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Gaming Now and 20 Years Ago

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the night-and-day dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "A cool comparison of video games from the same genre, the only difference is about 20 years of technical development. The Bard's tale vs World of Warcraft is really funny."

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  1. The Ultimate History of Video Games by Roy+van+Rijn · · Score: 5, Informative

    Last Christmas I got this The Ultimate History of Video Games book. And I can really recommend it. It describes how everything got started, from pinball machines to arcade machines to the first home entertainment systems. Also very nice to read how all of the Atari developers where smoking drugs all day long, and how their annoyed managers hated that :)

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  2. The histroy of computer gaming by sucker_muts · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those interested in some more background (and with way too much free time), check this out:

    Wikpedia article about computer games.
    Comprehensive article with lots of detail.

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