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January 18, 2022

Box art for Dr. Sulfur’s Night Lab, courtesy of Stuart Feldhamer via MobyGames . Science is a tough subject for an educational game. Looking at a sample of edutainment games from the 80s and 90s, I’m willing to say that a large portion of them are about math, maybe because math is easier to…

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30-30.club - Baseball Video Games

A blog and wiki for baseball video games from around the globe. Blog posts cover both new and old games, with a deep interest in making foreign titles accessible and preserving information on forgotten, older titles.

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A Critical Hit!

Investigating forgotten gaming history, especially where it involves playable female protagonists.

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Aftermath

Free + Paid

A worker-owned, reader-supported news site covering video games, the internet, and the cultures that surround them.

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You Found a Secret Area!

Free + Paid

Writing about the mostly forgotten games and events in the world of video games and pop culture.

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Atari Archive

Articles on early video game history through the lens of the Atari Video Computer System's library, in chronological release order.

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Get Info

Game development, Japanese digs, Perservation, and related ongoing. By the developer of YOYOZO (only 39 KB and listed alongside Mario & Zelda as one of the "Best Games of 2023")

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Renga in Blue

Wherein I play and blog about every adventure game ever made in (nearly) chronological order.

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Citystate - Exploring Computer Games

Hello. My name is Robin, and this is my personal blog about computer games. Here you can find essays about old games I've played, industry commentary, a few freeware games I've made for fun, and Maraoke* parody song lyrics written by me. ( * https://maraoke.com/#what )

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Critical Reflection

Critical Reflection is an artzine for those who believe games can be poetry and that they carry meaning. That a procedurally generated cave can hold the weight of myth. That a glitch can be a ghost. That getting lost is sometimes not only the point, but the adventure.

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Springboard

Springboard is a weekly newsletter that covers Gaming, Tech, and Mental Health. Starting in 2024, there have been exclusive interviews with developers, from gaming to emulators, as well as insights into the making of Daryl's published books, including the upcoming release, 'The Making of Tomb Raider: 1997-2000'.

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Entertainium

Critical opinions about the world of video games, one article at a time.

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Games That Weren't

Games That Weren't is a long-running archive dedicated to cancelled and unreleased video games, prototypes and lost gaming history. Since 1999, we have been preserving rare information, assets and developer stories from across all eras of gaming.

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Gaming Alexandria

Website dedicated to scanning/preserving video games and their history.

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Good or Even Great Games

Fan translation and import gaming blog focusing on weird and underappreciated games.

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History of Hyrule

Zelda archivist & publication campaigner since 2001. Art, books, manga, the retro & rare. Into Zelda? I've quietly been the source for a lot of what you know.

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Hyrule Interviews

A large database of interviews with the people who made the Zelda games. We also have related databases of games, people, and quotes, and post daily quotes on social media.

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ICO Shrine

A website dedicated to exploring and detailing the content of, and promotional material for, ICO (2001); a PlayStation 2 cult classic that first demonstrated the philosophies of Fumito Ueda, the esteemed game designer.

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Innerspiral

I mostly talk about gaming, but also the art and the internet as a whole. Come by and say hi! :3

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JammArcade

JAMMArcade.net is a comprehensive online resource dedicated to the preservation, troubleshooting, and repair of classic arcade game hardware. The website primarily features detailed repair logs where technicians document their step-by-step processes for diagnosing and fixing various arcade boards. The site also offers a wealth of technical resources including a PCB encyclopedia, diagnostic tools, capacitor lists and other miscellaneous files.

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killjoy. with will butler

Writing on videogames and the ways they break our hearts.

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