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Chip to be Scared: the BBC Radiophonic Workshop

October 14, 2020 paleotronic 0

As a child born in the seventies and who grew up in the eighties one of my biggest memories is of the long running BBC science fiction show Doctor Who. It was pretty much always [more…]

Nintendo

The Vampire’s Inn: Castlevania

October 13, 2020 paleotronic 0

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…]

Consumer Electronics

Gerbil in a Microwave: Radio Death Rays!

October 12, 2020 paleotronic 0

In 1999, the Internet went nuclear over an Macromedia Flash animation that allowed the user to microwave a cartoon gerbil until it exploded! Joe Cartoon was a website created by Joseph Shields that featured crude [more…]

History

The Big Shock: Electrocution’s use to save lives – or end them

October 11, 2020 paleotronic 0

The words “electroshock therapy” tend to conjure images of darkened rooms in insane asylums where inmates are mercilessly tortured via electrocution. But this is largely an unfair construction of Hollywood movies and television shows, out [more…]

History

Rabid Arcade Rats: Scary Arcade Games

October 10, 2020 paleotronic 0

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…]

Computers

The Scourge of Windows Millennium Edition

October 9, 2020 paleotronic 0

MSDOS-based versions of Microsoft Windows, such as Windows 95 and Windows 98, had notorious stability problems, due in large part to their mixing of 16-bit and 32-bit application code (in order to maintain compatibility with [more…]

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Loading… Ready, RUN for your life!

October 8, 2020 paleotronic 0

Welcome to our computer laboratory of horrors! Come as we take a tour of some of 8-bit computing’s most unloved monstrosities. Our terrors today come in two categories: First, you may not know this, but [more…]

Atari

Pumpkin’ Playas: More Tricks than Treats

October 7, 2020 paleotronic 0

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…]

Nintendo

Gadget Graveyard: The Nintendo Virtual Boy

October 6, 2020 paleotronic 0

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…]

Computers

Gremlins, Goonies and Ghostbusters: A Trio of Terrifying Movie Games

October 5, 2020 paleotronic 0

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…]

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Our Holiday issue explored The Print Shop, Christmas and Party games and much, much more!

turtleSpaces 3D Logo Interpreter

turtleSpaces is a new expanded implementation of LCSI Apple Logo II that features 3D OpenGL graphics, shapes, lights, cameras, location detection, multiple turtles and much, much more! Great for teaching kids how to code. Check it out at turtlespaces.org

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Atari

The Big Cheese: How a Pizza Rat changed the image of video arcades from famously fiendish to family friendly

October 8, 2019 0

Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell was facing a serious conundrum. His ‘video computer system’, a cartridge-based home video-game console designed to play versions of popular Atari arcade games, was certain to be a big hit, but [more…]

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