For Games Unplayed and Unknown
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.
The first known LGBTQ video game has been recovered by archivists and made available for free online!
Where do the outliers fit into gaming history? My article about Comer, a surreal self-published CD-ROM game from 1998, is now available in ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories!
The free, defunct multiplayer shooter Control Monger has a unique defensive gameplay keeps you constantly moving. To learn what it was like, I brought in some friends!
A bizarre story about a writing program that was reportedly sabotaged by a rogue programmer and the questions that raises about educational software.
Hey, I’m still here! Some updates on what I’ve been up to that’s not writing on this blog.
With the closing of Sim developer Maxis, take a look back at a few of Maxis’s least-known games that aren’t available to play.
A podcast episode served as a reminder about the importance of preserving Flash games and whose history they represent.
Announcing the game history panel track for Super MAGFest 2020 in National Harbor, MD!
Myst rewrote the future of games and multimedia. Consider how much has changed in about two decades.