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Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro Christmas Returns… Again!

December 14, 2020 paleotronic 0

Did you miss it last year? Well, here’s another chance to check out Paleotronic’s 12 years of Retro-Christmas, a series of 12 mini-mags looking back at consumer electronics covering the years 1980-1991. It was the [more…]

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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…]

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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…]

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Kill a Happy Face: The Mayhem of MIDI Maze, the first FPS

September 28, 2020 paleotronic 0

In the previous two issues of Paleotronic I have written about RPG games, their origins, the games credited with being the first of their kinds on home computers in the RPG video gaming category. Midi [more…]

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The Story of Jack and Jay: An 8-Bit Fairy Tale

January 12, 2020 paleotronic 0

Once upon a time… …in a land far away lived Jack and Jay. Jack was the Commander of an armada known as  Commodore, while Jay was a Grand Wizard in the royal court of the [more…]

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Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro-Christmas Returns!

December 14, 2019 paleotronic 0

Did you miss it last year? Well, here’s another chance to check out Paleotronic’s 12 years of Retro-Christmas, a series of 12 mini-mags looking back at consumer electronics covering the years 1980-1991. It was the [more…]

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Christmas Lemmings!

December 13, 2019 paleotronic 0

My task, should I accept (and you did – Ed) was to write an article about Christmas Lemmings as a segue into Lemmings in general. The reason behind this, is simply to meet my brief [more…]

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Top Ten Retro Party Games!

December 10, 2019 paleotronic 0

At the time of writing, the holidays are almost upon us. At this time of year we usually have friends over for some food, talk and games. This is where it gets a bit awkward, [more…]

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A Bicycle Named Stella

October 11, 2019 paleotronic 0

The second prong of Bushnell’s two-pronged effort to bring arcade games to more children was a secret project codenamed Stella. In 1975 Atari had successfully converted its smash-hit Pong arcade machine into a home version, [more…]

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

October 8, 2019 paleotronic 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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All things spooky are explored in our final issue…

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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