Michael Coorlim's Blog, page 10
October 4, 2021
Atari Romhacks part 1
I muse upon my first console experiences and modern re-imaginings of Atari 2600 games.
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September 28, 2021
Fantastic Four #8: Puppetmaster is creepy as hell
The Puppetmaster was a creepy Marvel villain, and Baby Got Back Issues reviewed his first appearance in Fantastic Four #8
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September 23, 2021
The History of Blown Cartridges
How a retrogaming youtube channel grew from humble beginnings to a humble success.
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September 22, 2021
Video Game History: The First Coin-Op Video Games
It’s a race between engineers and the business savvy founder of Atari to see who’d be the first to release a coin-op version of Spacewar!
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September 16, 2021
The Best Laid Plans
For my benefit more than anyone else’s, here’s what I need to do next. Wait for the domain transfer to finish up. Nothing I can
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Rise from the ashes like a phoenix’s website
I’ve had this website for over a decade, and through the years it’s flexed a bit in form and function… first as personal blog, then
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September 15, 2021
The History (and future) of Blown Cartridges
A year before the COVID-19 pandemic hit a friend and I started making retrogaming videos as an excuse to hang out and play video-games as adults. You might be asking yourselves why we needed to make excuses to have very basic social time; you’ll understand when you hit your late 30s and early 40s. Or...
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August 16, 2021
Retrogame Roulette: Super Mario Land 2
I continue my trek through the Gameboy Mario games with the second in the Super Mario Land series.
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Retrogame Roulette: Super Mario Land
I play Super Mario Land for gameboy, one of the stranger releases in the franchise.
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August 14, 2021
Retrogame Roulette: Zeliard
Zeliard is a 1990 platformer for MS-Dos replete with all the fatal flaws of early PC platformers and some interesting RPG elements.
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