I just love old ads and whatnot for my favorite games. Perfect mixture of gaming and nostalgia. Evidently this jewel is a Dungeons & Dragons / Advanced Dungeons & Dragons ad (yes, they used to exist at the same time) in a 1981 issue of Boy's Life magazine. Although it looks a bit like Jeff Dee's style, ...
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Through the Ages: Dungeons & Dragons Cover Art
What this is: a scrollable, one page list of D&D cover art for core rulebooks(or "semi-core rulebooks", semi-core of course being subjective) rulebooks of the various versions of the Dungeons & Dragons tabletop RPG game. I spent some time searching for a page like this that had everything all in one place for D&D cover art and couldn't ...
British game design legend Mike Singleton receives tribute in Pillars of Eternity
Greetings, Professor… Shall We Play a Game?
Ah, memories...
Hint: If you don't know (and shame on you if you don't), this is from the 80s classic Wargames. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames Broderick ...Mac from 1986 Surfs the Modern Web
Does this video of a 1986 Mac surfing the modern web float your geek boat? It certainly does mine! Love, love, love this kind of stuff. If you'd like to know more, there's an excellent post over at The Kernel detailing how it was done (it took more than a ...
Akalabeth: World of Doom free on GOG
Connecting to Wikipedia via a 300 baud modem from 1964
This kind of thing either floats your geek boat, or it doesn't. My geek boat is floating.
A (pre) history of D&D in 12 real world items
An excellent video just came to my attention and adventuring along in the spirit of the D&D 40th anniversary, I present it to you below with no delay. This guy did a good job of covering a lot of information very quickly. I love this kind of nerd history / nostalgia. By the way, the video's creator ...