Category: Media
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Making new games for old consoles
The Guardian has a piece about new games designed for consoles of the past. And more specifically, about this wave of new games released on “old-school cartridges”. As usual with this kind of piece, the topic of “authenticity” is mentioned, as a motivation. More interestingly, the “unexpected cool factor of physical media” is also highlighted,…
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The NYT on retrocomputing
The NYT had a short piece last week about retrocomputing. Nothing super deep here but it’s interesting to see this relationship with skills and learning how to rebuild machines: While modern, ever more efficient computers are selling better than they have in years, vintage computers — impractical old devices in need of repairs and out-of-production…