If you’re into Atari Jaguar history, do yourself a favor and check out Clipped Claws by Boris K.📚🔥

You can tell It’s a real passion project — tons of detail from the devs, the sellers, and the players who were there. If you haven’t seen it yet, it’s worth a read.

Get it here: https://archive.org/details/clipped-claws

#AtariJaguar #ClippedClaws #retrogaming #Atari #GameHistory #freebook

For old timers and youngsters eager to learn, here is an amazing Game Source Code collection. I admire the effort a large group of people made to put it together for future generations.

It's a huge 1.2TB archive on the Internet Archive, containing source code from the 1970s to today.

This is an absolute goldmine.

https://archive.org/details/gamesourcecode

#GameDev #SourceCode #RetroGaming #Programming #GameHistory #InternetArchive #Coding #LearnToCode

Today’s On Hand podcast on the people’s card game - Euchre [YOO-ker]. ‘People’ because ‘bauers’/farmers/same color jacks rank higher than royal cards.

Webpage includes a YouTube link on how to play.

https://www.michiganpublic.org/podcast/on-hand/2026-04-17/where-does-euchre-come-from

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jucker_(card_game)?wprov=sfti1#History

bonus game link - Sheepshead is another trick-taking game also based in Wisconsin and southern Indiana. Related to Schafkopf, Skat and Doppelkopf.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheepshead_(card_game)?wprov=sfti1#

#cardgames #tabletopgames #euchre #michigan #GameHistory #MidwestUS

The History of Ocean #page42 🕹️🏃

"Daley Thompson’s Decathlon was a huge success and it was the first game to truly challenge the increasingly available joysticks. Many a player reckoned the game’s programmers, Paul Owens (Spectrum) and Dave Collier (C64), owed them the money for broken joysticks."

https://archive.org/details/The_History_of_Ocean_Software_Retro_Fusion_Books

#retrogaming #gamehistory

THE UNFINISHED LIFE OF GAMES: RESIDENT EVIL'S EVOLVING ECHOES

Fans found parts of the unreleased Resident Evil 1.5 game. This shows how old game ideas can still be played today.

#ResidentEvil1.5, #LostGames, #GameHistory, #Capcom, #GamingCommunity

https://newsletter.tf/resident-evil-1-5-game-parts-found-by-fans/

Fans have put together parts of the unreleased Resident Evil 1.5 game, allowing people to play a version of it. This is like finding a lost piece of game history.

#ResidentEvil1.5, #LostGames, #GameHistory, #Capcom, #GamingCommunity
https://newsletter.tf/resident-evil-1-5-game-parts-found-by-fans/

Pokémon Snap is a reminder of Nintendo at its most experimental — a photography game released at the height of Pokémon mania that somehow worked.

I revisited the Nintendo 64 classic to see how it holds up, and why its strange design still feels refreshing today.

📸 Pokémon Snap Retrospective on WOTS

#PokemonSnap #Nintendo64 #RetroGaming #GameHistory #WOTS

http://whatsontheshelf.blog/2026/03/31/pokemon-snap-retrospective/

Nintendo PlayStation: National Videogame Museum erwirbt MSF-1-Unikat

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.eurogamer.de/nintendo-playstation-national-videogame-museum-erwirbt-msf-1-unikat