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Blog posts September 2014
National VideoGame Museum Coming to Texas
After years of trying to find a home, the Videogame History Museum now has one: The Frisco, Texas Discovery Center, whose board has committed 10,400 square feet now and nearly $1 million to cover startup costs and construction of a larger facility to showcase its vast collection.
The board of the Frisco Community Development Corporation this week voted unanimously to approve the terms bringing the museum, founded by John Hardie, Sean Kelly and Joe Santulli, to the Discovery Center. The Mus…
Updated Apple Snaffle Gameplay
Upcoming Intellivision Homebrew release Apple Snaffle, sneak peak at gameplay in action. Coming soon by Groovybee.
GoSub - New Intellivision Homebrew
Atari2600land is now working on a new Intellivision homebrew game called GoSub. You navigate your submarine through various underwater mazes in search of treasure. Check out the progress in the programming thread. No word as of yet on a release or not. This game is being programmed with IntyBasic.
CGE 2014 - Convention Exclusive Homebrew Game Release BLIX
A new puzzle style game called BLIX has been released at CGE 2014, GOOD DEAL GAMES is the publisher behind this convention exclusive release. Copies were limited to only 30 copies and were sold out very quickly. So far no plans for additional copies have been announced. Many fans and collectors may have to wait until 2017 according to the information sheet shown at the convention. Visit the Atari Age forum discussion HERE.
Intellivision Memories
COURTESY OF WEBMIKEY: Dad and I have always had fun together with technology, which includes home video games. When I was really young, I remember we owned some kind of dedicated Pong TV game that we played together, but our gaming history really started with the Intellivision console by Mattel, sometime in the early 80s. Unlike other kids, I never had to talk my dad into wanting to buy a home video game, since he was just as into the advertising hype as I was! Of course, we had to decid…
Hal Finney Interview
Hell Finney, a Blue Sky Ranger has passed. Here is a look at some of his achievements to the gaming world, as seen in this interview. Courtesy of 2600Connection.
As the story goes, APh Technology Consultants (located in Pasadena, CA) was hired by Mattel in 1976 to help design what became the Intellivision system; eventually they programmed the system's software, most of the development tools, and all of the first Intellivision, M-Network, and Keyboard Component games. The team consisted of …
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