It's a great collection. I actually got married at the chapel next door.

I'm really sorry to hear about this

Hey, wake up! We're two months into 2026 and you still haven't played Gitaroo Man.

Battle zone box art

BattleZone (the 1998 version) did this quite well. You control the main tank (if it dies you can hop into another) and you give orders to your units.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlez...

Lex, Word Fun One cover art. Wizard with helicopters. Incredible concept. The game allows you to become a wordy pilot of the Semantic Squadron, I've read!

Word Fun 1 Based on a helicopter theme, this package provides learners with plenty of hands on action as they take control of their various aircraft. Its interesting graphics reinforce the fantasy aspect of a skill building word rescue assignment. Oppocopter uses words taken from a large pool of carefully selected exact opposite pairs, that have beeen graded into four levels of difficulty. The learner manoeuvres a helicopter to shoot down the correct opposite from a multiple selection. A scorebar counts correct answers, but if an error is made, the correct answer is highlighted. At each level, one of four speeds can be chosen to place a time limit on answering each question. Synocopter asks the learner to effect a rescue by helicopter, by matching a word with its exact synonym to correctly locate the target. There are three levels of difficulty and three speeds to choose from. Alphacopter provides a unique way to practise alphabetical skills as well as strategic problem solving skills. Using a helicopter to lift the top word block off one of three piles and then to move it to another pile, the learner is able to transform a randomly ordered pile of words into an alphabetically ordered array. Six levels grade this activity from a simple task to a most demanding one. The exciting action in all three games gives this package a particularly strong computer games appeal which is well balanced by its sound educational content. Walk across instructions and the very simple, clear, and consistent use of the arrow keys for all user controls, make it very easy to use for all age levels. Ages five - fifteen.

Spelling Fun 1 menu screen. In fetching CGA!

Lex, Wizard of Words commencement screen. Yet more lovely CGA!

FUCK IT, MISSING DOS WEDNESDAY

Trying to locate an Australian DOS game from ≈ 1988, 𝐋𝐞𝐱, 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐅𝐮𝐧 𝟏.

The game was part of a series of four Edutainment games by Reckon Software/John Grimley.

Here's the box cover art, a text ad, and screenshots of 2 other games in the series! Help a gal out!?

An image showing "More Battlefield, less horizon worlds"

In 2023 & 2024, Facebook's VR Division lost $29.8 Billion! That's a Battlefield Index of 72 - meaning we could be playing 72 *MORE* Battlefield games instead of...whatever it is they're doing over there. Clearly, someone must contact Mark Zuckerberg about how that money could be better utilized. 2/2

During a talk I gave two weeks ago, I proposed the Battlefield Index: A market commodity pegged to the cost of making a Battlefield game. Which in 2025 is $400 Million. How is this useful? 1/2

Large stacks of commodore 64 disk drives

Helping at the computer museum today. Those are some disk drives

Superman?

As an exercise, I sometimes deconstruct a genre in my notebook. Then doodle what directions the genre could have gone that are different from now.

It works to help identify genre staples. They usually exist for a reason

I didn't say it was a good idea

Git has the most technically correct UX. The best kind of correct.

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?

Making video games is hard.

Bass pro shop evangelion

As always

Eat 5 dozen eggs a day? Who can afford the Gaston lifestyle?

Oh, that's a good one! Not having to extend UHT is a big bonus.

Was it the seagulls?

The games industry is in the same boat

Game studio announcements be like, “We laid off all your favourite devs! But don’t worry, all the people actually responsible for the horrible decision-making that led to this massive failure are staying on :) and they will still be driving their new Porsches :) all is well!!!!!”

I have brick. Do you have any wheat?

Comic Sans is the only font I need

This has all happened before, it will all happen again

Besides closing out the MAGFest stream as VA, I also got a selfie with Cory & Lori Cole of Quest for Glory / Hero U. It's a year to remember.

Stay on target

I view HL 1 as a deconstruction of fps's of that time - did the opposite of what they were doing. Beginning sequence with no action, useful melee weapon, Barney as a partner, etc. And did them with good execution.

Is this beat steam? On dirty arcade monitor

Someone answer this person's question

#Magfest is next week! If you catch the twitch stream, I'll be the Voice Announcer Friday 1/24 Noon-4pm EST and again Sunday 1/26 Noon-4pm EST.

GDC records the talk at the convention so they control that recording. You are free to give the talk again at another venue or wherever.

It needs to be less ratchet more clank

It's an investment!