Twenty-five Years at the Heart of Gaming

Andrew Leonard writes "Salon has a loooong interview with Eugene Jarvis, the creator of legendary arcade video games Defender and Robotron, up today. Jarvis talks about why he is pro-emulators, anti-Grand Theft Auto, still focused on arcade games, and deeply worried about terrorism. It's a good read, even if you have to watch a ten second ad to get access."

Comments

Re:Defender was

[bludstone]

If youve got the money, a slikstik cannot be beaten. Im saving up for one right now.

www.slikstik.com

Be financially prepared. Their best stick is $700, but it doesnt get any better then this for MAME.

Unless you want to build it yourelf.

Re:Defender was

[Kenja]

A quick search on the "internet" provides several options.

Classic 80's Games

[Valiss]

Ok it's a but off topic, but still related. This reminded me of a site that has some old school games you can play on the web. Enjoy some classic '80s games.

Re:MAME, Kazaa, and internet preservation

[Anonymous Coward]

Until that time, it's still stealing.

You misspelled "copyright infringement". Can't blame you really, it's a hard phrase to spell. Still, accuracy is a useful skill in this particular controversial topic.

Re:Those were the days...

[TheTomcat]

I looked it up.. probably others would, too (Ninth Key and other patterns).

(posted with no bonus on purpose -- not whoring)

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Re:DOSemu

[Joe Tie.]

I've been using Dosbox for quite a while now in Linux. While there's still a lot of games it won't play, amazingly, it actually handles every dos game I own. Which, while not a huge amount, has been enough to really impress me. Especially nice is the anti-aliasing, which does a nice job of depixilating a lot of them to some extent. None of the dos games I own have any networking aspects, but I can at least say the sound seems perfect in them to me.

Re:Not the only person against Grand Theft Auto

[thirty-seven]

No matter what Jon Katz and Michael Moore would like you to believe, your chance of getting brutally killed in or around an American school is far lower today...

I think you have large misconception about Moore. In Bowling For Columbine he looks at the issues of youth/school violence and gun violence in general. He doesn't come to a conclusion about the cause of this, but he does conclude that:

a) It isn't caused by the prevalence of guns; and

b) It isn't caused by violent movies, games, or "evil" music.

However, he does suggest that if anything, the over-reporting and sensationalism of violence by the media in the U.S. (which is the very thing you accused Moore of doing), actually contributes to such violence by causing people to be overly fearful.