The Original Design Sketches For Pac-Man
There are more sketches and a ton of interviews here. Worth the read.
Big Fun: Play Through The Decades
Hello Cleveland reviews Big Fun:
Do you remember playing with G.I. Joes when you were little? How about Treasure Trolls? Lite Brite? Did you ever play with your Rainbow Brite or Teddy Ruxpin while munching on fruity wax soda bottles, candy buttons or candy cigarettes (before they had their name changed to “candy sticks”)? If these kinds of things bring back rushing memories of your childhood, you’ll be thrilled to take a trip down memory lane at Cleveland’s Big Fun Toy Store.
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Named by Playboy as one of the “coolest stores” in all of America, Big Fun has two area locations: the original location on Coventry in Cleveland Heights, and a west side location on Clifton Boulevard. Locally-owned and operated, Big Fun provides an experience that you just can’t get at other local toy stores. Whether you were born in the 30s or the 90s (or even yesterday), you’ll find something at Big Fun that you didn’t know you couldn’t live without.
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Opened in 1990 by owner Steve Presser, Big Fun has been a true Cleveland icon since its humble beginning. When one thinks of Coventry, it goes without saying that they also envision the familiar colorful block lettering of the Big Fun storefront and the memories that come along with it.
Dreamcast Lives On In PS3 & Xbox 360
For all us folks that still have a Dreamcast in our living rooms this is good news. Sega has announced stating that the Dreamcast will get a second life on the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade. According to their website:
SEGA® Europe Ltd. and SEGA® of America, Inc. today announced plans to bring classic titles from its popular Dreamcast™ console to Xbox LIVE Arcade for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PlayStation®Network later this year. Sonic Adventure™ and Crazy Taxi™ will be the first two classics made available, with Sonic leading the pack in Autumn 2010 for the 11th anniversary of the launch of the Dreamcast in Europe.
This means that gamers can finally play as Sonic and so many other wonderful, wonderful games on their next gen consoles.
Princess Leia Hairdo Baby Hat
I mean how cute is this. The folks at Sew Can Do hit it out of the park with this one.
Used Game Sales Are Bigger Loss Than Piracy
Andrew Oliver, co-founder of Blitz Games Studios, told Develop Online that piracy is not the biggest revenue loss facing the games industry today.
The bigger problem on consoles now is the trading in of games [….] I understand why players do this, games are expensive and after a few weeks of playing you’ve either beaten it, or got bored of it so trading it back in to help pay for the next seems sensible when people are short of cash.
Oliver went on to day that the average game is traded up to four times, which quarters the amount of profit going to the developer. Well I rarely if ever sell any of my games, but I buy used more often then not. I mean why wouldn’t folks?
The First Digital Camera
In December 1975 Steve Sasson, for more than a year, had been playing around in a Kodak plant with an idea he had. That idea, or the finished product is widely considered to be the first digital camera ever created. A camera that could capture, store, and output images without any film.
It had a lens that we took from a used parts bin from the Super 8 movie camera production line downstairs from our little lab on the second floor in Bldg 4. On the side of our portable contraption, we shoehorned in a portable digital cassette instrumentation recorder. Add to that 16 nickel cadmium batteries, a highly temperamental new type of CCD imaging area array, an a/d converter implementation stolen from a digital voltmeter application, several dozen digital and analog circuits all wired together on approximately half a dozen circuit boards [....]
It will never cease to amaze me how much cool stuff has been created through the ages with just somebody tinkering around with stuff.
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