Classic Games (Games) Stories

New Book Remembers LAN Parties and the 1990s 'Multiplayer Revolution' 74
''Tetris Reversed'? Alexey Pajitnov Shows Footage From Rediscovered Prototype for 'Tetris' Sequel 22
Billy Mitchell and Twin Galaxies Settle Lawsuits On Donkey Kong World Records 64
Atari Will Release a Mini Edition of Its 1979 Atari 400 (Which Had An 8-Bit MOS 6502 CPU) 64
Official Probe Finds Hans Niemann Didn't Cheat Against Magnus Carlsen 59
Xbox Boss Is Open To Breaking the Seal On Some Forgotten Games 43
World Chess Body Bans Transgender Women From Competing In Women's Events 364
Documentary on Hungary's Videogames Behind the Iron Curtain Crowdfunds Expanded Disks 11
Chess has a New World Champion: China's Ding Liren 70
Six Months Later, Poker Player Garrett Adelstein Still Thinks He Was Cheated 66
Magnus Carlsen Loses Last Competition as World Champion - After Slip of His Mouse 35
Did 'Donkey Kong' Champ Use a Banned Joystick for His 2007 World Record? 87
Classic Videogame 'Goldeneye 007' Finally Comes to Nintendo Switch and Xbox 54
Chess.com Visits Spike with New Cat-Themed AI Bot Named 'Mittens' 29
World Chess Champ Magnus Carlsen Also Wins World Blitz and Rapid Chess Titles 23
Atari Revives Unreleased Arcade Game That Was Too Damn Hard For 1982 Players 40
Atari's 50th Anniversary Collection Includes 100 Games, Interviews, and Addictive New Titles 25
How a Mathematician-Magician Revealed a Casino Loophole 102
How 'Homestar Runner' Re-Emerged After the End of Flash 28
Man Alleging Poker Cheating Demands Better Security in Livestreamed Games 102
Alleged Poker-Cheating Scandal Gets Weirder: Employee Stole $15,000 In Chips 66
Is Professional Chess Becoming More Like Poker? 56
Chess.com Bans 19-Year-Old Accused of Cheating, But No Evidence He Cheated Against Magnus Carlsen 84
Creator of 1983 Rogue-Like Game 'Moria' Has Died at Age 64 27
Teens Are Rewriting What Is Possible In the World of Competitive Tetris 27
On NetHack's 35th Anniversary, It's Displayed at Museum of Modern Art 45
Marble Madness II: The Canceled Sequel To Classic Arcade Game Recovered For MAME Emulator 49
Twitter Turns Its Privacy Policy Into a Videogame about a Dog 22
What Chinese Scientists Learned Teaching Two Monkeys to Play Pac-Man 23
Some Videogames Suddenly 'Expiring' on Classic PS3, Vita Consoles 70
Man Creates Entire Game of Pong Inside a Single Commodore 64 Sprite 67
Secrets of 'Space Invaders' -- and One Very Tiny Homegrown Cabinet 34
Can AI Help Us Reimagine Chess? 64
After 56 years, SEGA Officially Sells Off All Its Arcades 21
17-Year-Old Beats Magnus Carlsen in World Rapid Chess Championship 52
Magnus Carlsen Wins 8th World Chess Championship. What Makes Him So Great? 42
World Chess Champion Urges Quicker Games, Is Also Rich 81
27th Annual Text Adventure Competition Won By Game About - Text Adventures 23
The Last Days of Amiga - and the Lost Amiga CD64 46
Former 'Donkey Kong' Record Holder Billy Mitchell May Now Sue Twin Galaxies 77
Former Loki Developer Jerryrigs a Multiplayer Zork, Available Via Telnet 53
After 35 Years, Classic Shareware Game 'Cap'n Magneto' Finally Fully Resurrected 23
Teaching Children To Play Chess Found To Decrease Risk Aversion 132
Flash Is About To Die, But Classic Flash Games Will Live On 45
How The Band Phish Played Chess Against Its Fans on New Year's Eve 14
Winner Announced In the World's First 'Quantum Chess' Tournament 25
Thieves' Guild: a BBS Game With the Best 1990s Pixel Graphics You've Never Seen 55
How to Play Chrome's Hidden 'Dinosaur Game' and Firefox's 'Unicorn Pong' 28
Pandemic Sends Videogame Museum Into Two-Year Shutdown 25
Guinness Reinstates Billy Mitchell's Donkey Kong, Pac-Man Records 88
EA Releases Source Code and 4K Remasters For Two 'Command and Conquer' Games 41
Nvidia's AI Recreates 'Pac-Man' For 40th Anniversary 32
'King of Donkey Kong' Billy Mitchell Continues Defamation Suit Over Cheating Accusations 93
16-Year-Old Beat World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen to Win 'Banter Blitz Cup' 45
World Chess Champion Plays Recklessly Online Using a Pseudonym 54
'Sonic the Hedgehog' Has Biggest-Ever Opening For a Video Game Adaptation 108
New Trailer, Gameplay Videos Released For Upcoming 'DOOM Eternal' 24
Meet The Programmer Behind Atari's Legendarily Bad Videogame 'E.T.' 57
In 1994 A 12-Year-Old Programmed a Videogame. It Turned Up on Twitch Monday 41
Videogame Records Site Refuses To Reinstate 'King of Kong' Billy Mitchell's High Scores 80
Did a Poker Pro Use RFID Tags To Cheat? 158
'King of Kong' Billy Mitchell Argues He Was Framed for Donkey Kong Cheating, Threatens Legal Action 80
'Doom' Celebrates 25th Anniversary By Re-Releasing Three Classic Games 102
'Super Mario Maker 2' Finally Acknowledges Nintendo Fan Communities 36
They're Making a Movie Based On the 1978 Game 'Space Invaders' 132
Inside the Race To (finally) Bring Pinball Into the Internet Age 57
'Retro Games' Announces A New Commodore 64 118
Does Monopoly's Cash-Free AI Banker Teach the Wrong Lessons? 160
Game Devs Allege Extreme 'Crunch' Overtime at 'Mortal Kombat 11' Studio NetherRealm 222
Can DeepMind's AI Really Beat Human Starcraft II Champions? 129
Rare Amiga Bought on eBay For $2,500 56
Massive Collaborative Text Adventure 'Cragne Manor' Released 33
World Chess Champion Faces American Challenger, Grueling First Game, and Woody Harrelson 62
Two Events Celebrate Text Adventures, Roguelike Games 19
Atari Launches Linux Gaming Box Starting at $199 75
Atari Co-Founder Ted Dabney Dies at Age 81 43
Guinness Strips Billy 'King of Kong' Mitchell's World Records 58
Original 'System Shock' Code Open Sourced, More Updates Promised 39
How Hardware Artisans Are Keeping Classic Video Gaming Alive 75
'King of Kong' Billy Mitchell Stripped Of Donkey Kong Record For Emulator Cheating 58
Text Adventure Competition Reports A 36% Spike In Entries 21
Humans Are Still Better Than AI at StarCraft 142
Third 'Nintendo World Championship' Ends With Three Unreleased Switch Game Levels 14
'Wing Commander' Music Composer Runs Kickstarter Campaign 39
Gaming Group Seeks Volunteers To Create Accessibility Guidelines For Tabletop Games 75
Original Colossal Cave Adventure Now Playable On Alexa 36
ESR Announces The Open Sourcing Of The World's First Text Adventure 118
Geek Builds His Own NES Classic With A Raspberry Pi 132
Celebrating '21 Things We Miss About Old Computers' 467
Google Maps Adds 'Ms. Pac-Man' Feature 31
New Release Of StarCraft In 4K Ultra High Definition Announced 161
$10K Package Of Super Nintendo Games Finally Found By Post Office 155
Lost Package Derails Project To Preserve Super Nintendo Games 172
MAME Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary 47
Pong's Inventor Unveils Three New VR Arcade Games - Including Pong 27
An AI Is Finally Trouncing The World's Best Poker Players 164
2016 Winners Announced For Interactive Fiction Competition 24
The NES Classic is a $60 Single Board Computer Running Linux 121
Archive.org Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary 42
New Text Adventures Compete In 22nd 'Interactive Fiction Competition' 25
Super Mario 'Speed Runners' Are Setting New World Records 62
Hacked Hobbit Pinball Machine Joins IoT, Broadcasts Itself Over Twitch 45
Sega Announces Two New Sonic Games That Seek To Recapture The Glory Days 45
Mattel Sells Out Of 'Game Developer Barbie' 224
Real-World Pong Created by Amateur Builders 39
New "Perfect Game" Donkey Kong Record May Be Unbeatable 77
Atari Vault Hits Steam, Play 100 Classic Games On PC 90
Blizzard Issues Update For 16-Year-Old Diablo II 54
'Serious Sam 1' Engine Released As Open Source 82
Human Go Champion 'Speechless' After 2nd Loss To Machine 338
Google's AlphaGo Beats Lee Se-dol In the First Match 119
ScummVM, Update With a Bang 37
Fan-Made 'Metal Gear Solid' Remake Cancelled; Gamers Blame Konami 118
Crossword Database Analysis Spots What Looks Like Plagiarism 44
MAME Released Under OSI-Compliant, FSF-Approved License 41
Bethesda To Unleash the Hounds of Hell On May 13th: Doom Release Date Confirmed 86
Computer Beats Go Champion 149
To Solve a Rubik's Cube In 1 Second, It Takes a Robot 100
Finally Calculated: All the Legal Positions In a 19x19 Game of Go 117
Game Historian: Gygax Swiped Fantasy Rules From a Forgotten 1970 Wargame 139
NetHack 3.6.0 Released After a 12-Year Wait 76
Sony Quietly Adds PS2 Emulation To the PS4 151
How One Company Is Bringing Old Video Games Back From the Dead 106
Unearthed E.T. Atari Game Cartridges Score $108K At Auction 62
Interviews: Game Designer Steve Jackson Answers Your Questions 38
Clang Plays Tetris -- Tetris As a C++ Template Metaprogram 68
18 Years On, Ultima Online Is Still Going 75
Interviews: Ask Steve Jackson About Designing Games 111
GA Tech Researchers Train Computer To Create New "Mario Brothers" Levels 27
The Rebirth of Arcade Racers -- On Kickstarter 79
First Games Inducted Into the World Video Game Hall of Fame 277
1-Pixel Pac-Man 41
MAME Changing License To Fully Libre One 56
(Hack) and Slash: Doing the LORD's Work 63
Poker Pros Win Against AI, But Experts Peg Match As Statistical Draw 65
GOG Announces Open Beta For New Game Distribution Platform 104
Twitter Stops Users From Playing DOS Games Inside Tweets 54
In New AI Benchmark, Computer Takes On Four Top Professional Poker Players 89
Building an NES Emulator 140
SuperMario 64 Coming To a Browser Near You! 97
"Descent" Goes For a Crowdfunding Reboot (and a Linux Version) 149
Number of Legal 18x18 Go Positions Computed; 19x19 On the Horizon 186
Games Workshop At 40: How They Brought D&D To Britain 64
Artificial Intelligence Bests Humans At Classic Arcade Games 148
When Chess Players Blunder 47
Ask Slashdot: Automated Tool To OCR CCGs Like Magic: the Gathering? 96
Nintendo Power Glove Used To Create 'Robot Chicken' 40
NetHack Development Team Polls Community For Advice On Unicode 165
Researchers "Solve" Texas Hold'Em, Create Perfect Robotic Player 340
Archive.org Adds Close To 2,400 DOS Games 198
The Making of a 1980s Dungeons & Dragons Module 59
The New (Computer) Chess World Champion 107
Dad Makes His Kid Play Through All Video Game History In Chronological Order 222
NetHack: Still One of the Greatest Games Ever Written 186
Landfill Copies of Atari's 'E.T.' End Up On eBay 107
Internet Archive Launches Arcade of Classic Games In the Browser 94
Tetris Is Hard To Test 169
How Women Became Gamers Through D&D 239
Tetris To Be Made Into a Live Action Film 137
From the Maker of Arduboy: Tetris On a Bracelet 15
Commander Keen: Keen Dreams Source Code Released 72
Ask Slashdot: What Are the Best Games To Have In Your Collection? 382
Fifth Edition Dungeons and Dragons Player's Handbook Released 203
ScummVM 1.7.0 Released 26
GOG.com Announces Linux Support 81
Raspberry Pi Gameboy 60
Grandmother Buys Old Building In Japan And Finds 55 Classic Arcade Cabinets 133
The Rise and Fall of the Cheat Code 178
OpenXcom 1.0 Released 50
id Software's Original 'Softdisk' Games Open Sourced 100
Tetris Turns 30 36
It's Time For the Descent Games Return 251
What Was the Greatest Age For Indie Games? 92
E.T. Found In New Mexico Landfill 179
Lego Robot Solves Rubik's Cube Puzzle In 3.253 Seconds 60
23-Year-Old Chess Grandmaster Whips Bill Gates In 71 Seconds 449
Pentago Is a First-Player Win 136
How To Play Quake III On iPad 54
Development To Begin Soon On New Star Control Game 160
Prince of Persia Level Editor 'Apoplexy' Reaches 2.0 44
Archive.org Hosts Massive Collection of MAME ROMs 193
Ask Slashdot: Will You Start Your Kids On Classic Games Or Newer Games? 285
Doom Is Twenty Years Old 225
David Craddock and Two Blizzard North Co-Founders (Video 2 of 2) 14
TxK, Tempest 2000 Remake for PS Vita Demoed 41
Book Review: Stay Awhile and Listen 66
Full Screen Mario: Making the Case For Shorter Copyrights 361
Myst Creators Announce Obduction 103
Ask Author David Craddock About the Development of Diablo, Warcraft 109
Myst Was Supposed To Change the Face of Gaming. What Is Its Legacy? 374
Boot To Zork 106
The Other Pong 98
The History of The Oregon Trail 58
The Nintendo Sequels We're Still Desperately Missing 135
EA Takes Over Scrabble App, Wipes Player Histories and Switches Dictionary 197
Retro Gaming With Raspberry Pi 106
DarkSeas Games Developing Spiritual Successor To Road Rash 77
Capcom Remastering DuckTales Game 94
Dad Hacks "Donkey Kong" - Now Pauline Rescues Mario 262
Game Review: Street Fighter X Mega Man 79
Pumpkin Carving For the Digital Age: Pumpktris 40
ScummVM 1.5.0 'Picnic Basket' Released 65
Champions Declared In AI Poker Tournament 54
Kids Still Playing Pokemon Like It's 1999 93
US District Court: Game Elements In Tetris Clone Infringe Tetris Co.'s Copyright 138
Carmageddon: Reincarnation Linux Version Confirmed 72
MIT Hack Turns the Green Building Into a Giant Game of Tetris 65
Frogger Synchronized To Real-Life Traffic 43
Prince of Persia Source Code Released On Github 101
Browser Emulation of 1975 Computer Runs First 16-Bit Home Game 40
Wing Commander: Darkest Dawn — Fan-Made Goodness Reborn 83
Javascript Game of Tron In 226 Bytes 115
Atari Wants To Reinvent Pong 180
Interplay Ex-CEO Brian Fargo Kickstarts Wasteland II 122
Slashdot Visits the Seattle Pinball Museum (Video) 82
Inventor of the Modern Pinball Machine Dies At 100 89
Microsoft To Offer Flight For Free This Spring 241
World of Commodore 2011 December 3rd In Toronto 142
Aleph One 1.0 Released 105
First Person Dungeon Crawlers Making a Return 163
Syndicate Reboot Coming Next Year 184
First NetHack Cross-Variant Summer Tournament 43
30th Anniversary of Donkey Kong 47
Space Invaders: The Movie 244
Why Classic Video Game Revamps Must Disappoint 129
Bringing Old Arcade Machines Into the Internet Age 95
Ask Slashdot: DOSBox, or DOS Box? 585
Smithsonian Unveils 'Art of Games' Voting Results 183
Roguelikes: the Misnamed Genre 201
Ultima IV — EA Takedowns Precede Official Reboot 194
Original GTA Design Docs, Dated March 22nd 1995 74
Futureproofing Artifacts: Spacewar! 1962 In HTML5 175
King's Quest III Remake Released 121
The Legend of Zelda Turns 25 98
NESBot: Tool Assisted Speedrun On Real Hardware 101
Super Mario Coming To the 3DS 83
Oregon Trail — How 3 Minnesotans Forged Its Path 53
The Rise and Fall of Graphic Adventure Games 134
Hank Chien Reclaims Donkey Kong High Score 122
Super Mario Bros. 3 Level Design Lessons 95
Record Set For World's Youngest Chess Champion 214
20 Years of Commander Keen 152
Pac-Man's Ghost Behavior Algorithms 194
FPS Games That Need a Remake 518
Chess Terminator Robot Takes On Former World Champ 63
Crazy Taxi Arrives For PSN, XBLA Version Coming Soon 56
Nintendo Seeks To Trademarks "It's On Like Donkey Kong" 183
Typewriter Hacked To Play Zork 77
3dfx Voodoo Graphic Card Emulation Coming To DOSBox 156
Nintendo Entertainment System Turns 25 164

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