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The Golden Age Arcade Historian
Personal blog · allincolorforaquarter.blogspot.comgameshistory
The Golden Age Arcade Historian is a personal blog at allincolorforaquarter.blogspot.com about games and history. Since 2016, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for arcade and video game history, including Spacewar-era vector displays, Amiga history and early Blockade and Snake games. Commenters also cite its posts as sources.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A blog dedicted to the history of arcade video games from the bronze and golden ages (1971-1984).
What Hacker News says?
It all goes back to Spacewar. It used a DEC Type 30 display, which was like a vector display except it drew individual dots. Larry Rosenthal made the first cheap vector game system from the guts of an old TV and a custom TTL CPU, to play Spacewar: https://allincolorforaquarter.blogspot.com/2012/11/at-end-of...
Comment linking /2012/11/at-end-of-part-1-cinematronics-was-in.html
on “Atari Tempest: Dave Theurer’s Masterpiece”Submitted The 1982 Wizard vs. Wizards Tournament – eSport's forgotten competition as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> If you had more quarters to spare in Pac-Man, Definitely. And just to dilute simplistic points of view, there were also books published designed to teach the secrets to beating these games in part to spend less money on them . [1] One was even published by Consumer Reports.. [1] http://allincolorforaquarter.blogspot.com/2012/12/golden-age... But the author has already bought into the frame that playing the game ac…
Comment linking /2012/12/golden-age-arcade-video-game-books.html
on “Digital Capitalism’s War on Leisure”Submitted Nasir Gebelli and the early days of Sirius Software (2015) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis site is really great for people interesting in gaming history. Another of my favorites is The Golden Age Arcade Historian http://allincolorforaquarter.blogspot.com/ although he hasn't updated since November so I wonder if he's given up on it or something happened to him.
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on “The Pinball Wizard (2013)”Not much information there. Not even a date of birth. Here's another interview with him. http://allincolorforaquarter.blogspot.com/2012/09/dave-needl...
Comment linking /2012/09/dave-needles-one-of-kind-federation.html
on “Dave Needle and the Story of the Amiga Computer [video]”Tetris: the author's childhood playing pentominoes[0] Angry Birds: "a sketch of stylized wingless birds[1]", apparently, and games using that basic physics go back ages, and are inspired by cannon warfare[2] Snake: all Snake games are based on Blockade, published by Gremlin industries, where I found this[3] on an interesting site HN might like "[Lane Hauck] While we were designing wall games, I was tinkering in the…
Comment linking /2015/09/the-ultimate-so-far-history-of-gremlin_25.html
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