Category: Classic Posts

  • A Nerd Is Born: Star Wars In-Person At Toys ‘R Us September 1977 (updated)

    I’m been a consumer of nerd-laden toys and video games for most of my life. There is not a January that goes by that does not see me searching through the After-Christmas red-tag bins at Target, looking for mark-downs on video games and toys that I others would shudder at…

  • Mid-Core Gamer Manifesto

    A few weeks back, we here at 8bitrocket.com declared ourselves to be Mid-Core Gamers. Jeff’s declaration was met with a smattering of agreement from other sites, but it was not an earth shaking response. Still, it was encouraging, and since we not only believe in the theory of Mid Core…

  • Tutorial: Using Flash CS3 and Actionscript 3 to create Atari 7800 Asteroids Part 1

    In this series of tutorials, we will explore some optimization techniques to create a fully blitted Asteroids style game. Although the game we will create will be a relatively simple version of Asteroids, the techniques we will use to optimize it will be advanced. We will explore these optimization techniques:…

  • Am I a MID-CORE gamer?

    I hear the term GAMER all the time. Usually it is used with disgust as someone asks if I am one. By GAMER, they mean a sweaty teen in his parent’s basement, or a sweaty 40 year old in his mother’s basement. They really are referring to a biased term…