I've always loved Bomberman's design, but never played any of the games. Where is the best entrance to the franchise?

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🗡️ Step back to 1986 — The Legend of Zelda on the NES!
Watch Brandon from The Old School Game Vault take on every dungeon, every boss, and every hidden secret from the original adventure.

🎮 Full playlist:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuPIRuUOR1u8mm_cOIdv6SD5lRutaKgrY

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Joel isn’t a hero — he’s human.
That’s what made The Last of Us a turning point for video game storytelling.

It forced players to question morality, empathy, and what it really means to “do the right thing.”

👉 Read the full feature:
https://theoldschoolgamevault.com/blog/articles/gaming-ethics-last-of-us

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Blog Question Challenge: Technology Edition

It’s my turn to do the blog question challenge, technology edition! I’ve been tagged by James.

When Did You First Get Interested in Technology?

You have to understand that I consider “technology” as something “more than electricity, binary code, recording, or the Internet. It is the long pattern of humankind observing our surroundings and finding ways to adapt them…” — check out the whole textbook I wrote on this subject! 😁 Honestly, as a history nerd, I love exploring how humanity has adapted and reconceptualized our surroundings in all sorts of ways throughout the eons of our existence…

For me right now, these are the two answers that come to mind:

What’s Your Favorite Piece of Technology All-Time?

I can’t choose just one, seriously…but here are my top two…

What’s Your Favorite Piece Of Technology Right Now?

In no particular order…

The mid-century mechanical pegs on my acoustic violin: So my violin is more than 100 years old, but at some point in the mid-1900s, some previous owner had swapped out the normal friction pegs for mechanical pegs (they could have originally been banjo or mandolin pegs…?). I have to carry a screwdriver in my violin case for the rare occasion if a screw loosens and therefore a string starts falling flat, but otherwise these work fantastically well! My strings generally stay in tune even in adverse weather; plus the appearance gives my fiddle a really unique character! 🙂

My music recording set-up: My DAW (Logic Pro), my notation software (Dorico), my microphones, my audio interface (EVO 8), even a way cool iPad app called Audio Kit Synth One that creates fabulous digital synth presets… everything I need to make my music come to life and be able to be shared far and wide!

My 6-string electric violin: What else can I say–I adore her! She’s a Dragonfly model from the Electric Violin Lutherie in New York. The sixth string allows me to play almost to the bottom of a cello’s range… 🙂 You can hear a fabulous example of what she’s capable of on this EP…

Name One New Cool Piece Of Technology We’ll Have in 25 Years!

I mentioned this a bit earlier in this post, but I’m really hoping we find a better system for sharing music that is more freeing for both artists and listeners, where we all can enjoy and share various kinds of niche art for art’s sake, without needing to cater to the billionaire mega-corporations that have always held sway over what gets heard and what is even allowed to make any kind of money (e.g., Spotify’s decision not to pay any track that gets less than 1,000 streams in a year, which affects over half the songs on the platform). Maybe we’ll find an answer in adapted blockchain tech?… Maybe we’ll go back to favoring the collection of physical media? Maybe something blending the two ideas…? I don’t know… But that’s my hope.

Final Thoughts…

I am always and forever blown away that some of humanity’s biggest technological inventions came at first to enhance our ability to make music and art [take the wind-wheel for example: it was first put to use by Heron of Alexandria to power his own hydraulis–which, originally created in the 3rd century BCE by Ctesibius of Alexandria, was the world’s first keyboard instrument and the direct ancestor of the pipe organ; and the world’s first programmable machine was a “robotic flute player” invented by the Banu Musa Brothers in Baghdad in the 9th century (CE).]!!

Get this: The earliest evidence for textiles and sewing needles dates back to 30,000 and 61,000 years ago respectively. The oldest bone flute discovered dates back to at least 60,000-40,000 years ago, depending on who you ask. Basically music-making with complex instruments is at least as old as the beginning of making clothes. 😉

Who Will Participate Next?

I challenge Adam to complete the challenge! Tag, you’re it. 🙂

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PlayStation 1 or Sega Saturn? Dive into the technical differences of these two iconic consoles that defined a generation of #videogames. Which one was your favorite?

Explore the hardware, graphics, and game libraries that made them legends!

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https://www.retroplayingbcn.es/2025/03/diferencias-tecnicas-playstation-1-sega-saturn.html