The latest Video Game History Hour podcast talks to Dr. Stephanie Harkin, lecturer at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, about her research on video games in girls’ lifestyle magazines like Girl Gamer & Total Girl: gamehistory.org/episode-141-...

(from the final issue of Big K magazine, March 1985: www.ataricompendium.com/archives/mag...)

The jewel in the crown: www.collection.nfsa.gov.au/title/1778683

1987 Australian review of the first Carmen Sandiego game: “I saw the package for sale in Sydney for $89 which I feel is exorbitant. I myself would not pay that price for it and if it wasn’t for my old mate Brian lending me his game I wouldn’t have even seen it.”

(now ~$266 AUD / $170 USD)

🚨🚨🚨 ‘THRILL ME’ MENTIONED 🚨🚨🚨

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Join the DiscMaster Game Jam & make a game using assets from vintage CD-ROMs archived by #InternetArchive. 💿️

💰 $1,750 in prizes
📅 Starts April 20 (USA) / April 21 (AUS)

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Very excited to be one of the judges for CanDev & @archive.org's upcoming Discmaster Jam and looking forward to seeing what emerges from the depths of discmaster.textfiles.com (image courtesy of Art Explosion 600,000)

Rollick N' Roll now has a demo! Enjoy!
s.team/a/3274880

#IndieGame #GameDev

This is what I have been working on for the past decade 💅
ALT: GAMES is a new festival that brings together the Australian games community and industry. Featuring @dmullinsgames.bsky.social Richard Garfield @allyhennessy.bsky.social Playfool and atomo Kihara

Phil Spencer that's not how games preservation works, that's not how any of this works:

aftermath.site/microsoft-xbox...

Haha, this was a bug - for anybody playing along at home, you first have to go west inside Joe Mangel's house, then you can 'open' the envelope and 'examine' the letter.

Please enjoy this article about an unauthorised point and click adventure game based on an Australian soap opera made by a British meteorologist: www.nfsa.gov.au/latest/archi...

Mole Power
'Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island'
Super Nintendo

Bringing the rufous owl’s mournful ‘woo-hoo’ with me into 2025