Nov 5, 2025
seen from United States
seen from Poland
seen from Poland
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Canada
seen from China
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Vietnam
seen from United States
seen from Japan
seen from Hong Kong SAR China
seen from Qatar
seen from Qatar
seen from United States
seen from China
seen from Germany
seen from Canada
Metal Angel (TurboGrafx CD) (1993)
Conan on a computer? (Scot Bayless illustration from his article "Byte the Bullet," The Space Gamer 15, Metagaming, January-February 1978)
In his article Bayless created a simple fantasy game with two competing species based on the Life Game by John Conway, popularized by Martin Gardner, and wrote a flowchart that could be coded as a computer program. From there he made the leap to describe very briefly how rules and decision making in a board game or RPG could be programmed. He warned that you probably would need discs or bubble memory for storage instead of cassette tapes. He noted that the price of computers still was high but was falling, and some people could find access to them through local community colleges and universities.
Nine years later Scot Bayless left his engineering job to code AD&D games for SSI, and went on to be a technical director and producer at Sega of America and a studio head for Microsoft and Midway.
Frac (DOS, Simsalabim Software, 1990)
A Swedish 3D Tetris clone with unusually-shaped pieces. You can play it in your browser here. May run slowly in Firefox.
The Oregon Trail for Wii.
https://www.vintag.es/2021/07/computer-ads-families-1980s.html
Post #317: Radio Shack, The Technology Store, The TRS-80 Color Computer, 1980s Advertisment, 2024.
I do love Civ 6 and the ability to name your religion with a custom icon