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2021-12-14 06:36:25
BY CHRISTOPHER LEON WITH STEPHANIE ESLAKE Pedro Bromfman is not a gamer. Sure, as a kid he played a bit of Nintendo and Atari. But The post first appeared on CutCommon.
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ArtsJournal: music
2019-12-17 17:04:58
Did This Guy And His Video Game Really Destroy The Industry In The 1980s?
“Once the most highly coveted game developer — a hit-maker with the Midas touch — [Howard Scott Warshaw] had been immortalized as the man who created E.T., the ‘worst’ video game in history. But Warshaw’s story, like that of Atari, is a parable about corporate greed and the dangers of prioritizing quantity over quality.” – […]
2019-03-23 10:00:07
[…] wishes. Now that he can realise them, he must either change them or perish.’ The best living female conductors Nobuo Uematsu: Final Fantasy (1987) The Times: The mid-1980s was the era of the affordable home computer – in the UK, the ZX Spectrum and Acorn’s BBC Micro led the way, opening up the world of programming to a new generation. But way ahead of the curve were video games consoles (dominated first by Atari, then Nintendo), offering hours of colourful fun from barrel-chucking gorillas to Italian-American plumbers. The games revolution had begun, its effect now felt in almost every area of popular culture today. The Music: The first instalment of the adventure good-versus-evil game Final Fantasy was released on the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1987 – little did its Japanese authors realise what they had unleashed. While its staggering graphics and ambitious gameplay have won the Final Fantasy series of 15 volumes millions […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2018-06-03 20:30:09
Without Ted Dabney, Who Just Died At 81, We Probably Wouldn't Have Pong Or Video Arcades
Anyone who's ever played a video game in a pizza place - this must be about 99 percent of Americans over age 30, surely - has Dabney and Atari cofounder Nolan Bushnell to thank. "The electrical engineer, U.S. Marine and Atari co-founder led a life about as eventful as his packed CV suggests — but […]
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