@moshboy

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a meditation on videogame (w/ occasional technology and web) history.
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moshboy53m ago
moshboy4d ago
the lucky dime caper starring donald duck, magazine screenshot, sega master system (1991) https://archive.org/details/game-pro-issue-28-november-1991/page/n99/mode/2up
moshboy53m ago
moshboy4d ago
'atari coin-op sales team, left to right: frank ballouz, howie rubin, sue elliot, don osborne, and tom petit.' (1979) https://www.mobygames.com/person/625611/frank-ballouz/shots/
moshboy53m ago
moshboy4d ago
'a couple of spacewar olympians enjoy the free beer & an unauthorized tv screen production.' (1972) 'on october 19, 1972, rolling stone sponsored the "intergalactic spacewar! olympics" at the stanford artificial intelligence laboratory.' https://www.wheels.org/spacewar/stone/rolling_stone.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacewar!
moshboy11h ago
girlfriend tracy, back cover, pull quote, dos (1995) https://www.mobygames.com/game/139261/girlfriend-tracy/cover/group-250926/cover-637683/
moshboy12h ago
jeff vavasour, programmer of emulators (1996) 'i just finished working on a windows 95 version of williams arcade classics. the sounds for the games are on the cd as wav files, so tinkerers can power up their windows 95 to sinistar's, "beware, i live" if they like.' https://archive.org/details/ComputerPlayerJune1996/page/n85/mode/2up
moshboy14h ago
computer graphics (1996) https://www.mobygames.com/game/764/exile-ii-crystal-souls/screenshots/win3x/281178/
moshboy17h ago
afterlife, print ad screenshot (1996) https://archive.org/details/ComputerPlayerJune1996/page/n15/mode/2up
moshboy21h ago
atarisoft, print ad, excerpts (1984) https://archive.org/details/Happy.Computer.N03.1984.01-KCz/page/28/mode/2up
moshboy1d ago
moshboy4d ago
sonic the hedgehog, hand drawn map, green hill zone, game boy, magazine (1991) https://archive.org/details/game-boy-november-1991-11-600dpi-ozidual/Game%20Boy%201991%2011%20%28J%20OCR%29/page/n75/mode/2up
moshboy1d ago
moshboy4d ago
gradius III, print ad screenshot, snes (1991) https://archive.org/details/game-pro-issue-28-november-1991/page/n1/mode/2up