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That, multi-million-dollar TV commercials tainted with TOILET humor. Hardware hype, wEiRd TyPe, pointless game ratings, E3, SCREAMING GUYS inĪds, Virtual Reality, cliches like "in your face" and "it's the ultimate",ģ60 degree roto-scope-rhetoric from self righteous reviewers, CD-this, 3-D Long before there was ultra-super-duper-128-bit-polygon-video-capture, Rob Strangman, founder of the OPCFG and author of Memoirs of a Virtual Caveman 1,000 years of bizarre history from Britain and beyond.
101 rare, weird and important Japanese video games. I've also included interviews with videogame industry veterans David Crane, Martin Alessi, Dan Tovar, Dave Wilkins, Yuzo Koshiro, and Kouichi "Isuke" Yotsui.Īll inquiries regarding Memoirs of a Virtual Caveman can be directed to me at: Hardcore Gaming 101 Presents: Japanese Video Game Obscurities. Hardcore Gaming 101 is crowdfunding for a book about obscure Japanese video games.
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On July 15, 2014, the definitive edition of Memoirs of a Virtual Caveman made its debut, loaded with all new stories, pictures - and new stories from a wide variety of contributors.Īmong those contributors are Sam Roberts of the Strider fansite The Light Sword Cypher Mainframe Rondal Scott III of the pop-subculture website Strange Kids Club Earl Green, webmaster of and author of the Doctor Who books VWORP!1 and VWORP!2 Rob O'Hara, author of the books Commodork and Invading Spaces Cat DeSpira, former editor of Retrocade Magazine and owner of the blog Retro Bitch Brett Weiss, author of the Classic Home Video Games book series William Cassidy, of The Odyssey² Homepage Steven, of the retrogaming website RVG Fanatic Mike Plasket, contributing editor to the retrogaming website Hardcore Gaming 101 and many more. Long before there was ultra-super-duper-128-bit-polygon-video-capture, hardware hype, wEiRd TyPe, pointless game ratings, E3, SCREAMING GUYS in ads, Virtual Reality, cliches like 'in your face' and 'it's the ultimate', 360 degree roto-scope-rhetoric from self righteous reviewers, CD-this, 3-D that, multi-million-dollar TV commercials tainted with TOILET humor. The goal of /r/Games is to provide a place for informative and interesting gaming content and discussions. It was discontinued in 2009, as I planned to start work on a "definitive edition" to replace the original. Originally released in 2008, Memoirs of a Virtual Caveman was a personal memoir I wrote about growing up during the "golden age" of videogames. "Like" and follow Memoirs of a Virtual Caveman on Facebook and Twitter.
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