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…]
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…]
The 1980s are famous for its horror-action-comedy movies, three of the most well-recognised being Gremlins, Goonies and Ghostbusters. Of course, given their popularity, they all had computer games made for them as well! Let’s take [more…]
While Asian manufacturers were feverishly working on perfecting videotape, American RCA was working on a videodisc system – not a laserdisc system, which did not contact the surface of the disc, but instead a system [more…]
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…]
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…]
In the beginning, there was the void. The void was black nothingness. Then, there was the pixel. It was white (or orange, or green) and there could be more than one of them (but all [more…]
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