I’m hoping that the game “Crashday” which is being developed by MoonByte Studios and distributed under the brand Atari will not become vaporware. It allows you to do the one thing in cars that you can’t do in most racing games. Take outrageous jumps, loops and CRASH A LOT. Some sites have had a release date listed at 1999 which I hope is merely a misprint–since I only heard about it this year.
Archive for 2005
Wil Wheaton reviews the classic Battlezone: here
Ars Technica has recently posted a very nice article summarizing the history [and intelligent design] of video games. They explore some of the most ground-breaking games in various categories such as Sports Games, Adventure, RTS, etc. I’m happy to see that they included Hard Drivin’ which is one of my all time favorite driving games.
One of the guy’s who works on the Microsoft Virtual PC team has a blog up that is all about playing classic games in that environment. Has some really good points about what does and does not work, as well as why fairly often.
Wired has an article about the current project of Nolan Bushnell, the creator of Pong and Atari Software. Quite a good read.

