For example, the number of virtues which a player’s character has attained, as well as the number of runes and stones, were stored on a byte, which is comprised of eight bits. The virtue system, with its eight-part correspondences, derives… Continue Reading
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When Steven Spielberg’s movie E.T. appeared in May of 1982, it was an instant hit. Ray Kassar, the CEO of Atari, decided that Atari must have an E.T. game for the Christmas 1982 season. (…) The VCS people were aghast… Continue Reading
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Designing, programming, testing, and debugging Legionnaire required all of four months; I put the game on sale in May of 1979. Since it did not include an expensive map, I could not in good conscience demand as much for it… Continue Reading
I had a few hundred copies of the map printed up, and I made cardboard counters using blank counters and rub-on numerals. I copied cassette tapes on my PET and labeled them by hand. I typed up a manual and… Continue Reading
A close second in overall stupidity was the “Atari exercise cycle.” [pierwsze to MindLink] The idea here was to combat the rather tawdry image of videogames by building a videogame into an exercise cycle, providing good, healthy exercise while you… Continue Reading
The absolute worst idea was the “brainwave headband” (also known as the Atari MindLink). Atari experimented with this idea in the early 80s. The concept was simple: Control the computer with your thoughts! A headband with simple detectors would detect… Continue Reading
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When in the summer of 2001 two movies, Shrek and Final Fantasy, competed for ticket sales, and Shrek outsold Final Fantasy by ten to one, the computer games people were nonplussed. How could a graphically inferior product like Shrek have… Continue Reading