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PAUSE: Title Scream revisits the joy of booting up your favorite cartridges

Why yes, that is the home screen to NBA Jam that you’re looking at. There are probably a hundred more title screens of popular 16-bit games over at Title Scream, all available in beautiful animated .gif form. It’s hard to tell why this website exists, other than that somebody thought it was a cool i

Lo-fi rockers Wavves is remaking Paperboy

Above is a recent tweet by fuzz-punker/noted marijuana enthusiast Nathan Williams, the driving force behind the band Wavves. He’s more or less remaking the game Paperboy, and if the screen shot is any indication, foregrounding the game’s trippiest elements. Should be interesting if nothing else, and

Let’s meet at Indiecade.

Big trouble in little game…

Academic, artist and Kill Screen contributor Pippin Barr has posted a new game on his site. Called Trolley Problem, it’s based on the ethics conundrum in which you have to decide which people are killed and which are spared by an out-of-control trolley. If you’re not familiar with the problem, this

The many patents of Steve Jobs

The New York Times has a lovely infographic detailing the 317 Apple patents in which the late Steve Jobs had a hand-from the iPod to the glass staircases in Apple Stores. Only nine Microsoft patents carry the name of Bill Gates, a co-founder of the company who was its chief executive for more than t

October 6, 2011, 1:18 pm