May 22, 1980. Namco’s upcoming game “Puck-Man” is location tested in a movie theater complex in Japan. After favorable initial testing, the game is slightly tweaked, with the most major change the renaming of the game to “Pac-Man”. Midway, Namco’s U.S. distributor, thought that vandals would alter the letter “P” to an “F”. While the […]
24 years ago today, the Apple Bandai Pippin was introduced. A little-known “multimedia device” using technology licensed from Apple Computer, it was an ill-fated attempt at a home video game console. It was 22nd on PC World’s list of the “25 Worst Tech Products of All Time”.
It’s not every day that a video game comes along and single-handedly changes the face of the industry, but on November 19, 1998, that’s exactly what happened. That game was Half-Life, a staggeringly ambitious PC shooter from Valve Corporation that opened developers’ eyes to a world of new possibilities. In the documentary below, youtuber ‘Liam Triforce’ […]
