#electronic fun

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Expressions People Use When They Lose a Game (Electronic Fun with Computer and Games #5, Mar. 1983)

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10 Ways to Say "Board" (Electronic Fun with Computer and Games #5, Mar. 1983)

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Electronic Fun-May 2016

Once again the EF editors have been poking around behind the scenes to find out what's on the way for the mad gamer. Michael Blanchet did a whirlwind tour of Silicon Valley and surrounding areas, and Randi Hacker visited the almost-as-exotic Toy Fair in New York City, proving that your best buy in magazines is also bi-coastal. Read all about their adventures in our "monster" game preview.For those of you who may wonder what the Toy Fair is, once a year all the toymakers in the country get together in New York to show their new products. Who gets to see them? All the owners of toy and game stores from all over the country. And us. Everyone showing toys and games at the Toy Fair has a room, and every room has a security guard. And everybody wears a badge, telling who they work for. If you're from Mattel or Atari and you want to see what Coleco has, forget it. Those guards mean business.Of course, most people buy toys around Christmas, so what we saw won't even be in stores until the summer. And it's still early, so there'll be even more new games before the year is out. You'll read it here first, and that's a promise.If you own an Atari computer, or are thinking of getting one, this issue's for you. We've got a complete list of all the people who make games for the 400 and 800, plus their own picks of their favorite games. What? You just bought a VIC-20? Well, every single month we'll do the same for another computer system, and when we run out...maybe we'll just have to start over. Computer games are multiplying like schloss konflikt hack android, but then, it's that time of year. Electronic Fun doesn't just give you more for your money--we give you everything

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Emulating Games

I've been following the postings/writings/games of Anna Anthropy for a few years now. She recently posted the news of annarchive. She writes that this is:

fan magazines, instruction manuals, art books, comics and trading cards and calendars, hint books, gamebooks... over 35 gigs of GAME HISTORY 

You can peruse this beautiful archive yourself at annarchive.com.

I was doing precisely this when I discovered the scanned PDFs of Electronic Fun magazine, beginning its run in 1982.

Most intriguing is that as the final article in every month's issue, Electronic Fun would run a reader-submitted original game. Complete with write-up, character art, and full source code.

So, while there's a lot of effort and attention being paid to emulating old games these days, I figure it's mostly focused on classic, popular, and professional games.

These strange little games—small enough to be published in the back of a magazine—are almost certainly not being revived. I wondered what they were like to actually play. 

I've decided I'm going to spend some time collecting these games, emulating the platforms necessary, and actually play them. I'm going to record my experiences going through this process here.

More soon.