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Cat DeSpira
Personal blog · retrobitch.wordpress.comgameshistory
Cat DeSpira writes Retro Bitch, a personal blog at retrobitch.wordpress.com about games and history. Since 2019, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Pac-Man: How We Played the Game”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Cat DeSpira's retro computing and gaming history posts, such as the TV POWWWW cable TV post from 1979 and a Pac-Man player history. Commenters use them as related reading.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
by Cat DeSpira
Most-linked posts?
- Pac-Man: How We Played the Game3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-02-17
What Hacker News says?
Go back a generation before that and check out TV POWWWW. Yes, this was pretty hi-tech for 1979: https://retrobitch.wordpress.com/2017/06/16/tv-poww-the-earl...
Comment linking /2017/06/16/tv-poww-the-earliest-televised-video-game-competition-from-the-70s/
on “How the Commodore Amiga powered cable systems in the 90s”Submitted Pac-Man: How We Played the Game as a story · 115 points
HN discussionProps to this Mark Montag guy pulling a powerstance. https://retrobitch.wordpress.com/2019/02/12/pac-man-the-unto...
Comment linking /2019/02/12/pac-man-the-untold-story-of-how-we-really-played-the-game/the_oshkosh_northwestern_sat__jul_18__1981_/
on “Pac-Man: How We Played the Game”Submitted Pac-Man: The Untold Story of How We Played the Game as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pac-Man: The Untold Story of How We Played the Game as a story · 2 points
HN discussion