3 in Three 
3 in Three‘s eccentric story about the lives of numbers and letters in a computer elevates this great-to-middling collection of brainteasers.
Tagged: 80s
3 in Three
Aaargh! Condor 
You have ten seconds to defeat a large bird. This is ridiculous. I can’t stop playing it. Why is it good? Aaargh! Condor!
Below the Root 
Based on a series of fantasy novels, Below the Root captures the enchanted tone of children’s literature by putting kindness and connectedness at the heart of the adventure.
Big Rig 
This 80s text-based game driving sim is as detailed as it is intermittently dull. That’s no coincidence.
Bob Stein on the Voyager Company, transitional multimedia, and the long outlook on information 
An interview with Bob Stein, co-founder of the Voyager Company. Stein dives into the continually changing nature of digital information and the role that the CD-ROM and multimedia played in feeling out the future of art and content.
Breakout roundup
Instead of writing a bunch of short articles about Breakout clones, here’s several of them put together! Maybe we’ll learn something more broadly about game clones by looking at them as a group.
Caper in the Castro, the first known LGBTQ video game, available again after 28 years 
The first known LGBTQ video game has been recovered by archivists and made available for free online!
Charlie Chaplin 
This loving recreation of Charlie Chaplin’s film career has a rough time translating his antics into an understandable game.
Comic Bakery
Raccoons are ransacking a bakery. It’s funny, but also a little unnerving?
Don’t Go Alone 
Often clumsy but never too tough, Don’t Go Alone has some spooky fun with its campy haunted house motif.