RPG with clever text-based ascii animations, combining old-school visual style with current-day gameplay. From the developer:…