Vintage Computing and Gaming


The Retrogaming and Retrocomputing Blogazine

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  1. Polaroid Instant Video Games details »
    www.vintagecomputing.com Posted 1 day ago by Benj Edwards

    What you’re seeing is not a hallucination. It is neither the result of partial head trauma, nor an accidental intrusion from an alternate dimension. It’s a...

  2. [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Censored by Electronic Games Magazine details »
    www.vintagecomputing.com Posted 4 days ago by Benj Edwards

    Click above to see the full ad. Close your eyes! The above picture is too hot for young minds to take. Or so thought Electronic Games in 1983 when they elected to...

  3. MS-DOS Saves Columbia Shuttle Data details »
    www.vintagecomputing.com Posted 5 days ago by Benj Edwards

    Vintage computing shows up in some of the unlikeliest places. And in this case, it saved the day. According to a recent Associated Press article, a 340 megabyte Seagate...

  4. [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Online Gaming, 1992 Style details »
    www.vintagecomputing.com Posted 11 days ago by Benj Edwards

    An excellent source of FDA Certified non-GMO 100% organic, free-range people. Tired of trouncing lifeless, boring computer chips in your games? Then you’ve come...

  5. [ Fuzzy Memory ] Tutankhamen Rises Again details »
    www.vintagecomputing.com Posted 2 weeks and 2 days ago by Benj Edwards

    We’re back. Last week’s Fuzzy Memory mysery was such an astounding success that we’ve received another request from someone seeking resolution of their...

  6. The 2008 Hamfest Report details »
    www.vintagecomputing.com Posted 2 weeks and 3 days ago by Benj Edwards

    A couple weekends ago, I made the requisite annual trek to RARSfest, my local hamfest of choice, which takes place on the NC State Fairgrounds. You might remember my...

  7. [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Online Dating, Circa 1985 details »
    www.vintagecomputing.com Posted 2 weeks and 3 days ago by Benj Edwards

    They put that blue streak there for a reason. It may seem like online dating is a new thing, but it stretches back farther than you’d think. Case in point:...

  8. Celebrity Computer Endorsements details »
    www.vintagecomputing.com Posted 3 weeks and 3 days ago by Benj Edwards

    Hot off the virtual PC World presses comes my latest volley of vintage nostalgia. This time I covered celebrity computer endorsements. William Shatner, Alan Alda, Bill...

  9. [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Too Little, Too Late? details »
    www.vintagecomputing.com Posted 3 weeks and 4 days ago by Benj Edwards

    TTI took three of these and never woke up. [ From Video Games and Computer Entertainment, November 1992 ] Discussion topic of the week: Pretend it’s 1991 and...

  10. [ Fuzzy Memory ] Seeking Childhood Computer Toy details »
    www.vintagecomputing.com Posted 3 weeks and 6 days ago by Benj Edwards

    Often we yearn to reclaim fond memories from childhood, but those memories remain just out of reach. Sometimes the event or object we’re seeking happened so long...