Category: Gaming
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The Golden Age of the Video Game Arcade : 1983
1983: The year of the video game crash, and, of course, Return of the Jedi! Home computing, for me at least wouldn’t start for another year. On my cousin’s rubber keyed Spectrum, Horace Goes Skiing didn’t do it for me, and the Arcade was still very much king, the cutting edge of the gaming industry. The arcades, at…
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The Gamification of Music
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The digital age we live in today is ruled by smartphones and tablets, with all sorts of apps that are useful as well as the apps that waste your time. We like to lump video games in with the apps that are considered time wasters, but a more contemporary perspective of video games is starting…