It is fascinating how the history of video games tends to be skewed towards the USA. Still today it is easy to come across articles – written by Italians of all people – that keep on mentioning the “console wars” in the 90s or the “great video game crash of 1983”. And yet, all of…
Nobody in the 90s seemed to really care about the history of videogames: everyone just played them really. Truthfully though, back then the medium was still in its teenage years; it would be pretty unreasonable to expect people to start looking back and think about the evolution of the medium and the issue of preservation.…
No one was paying attention to the end of the decade that fateful 31st of December 1999. Hey, we had more important things on our hands. It was the end of the millennium! Perhaps, people were busy sending heaps of sms to their friends and family and trying to remember to turn off your pc…
Throw me tomorrow, now that I really have a large medkit… We’ve seen how in the nineties novelists got involved in the development of videogames but that’s not all: popular musicians got involved as well. Looking back now, we really missed the boat: back in the 2000 not only Queen had released their owen…