Game Informer posted an interesting article about gaming history, and how it's vanishing before our eyes in the last fifteen years.Here is a short sample.
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Game Informer - Video Games Vanishing History
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There is an online museum for Computer Gaming World. It does make a nice nostalgia trip to peruse the old issues. I suspect a nice monthly online column would be "This Month in Gaming History", covering events 10, 20 and 30 years ago.
Well thank you for the link I knew someone would post it.
I haven't visited that site in years.
I haven't visited that site in years.
Zloth
I smell a... wumpus!?
Archive.Org keeps a heck of a lot of old websites (though minus the pictures most of the time).
Plus, older games which require old / ancient versions of DirectX can't be emulated.
It goes worse with shaders : Shaders cannot be emulated - as far as I know, I'm no expert in this - so much that games are playable.
The DOS games era will - on the PC - the ONLY well documented PC gaming era, because of its reliable emulators.
Other games might only run via virtualization - and it needs to be found out in how far older games are able to run this way.
It goes worse with shaders : Shaders cannot be emulated - as far as I know, I'm no expert in this - so much that games are playable.
The DOS games era will - on the PC - the ONLY well documented PC gaming era, because of its reliable emulators.
Other games might only run via virtualization - and it needs to be found out in how far older games are able to run this way.
Caidh
Sentinel
I think the game writing and journalism (via archives like the aforementioned Computer Gaming World archive) from the pre-2000 era will actually persist better than some of the more current stuff.
In terms of the actual games, GoG (and to a lesser extent Steam) have done a lot to keep older games both available and playable. I think the era that is most likely to be lost (or if not lost, largely forgotten) is the pre-DOS era (C64, Apple II, and earlier) of games. There's some great gems from that era that never made it to PC beyond via emulation.
In terms of the actual games, GoG (and to a lesser extent Steam) have done a lot to keep older games both available and playable. I think the era that is most likely to be lost (or if not lost, largely forgotten) is the pre-DOS era (C64, Apple II, and earlier) of games. There's some great gems from that era that never made it to PC beyond via emulation.
Humanity has risen!
SasqWatch
Old magazines were worth solid gold. I still have all my old PC Gamer magazines. There will never be another era like the mid to late nineties. You had CD-ROM, 3DFX cards, and other technologies emerging. You felt that the future had limitless possibilities and everyone in the industry felt the same way. All gamers were dreaming of the future they would soon be ushered in. You had irreverent ads that would make marketing people panick today, the likes of John Romero's "Suck it down", and 3DFX saying that "there are two kinds of gamers: ones who play on consoles, others who have seen breasts" to promote its voodoo cards. Gaming was still a hobby and not destroyed by suits and political correctness. There was this bedazzling carefree vibe that just went away completely. You had the likes of Duke Nukem 3D, Blood and Shadow Warrior where the goal seemed to be to give the finger to the rest of the world yet in a juveline and lighthearted way.The biggest PC Gamer magazine was something like 550 pages and it even had columns on wargames and educational CD-ROM software.
I wish these days would come back and last forever.
I wish these days would come back and last forever.
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