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Author : Edward
10 March 2026, 10:09 am
In May 1999, most racing games gave you a track, a car, and a countdown. [Midtown Madness] gave you Chicago. Not a corridor of barriers and grandstands, but an open rendition of a real American city — with traffic obeying signals, pedestrians going about their day, drawbridges rising and falling on their own schedule, and weather that slowly piled snow onto the roads and changed how your car handled. It was a different kind of racing game, and it arrived before anyone had quite worked out how to make one.
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Author : Tasha S. & Emanuele B.
29 January 2026, 5:34 pm
Ron Gilbert has a pretty big claim to fame, and not just for designing video games. He is also responsible for one of the most successful and widely used game engines ever created. Hailing from Oregon, Ron has been interested in learning how to program since he was a kid. Growing up, he used his home computer to try to replicate popular games released at the time, using his friends as test subjects. From these humble beginnings, Ron built his gaming career.
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Author : Tasha
19 December 2025, 5:34 pm
First, I was never much of a racing game fan (try not to hate me too much), so Geoff Crammond is a relatively new name for me. That is not to say I have never played any of his games. As a matter of fact, I played a couple of the Grand Prix series games. Though I used to get in trouble as a kid for pronouncing it "grand pricks." That said, I found the topic rather interesting to research. I have learned much about Sir Geoff and how he earned his well-deserved moniker.
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Author : Manu
31 July 2020, 6:44 am
This month we have a bunch of good news for Amiga lovers. Many Mac and Windows games are now updated with FS-UAE 3.0.5, the latest WHDLoad packs, adjusted configs, and more. Not to mention the new whdownload section.
Read MoreAuthor : Tasha
23 June 2020, 10:04 am
Who in the world is Carmen Sandiego? It's okay if you sang that in your head, I did too. It brings back memories of pursuing a felonious red-clad woman all around the world. Carmen Sandiego came onto the scene in 1985, making her debut in "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?" The game was aimed at teaching geography in a fun and engaging way. The Carmen Sandiego series does an excellent job of making you forget that they are intended to be educational. They are also fun and challenging adventure games.
Read MoreAuthor : Tasha
2 October 2019, 9:29 am
“Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star. One of over a hundred billion in our galaxy. A galaxy that was just one of billions of other galaxies in the observable universe. This helped me keep things in perspective.”
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