Paleotronic had the great fortune to chat with Atari 2600 developer and Imagic co-founder Rob Fulop about life as a rockstar videogame developer in the early 1980s, and what came after. We’ve read in other [more…]
Upon viewing Moonsweeper for the first time the word ‘wow’ just doesn’t seem to do it justice, yet it’s the first word to form in most people’s brains. It just seems to trite, so simple, [more…]
Lunarcy is a fun and simple lunar lander game written in Apple Logo and compatible with microM8’s microLogo, a vector-based OpenGL re-implementation. You control a lander with a joystick (or the keyboard’s arrow keys) and you [more…]
In late 1972, as Apollo Space Missions were winding down a burgeoning virtual space race was busily preparing for launch. A sub-genre of simulation games soon to be known as Lunar Landers was taking to [more…]
During the 1960s the world was experiencing space fever. It was an ailment for which there was no cure, nor did anybody want one. During the 1950s the United States and Soviet Union had sent [more…]
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…]
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…]
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
Our eleventh instalment of our 12 Years of Retro-Christmas visit to the past includes the TurboGrafx 16, Super Mario 3, Populous and the Macintosh LC. Click on each image for the full-sized copy or download [more…]
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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