Daily Linksplosion: Friday, August 13, 2010
- 1UP – Spectraspective: The History of the Sinclair ZX SpectrumJess Ragan has become one of my favorite retro-writers. Five pages in length, this particular retrospective is pretty in-depth for a 1UP piece, but you should probably read it.
- GameLife – Virtual Boy, Nintendo’s Big 3-D Flop, Turns 15I remember the day the Virtual Boy launched—August 14, 1995—because it was my 13th birthday! I almost bought a Virtual Boy, and I had waited and waited for the day to arrive, and I ended up spending the money on a leather jacket instead. I still have that jacket, though!
- Cactusquid – Cactus Arcade 2.0Brand new, downloadable compilation of games from indie developer Cactus. Free! Go get ‘em!
- GOG.com – Phantasmagoria up to 30% offFINALLY! Phantasmagoria AND PHANTASMAGORIA II YOU GUYS PHANTASMAGORIA II sold together for the low, low price of US$11.18! WHAT THE—but only until Monday, August 16. Hey! It’s almost as if gog.com knew my birthday is this Saturday! Happy birthday to me!
- Pink Tentacle – Vintage Tokyo subway manners postersDecades-long poster campaign exhorts train passengers—often in clever or surprising ways!—to use their best manners. At least one poster alludes to a video game. Enjoy!
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I have a friend who is from the UK, and upon visiting her home I quickly learned her dad was a computer gaming buff back in the 80s, and actually had a Spectrum. It was quite an interesting conversation, talking about games like Elite and programming on the machine. Really put an interesting perspective on that particular piece.
Ragan and I seem to have disagreed on a LOT of gaming opinions over the years, but I think we have common ground as far as the Speccy is concerned.