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Fans not opting to purchase the Limited Edition of BioShock 2 can still get their hands on music from the game, when 2K Games releases soundtrack digitally, packed with the greatest hits from the 30's, 40's and 50's. More »
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Have time to waste on this lovely August Saturday? If you do, there's an appallingly expansive look at the history of Atari's early years (19 pages, plus one for citations) over at Gamasutra. This is actually a companion piece to the first Atari retrospective, which looked at the years from '71 to '77 (also clocking in at a mere 20 pages). It's stuffed with quotes, so the length isn't simply 'and then ... and then ... and then ....' Steve Fulton describes this period as one of the most exciting for Atari: More »
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By virtue of my profession, I'm a bit of a preservation nut - careers will be built on sources that would be rotting away if it weren't for intense efforts to preserve them, and there's still a large swath of the historical record that's gone forever. The list of lost films from the 'golden ages' of silent film, for example, is staggering, and that's for works created in the 20th century. Luckily for video games, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Maryland, Stanford, Rochester Institute of Technology and Linden Lab have banded together under the auspices of the 'Preserving Creative America' initiative of the Library of Congress. Our own Mark Wilson wrote about this months ago but there was even a GDC roundtable on the issue. The project is intended to get 'endangered' and rare games into the proper hands to preserve and archive them - but in a way that will also give a sense of the original experience: More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=362749&view=rss&microfeed=true A couple of weeks ago, we mentioned the pretty awesome personal arcade of Peter Hirschberg, located in Linden, VA. Ryan R sent us the heads up that someone put together a video tour. It's an even better look at what a lot of us agree is an amazing collection of vintage arcade games. More »
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The Washington Post has a neat little article on Peter Hirschberg, a Linden, VA guy who has made a hobby out of restoring old arcade games. Hirschberg recently completed building his own personal arcade, dubbed "Luna City Arcade," filled with 65 restored arcade classics. It's a private collection, but Hirschberg seems happy to show it off within reason: More »
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How much is a really good old game worth to you? What if it was still in it's original shrink wrap? According to eBay, the right game can be worth quite a bit to the right people. A seller is currently hosting an auction for a sealed copy of Chrono Trigger for the Super Nintendo that has shot up to an amazing $420.55. With thirty bidders and a day and a half still left to place bids, something tells me it will go even higher. My question is, what will the winner do with their expensive prize? Will they open it and play with it or will it become a pricey knick-knack that will take up shelf space and no doubt garner the envy of hardcore Chrono Trigger fans. More »
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The only way to play Atari in this day and age is to go mobile. New details on the Atari Flashback Portable which willl run on three AAA batteries and come equipped with a USB port that can load games onto the handheld. The cutie-patootie will also come with two controller ports so you can plug in two joysticks and get some regular-sized Atari action going on. How that would work on the tiniest of screens is anyone's guess but if you don't mind being super close to your opponent, it could turn out to be more fun than fatal. More »
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According to an article in The Ledger, the "mom and pop shops" that sell video games have to rely heavily on second-hand sales in order to keep up with their chain-store competitors. By focusing on the used games side of the business, retailers can control the pricing of their inventory, whereas with new games, the price is fixed and a retailer may only make $10 or less for one title. With the used games, buying low and selling high has allowed a lot of these stores to stay open. More »
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I type this from my bathtub, where I am currently transmitting raw text directly from my sinuses into a copper receptor dish situated atop my viewing screen in the other room. The water is tepid and I am clammy with soap scum and the patina from my plate-and-rivets bath ducky. More »
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Remember this? The lucky child and pretty much every video game ever printed. RedWolf over at VintageComputing was able to track down the owner and conducted a short email Q&A. "He's a bit reclusive (answering only 10 of 17 questions asked)," writes Red "and not exactly a master at typing the English language (I've had to clean up his answers quite a bit)." Huh, the greatest video game collector evar is not the greatest grammaritarian evar. Imagine that. (Is grammaritarian even a word?) More »
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It's the game that slipped through the cracks. The 2002 Tiny Toon Adventures: Scary Dreams for the GBA was believed by many gamers and by the game's Japanese producer to have only gotten a Europe release. The game, however, also got a U.S. release. Well, sort of. It actually got an extremely limited, stopped mid-production release with even review copies being recalled. The Treasure-produced software was barely brought to the States by a company called Conspiracy. More »
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I'm in Vienna at the moment, checking out the cocktail robots: next door to the exhibition I find the best little vintage game gear shop evar: Subotron. More »
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