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How The Oregon Trail became a generational icon | The Verge

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 19:29:55 +0000

Whether you played it in the back of your classroom or on your computer at home, if you were a kid in the last 30 years you almost certainly grew up playing The Oregon Trail.

Tags: #80s #gaming #oregon #retro

How the Vectrex game console sunk a 124-year-old company - The Silicon Underground

Thu, 21 May 2026 19:39:54 +0000

On May 4, 1984, Milton Bradley, a leading producer of board games for 124 years, agreed to sell itself to Hasbro. Changes in the way people played games in the 80s, especially kids, put pressure on the company. In this blog post, I’ll explain how changing times led Milton Bradley to make a transformational bet at the worst possible time that ultimately sunk the maker of the game Battleship, and what happened to what was left of Milton Bradley.

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When Club Med Met Atari - The Retroist

Sat, 02 May 2026 22:57:33 +0000

Club Med eventually moved upmarket and away from experiments like this one. Atari eventually became something else entirely. But for thirteen weeks in the summer of 1983, on a beach in the Dominican Republic, you could sit down at an Atari 800 between windsurfing sessions and learn to program in BASIC, compose a piece of music, or weave a headband from a design you made yourself on a computer with 256 colors to choose from. Nobody made you. It was just there if you wanted it, which is very Club Med.

Tags: #80s #atari #clubmed #retro #retrocomputing #vacation

Atari Computer Camps - The Retroist

Fri, 01 May 2026 02:51:52 +0000

For three summers, Atari gave kids a chance to spend real time with computers right at the moment those machines were starting to move from curiosity to necessity. Then the company collapsed, the camps ended, and what remains is mostly what people held onto, brochures, clippings, a little film, and the memories that still surface online from people who were lucky enough to go.

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Howard Jones – Things Can Only Get Better - YouTube

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 00:30:37 +0000

Howard Jones performs the song Things Can Only Get Better on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

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Jean-Michel Jarre - Zoolookologie - YouTube

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 19:51:25 +0000

Jean-Michel Jarre - ZoolookologieJean-Michel Jarre “Welcome to the Other Side”: https://jmj.lnk.to/WTTOSSubscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/user/jeanmich...

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1980's Some of the best max headroom quotes (from the 80's man) - YouTube

Fri, 28 Nov 2025 07:55:44 +0000

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Back To The Future written on Atari 8bit!? - Atari 8-Bit Computers - AtariAge Forums

Mon, 04 Mar 2019 19:51:10 +0000

While watching this Back To The Future (1985) Retrospective (exact timestamp) today I noticed what appears to be an XE with an Indus disk drive being used by Bob Gale, co writer for the movie.

Tags: #80s #atari #bttf #imported:pinboard #retro #writing

Back To The Future written on Atari 8bit!? - Atari 8-Bit Computers - AtariAge Forums

Mon, 04 Mar 2019 19:51:10 +0000

While watching this Back To The Future (1985) Retrospective (exact timestamp) today I noticed what appears to be an XE with an Indus disk drive being used by Bob Gale, co writer for the movie.

Tags: #80s #atari #bttf #retro #writing

Look at this Frakking Geekster - imremembering: via buzzfeed:polygondotcom:...

Wed, 02 May 2012 23:06:31 +0000

This is a game about Perfect Strangers and everything is OK forever now.

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Ready Player One - YouTube

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:14:09 +0000

I took all of the songs listed by Ernest Cline on his blog as being on "The "Official" Ready Player One Soundtrack Mix Tape" and made this playlist.

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Retro Thing: What Really Happened to Mayor McCheese?

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 04:21:35 +0000

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Countercomplex: Defining Computationally Minimal Art (Or, taking the "8" out of "8-Bit")

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:54:15 +0000

"The defining element is LOW COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY, as expressed in all aspects of the audiovisual system: the complexity of the platform (i.e. the number of transistors or logic gates in the hardware), the complexity of the software (i.e. the length in bits of the program code and static data), as well as the time complexity (i.e. how many state changes the computational tasks require). A more theoretical approach would eliminate the differentiation of software and hardware and talk about description/program length, memory complexity and time complexity."

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D&D camp, circa 1982 - Boing Boing

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:28:27 +0000

"Here's a lovely interview with an alumnus of the Shippensburg Adventure Game Camp, a residential D&D camp for 10-17 year olds held at Shippensburg College (now Shippensburg University) in Pennsylvania. Campers played a series of rotating adventures in aged-grouped parties, with the councillors comparing notes behind the scenes to keep all the groups in synch and to ensure maximum fun and mayhem for all the players."

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1980s TV Theme Songs; wav files. Brought to you by Triplets and Us

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:20:13 +0000

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