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Two combatants face off against each other in Street Fighter II

RPO Replay: Street Fighter II

March 19, 2022 Ken Newquist Focus, Game Reviews, Games, Ready Player One Replay, Video Game Reviews

The Ready Player One Replay is an ongoing exploration of the games that inspired the novel Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. Love it or hate it, there’s value in revisiting our geeky roots. Quote Since then, we’d used Street Fighter II[…]

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A dot-passed rendering of a monster in a dungeon

RPO Replay: Dungeons of Daggorath

March 16, 2022 Ken Newquist Game Reviews, Games, Ready Player One Replay, Video Game Reviews

The Ready Player One Replay is an ongoing exploration of the games that inspired the novel Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. Love it or hate it, there’s value in revisiting our geeky roots. Quote “Daggorath” (with two “g”s) could refer only[…]

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A single pixilated, knight-mounted ostrich prepares for battle against digital vultures.

RPO Replay: Joust

March 9, 2022 Ken Newquist Game Reviews, Games, Ready Player One Replay, Video Game Reviews

The Ready Player One Replay is an exploration of the games that inspired the novel Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. Quote I couldn’t help but grin as I read the name on the game’s backlit marquee: JOUST. Williams Electronics, 1982. — Ready Player One p.[…]

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A collection of zine cover art

Zine Month 2022

February 16, 2022 Ken Newquist Book & Print News, Books & Print, Games, Role-Playing Games

It’s February, which means snow, long days that are slowly getting shorter, and zines. So many zines. For the last three years, Kickstarter promoted ZineQuest, a celebration, and promotion of print and PDF zines for role-playing games. This year, Kickstarter[…]

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Cover Art for Thru-Hiker, The Vast in the Dark, and Hope Is Not A Plan

One Year Later: Evaluating ZineQuest 3

February 11, 2022 Ken Newquist Games, Role-Playing Games

I’ve participated – as a consumer and fan – in ZineQuest for two years running. This year, there is no ZineQuest, but there is Zine Month, a creator-centric, platform-independent website for promoting zines. As I think about backing a few[…]

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Covers for Delta Green and Tales from the Loop

RPG-a-Day 2021: Trust

October 25, 2021 Ken Newquist Games, Role-Playing Games, RPG-a-Day 2021

I have to admit, when the various consent and safety tools started coming out for role-playing games, I was a little skeptical. After all, my group’s been together for 25 years; the issues these tools are meant to address rarely[…]

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Cover art from a variety of Call of Cthulhu and Delta Green books

RPG-A-Day 2021: Medium

October 12, 2021 Ken Newquist Games, Projects, Role-Playing Games, RPG-a-Day 2021

Cthulhu called, and I answered. Chaosium’s signature game was one of my first non-Dungeons & Dragons games. My friend Adam introduced it to me in college when he invited me to a one-shot scenario involving a haunted house investigation. ted house.[…]

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Four men (Ghostbusters) shoot energy streams from wands attached to high-energy backpacks

RPG-a-Day 2021: Stream

August 22, 2021 Ken Newquist Games, Role-Playing Games, RPG-a-Day 2021

Egon: “Don’t cross the streams” Pete: “Why?” Egon: “It would be bad.” Peter: “I’m fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean ‘bad’?” Egon: “Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule[…]

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Lines of text which make up a random table-based generator

RPG-a-Day 2021: Inspiration (Alternate)

August 21, 2021 Ken Newquist Games, Role-Playing Games, RPG-a-Day 2021

When it comes to inspiration, I love a little chaos. I often turn to online generators and random tables when I’m brainstorming session ideas (or just need a quick name for my game … which inevitably spawns a new NPC[…]

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A line of soda cans (Dr. Pepper, Coca-Cola, Mountain Dew)

RPG-a-Day 2021: Flavor

August 17, 2021 Ken Newquist Games, Role-Playing Games, RPG-a-Day 2021

A big part of the tabletop gaming experience is food. Back in the early days of the Blackrazor campaign, we prided ourselves on trying as many sodas as possible, eventually compiling The Great List of Soda. That list included the[…]

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About Nuketown

Nuketown is a speculative fiction website that’s been published continuously since 1996.

It’s publishing focus is articles, reviews and editorials about science fiction, fantasy, and horror with heroic overtones. It covers a variety of topics within the speculative fiction genre, including games, movies, soundtracks, books, and websites.

Radiating from Easton, Pa.

Recent Posts

  • NuketownSF – Cthulhu Awakens, Saving Sanity, Foundation, Giving Back, Clay-O-Rama March 27, 2022
  • RPO Replay: Street Fighter II March 19, 2022
  • RPO Replay: Dungeons of Daggorath March 16, 2022
  • Top of the Pile: Inferno, Dark Ages, Ultimate All-New Spider-man March 15, 2022
  • NuketownSF – The One Ring, Abandoned Places, Futurma, Scrappy Starships, Fake Commutes, Summer Reading March 11, 2022

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