archives – Set Side B https://setsideb.com The Flipside of Gaming Tue, 20 Feb 2024 03:47:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://setsideb.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/cropped-mascot512-32x32.png archives – Set Side B https://setsideb.com 32 32 Bobbins’ Olde Tomb of Videogames https://setsideb.com/bobbins-olde-tomb-of-videogames/ Wed, 21 Feb 2024 15:00:00 +0000 https://setsideb.com/?p=6971 Continue reading "Bobbins’ Olde Tomb of Videogames"]]>

A new website about retro games! Both new to this blog, but also new in general, its first digest dated to October of last year! Bobbins’ Olde Tomb of Videogames covers much of the same kinds of things that we do on our Retro beat in a weekly digest format. The site is laid out like an email newsletter archive, but to subscribe link is way down the archive page, so if you want to subscribe to that particular type of content emission, that is where you can breathe it in. Aaaah!

So if you enjoy those kinds of posts here you might want to look into them, there! Their main focus seems to be Eurogaming, but items in the most recent issue also include a link to an interview with Kenta Cho and a Pico-8 remake of Amidar! It is worth brief yet intensive investigation, much like that of a dog finding a sudden biscuit. That’s a good thing, BTW.

]]> Atari Games Email Archive https://setsideb.com/atari-email-archive/ Fri, 07 Oct 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://setsideb.com/?p=2287 Continue reading "Atari Games Email Archive"]]> Posted to Metafilter by Going to Maine, it’s definitely the kind of thing of interest to me and probably our readers. A link is a link, no matter where it came from. This site is an archive of messages made by Jed Margolin from the Atari Games corporate email server, from July 11, 1983 to when he left the company on September 15, 1992.

Particularly, read the last message from this post on the end of the U.S. arcade boom, of which this is an excerpt:

Atari Email Archive

Note: we saw the Nintendo Direct with the trailer for the (newer) Super Mario Bros. movie, but there’s not really to comment on? Maybe we’ll talk about it later, when we’ve learned more.

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