A long article on the industry inventing years of Atari – 1978 to 1981. Lots of good quotes from legends of the time, like this one:
“We had a lot of fun, Warner had owned it for a while, but Nolan was still running it. He’s an engineer, and he ran the company as an engineer would run it and that’s why Warner bought it. But he would still isolate the engineering department. He’d say, ‘You guys go over there and have a lot of fun. We’ll come back and talk to you every once in a while.’”
Another Tron-like game is about to be released over Steam. Tank Universal was released independently last year, but now is getting a bit more exposure through Steam. I haven’t played it yet, but the screens and vids seem cool. Your quick blurb:
Tank Universal creates a huge virtual ‘Tron-like’ world where you take part in immense 3D tank battles involving scores of units both friendly and not so friendly in wide open levels!
Players can bombard the enemy from a distance or close the gap and dodge shells point blank – all in an immersive first person perspective.
With just a little bit of hacking, you can build an internet ready NES. Then cheaply mass produce them for distribution to under-developed countries. Only $12 per unit. Well… this is according to some smarty MIT dude.
You shall now be teased.
“You Look Nice Today”, the world’s best podcast (sorry Tim), talks about the Nintendo Wii in their latest episode. The GridCycle relevent part is from minutes 16:01 to 22:22.
