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Tag: Video Games

RPO Replay: Contra

November 27, 2020 Ken Newquist Game Reviews, Games, 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 Aech and I had wasted countless hours on two-player classics like Contra, Golden Axe, Heavy Barrel, Smash TV, and[…]

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RPO Replay: Robotron 2084

November 25, 2020 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 booted up my emulator and selected Robotron: 2084, one of my all-time favorite games. I’d always loved its frenetic[…]

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RPO Replay – Defender

November 22, 2020 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. Source Gunfire wasn’t uncommon in the stacks, but it still shook me up. I knew I probably wouldn’t be able[…]

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RPO Replay: Galaga

November 21, 2020 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. About the Game Gunfire wasn’t uncommon in the stacks, but it still shook me up. I knew I probably wouldn’t[…]

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RPO Replay – Adventure

November 20, 2020 Ken Newquist 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. Source It was called Adventure. Like many early videogames, Adventure was designed and programmed by just one person. But back then, Atari refused[…]

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Ready Player One Replay

November 19, 2020 Ken Newquist Game Reviews, Games, Project Updates, Projects, Video Game Reviews

Welcome to the Ready Player One Replay! In honor of the November 2020 release of Ready Player Two, and Nuketown is re-reading the original novel … and replaying all of the games mentioned in it (or at least, all of the games we[…]

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Blogworthy: Star Wars Backgrounds, COVID-19 Ruminations, Games for Quarantine, Pandemic Brain Fog

May 2, 2020 Ken Newquist Blog, Blog Columns, Blogworthy, Games

Join Meetings From A Galaxy Far, Far Away With These Star Wars Backgrounds – Zoom meetings are exhausting and boring. Make them a little more interesting by throwing Cloud City, and X-Wings, and Death Star ruins into your background. David[…]

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Radio Active #91: Bad Break

February 19, 2018 Ken Newquist Nuketown Radio Active, Podcasts

On this episode of Nuketown Radio Active I catch a bad break in the New Year as I recover from a broken ankle. All that free time sitting on the couch while my ankle healed did wonders for my gaming life[…]

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Rise of the Nintendad

March 14, 2007 Ken Newquist Blog, Geek Dad

Hat-tip to Joystiq for this Reuters story which notices that hey, parents like to game … and they’re likely to get their kids to game as well. They dub these strange creatures “Nintendads” since many grew up on Nintendo systems[…]

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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.

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