Old is the New New

NYT on Gygax: “Gary Gygax died last week and the universe did not collapse. This surprises me a little bit, because he built it.”

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Anyone who will get that reference has already heard, but: Gary Gygax is dead, alas.

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Henry Jenkins offers a Boston-centric history of video games, from Spacewar to Guitar Hero.

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The game was good, but the box art was classic: Two bloggers provide a history and an overdue appreciation of the diabolical couple that conquered our world with a highly reflective black table and a sequence of four colored pegs.

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Technology & Culture reviews an exhibit of video game history at the Science Museum in London.

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How I spent 1993. Or, why computer games are not effective tools for teaching history and how they could be.

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The Cold War avante-garde, from R&D to D&D, the secret origins of hex paper, KAAAAHN!

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In which our hero goes looking for the roots of roleplaying games, and finds the Lost Tribe of Israel instead.

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Amish computing, the Ralphies, Senator McCarthy and me.

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With a library card, a good search engine, and the right kind of mind, one can wreak all kind of mischief on historical “facts.”

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You half-Japanese girls, you do it to me every time.

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The hunt for the first cowboy-zombie hybrid continues.

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What’s the deal with cowboys and zombies? Plus: Frankenstein’s Monster and the Tin Man get it on.

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Grab your turbo-pistols, snap on your big bubble space helmet, and rocket to adventure in the Astounding year of 1963!

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An occult text in the form of six vinyl LPs: Bob Dylan, Harry Smith, and the Anthology of American Folk Music.

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