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Junko Ozawa created the music and sound effects for many classic arcade and console games.

If you grew up in the eighties or early nineties, you’ve probably got fond memories from playing games on arcade machines. After feeding the machines some coins, you got to enjoy some of the biggest classics of the era, for as long as your lives – and coins – lasted. Arcade games were usually far more technically advanced than their counterparts for consoles and home computers, thanks to expensive and specialized hardware we could only dream of at home, and playing these games were often a bit like peeking into the future of gaming.

Numbertron is a single- or multiplayer puzzle game for the Sharp MZ-80A and Sharp MZ-700.

Numbertron is a pretty simple game, but you need to consider your moves carefully if you want to set high scores. The game is also surprisingly fun in multiplayer!

Martin Alper co-founded the british games publisher Mastertronic in 1983. When Mastertronic was later purchased by Richard Branson, Alper became president of the new company. This is a transcript of an interview conducted by phone in 2013. The interview was conducted as research for an article on The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour, so the focus of the interview is on the story behind these games. Martin Alper sadly passed away in 2015.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/48724112

We had a chat with one of the original creators of Counter-Strike.

We had a chat with one of the original creators of Counter-Strike.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/48706271

Rogue is one of the most influential games of all time. Even if you haven’t played it, you’ve definitely played several games that have Rogue’s DNA in them. It became so popular when it was released for UNIX-based systems in 1980 that it created its own genre, which we still know as ‘roguelike games’. Even in the decades when these games were niche experiences, the genre was important. The action role-playing game Diablo built directly on the roguelike genre, which means that all the games that followed in Diablo’s footsteps also have their roots here.

Rogue is one of the most influential games of all time. Even if you haven’t played it, you’ve definitely played several games that have Rogue’s DNA in them. It became so popular when it was released for UNIX-based systems in 1980 that it created its own genre, which we still know as ‘roguelike games’. Even in the decades when these games were niche experiences, the genre was important. The action role-playing game Diablo built directly on the roguelike genre, which means that all the games that followed in Diablo’s footsteps also have their roots here.