This was my first article specifically written for Medium in an attempt to find new channels for the results of my research. Since I’ve closed my account there, I’m moving the article to the Vintrospektiv homepage. The British scene The home computer and gaming scene of the 1980s in Great Britain was strikingly different from […]
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Continuing my moving of articles from Medium to the Vintrospektiv homepage, this English version of an article from 2021 first appeared over there in October 2021 (but has since been deleted). Infocom: The end of a genre The history of Infocom has been fully explored: from the founding in 1979 for the distribution of Dungeon, […]
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This was one of my first articles on Vintrospektiv, originally in German since all of Vintrospektiv used to be in German in the beginning. This English version first appeared on Medium (in August 2021), but since I’m closing my account there I thought it would be a good idea to have everything here on Vintrospektiv. […]
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A few weeks ago, I stumbled upon a game box that was buried in a bookshelf. It turned out to be Emily Short’s City of Secrets, made in a tiny run and sold at the long-defunct feelies.org. I had originally ordered three copies back in 2002, two for friends to save on postage, but one […]
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I have just published the concluding article for my series about the months in gaming history that launched Vintrospektiv back in December. I announced that I would be writing this in my farewell e-mail, and in a way it marks the final entry of Vintrospektiv as I originally envisioned it. (Update: The article has moved […]
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As the northern hemisphere starts preparing for Winter, we’ll take a look at what happened in October in the history of video games. There were many events to remember, as usual a mixture of happy, sad and interesting. This time, I have so many dates that it makes sense to order them by topic. Let’s […]
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After the summer heat of August, September was a more subdued month, though over the years the history of computer and video games certainly had its moments in September. This time, there are no death dates and only three birthdays to celebrate: well-known German author Harald Evers, who tragically died of a heart attack in […]
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I have published my first full-scale article on Medium. (As usual, while trying out formatting options and the like, I unwittingly hit the publish button, and now I might as well leave it there. It’s finished anyway.) (Update: the article has been moved to this site. I’ve removed the link above accordingly.) It’s a deep […]
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July has passed, and we enter the last hot month of the year: As we have come to expect, many things in the realm of retrogaming happened in August in the past. A host of people were born in August, beginning in the 18th century with Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, on 30 August […]
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The heat of July brings with it a large number of birthdays and game releases. There was also one death date: Dani Bunten Berry, whom I covered in a longer article, died on 3 July 1998. As for the birthdays: The oldest one on this month’s list is Gary Gygax, the inventor of Dungeons & […]
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