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  • Atari Nerd Retro Gaming Interweb Mash-Up: August 24, 2009

    First off, some Nolan Bushnell stuff: A Story about uWink Hollywood , plus a story about Nolan Bushnell getting back into the game business with Battleswarm! Here is a retro style Flash named Zapataur that will help you save an actual brick and mortar arcade from extinction, just by playing…

  • Flash Game Interweb Mashup: Blogs, Sites and Mochi Game Reviews, Friday Aug 21, 2009

    Flash Game Interweb Mashup: Blogs, Sites and Mochi Game Reviews, Friday Aug 21, 2009 For a second straight day I am doing a Mochi Review AND Site, Blog, and Game Mashup. I am a sadist, and I hate myself. I even have two games of the day today, one Mochi…

  • Flash Game Interweb Mashup: Blogs, Sites and Game reviews,Thursday Aug 20, 2009

    Flash Game Interweb Mashup: Blogs, Sites and Game reviews,Thursday Aug 20, 2009 This is a combined Blog / Site Mashup as well as a Mochi Game review Mashup all in one.  I figured why not try to do as many of these as possible, as often as possible There is…

  • Flash Game Interweb Mashup: Blogs, Sites and Game reviews, Aug 18, 2009

    Flash Game Interweb Mashup: Blogs, Sites and Game reviews, Aug 18, 2009 This is a combined Blog / Site Mashup as well as a Mochi Game review Mashup all in one.  I had to take a weekend break because it was my wedding anniversary. My wife was already not pleased…

  • Flash Game Interweb Mashup (including Mochi Reviews) Aug 8, 2009

    Flash Game Interweb Mashup (including Mochi Reviews) Aug 8, 2009 This is a combined Blog / Site Mashup as well as a Mochi Game review Mashup all in one.   Let’s start with the games. Here are the titles on tap for today: Mochi Game Reviews: Multitask:  Play multiple mini-games…

  • Possibly The Scariest/Best Flash Game Contest Ever

    I have finally found what might be the scariest/best Flash Game Contest ever created.  Fellow Flash Game Developers, I show you this: Do you recognize that logo in the bottom-right corner?  That’s right, it’s Yahtzee Crowshaw from Zero Punctuation at http://www.escapistmagazine.com, right now the best game reviewer on the planet.…

  • Mochi First Impressions Game Review Mash-Up: Sunday, Aug 02, 2009

    Mochi First Impressions Game Review Mash-Up: Sunday, Aug 02, 2009 It’s late Sunday night, the kids are finally in bed, I completed putting Clayton Grey’s speed tests onto the site, and translated Steve’s game into Flex (for asset embeds). I now have just a few short minutes to reviews games…

  • Mochi First Impressions Game Review Mash-Up: Monday, Aug 03, 2009

    Mochi First Impressions Game Review Mash-Up: Monday, Aug 03, 2009 There are some pretty good games on tap for today: I just did one of these last night, so I am surprised by the overall quality just a few hours later. One game didn’t work properly, but there were no…

  • Clayton Grey’s Blit Layer Erase Speed Test

    Clayton Grey’s Blit Layer Erase Speed Test A super diligent and incredibly intelligent (aren’t you all) 8bitrocket reader (and now contributor), Clayton Grey has been running some tests on blitting entire screen-sized portions of BitmapData to clear the screen and re-paint.   He doesn’t have a blog of his own,…

  • Mochi First Impressions Game Review Mash-Up: Saturday, Aug 01, 2009

    Mochi First Impressions Game Review Mash-Up: Saturday, Aug 01, 2009 Today begins our new attempt to review every Mochi New Release and Featured game as often as possible. This will be daily for as long as we can keep it up The games now have 4 review types. 1. 8bitrocket…

  • Flash Game Distribution Game Report Sunday August 2, 2009

    This is the first episode of “Flash Game Distribution: Game Report”, in which we cover the newest games coming out of the Flash Game Distribution feed. I have never really sat down to look at the FGD games, but my first impression is that the games are of fairly high…

  • Race To The Bottom #1: The Worst Of Kongregate

    I’ve been inspired by Jeff’s reviews of the newest Mochi games to start looking around other “UGC” (“User Generated Content” in the biz lingo) sites to try find games that so terrible they can’t be missed. The first stop, Kongregate.com. Now, let me get this out of the way first.…

  • Mochi First Impressions Game Review Mash-Up: Friday, July 31, 2009

    Mochi First Impressions Game Review Mash-Up: Friday, July 31, 2009 I love games. Doing all of these reviews is starting to help bring back a little passion for games that I seem to have lost as this has become more of a job than a hobby. These reviews are certainly…

  • Mochi Game Review Mash-Up: Thursday, July 30, 2009

    Mochi Game Review Mash-Up: Thursday, July 30, 2009 I have decided to go back to the 9 new games (not featured) today because I like torture. Actually, my hope is to find some gems missed by the over-worked Mochi staff, and the provide some constructive criticism – unless I get…

  • Mochi Game Review Interweb Mash-Up: Wednesday, July 29, 2009

    Mochi Game Review Interweb Mash-Up: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 7 Featured and the 2 best non-featured games on tap for today. It’s a very strong group of games today and almost everyone will find a game that they will like to play. Yesterday was NOT a great day for Mochi…

  • Flash Game Interweb Mash-up : July 29. 2009

    Flash Game Interweb Mash-up : July 29. 2009 We delivered the first 3 chapters for our book on Flash Game Development this past weekend. Before I start my game and write up for the next chapter, I have been spending the week playing and many different games as possible and…

  • Mochi Game Review Interweb Mash-Up: Tuesday, July 28, 2009

    Mochi Game Review Interweb Mash-Up: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 Nine more games on tap for today. OUCH! Not much good going on today. Some fun to be had, but its a stretch. This is the worst day so far with only a couple average (C) games and one slightly above…

  • Mochi Game Review Mash-up:’Monday July 27, 2009

    Mochi Game Review Mash-up:  Monday July 27, 2009 Mochi "First Look" game reviews. Every day brings a new crop from the Mochi gods, let’s hope yours is there and its not crap. I have now added my own designation to each game as a FLASH game or a Game Made…

  • Flash Game Interweb Mash-Up July 24, 2009

    Flash Game Interweb Mash-Up July 24, 2009 I have been working on part one of a very large (Flash Game relegated) project over the last couple weeks. I just sent the first version of the first set of deliverables off for judgment. That, coupled with my spotty Internet connection has forced…

  • They Used Our Kung Fu: GameNutz Podcast

    GameNutz is a video game “news” podcast that originates from Sherrill, NY. The podcast includes Rob “StickyNugget” Feddersen and Andrew “Boter” Hookway, who are employees at GameNutz store, also is Sherrill, NY, plus Justin “FearTheClaw” Clough. All three are very knowledgeable about current and classic games. Since the GameNutz store…

  • Flash Indie Game Interweb Mashup – Mochiads Games Edition July 10, 2009

    Flash Indie Game Interweb Mashup – Mochiads Games Edition July 10, 2009 Since I did a Mash-Up last week on blog entries, I thought it would be fun to take an entire mash-up to focus on my favorite subject – actual games! Since GameJacket’s demise has come to pass, there…

  • Silverlight 3 Released And Ready For You To Make Some Awesome Games – Maybe

    Microsoft has finally released their new version of Silverlight, Silverlight 3.  All the dev tools are now available here:  http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/ . However, if you want to develop on a Mac, you  will need to use something like Eclipse4SL, which, when we tested it a few months back, was stil la…

  • RESULTS! Quiz: Can You Name These Classic Computer Games From Their Old-School Reviews (#1)

    A Couple weeks ago I posted the following quiz.  It takes parts of old-school game reviews and challenges you to name the game.  I thought this one was EASY.  However, it was not, it was really hard and I have learned my lesson.  Here is the quiz again, with the…

  • Atari 2600 Game Quiz: Name The Games From The Manual Excerpts

    Atari 2600 Game Quiz: Name The Games From The Manual Excerpt Many Atari 2600 games had manuals that were nothing short of…bizarre.  Some of the descriptions and back-stories created, even for some of the most well-known games of the time, were astonishingly, wonderfully odd.  Below are clues to 10 different…

  • Absolutely Brilliant Lost Garden Article On Flash Game Monetization

    Absolutely Brilliant Lost Garden Article On Flash Game Monetization If you have even a passing interest in making games full time, you have to read Flash Love Letter Part One by Danc on the Lost Garden blog. He ever so eloquently describes in detail the current revenue streams for Flash…

  • Flash indie game interweb-mash-up : July 3, 2009

    Flash indie game interweb-mash-up : July 3, 2009 I was sick this past week (it’s still lingering on), and today (actually July 4)  is a USA holiday – a couple hundred years ago some dudes in funky white wigs decided they didn’t want to pay taxes to an island, I…

  • New Retrogaming Times Monthly article on ST game developer Michtron

    New Retrogaming Times Monthly (free online magazine) features my first Atari Playfield article on ST game developer Michtron . Richard Davey (www.atari.st and www.photonstorm.com) was invaluable help on this article. I have been reading this splendid on-line magazine every month for a long time, but over the last year, Atari…

  • Hackers and the Beautiful System

    Hackers and the Beautiful System On the heels of Steve’s wonderful post on the joys of being a creative programmer, we get an idiotic Infoworld post on why American programmers are so bad…because they are hackers? I like to think that the Hacker Ethic (creative, open exploring of systems and…

  • Time Warner Interactive , Midway: The Soul Of Atari Might Still Be Alive…

    I just read this news story that Time Warner Interactive is planning to buy Midway Games. This would stand as just another boring game industry story for me, if it was not for the “Atari” connection. You see Atari was bought by Warner Communications in 1976.  When Warner “sold” Atari in…

  • Favorite Video / Computer Soccer (Football) game of all time

    Favorite Video / Computer Soccer (Football) game of all time In support of the USA’s remarkable 2-0 win over the vaunted powerful Spanish side in today’s Confederation Cup semifinal, I wanted to up the quiz anti with a poll of sorts.   I have played a number of Soccer (Association Football)…

  • R.I.P. Michael Jackson: Remember His Video Game

    I suppose you could call this “gallows humor”.  I actually liked much of Michael Jackson’s early 80’s output, so I’m fairly sad to see that he could not turn himself around.  Anyway, this “Moonwalker” Game came out at just about the time Jackson took his final turn into “Neverland”.  Commercial For…

  • Quiz: Can You Name These Classic Computer Games From Their Old-School Reviews (#1)

    Quiz: Can You Name These Classic Computer Games From Their Old-School Reviews (#1) In this quiz we will give you a few lines of a review from a classic computer and/or video game. Your job: Name The Game.  Leave a comment with your answers below.  The first person to get…

  • Kyobi added to the 8bitrocket Arcade Showcase as Hall Of Fame Gold Medal Recipient

    Kyobi added to the 8bitrocket Arcade Showcase as Hall Of Fame Gold Medal Recipient Richard Davey(Photonstorm)’s retro-remixed, physics based puzzler, Kyobi, has been added to the 8bitrocket Retro Arcade Showcase as a Gold Medal Winner. It joins just 6 other titles with the honor, including Richard’s previous game, Abominaball. Kyobi…

  • Cool Stop-Motion Video Game Tribute That You Probably Have Seen But I Have Not (until today)

    I was searching the Indiecade Web site for some kind of interesting story, and I came across this awesome stop-motion film by Pez. Watch Centipede, Frogger, Asteroids, Space invaders and Pac-Man all re-made with household objects. Brilliant! I may be a bit late on this, but it’s still awesome.

  • Flash indie game interweb-mash-up : June 17, 2009

    Flash indie game interweb-mash-up : June 17, 2009 I was on vacation last week, so I missed doing one of these (well, I wouldn’t say I missed it, but I didn’t get a chance to do one). I was on vacation, so I must have had more time than usual…

  • 1984 Computer Chronicles TV Show Video on Computer Games

    1984 Computer Chronicles TV Show Video on Computer Games This rare video from USA public television chronicles the state of home computer games in 1984. Games included – Steve Kitchen’s Atari 2600 game Space Shuttle (Activision) + Interview with Steve. – Chris Crawford’s Atari 800 game Excalibur (Atari Program Exchange)…

  • E3 2009 Flash Game Developmwent Report #1: GP32X Wiz Flash Support

    Possibly, the coolest thing we saw at E3 this year was in a tiny booth manned by single person, tucked away in the corner of the South Hall at the Los Angeles Convention center.  In that booth, we saw the latest iteration of the (now defunct) Game Park hand-held console,…

  • Classic Electronic Games Magazine Issue #1 Online Now!

    Classic Electronic Games Magazine Issue #1 Online Now! This is the one that started it all! All modern and classic video game magazines  would probably not have been the same without this incredible magazine. The hard workers at RetroMags.com have scanned each page into a JPG. Then they compiled the…

  • Flash indie game development interweb-mash-up : May 29, 2009

    Flash indie game development interweb-mash-up : May 29, 2009 The more often I write these, the shorter they become, but the longer it takes me to dig up new and interesting stuff. This week I had to cast a net a little wider than usual.  I did find a little…

  • Issue #1 of Classic Video Gamer Magazine Available Now!

    Issue #1 of Classic Video Gamer Magazine Available Now! A new Downloadable and Print Magazine covering the world of Retro Games has been released. Hoping to become the American version of the famed UK Retro Gamer Publication (I just got the issue with Game Boy on the cover and an…