halloween Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/tag/halloween/ Electronics, Computing and Videogame History! Mon, 12 Oct 2020 01:57:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 http://paleotronic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/cropped-keyicon-1-32x32.png halloween Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/tag/halloween/ 32 32 146320098 The Vampire’s Inn: Castlevania http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/13/the-vampires-inn-castlevania/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/13/the-vampires-inn-castlevania/#respond Tue, 13 Oct 2020 00:56:54 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=14793 No other video game franchise screams Halloween more than Castlevania. 33 years of Dracula whipping fun, quirkiness and extreme frustration has spanned more than 30 game releases of hunter versus vampire killing across various arcade, [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/13/the-vampires-inn-castlevania/feed/ 0 14793 Rabid Arcade Rats: Scary Arcade Games http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/10/rabid-arcade-rats-scary-arcade-games/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/10/rabid-arcade-rats-scary-arcade-games/#respond Sat, 10 Oct 2020 01:38:58 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=14710 As this issue of Paleotronic magazine is Halloween themed, being asked to write an article discussing the history of arcade horror games fits perfectly, even if you are not a big fan on the horror [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/10/rabid-arcade-rats-scary-arcade-games/feed/ 0 14710 Pumpkin’ Playas: More Tricks than Treats http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/07/pumpkin-playas-more-tricks-than-treats/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/07/pumpkin-playas-more-tricks-than-treats/#respond Tue, 06 Oct 2020 14:00:34 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=14481 Pac-Man was the hottest arcade game of 1981 and Atari saw an opportunity to capitalise on it with a VCS version… By the end of that year, people had pumped more money into Pac-Man machines [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/07/pumpkin-playas-more-tricks-than-treats/feed/ 0 14481 Gadget Graveyard: The Nintendo Virtual Boy http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/06/gadget-graveyard-the-nintendo-virtual-boy/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/06/gadget-graveyard-the-nintendo-virtual-boy/#respond Mon, 05 Oct 2020 14:00:23 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=14476 Computer and video game companies often dive into the deep end of innovation in a bid to capture the next big thing in gaming. The driving force is revenue, profits and capturing market share from [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/06/gadget-graveyard-the-nintendo-virtual-boy/feed/ 0 14476 The Crystal Ball: Frightening Futures http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/03/the-crystal-ball-frightening-futures/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/03/the-crystal-ball-frightening-futures/#respond Fri, 02 Oct 2020 14:00:04 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=14430 Realising that an entity of pure logic might pose a threat to humanity, science fiction author Isaac Asimov penned the above three laws for robots… they seem sensible enough, but what if, when the time [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/03/the-crystal-ball-frightening-futures/feed/ 0 14430 A Nightmare on Retro Street: Horror at Home http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/02/a-nightmare-on-retro-street-horror-at-home/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/02/a-nightmare-on-retro-street-horror-at-home/#respond Thu, 01 Oct 2020 14:00:52 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=14422 People love to be scared, and the forms of media we consume reflect that. From Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein to Capcom’s Resident Evil series, audiences have actively sought out fear in its various incarnations. It’s [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/02/a-nightmare-on-retro-street-horror-at-home/feed/ 0 14422 Tut-Tut – a new game for the ZX Spectrum http://paleotronic.com/2019/11/05/tut-tut-a-new-game-for-the-zx-spectrum/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/11/05/tut-tut-a-new-game-for-the-zx-spectrum/#respond Tue, 05 Nov 2019 06:58:16 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=8693 (Editor’s Note: David has also created a ZX81 version of Tut-Tut which is available from his blog: https://www.zx81keyboardadventure.com/2019/10/zx81-game-tut-tut.html) It’s coming to the end of 1921’s digging season in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings. Your excavations have [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/11/05/tut-tut-a-new-game-for-the-zx-spectrum/feed/ 0 8693 BACK from the DEAD! The Life, Death and Resurrection of Computer Art Group Mistigris http://paleotronic.com/2019/10/16/back-from-the-dead-the-life-death-and-resurrection-of-computer-art-group-mistigris/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/10/16/back-from-the-dead-the-life-death-and-resurrection-of-computer-art-group-mistigris/#respond Wed, 16 Oct 2019 02:28:29 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=8036 Art group Mistigris is famous for its Hallowe’en and Christmas packs. We had a chat with its founder, Rowan Lipkovits aka Cthulu, about how the group started, its resurrection, and why it’s still going almost [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/10/16/back-from-the-dead-the-life-death-and-resurrection-of-computer-art-group-mistigris/feed/ 0 8036 Arrgh Me Hearties: 1980s Pirates’ Letters of Marque http://paleotronic.com/2018/10/31/arrgh-me-hearties-1980s-pirates-letters-of-marque/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/10/31/arrgh-me-hearties-1980s-pirates-letters-of-marque/#respond Wed, 31 Oct 2018 05:12:07 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=1982 Yo Ho Ho and a Box of Copied Floppies! Here be a proverbial rogues’ gallery of clippings just in time for Hallowe’en from 1980s computer magazines such as Byte, Analog, Creative Computing, CoCo Mag, Computers [more...]

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