Miss the brainlessly simple and extremely addictive games from the 80s? Find out which game developers feel the same. Dozens of teams are creating new games based on the old classics. Here are just a few of them. Bugatro Goldhttp://www.deprice.com/bugatrongold.htm Bugatron Gold is a well-designed space-shooter game borrows ideas from classics such as Galaga. In Bugatron, you must eradicate the evil...

Just when it seems reality TV has hit rock bottom, a new and ever-more demeaning show emerges to set the bar even lower. Here are a few of the offerings that don’t exist yet — but just wait until the suits at FOX and UPN get wind of these ideas.Ambush Boobjob:In this exciting makeover extravaganza, we give a team of plastic surgeons a van, a bottle of ether, and one mission: endow, endow,...

Tetris was the first computer game that involved falling tetromino pieces that the game player must align in order to create an unbroken line which subsequently disappears in order to free up more game play space. If the player is unable to make an unbroken line, the game play space quickly gets crowded until the point where no more space is available and the game is over.The game of Tetris was first...

There are many ways to be original these days. But unfortunately I cannot reveal any of these ways because the followers would then not be original, would they? Now, I realize that somewhere between one to two people would have followed the advice I gave, but just in case my calculations were off and it turns out three would have followed I need to be careful about what I write One slogan which...

Xbox360, the latest version of the video game console that has been manufactured by Microsoft, was a term that was finally arrived at by the computer software company last year. This was after a marketing firm that it hired conducted a survey which asked people whether they thought the Xbox evoked a more “next generation” or “next-gen” sound. It was apparent that Microsoft was...

After five years of mostly loyal service, my trusty computer finally gave up the ghost on me, recently. It had been on its last legs for some time, so the other week I decided to bite the bullet and replace it, and now Im sitting at my desk most days with something thats loosely comparable to the HAL 9000. I was aware, in the general sense, of just how fast the world of computers moves. With constant...

I just arrived in a new city. I dont have a map. I dont speak the language. I dont know what time it is. And I have no idea why everybody is rushing around so much and where it is that theyre going to. What do I want to do? Go home. But, suddenly, a stranger appears and offers me an explanation to the citys layout and then of the language and the schedule of the citys happenings and then all sorts...

One day, about 15 years ago, I decided to get a tan. Id never been very good at getting tans. I knew that you had to lie motionless in the sun for long periods of time, but I always found it difficult not to keep getting up and checking my progress in the kitchen mirror. I was quite good at going different shades of red, but I could never quite manage that lovely bronzed look that people in the adverts...

Macromedia Flash arrived in 1996, and was initially designed to add animation and interactivity to otherwise largely media free websites. However, it wasn’t long before developers began to realise the potential of the software, and added functionality became available with each iteration.In the beginning, the focus was more on animation, as primitive scripting allowed little in the way of interactivity....