games

Genius, and then the hot glue and angle grinder make an appearance.

Each needlepoint represents a scene from the video game The Sentinel (1986) created by Geoff Crammond—initially for BBC Micro. Each scene is illuminated by a unique color duo from the game’s eight-shade palette, here in the ZX Spectrum version—ported by Mike Follin.

The exact transfer of the game screens’ pixels onto the embroidery canvas grid, combined with the airy wool material, produces a luminous effect whose precision and shimmer are reminiscent of the cathode-ray screen.

Music League makes music social in a way that social media algorithms, ironically, do not

Complete thorough analysis of Mario 64’s invisible walls. How they occur, detailing every single invisible all instance in every single level.

Infinite canvas of editable multi-user text

A celebration of old video game magazines.

Play wipEout in the browser, and read the article written about rewriting it.

Find the year and location of photos.

Over the past six months, I have spent my spare time studying Capcom success stories and in particular the genesis of Street Fighter II. If discovering the engineering behind the CPS-1 was fascinating, I found the side story of how developers tracked ROM budget using paper and scissors equally interesting.

Free chapter from the eBook Shareware Heroes. Plus the website is amazing.

Guess the year a photo was taken.