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Boxes aren't getting smaller. It's us getting bigger.
(Your friend is a very cool person btw 👍)

A screenshot of an old Commodore 64 game with mediocre graphics and confusing gameplay.

Miles better than the rubbish we got back in the 1980s 😄

One of my favourite (and most played) C64 games of all times!

YouTube video by 2kliksphilip Stop Killing Games

Stop Killing Games youtu.be/PYcZnJJcEQ4

It is! I love the little details like this LCD display for the battery, speaker volume and disk activity.

A Zenith Data Systems laptop from the early 1990s with a trackball attachment, seen booting to MS-DOS.

A Zenith Data Systems laptop from the early 1990s with a trackball attachment, showing a customised Windows 3.1 Program Manager.

Well, you don't get to see one of these very often nowadays. Especially not in fully working condition.

Petition: Prohibit publishers irrevocably disabling video games they have already sold The government should update consumer law to prohibit publishers from disabling video games (and related game assets / features) they have already sold without recourse for customers to retain or repa...

Petition to "stop killing games" - signed. I'd like to own the games I buy.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Nice!

Cover art: a muscular warrior is descending a stone staircase, holding a sword and a bloodied shield. At the bottom of the staircase, a menacing horned figure stares at him from the dark.

A manual written in French, open on a page containing a list of magic spells and runic inscriptions.

I'll stop one moment to contemplate once again the exquisite art on the cover of Ultima Underworld, courtesy of Denis Loubet (and the four-language manuals included in the European release by Mindscape).

I played both a lot! It's weird to see them listed together, but if you think about it they were made only 7 years apart. Feels like video games (and home computers) had evolved massively in that short time.

About time! 🥳

Yeah... No idea what that's meant to be, except possibly a typo? 🤷
Also, Ultima V uses the roman numeral, so why not Ultima VI?

"Have you tried any of our other games?"