Ethan Johnson (Play History)さんのイラストまとめ

Tonight's stream looking at old video was great fun! I really appreciated having people by to help me identify games and we could have a good laugh at all the crazy mascot costumes, advertising, and flubs throughout. It's a memetacular time, let me tell you.

I just finished up a talk with Steve Hanawa, engineer at Sega from the late 70s to the late 80s! Hanawa-san gave me amazing insight into Sega's engineering team in that time period and their relationship to the US. It's hugely important to get this side of the story if you can!

The micro-pinball phase is still on? You betcha.

Zero Gravity Pinball though is nowhere near in the class of great pinball games on the Apple II. In fact it’s so abstract it may as well be an early Apple II game rather than a 1982 one.

The Mag Project returns with Electronic Games, June 1982!

The cover sends us through the Looking Glass and into a weird sci-fi/fantasy mutant world, leaving behind our checker-branded pillow and unbranded Red Bull.

Let’s get hype.

Midnight Pix #12: A photo of the elusive Dr. Bob Brown, co-designer of Home Pong and co-founder of the company Starpath. Starpath would be acquired by Epyx and form the backbone of their success in the mid to late 1980s from games such as Summer Games and Impossible Mission.