Category Archives: video games

ZoomFloppy on the C128

Posted on June 29, 2016 by Reverend

Soon after setting up the Commodore 128 my mother-in-law is letting me play with, I went online and searched for ways to transfer files (read as games) I download on my Mac onto the C128. I soon came across this forum thread on Atari … Continue reading →

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Getting the Commodore 128 Up and Running

Posted on June 19, 2016 by Reverend

So last week while talking with my mother-in-law about the Console Living Room exhibit I worked on last year (my Italian is definitely improving), I mentioned on of the pieces we never were able to get our hands on was a … Continue reading →

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Rasberry PiCade

Posted on May 13, 2015 by Reverend

I had a great time at VCU’s ALTfest today. I got to hear Mimi Ito‘s inspiring keynote about #learningheroes—I love that hashtag! I was able to catch up, albeit too briefly, with an old favorite. I also had the honor … Continue reading →

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Back to the Future: Console Living Room Exhibit at UMW

Posted on February 5, 2015 by Reverend

After Spring Break, I’ll be working with professor Zach Whalen to create an interactive installation on the 4th Floor of UMW’s Information Technology & Convergence Center (ITCC). The installation will feature a replica of a living room circa 1985, think of … Continue reading →

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Inspired: Wire 2600

Posted on October 24, 2014 by Reverend

I love what Ien harris did with the create a cartridge cover for an Atari 2600 game assignment. How can I refuse an 8-bit game based on The Wire? Makes me want to learn how to code these old school games so I … Continue reading →

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Twitch Plays Pokemon: an Allegory for Scale?

Posted on February 27, 2014 by Reverend

Last week, during a discussion in the Internet Course, Matt Arnold brought up the game Twitch Plays Pokemon while we were talking about consumption and creation on the web. He noted that currently thousands of people were playing a Pokemon game online … Continue reading →

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Bad Day on the Midway

Posted on February 15, 2014 by Reverend

After exploring Will Crowther’s early Interactive Fiction game from 1976, I somehow found myself thinking about The Residents’s interactive CD-Rom from 1995 Bad Day on the Midway. This was a crazy game, and it is one of the multi-media experiments … Continue reading →

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Early Computer Gaming and the Open Net

Posted on February 15, 2014 by Reverend

One bit from Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon’s Where Wizards Stay Up Late I found particularly interesting was a section of the chapter on E-Mail titled “Adventure and Quasar: The Open Net and Free Speech.” It featured Will Crowther, who … Continue reading →

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Yie Ar Kung-Fu GIFs

Posted on December 31, 2012 by Reverend

This series of GIFs is in honor of the 1985 classic arcade game Yie Ar Kung-Fu.  I’ve already written about my love for this game on the bava, so I’ll save you my usual flood of verbiage. For the record, … Continue reading →

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Some Classic Arcade GIFs

Posted on December 28, 2012 by Reverend

Here are a few cutscenes from some classic arcade games. I could do classic video game GIFs all day. Given that, I imagine there are many more of these to come, in the meantime can you name all five without … Continue reading →

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