Games: Text Adventure Documentary, Android Games, and More
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[Old] Get Lamp ☛ Get Lamp: The Text Adventure Documentary
Filmed between 2006 and 2009 and released in 2010, GET LAMP is a documentary about a very special and short-lived genre of game: The Text Adventure, where text-only presentation of worlds and invitations to be part of the story made up for a lack of graphics and visuals. Thriving wildly from the end of the 1970s to the middle of the 1980s, these games were quickly overtaken as commecial products and best-selling status to a niche, and then a hobby.
The documentary was released to generally positive reception, and thousands of copies of the physical DVDs were sold, some of which included a special GET LAMP coin that was specially numbered, totalling 4,000 coins. The last of the physical copies of GET LAMP sold out about half a decade after the initial release.
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12 Best Paid Android Games of 2023
Today on the Play Store there are millions of Android games, many of which are free.
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Hackaday ☛ Perfect Dark: Recompiled
There’s an interesting renaissance of Nintendo 64 gaming, powered by the ability to decompile n64 roms back into C code using Ghidra. There are projects around multiple classic games, taking the Ghidra output and renaming the generic function and variable names. There are two approaches to these projects, sometimes happening in parallel. The first is to perfectly recreate the original work, and get a bit-perfect binary that matches the original ROM. The other approach is to fix bugs, optimize the code, and add new features, often porting to new platforms in the process. And one such game is Perfect Dark.
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Hackaday ☛ Servo Claw Game Puts Your Muscles To The Test
As fun as claw games are, the jaws are always disappointingly weak, and you usually end up with bupkis. What if the jaws were completely within your control? That’s the idea behind [Upside Down Labs]’ muscle-controlled servo claw game.