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When Snake was still a Worm

October 6, 2008 by Joel Tan  
Filed under Gaming

When Snake was still a Worm

Whenever you activate the game Snake on your shiny Nokia phone, have you ever paused to think who programmed the game or if the mobile phone is the game’s first platform? No, I didn’t think so.
Well, I did. Not because of curiosity, unfortunately. It’s because I programmed a game just like Snake in Basic language back in the early 80s on my rusty Apple IIc.
“Wait! You mean to say you’re the creator of the first Snake game?”
Duh, no. What I mean is, “I was around 10 years old at that time, and I had been studying how to write different …read more

Re:Start: Getting back into the groove

September 14, 2008 by Joel Tan  
Filed under Gaming

Re:Start: Getting back into the groove

It\’s been a while, and I feel real rusty writing about retro video gaming. To tell you the truth, I\’m not sure how to begin writing again and what to write about. But the show must go on, and after hours of scouring the deepest recesses of my memory, I\’ve found good topics that may appease even the staunchest retro gaming fanatic … I hope.\r\n\r\nLike I said in past posts (ha, try saying that 10 times in a row at John Moschitta speed without faltering), and what readers have been egging me about this past few months, Re:Retro may seem …read more


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