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Twenty-five Years at the Heart of Gaming

Posted by michael on from the hyperspace dept.

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."

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  1. SCO by 110010001000 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In other news: -SCO claims that Defender contains their IP. -M$ wrote a Defender clone but it kept crashing. -Is Defender Open Source? -Can I run Defender on Linux? -Is Defender compatible with the GPL?

    1. Re:SCO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      version 4.3 and earlier are, but 4.4 doesn't seem to be. and SCO only has clames to what was in 2.4 to 2.6. MS's is based on the DefenderBSD version, but its the gui that was strapped on and made required that did it in.

  2. I hate Willy Electrix by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I hate Willy Electrix

  3. Re:Not very long article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    At least Salon is honest, you have to give them that. The submitter could have had used some throwaway email address and a made-up Random Joe name like 90% of Slashdot's articles, but they didn't.

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  4. Re:Troll troll troll! by mekkab · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And you wonder why people criticize GTA3?

    Because philosophers for ages have determined the subjective nature of morality?! That's not at ALL why they criticize GTA3! But thanks for playing.

    P.S.- my moral compass points true north, baby!

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  5. Salon != Free as in beer and people criticize NYT? by egriebel · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    So what's the deal with that? "Everybody" gets up in arms with NYT having to register in order to read the articles. Big f-king deal, at least you can actually **read** the articles!!

    Salon gives you 2 lousy paragraphs and then they have the tease to buy a subscription or watch a lousy ad for a day's pass. Now which is more intrusive?!?

    </rant> Can someone explain why the NYT registration is evil when they give you for free the entire content of the newspaper, and Salon is the hero since they have more and more as un-free "premium" content?

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