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The Escapades of Percival ‘Pac’ Man, Esq.

source-code for classic arcade (and console) games. Along with chit-chat.

It’s 1975, and IBM wants to show you the future. A slideshow of images. That’s a real slideshow, by the way, of real slides. No powerpoint, no laptops, no digital projects. A carousel.

Click. Click. Click

A gallery of photos from the late, lamented 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - The Ride

I got to ride on this… ride in 1987. It was beginning to be dilapidated. The Carousel of Progress was still around at that point, too….

Perhaps you have been unfortunate enough to see the new, micro-miniaturized version of Death Race a micro-miniaturized film (a “remake” of the 1975 version of Death Race 2000), wherein all salient characters plot devices, twists, denouements, etc. are reveal’d in the space of 2 and one-half minutes.

While the original movie seems to have spawned an early video-game adaptation, the new movie script seems to have been drawn from the game.

Sadly, the remake of the video game will probably inspire yet another sequel.

THIS IS SO WRONG.

Shredding an Asteroids cabinet in microseconds.

Pong as a choose-your-own-adventure book.

Interesting idea, which upon reflection seems very boring. And the specific implementation interface is horrible

RetroSabotage investigates and re-invents some classic games.

Techrepublic steps the beginner through Nethack, which is, as wikipedia points out, a Rogue-like game.

Finkbuilt built this nice “RetroVision 2000 AV Cabinet”.