These are two great videos about how Adventure games were born unto computers in the early 80’s. Parts of the interviews include Ken Williams, Roberta Williams, and Al Lowe.
Adventure games on Discovery Channel
The Making of Kings Quest
Archive of entries posted on August 2007
The Origin of Computer Games (Sierra)
Still in the Blog Transition Process
I am still in the process of getting Pixelmoto.com designed and functional. Transferring all my existing posts over from mikewags@blogspot was very easy using Wordpress’s built in import feature. I thought I would have to copy a bunch of content over and it kept me from making the blog-move earlier, I am happy to say [...]
Wii Virtual Console Promotion Artwork
Promotion Poster for the Wii Virtual Console. Included in the poster as some very oldschool nintendo characters.
For those of you that don’t know, the Virtual Console is the Nintendo Wii’s built in “Emulator” (if you will) for old T16/NES/SNES/N64 games. Basically Nintendo will sell you these old games for “points”, points cost about 1 dollar [...]
Steve Mcqueen Ferrari Sold
Ripped from CNN.com
MONTEREY, California (AP) — A classic Ferrari once owned by Steve McQueen sold for $2.31 million Thursday night at auction.
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Steve McQueen poses next to his 1963 Ferrari in the ’60s. The car sold for more than $2 million.
An anonymous car collector who placed a bid by phone bought the 1963 Ferrari Berlinetta [...]
Nokia Latest 888 Phone Concept
Bendable phone most likely using sony’s new microthin OLED screen technology. More information on the phone can be found here at the Engadget writeup.
