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NEW FOR CBR: Resident Evil 4 was released 20 years ago and helped to redefine the franchise and the survival horror genre. www.cbr.com/resident-evi...

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How do you get new colors on the Commodore 64? Pedantically... you don't. Practically requires a deep dive into pallete switching, the behavior of CRTs, and the psychology of color itself. (The article demonstrates what works and what doesn't, so it comes with a strong strobing warning!)

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"You have died of dysentery." I appreciate @archive.org for keeping classic games like "The Oregon Trail" alive through emulation. This is the 1990 DOS version. I played the Apple II version so much in elementary school. archive.org/details/msdo...

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Remember those old LCD games that sold for $20 when game consoles were $200? We decried their sound quality and terrible screens, and still wound up pouring hundreds of hours into them anyways.

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NEW FOR CBR: Video game demos used to be more commonplace on video game consoles than they are today. Nintendo and Sony's PlayStation needs to bring them back. www.cbr.com/nintendo-pla...

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NEW FOR CBR: Sony's removal of a certain publisher's games from the PlayStation Store could have a positive impact on the PlayStation brand. www.cbr.com/sony-removin...

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#moodboard

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Cue Reggie: "Here's a TV that looks like an Apple." The Apple TV/Video System: A tuner card aimed at mid-90s Quadra Macs. Watch TV and view VCR or camcorder footage, capturing it at a luxurious 17fps at 160x120 or 12fps at 320x240.

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NEW FOR CBR: Microsoft's decision to port Forza Horizon 5 to the PlayStation 5 could prove catastrophic for both their Xbox brand and video gaming. www.cbr.com/forza-horizo...

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FM Towns - The 'Hypermedia Computer' The FM stands for Fujistu Micro rather than anything to do with sound (as I once thought it might). Fujitsu had a tradition of code-naming PC projects after Nobel Prize-winning physicists, so the Towns part refers to Charles Townes.

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From Amiga Format's Annual 1993, released at the end of 1992: AF's vision of the Amiga of the Future. Inspired by the then-recent release of the A600, this portable Amiga sports an LCD screen and a CD player. The specs for the miggy of 95? 030 processor, 2MB of RAM, AGA, and PCMCIA and IDE.

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FUTURE COMPUTERS? (Source.)

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🕹️ Bytes of Gaming History ⌛ Four Great Houses of Gaming at E3 2001, dazzling one and all with their neon glow and the promise of awesome new gaming experiences.

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The greatest lie the 80s told young computer users is that programming would be as magical an experience as the programming textbooks of the 80s promised.

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The funkiest Dreamcast Magazine - with Casko-chan! This is such a cool cover. 💜

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Clone consoles in 1994! 90s UK video game reviews and tech news show Bad Influence featured the Scorpion, a sleek Mega Drive clone. The Scorpion aka the KW-501 was multi-region and also had a slot for putting in a Mega Drive game's PCB, and was sold in some retail stores in the UK. #VideoBytes

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NEW FOR CBR: Forza Motorsport was released for the Xbox in 2005. The game helped to start the Forza racing video game franchise that still goes strong today. www.cbr.com/forza-motors...

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#moodboard

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#moodboard

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Now you can go between playing Gunhed and doing serious biz with just the flick of a switch. The Sharp X1 Twin (1987) is another neat dual hardware PC, incorporating a PC Engine inside its slim and stylish tower. As with the Mega PC, the X1 and PCE components do not interact with one another.

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NEW FOR CBR: "Everyone In the Room Hated the Idea" The first Sims game was released 25 years ago. The Sims and its many successors and spin-offs helped to shape the life simulation genre going forward. www.cbr.com/sims-twenty-...

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NEW FOR CBR: When Super Mario Bros. 3 came out 35 years ago, it redefined the entire Mario franchise. www.cbr.com/super-mario-...

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Mac OS 9: Boilerplate theme

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NEW FOR CBR: The Neo Geo was SNK's powerful yet underappreciated video game console that tried to compete with the SNES and Sega Genesis. www.cbr.com/neo-geo-most...

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NEW FOR CBR: The PlayStation 2 helped to define video gaming in the new millennium. Its popularity crushed its competitors and allowed for an extended life. www.cbr.com/the-playstat...

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The Monorail

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Press STart to Vapourwave. Serving the US Atari ST fanbase from '86-91.

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#moodboard

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"To stay even with Commodore in memory and price, IBM will have to slash their price, and quadruple its memory..."

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If you can't decide between one or the other: glue them both together! The Cordata WPC Bridge: An IBM PC Compatible with the guts of an Apple IIe on an ISA card. 16 lovely shades of green for both DOS applications and Apple ones. Computers-on-a-board-inside-another this early on are fascinating.

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On 30 January 2007, the Windows Vista was released.

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Free Acid tab with every purchase.🫠

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To get games down into fixed chip sizes, developers had to pull funky stunts. Luckily, some devs working on the NES in 2018 demonstrated the techniques they used to pull it off.

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this is how it feels to reach 30 MILLION users!!!

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"Incredible graphics. And colors... So many colors..."

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Google Maps website in 2008 #InternetHistory

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An Apple prototype (1995) from MacWorld

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#moodboard

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NEW FOR CBR Steam's old Greenlight service wasn't perfect, but it produced classics like Five Nights at Freddy's and Undertale. It's time for it to come back. www.cbr.com/steam-bring-...

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Speaking of throwbacks… who remembers the Lion King game for Sega Genesis? I’ll never forget renting it and never being able to get past the young Simba stage! 😤 then come to find out, Disney instructed the developers to make it difficult on purpose as to not be beaten in a rental period!

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NEW FOR CBR: Both the Sega Saturn and PlayStation sought to revolutionize video gaming. They both did so, but the PlayStation won that battle. Here's why. www.cbr.com/console-wars...

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Vortec space

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#moodboard

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I still think it's the coolest shit ever that you could plug other sonic games into the Sonic and Knuckles cartridge for Sega Genesis. Gimme more stuff I can plug into other stuff! Let me put Kiryu into animal crossing!!!! Tiger Drop Raymond into next Tuesday!

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Everyone’s talking about the Switch 2’s lack of innovation yet we all stood by and let this color blind little guy die a quick but painful death. Shame on you. Shame on all of us. Don’t talk to me until you’ve witnessed what REAL INNOVATION tastes like #nintendo #switch2 #virtualboy

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"Super consoles" of the last few years were on the menu of Bad Influence's Christmas 1994 episode - plus some tantalizing glimpses of the ones rolling out in Japan: Saturn and PlayStation. It's telling that they were already seen as going to 'take over' from the 3DO, CDi, and Jaguar. #VideoBytes

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