Join Ken Gagne, Ian Baronofsky & Kay Savetz at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo on Saturday, September 28, 2024, for a panel of Apple II game influences.
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Roguelike Celebration 2024 to be held Oct 19–20
Roguelike Celebration, an annual, virtual conference dedicated to roguelikes, will be held the weekend of October 19–20, 2024.
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Disassembly of Apple II games published
The classic Apple II games Choplifter, Sabotage, and Lode Runner have recently been thoroughly disassembled.
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UNDEAD RPG launches on Kickstarter
8-Bit-Shack has launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for UNDEAD, a new role-playing game (RPG) for the Apple II.
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Sierra On-Line documentary launches crowdfunding campaign
Legends of Adventure has launched a BackerKit crowdfunding campaign for a documentary about Ken and Roberta Williams’ company, Sierra On-Line.
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Nasir Gebelli, from Sirius Software to Final Fantasy
A recent interview of Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi recalls the programming genius of Apple II and Square alumnus Nasir Gebelli.
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Jeremy Rand details the development of BuGS
Follow the source code as Jeremy Rand details the evolution of his breakout Apple IIGS game from 2021, BuGS, inspired by Atari’s Centipede.
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Jordan Mechner hosts Prince of Persia speedrunning contest
Jordan Mechner is hosting an online competition to see who can speedrun The Prince of Persia for MS-DOS the fastest.