May 09, 2008

A History of Gaming Platforms: Mattel Intellivision

By Matt Barton and Bill Loguidice have written up another part of the series "A History of Gaming Platforms", this time concentrating on the Mattel Intellivision at Gamasutra.

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May 06, 2008

Timeline of Casual Gaming

CasualGaming.biz has put up a brief history of casual gaming in the form of a Timeline from 2200BC up to today.

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May 05, 2008

Video Arcade Timeline

Via RetroBlast! (again, whee, they get a ton of good links to post :) ), comes a link to a Video Arcade Timeline (Javascript required) going through from 1971 through to today. Details a lot of varied arcade machines many with videos of them being played.

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The Rise and Fall of Atari

Via. RetroBlast! comes a great piece on the Rise and Fall of Atari (the original one!) which should be interesting, especially since the Atari name is ongoing with it's company being brought by Infogrames.

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May 04, 2008

Retrospective: Kingpin

RPS has a retrospective of Kingpin: Life Of Crime, with a few details too on what the game might have been if development had more money and time.

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