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Atari Month: June is the month Atari was founded.
It's June and that means it's Atari month
Why Atari month? #AtariMonth is to celebrate the founding of the video games company. Founded on 27th June 1972 Atari is the creation of Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. The name Atari (当たり, あたり, or アタリ) supposedly originates from the Japanese for hit/strike or impact and is "used in Go for a situation where a stone or chain of stones has only one liberty, and may be captured on the next move…Hotel Mario: Philips CD-i May Review
Hotel Mario: May featured game
Mario's first outing on the Philips CD-i comes in the shape of Hotel Mario. I've seen Hotel Mario slated on many occasions. As a Mario game I can understand the dislike but I prefer to look at Hotel Mario as an ode to the Golden Age arcade era. If you strip away the Mario-ness of it all and look at Hotel Mario for what it is then there's a game akin to the likes of…Vectrex Overlay Config File Creation Tedium
A less time consuming way of creating Vectrex Overlay config files for RetroArch
It turns out Vectrex overlay Config creation pisses me off. I've been setting up IAGL (Internet Archive Games Launcher) on my computer (see previous post) and decided I'd like it set up on my Windows installation also. I installed KODI, installed and configured the RetroArch basics then added IAGL into the mix all without much fuss. Painstakingly, I went through all of the emulators making sure everything…The Transformers Comic Book Memories
