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A Critical Look At The Interactive Artbook “The Making Of Karateka”

May 6, 2024

Last Summer, game developer Digital Eclipse released The Making Of Karateka , a cross between a documentary, an artbook, a museum gallery, and a game collection, that details the story of the game Jordan Mechner created before Prince Of Persia . It’s the first installment in what Digital Eclipse is…

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

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aquova.net

A professional nerd who spends way too much time thinking about old hardware you've never heard of.

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Arcade Heroes

A blog established in 2006 that is dedicated to the coin-operated/pay-to-play video game & pinball industry. New game announcements, new location announcements, interest articles on the industry, etc. Written from the human point of view (no AI) of both players and arcade operators.

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You Found a Secret Area!

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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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Ausretrogamer

Spreading the nostalgic vibe of everything retro from the 80s, 90s & 00s, plus a sprinkle of contemporary pop culture.

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BB's Backlog Challenge

Clearing my games backlog by playing a random title for one hour before reviewing it. I dearly wish I had given it a better name.

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birthbydrip

Lean game critique and essays on formalism and methods of representation. Primarily mechanical breakdowns, although there's occasional narrative, thematic, or aesthetic analysis as well. Extra attention is given to action-puzzle titles, unusual arcade releases, and other games from the '90s and '00s. As informative as possible in 1000 words or less (most of the time)!

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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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CD-ROM Journal

Exploring multimedia games and software of the 90s and beyond.

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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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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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Tain's Game Log

My thoughts on gaming and games I'm playing, old and new, as I play them. I lean toward action games and am particularly interested in single-credit clearing arcade games. Posts sometimes include videos of my 1CCs.

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Distant Arcade

Future blogger fun time video games action. Distant Arcade is a gaming blog where we discuss video games from the past, present, and future with a focus on just writing about whatever’s on our mind.

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DOS Game Club

DOS Game Club is a monthly online discussion and roundtable podcast. Like a book club, we pick a DOS game each month, discuss it on our forums with the community and invite 2-3 people to our podcast about it.

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Entertainium

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

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Ephemeral Enigmas

Ephemeral Enigmas is all about giving offbeat, obscure, and forgotten games another look. The goal is to provide the deepest and most entertaining analysis I can muster for games that rarely get a fair shake while also providing my personal spin on things. Just about anything goes on this blog, so if you like learning about a very wide range of games (and don't mind lengthy rambles), you'll want to check in every week!

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exp.

Free + Paid

Established 2009, an independent video game magazine by Mathew Kumar. exp. covers both retro, critiquing games from a modern lens but with the context of history, and new releases, with the keen eye of a game designer.

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