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In 1982 the American console business was enormous. Two years later it had almost vanished. Here is what the Atari 2600 did right, what went wrong afterwards, and which of its games still hold up.
Read more →Trading, dogfighting and exploring an entire galaxy on a machine with less memory than a modern photo. Here is how space games grew from a single duel into open worlds, and what still plays well.
Read more →Chess was the first game programmers tried to teach a machine, and for decades it was the yardstick for artificial intelligence. Here is how the software got strong, and which old chess programs you can still play.
Read more →For about fifteen years the school computer lab ran on a handful of games that made maths, geography and typing bearable. Here is where they came from and why the whole category collapsed.
Read more →Between 1982 and 1993 European gaming ran on machines you plugged into a television and loaded from cassette. The Commodore 64, the ZX Spectrum and the Amiga built a whole industry out of bedrooms.
Read more →Every arcade cabinet was a machine designed to take your money in about three minutes. That constraint shaped a whole generation of game design, and you can still feel it.
Read more →In ten years the PC went from a beige box that beeped to a machine with a 3D accelerator and an internet connection. Most of the genres people still play were invented while that was happening.
Read more →For most of the early 90s the fastest way to sell a PC game was to give a third of it away. The shareware model made id Software and Apogee, and its free episodes are still legal to play.
Read more →Zork has no graphics, no sound and no mouse, and it is still one of the best-written games ever made. Here is how it conquered the mainframes, and how to play the whole saga online in your browser, free and unabridged.
Read more →Before you could play a DOS game you had to free up memory, tell it where the sound card lived and sometimes reboot from a floppy. Here is how that worked, and why it had to.
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