
Larger Than Life: Video Game Box Art That Overpromised
Here at Bitmap Books, we love video game cover art. So much so, our latest book, The Ar...
Here at Bitmap Books, we love video game cover art. So much so, our latest book, The Ar...
Originally launched in 1987, The PC Engine console – known as the TurboGrafx-16 in Amer...
In the early 1980’s 15 year-old Adam Clayton noticed a rather unusual hidden message wh...
Puzzle games and the Game Boy go hand in hand. With its small screen and – how to put t...
The developers of DOOM broke new ground in making it simple for players to cheat. Other games either didn’t include cheats at all or required you to wait until a certain point to enter them, such as the “magic word” Xyzzy in the text game Colossal Cave Adventure.
It was often portrayed as a serious machine for serious users. However, as time passed, it became clear that this new 16-bit computer was a multi-media powerhouse and a perfect destination for game developers.