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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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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…]

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Paleotronic’s Top Ten Famous and Infamous Christmas-Themed Video Games

December 22, 2019 paleotronic 0

Christmas themed video games have always been a category of computer and console video gaming that has bewildered me. Often they have been very poor adaptations of a holiday season meant to bring about fond [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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GORF: The Great Oz Retro-Technology Festival

February 12, 2019 paleotronic 0

Spend four days enjoying the company of other retro-technology enthusiasts at GORF: the Great Oz Retro-Fest, at Urban Camp in Melbourne, Australia from April 24th-28th 2019. Modelled after the wildly-successful US KansasFest event, GORF is [more…]

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Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro-Christmas (Combined Download)

December 26, 2018 paleotronic 0

Our tour of electronic Christmas gifts past has concluded, but if you missed it, don’t worry! You can catch up by downloading all of the episodes in a single file via the link below. Download [more…]

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Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro-Christmas Year Twelve: 1991

December 24, 2018 paleotronic 0

Our twelfth instalment of our 12 Years of Retro-Christmas visit to the past includes the Super Nintendo, Sonic the Hedgehog and Lemmings! Click on each image for the full-sized copy or download the PDF Version

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Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro-Christmas Year Ten: 1989

December 23, 2018 paleotronic 0

Our tenth instalment of our 12 Years of Retro-Christmas visit to the past includes the Sega Megadrive / Genesis, handheld consoles, funky joysticks, Tetris and much more! Click on each image for the full-sized copy [more…]

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Shootout of the Video Game Systems: The Age of the Light Gun

November 2, 2018 paleotronic 0

The first mechanical light-gun games appeared in the arcades and midways of the 1930s. Following the invention of the light-sensing vacuum tube, companies such as Seeburg produced games that had the tube hidden inside targets, [more…]

Read our Holiday issue Free!

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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Spending a Retro-Christmas with microM8

December 19, 2018 0

Christmas graphics and sound demos were common software for 1980s home computers. Most of them were public domain and circulated by users groups, while there were a few commercial offerings, such as the Ziggy Christmas [more…]

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