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a meditation on videogame (w/ occasional technology and web) history. donate to my ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/moshboy/ also find me on mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@moshboy nfaq: https://pastebin.com/vUmrYKx6
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slurpy, title screen, colecovision (1984) www.mobygames.com/game/158357/...
title screen essentially presents as a info screen about the protagonist and its enemies, including the sprites. slurpy is a green creature with a trumpet-like nose text: use fire button to flip slurpy and spit poison (red) objects. enemies (names, sprites and their respective point worths): glowbug: 5, cave bug: 20 (a purple dot), cave bird: 30, serpent: 80, cave phantom: 90 (sprite looks like a grinning red skull), widowmaker: 60, creeper: 70, deathball, evil eye (neither the deathball or evil eye show point scores and there is a note sayingthat they 'can't be slurped'. also the deathball for some reason looks like a swastika) bottom text: press fire button to begin
November 28, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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print ad, illustration (1984) archive.org/details/Comm...
a man is sitting at a computer, staring at the screen, shaking, tearing his hair out. he looks incredibly upset and stressed. he is wearing a shirt and tie (which has been loosened). an ashtray is sitting next to the computer, piled up with cigarette butts. a packet of smokes is also sitting beside the screen.
November 28, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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sporting decathlon, game over, image sequence, dragon 32/64 (1984) www.mobygames.com/game/85686/s...
text (dark on orange strips on dark blue): game over you scored: 8026 you await the crowds applause. a graphic of the crowd's heads, which looks like rows upon rows of clones. text (yellow on red): congratulations you've won silver
November 28, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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castle ragoona, screenshot, trs-80 coco (1984) www.mobygames.com/game/182337/...
a skeleton is in a bare room with an open doorway on the right. text: he's awful thin! well?(cursor is waiting for your command)
June 13, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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monkeynuts, title screen, bbc micro (1988) www.mobygames.com/game/213283/...
a monkey, standing in between a huge pair of bananas and a pineapple.
June 13, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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wipeout fusion, render, in development, ps2 (2001) www.mobygames.com/game/5948/wi...
polgyonized wireframe landscape with a racing track on it (featuring a full loop).
June 19, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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wipeout, print ad screenshot, playstation (1995) archive.org/details/Comp...
futuristic hovercraft floating above a racing track, shadow reflecting on the ground, heading toward a tunnel. billboards either side of the track, one of which reads 'slime creatures' in splattered blood red. user interface is overlaid across the corners of the screen.
June 17, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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'abuse, says randy simon of don't ask computer software, is an "interactive insult program" compatible with atari & apple computers. the computer has "an evil memory chip of its own" & will respond to typed insults with one of its own 5 million stored insults.' (1982) archive.org/details/elec...
randy simon, old or aging man, mustache, sitting at a computer but looking at the camera with his glasses. the computer has one of it's supposed insults on the screen in caps green text: go moon a flock of geese.
June 11, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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print ad, excerpt (1981) archive.org/details/byte...
an apple II and connected graphics peripheral to the right. the screen shows the design of a crude wireframe car, above it 'xa-478'.
June 11, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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evolution, screenshot, apple II (1982) www.mobygames.com/game/7597/ev...
caps white text up top: how far can you evolve graphics below: human ape purple creature with small horns mouse frog piece of green slime/bacteria(?)
June 12, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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wizard's crown, screenshot, apple II (1986) www.mobygames.com/game/1011/wi...
a person with a sword is entering ye bar. other people with weapons stand outside the entrance. there are people sitting at tables, a barrel behind a bar and a wall and door behind. text: you enter a smoke filled common room filled with the scum of society.
June 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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cool boarders 4, print ad, excerpt, snowboarding etiquette, playstation (1999) archive.org/details/psm-...
illustration of a man with a big flannel top on and baggy pants, sitting at a candle lit table with a woman. they are being waited on. text above with an arrow pointing to the illustration: you can't go wrong with flannel. it's smart for any occasion.
November 27, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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illustration, the basic, magazine (1991) archive.org/details/the-...
a dude wearing spelunking cave gear is in a cave, using a little computer, while wiping his brow and looking up at the view point of the illustration.
November 27, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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blue's journey, screenshot, arcade (1991) www.mobygames.com/game/16718/b...
small protragonist, blue (wearing blue), is facing a big boss with orangey spiked up hair, wearing green, on a colourful 2d landscape. they boss says: go home if you don't want to die. blue is given two options in his speech box: i'll beat you! i'll go home!
November 27, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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print ad (2003) archive.org/details/elec...
an ad for ps2 games with online multiplayer capability. text (chunky white on black): if you suck, at least no one will know who you are. ('online broadband only' logo, rectangle, three circles of increasings size within) smaller text: look for this icon on socom: u.s. navy seals and other playstation 2 games with online capability.
November 27, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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magazine screenshot, computer graphics (1997) archive.org/details/mico...
a woman is standing outside (at the entrance door, at the top of a set of steps) a large multi-story building with a lot of windows. a red sports car is parked at the bottom of the steps. a large disembodied woman's head is in the sky, looking at the building.
November 20, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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your say on classic video games, bbc news, official website (2001) news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science...
"the game that really got me hooked, though, ertr tempest and joust - other girls went to the burger place to hand out and check out boys. i was the nerdy girl racking up the high scores on those games - the only girl!" -kim, usa
November 20, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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computer shop, japan (1990) archive.org/details/mico...
a computer shop/store room with a claustrophobically thin isle, each side with multiple shelves packed with japanese models of computer, such as the pc-8801 as an example. up the end/back of the isle is an unidentifiable figure who could very well be the next slender man.
November 20, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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the california raisins, inside cover, dos (1988) www.mobygames.com/game/12145/t...
a long line (into the distance) of shrivalled raisins with legs, arms, eyes and mouths, wearing sneakers. the raisin at the front of the line is wearing sunglasses.
November 19, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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print ad (1987) archive.org/details/Pers...
print ad for maxell 3 and a half inch microdisk. imagery is a bunch of robots that looks kinda like 3po but silver (a golden one is at the head of the table and standing, eye sockets glowing) sitting around a shiny wooden conference table, each with a floppy disk laid neatly in front of them. text: when computers get down to business, they move up to maxell. maxell is ready when you are with the newest technology in magnetic media. a pefect example is this double-sided 3 and a half inch microdisk.
June 9, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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letter art, electronic gaming monthly, magazine (2001) archive.org/details/elec...
envolope art. "toilet paper mario" mario is drawn on the end of a roll of toilet paper. egm magazine adress is printed higher up on the roll. white stars on the background.
August 28, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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magazine screenshot, excerpt (1992) archive.org/details/1992...
interface for editing an pixelated icon, in this case an isometric computer and mouse. colour pallette at the bottom. icons to the left and right. menus up the top.
June 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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dino cards, screenshot from the official website, pc (1996) web.archive.org/web/19970113...
a card game played by dinosaurs. one of the dinosaurs has long red hair and is wearing a blue dress. the other one is a plain green dinosaur. text: ok, it is your turn. pick your highest card and throw it in the trash. then, deal a new card from the deck. (there is a trash can symbol in a grey box in the middle of the screen).
June 5, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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dig dug, print ad, imagery, arcade (1982) archive.org/details/Elec...
white text font at top: dig dug. totally awesome. ad is filled with a large pixelated image of a dig dug game screen with underground tunnels, dig dug blowing up an enemy to balloon size and other enemies wandering the tunnels. overlaid in front of this is an image of a couple, the woman excitedly playing the dig dug arcade machine, the man excitedly watching. large rocks are lying around the bottom of the cabinet.
June 9, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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rat hotel, vic-20 (1983) archive.org/details/elec...
cover art for rat hotel has an old dude wearing spectacle glasses, wielding a raised mallet an chasing after a huge thicc rat. they are running past an elevator in a hotel.
June 10, 2025 at 5:36 AM