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Flash Game Interweb Mash-up: Monday, Aug 31, 2009: Flash Game Distribution Reviews
Flash Game Interweb Mash-up: Monday, Aug 31, 2009: Flash Game Distribution Reviews One cannot live by Mochi games alone. I burned…
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“B.A. PANTS’ (not underwear for the UK folks, but trousers)
‘B.A. PANTS’ (not underwear for the UK folks, but trousers). Note: This diatribe is only tangentially related to Flash game development.…
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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…
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Flash Game Interweb Mashup: Mochi Game Reviews,nbsp; Tuesday Aug 25, 2009
Flash Game Interweb Mashup: Mochi Game Reviews Tuesday Aug 25, 2009 Wow, what a haul today. Great games all around. This…
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JayIsGames.com Gives .+.palindromes.+. plus A Nice Review
Sometimes I wonder how to get games promoted on well-known web sites. Sometimes I wonder why some of our more high…
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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…
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Indie Game I.P. Issues Start To Heat-Up
We here at 8bitrocket.com spend a lot of time trying to educate small developers on the issues of Intellectual Property” (I.P.…
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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…
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2008 Prediction Results, Plus 10 New 2009 Predictions!
Last year we made 10 predictions for the next 12 months It’s time to evaluate our progress and make 10 more…
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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…
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Mochi Game Review Mash-Up: Friday, Aug. 14, 2009 (18 Games Graded)
Mochi Game Review Mash-Up: Friday, Aug. 14, 2009 (18 Games Graded). I am still catching up with the non-featured games today.…
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Mochi Game Review Mash-Up:Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009. Kick Ass Game Day.
Mochi Game Review Mash-Up:Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009. Kick Ass Game Day. All great games today! Just this batch will have you…
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One Of The Best Mainstream Game Articles In A Long Time: The Magic of Wii Sports Resort @ IGN
Michael Thomsen @ wii.ign.com has written what I believe is one of the best gaming articles I have ever read. His…
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Mochi Game Review Mash-Up:Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2009 (14 Games Graded)
Mochi Game Review Mash-Up:Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2009 (14 Games Graded). .Again, Wednesday seems to be “new release” day at Mochi. I…
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Mochi Game Review Mash-Up: Tuesday, Aug 11, 2009 (11 Games Graded)
Mochi Game Review Mash-Up: Tuesday, Aug 11, 2009 (11 Games Graded). My hat’s off to the Mochi staff once again for…
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Micropayments In Flash Games: What Would You Pay For?
There has been a lot of discussion lately about Micropayments in Flash games. New service offerings such as Mochicoins and Gamersafe…
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Mochi Game Review Mash-Up: Monday, Aug 10, 2009 (26 Games Graded)
Mochi Game Review Mash-Up: Monday, Aug 10, 2009 (26 Games Graded). So, I take one day off (Sunday) and the “fit…
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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…
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R.I.P. John Hughes
R.I.P John Hughes. I did not think I would feel this bad the day the filmmaker John Hughes died. The trailer…
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Mochi First Impressions Game Review Mash-Up: Thursday, Aug 06, 2009
Mochi First Impressions Game Review Mash-Up: Thursday, Aug 06, 2009 I know you are going to play the world tiniest violin…
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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…
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Mochi First Impressions Game Review Mash-Up: Wednesday, Aug 05, 2009
Mochi First Impressions Game Review Mash-Up: Wednesday, Aug 05, 2009 Wow, what a great day full of wonderful Mochi games. Oh,…
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Mochi First Impressions Game Review Mash-Up:Tuesday, Aug 04, 2009
Mochi First Impressions Game Review Mash-Up: Tuesday, Aug 04, 2009 Here’s the deal. Don’t piss me off. You know you have…
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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),…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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)…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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Wii Motion Plus/Wii Sports Resort : First Impressions
I picked-up my reserved copy of Wii-Motion Plus/Wii Sports Resort yesterday at Target. My first impression is this: No Need To…
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FIOS, DSL and Verizon. I want to laugh and I want to cry #1(Updated)
FIOS, DSL and Verizon. I want to laugh and I want to cry #1 **** Update **** Last Thursday, as I…
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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…
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Mochi Game Review Mash-up: Sunday July 26, 2009
Mochi Game Review Mash-up: Sunday July 26, 2009 It’s Sunday, a day I normally leave for TV shows on the DVR…
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Expressing An Emotional State Of Mind In A Game
There are games I’d like to create, but for the life of me, I cannot figure out how to approach them.…
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Play the new free Atari STE Game rOx in Windows with a single mouse click!
Play the new free Atari STE Game rOx in Windows with a single mouse click! The guys over are RGCD UK…
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Mochi Game Review Mash-up: Saturday, July 25, 2009
Mochi Game Review Mash-up: Saturday, July 25, 2009 Nine more Mochi Games Reviewed Based In Initial Impressions I need to pick up…
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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)…
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Random Game Design Notes From Chris Crawford
A few years ago I hosted an all-day game design session with Chris Crawford. After the session, I took some notes…
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Great Free Online Book On Eary Computer Games: Let’s Tell a Story Together
I’ve always wondered how long it would take to create a text adventure/graphical text adventure engine for Flash. I *know* the…
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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”…
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More Algorithms For Modern Managers
I’ve been looking for these for a very long time, and I finally found them. We came up with these many…
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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…
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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/ .…
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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…
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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…
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Top-10 Alternative Ideas for The Universal “Asteroids” Movie
Last week, Universal announced that they had won a “bidding war” for the rights to turn Atari’s Asteroids coin-op into a…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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Interview with PhotonStorm’s Richard Davey
Interview with PhotonStorm’s Richard Davey Richard Davey has created some excellent games for the freelance Flash portal market in the past…
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…palindromes… re-revisited or I love mindjolt.com
So, just as I have given-up on …palidromes…, mindjolt.com put it up a couple days ago, and the game plays have…
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Interview With Simon From Game Jacket
A short interview with Simon from GameJacket was recently posted by FlashGameMontezation Very interesting: Badim: 1k$ Advance – it was good…
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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…
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Post-Retro: Have We Entered The Era After “Retro Games”?
There is a sense these days that the concept of “Retro” games is disappearing. This does not mean that there are…
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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…
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.+.palindromes.+. launches on Mochi, first entry in Dictionary.com word game contest
Last week I noticed that Mochi is running a new contest in partnership with dictionary.com for “word games”. Since I just released…
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E3: Gaming Cameras For Motion Control: Have They Really Thought This Through?
Both Microsoft and Sony announced camera-based game control solutions at E3 2009. At the same time, Nintendo has said they rejected…
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Game Jacket Goes Under
Game Jacket Goes Under I am sad to report that Game Jacket has gone under and all games will cease being…
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Mad Avenue Blues: The eCPM Is Low For Everyone!
This video has been making the rounds of people in the advertising industry since it was posted last week. It’s focus…
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Book Review: American Nerd, The Story Of My People by Benjamin Nugent
I did not think that I would write a review of this book. I start reading dozens of books like “American…
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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…
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E3 2009 Indie Game Report #3 – Indiecade 2009
E3 2009 Indie Game Report #3 – Indiecade 2009 One of the best things at this years’ E3 was Indiecade 2009…
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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…
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E3 Retro / Indie Report #2
E3 Retro / Indie Report #2 What can I say? So far, E3 2009 has been a little underwhelming. Most of…
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E3 Retro Report #1: Watch Steve Wiebe Try To Break The Donkey Kong World Record
You can keep-up on Steve Wiebe attempt to break the donkey Kong World Record with the video feed below. http://www.justin.tv/widgets/jtv_player.swfWatch live…
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Press Space To Win Is Pretty Awesome
Press Space To Win is pretty awesome I was trolling message boards and portals this morning because of my inherent need…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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About US: Mission Update : Inform-Instruct-Inspire
Inform. Instruct. Inspire. Yesterday Jeff and I decided we wanted to clarify why we have this web site. Sometimes I think…
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Solar Fortress Chronicles: Hours 18 – 20
Solar Fortress Chronicles: Hours 18 – 20 Note – I am rapid (wishful thinking) prototyping a retro game in my spare time…
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ComeToPlay’s non-contest Flash Game Contest
ComeToPlay’s non-contest Flash Game Contest I don’t shill for everyone that writes in asking up to promote their product, contest, game,…
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The History of 8-bit Computer Games in The USA #1 : CGW Nov/Dec 1981
The History of 8-bit Computer Games in The USA #1 : CGW Nov/Dec 1981 I never read Computer Gaming World Magazine…
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Programming By Google? A Quick Poll
This week I worked on a project with some “new” CSS/HTML and AS3 concepts that I had never used together in…
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Diatribe: Writer’s Block and Video Ads
I’ve had writer’s and programmer’s block for about a week now. I’m sorry there have not been any “interesting” blog entries…
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What types of free music clips / sound do you want?
New Music Clips are a-coming and an offer to you. I am planning to sit down and make some new free…
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Flash indie game interweb-mash-up : May 19, 2009
Flash indie game interweb-mash-up : May 19, 2009 It’s been quite a few days since I last mashed-up the infobaun looking…
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How can Casual game designers use the list of top selling comsumer items?
How can Casual game designers use this list? In the Sunday newspaper (yes, I still get one of these ancient documents)…
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Wiiware Support For Flash Met With Fear, Derision:Analysis
Reports came out this week that Nintendo would start supporting Flash as a development platform for Wiiware. While there was some…
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ST Amiga Format Magazine ONLINE (For real!!!)
ST Amiga Format Magazine ONLINE (For real!!!) On the heels of yesterday’s find of ST Action scanned reviews on Atari Mania,…
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ST Action Magazine Online! (Some at least) on Atarimania.com
ST Action Magazine Online! (Some of at least) on Atarimania.com Back in 1988, one of the few places to get Atari…
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Attack of the Killer Mutant Bingo Wings Added to Retro Arcade
Buzzard Games’ very unique and fun Attack of the Killer Mutant Bingo Wings has been added to the 8bitrocket Retro Arcade. …
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When Golden Age Video Games “Wore The Leather Jacket”
I’ve been reading Benjamin Nugent’s American Nerd lately. One of the aspects of nerdom that he points out is the need…
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Hey, They Used Our Kung Fu!: Free Jigsaw , hezekiah.hu
Almost 2 years ago, we published our very first game on Mochiads. It was a Jigsaw puzzle engine I had been…
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Solar Fortress Chronicles: Hours 16 – 17
Solar Fortress Chronicles: Hours 16 – 17 Note – I am rapid (wishful thinking) prototyping a retro game in my spare…
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Hey They Used Our Kung Fu! #1: Clint Herron And “Falling With Style”
Hey there 8-bit Rocketeers. This is the first ever installment of “Hey, They Used Our Kung Fu! Where we highlight developers…
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8bitrocket.com Will Be Reporting From E3 This Year As An Official Media Outlet
We have been to E3 in Los Angeles many times, but always as “industry professionals”. This means that, while you can…
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Solar Fortress Chronicles: Hours 14 – 15
Solar Fortress Chronicles: Hours 14 – 15 Note – I am rapid prototyping a retro game in my spare time and…
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Atari Nerd Retro Inter-Web Mash up – May 7, 2009
Atari Nerd Retro Inter-Web Mash up – May 7, 2009 What’s new (and old) in the world of Retro Atari consoles,…
