My daughter has hit 3 a month ago, shes been playing games since she could start using a control pad. We let her play Toy Story 3 since the sand box mode didn't really have forced objectives time limits or even the ability to die. She was dreadful at first but by the time she hit 2 years and 10 months ish she was fully…
Mech 2 v1.0 / 1.1 ran native in DOS in (if I recall correctly) Protected memory mode, something pretty novel at the time. It's what allowed them to squeeze unaccelerated 3D graphics out of late 486s and the first Pentiums. It was later released in a DOS / Win95 dual native release, although the Win95 implementation was…
Had this conversation yesterday with a 15-year-old Halo / COD:MW / MOH:BO "pro" gamer I'm acquainted with. He's legitimately pretty good at those games, and too smart for his own good, but very much the stereotypical console kiddie FPS fanboi... so I've been trying to broaden his horizons a little and teach him a little of…
Except for maybe Charlie Chaplin, none of those examples are actually "old" They're relatively old compared to how long you've been alive but think about how long people have been writing books, making movies, making music.... we're talking about a span of 130+ years for movies, writing goes back thousands of years, music…