Hi-res scans of cover and box art for video games. They carry scans of newer games, which to me is a bit unnecessary, but they have a wealth of covers for NES, SNES, 3DO, Intellivision, etc.
Hi, I’m Phil Nelson, a writer, developer, and audio-visual maker of stuff. I have been making stuff online for over 25 years. I run RetroStrange and Set Side B. Good to see you.
Blog Archives
Month: April 2009
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Jason Scott’s Presentation on Platform Studies from Notacon 6
In short: Context is king. His central theme seems to be that simply looking at the rulesets of old games is missing the point. The platform itself informs the game to a huge degree.
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LostLevels Dumps Superman Prototype for NES
Which means you can download it. This Superman is a prototype which was eventually renamed Sunman, with the logo changed. Sunman was never released, but it is fully playable. It is not at all the same Superman game released by KEMCO for the NES. Gameplay is very similar to another Sunsoft superhero game Batman: Return of the Joker.
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Everyblock Releases Free iPhone App
Everyblock is a great project, and this makes it better. I cannot wait for the main Everyblock code to go open source.
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DreamHost’s Josh Jones on the History of WebRing, and the Fall of GeoCities
WebRing was started by a co-founder of DreamHost. Then sold to GeoCities, which was then sold to Yahoo, and, well, read the article. Josh thinks it’s a sort of micrososm of the web:
It went from a tiny ad-free community service, to hyper-growth, to showing ads, to being acquired for an INSANE price, to being forsaken, to doing anything to survive, to “social networking”, to “web 2.0″, to today!
They’re also offering free hosting for 1000 GeoCities users, should any be found.
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Kickstarter
Kickstarter is an attempt at modern, crowd-sourced fundraising. Post a project or idea with a set timeframe, and people can pledge cash. If your fundraising goal gets reached, you get the money. If it doesn’t, then everyone gets a refund. Check out the introduction video.
I could really see using this in the future.
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Last.fm Introduces Radio Subscriptions
Users outside of the US, UK, and Germany will now have to pay 3 euros per month to keep streaming music from the popular site. The user backlash has already begun.
As more and more VC-funded startups have to start showing balance sheets, there’s going to be a lot fewer freebies around.
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How to Brew Beer in a Coffee Maker, Using Only Materials Commonly Found on a Modestly Sized Oceanographic Research Vessel
Now that’s what I call science. Ingredients include: Raisin Bran, Vegemite, Alfalfa, and baker’s or brewer’s yeast.
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How moot “Won” the Time 100 Poll
Paul Lamere’s coverage of the Time 100 hack continues with this in-depth examination of the how-they-did-it variety. It includes a lot of Time-bashing, as evidenced by the following parenthetical:
(And if you have any doubt about Time’s incompetence, take a close look at the Poll. Notice that Oprah Winfrey and Ratan Tata have the exact same number of votes. That’s because they both shared the same ID in the poll. A vote for either one was a vote for the other. Same goes for Michael Bloomberg and Gustavo Dudamel. If you vote for one, you vote for the other.)
Previously: 4chan’s precision hack of the Time 100.
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Intercounty Baseball League
Canada’s answer to minor league baseball, established 1919. The Toronto Maple Leafs Baseball Club play 5 minutes away from my house.