CD-ROM Fossil

Image: The theme for this year’s Steam Summer SaleWritten by: Elijah Moon Blackwell It’s here! The destroyer of wallets! Every year Steam has a huge sale that slashes the prices of (almost) every game it sells. It’s a good way to get a bundle of games for a low price. If you don’t know, Steam is a digital marketplace for

Screenshot: Finding scenes of celebration in video games is harder than you think…this one is from Grand Theft Auto IVWritten by: Elijah Moon Blackwell There are so many games in the collection. Who knows what’s all there. Even I, the guardian of outdated media, have no clue what’s actually in the archive. I frequently find myself discovering games when tidying

Screenshot: Construction Zone Main MenuWritten by: Katelyn Vause “Games from My Childhood Library” is a series where editor Katelyn Vause discusses games she played growing up. Titles include the not-so-scary I Spy Spooky Mansion, the beloved point-and-click Pink Panther’s Passport to Peril and the warm-and-fuzzy-feeling inducing Arthur’s Birthday. Click on her author link to read more! It’s getting warmer outside,

Screenshot: Edward Carnby looking down the hall wondering what other horrors await himWritten by: Elijah Moon Blackwell The further back you go, the more intense gaming becomes. There was a time when tutorials didn’t exist. Objective markers were extremely rare. Controls were not standardized. Losing a manual meant losing crucial information needed to play the game. Knowing what an item’s

Image: Killing Time PC port boxartWritten by: Elijah Moon Blackwell Spoiler alert: I love this game. Also spoiler: This game sucks. Right, so hear me out. Killing Time was originally released on a console called the 3DO in 1995. It was released on PC in 1996. It recently got a digital release on GOG and Steam. Like a low-budget horror

Image: Luftrausers. A flash game that became a retail productWritten by: Elijah Moon Blackwell Change is coming. It happens every year and there is no stopping it. While tech is becoming more impressive, older hardware and software is slowly being forgotten. It’s kind of grey area for me. On one hand I understand that technological upgrades are necessary. Medicine, education

Image: Box art for Fallout: New VegasWritten by: Elijah Moon Blackwell New decade, new classics. For me, when a video game has been on the market for at least 10 years I consider it retro. Of course this is a subjective statement. There isn’t a solid rule to the classification. It also serves as a guideline for what I choose

Image: Army Men RTS boxartWritten by: Elijah Moon Blackwell Little plastic green toy soldiers occupied so much of my time as a child. I had hundreds maybe thousands of toy soldiers and vehicles. It was fun to create huge battles using furniture around the house. Each room was a theatre of war. There is a series of games based off

Image: Windows 10 LogoWritten by: Elijah Moon Blackwell While most of you are probably using the latest release of Microsoft’s operating system, others choose to stay in the past. This is a problem considering Microsoft has announced that Windows 7 will no longer be supported and updated. According to the Steam Hardware & Software Survey, as of October 7, 2019,