#oldgames — Public Fediverse posts
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#oldgames #nostalgie Test Drive Unlimited wird installiert. Eines der PC Games für das ich nie die richtige Hardware hatte. :blobheart:
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My Senet set (ancient Egyptian board game). As you might be able to tell from the background, it was a Christmas present.
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I just shared these in April.
18th century dominoes, from the castle in the middle of the Louvre. I maybe take too many photos of games.
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A thing I miss from my childhood
In this post I will not use any illustration. Because I am writing about absence of something today that was one of nice thing that was part of some masterpieces games of 1990s. Some games like C&C had real video cinematics in them as cutscenes. With real actors playing there as characters and surrounding people and so on. Today I miss this kind of cinematic cutscenes in games. -
This looks encouraging. The current games industry is balanced precariously on the goodwill of Steam, and unfounded optimism.
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I came across the photo of these when I was looking for something else. Their info was rubbed off but I think it said "1700-1800". From the castle in the middle of the Louvre, part of a display of everyday items found on the site.
Not unlike the ones I bought the other day. I'll take a photo of them once the sun is back up.
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Old-Games.com
Download 11900 Games:
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Ancient freeware games.
Lost piece of ancient internet.Size of this artefacts is incredibly small.
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Ну вот и Dark Messiah of Might and Magic пройдена. Перед решающим моментом сохранились для просмотра сразу 2 концовок. Сначала "бате" вернули свободу, получили премию сына года и сумасшедшего отца-тирана. Перспективка так себе. Поэтому потом передумали и оставили череп себе. Родитель был в ярости, насколько позволяли оковы, но зато теперь можно самому решать, что я хочу сделать. Не только с той, что поддерживала всю дорогу до власти, но и вообще с миром. :)
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Ну что же… Продолжаем мир Меча и Магии. После 7 и 8 части мне вспомнилась Dark Messiah. Сюжет там интересный. За один присест успели угнать корабль и теперь плывём на остров.
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Mac Source Ports – Run old games on new Macs
https://www.macsourceports.com/
#HackerNews #MacSourcePorts #OldGames #NewMacs #GamingEmulation #RetroGaming #MacGaming
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Last gaming photo, for now.
Gaming counters of bone, pottery and glass (L to R) and dice, from the Roman fortress baths at Isca (at the National Roman Legion Museum, Caerleon)
#RomanBritain #OldGames #Museum Photos"Gambling games included Tali (knucklebones) and Tesserae (dice), while board games included Ludus Latrunculi (little robbers), Calculorum (pebbles), Ludus Duodecima Scripta (twelve lines), Tabula (board), and Merels (nine men’s morris)."
("Roman board games at the Baths.", https://bathsbloggers.blogspot.com/2013/02/nicola-002board-games.html) -
I don't have many Iron Age game pieces, so I hope you'll forgive the not very good photos. They're only small, about thumb-sized, and my camera's outdoor lens is not suited for inside.
The museum label just says "Gaming pieces, Tingwall". (Shetland Museum, Lerwick.)
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Two Pictish gaming boards at the Orkney Museum. (Label text is in the Alt text). From Buckquoy, Birsay, on the Orkney mainland (overlooking the Brough of Birsay, where there are Viking & Pictish settlements), about 9th century.
Most of these boards & pieces, I can't find anything about them over location and date, but these seem to stir some thoughts.
""It has been speculated that these Birsay boards could be the earliest examples of the [Hnefatafl] board so far found and might even indicate a Pictish origin for this essentially Viking game, especially since these sites have mixed Pictish and Viking remains"
(Swandro-Orkney Coastal Archaeology Trust, https://www.swandro.co.uk/post/viking-hnefatafl-it-s-all-fun-and-games-until-someone-loses-an-eye)
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Viking gaming pieces again, but these are at the Orkney Museum, Kirwall.
The museum lable says "Whalebone gaming pieces. Buried in a leather or cloth pouch. The king piece is identified by an iron pin." So a tafl game then?
#Vikings #OldGames #MuseumPhotos
They're from a Viking boat burial on Sanday, one of the Orkney islands (Scar boat burial is anyone is interested). -
Roman Egyptian bone dice.
The museum lable says "Bone dice , from Oxyrhynchus, Roman Period, after 1st century BC" (National Museum of Ireland)
#OldGames #Vikings #Dice #MuseumPhotos
I am not going to look up anything on these because I will end up in a rabbit warren of Roman dice and Ancient Egyption games (and will want to buy things, and I already have bone dice, like the one in the middle, also a Senet game. Don't need more.) -
Like game pieces, the boards can also be hard to associate which a particular game, especially when they're roughly made.
This board, scratched on a plank, I can't find much about. The museum label says "Wooden game board, Saint John's Lane".
I found a book "Pocket Museum: Vikings" by Steve Ashby which captions it as 10-11th century, and scratched onto a ship's timber. An excavation report (https://excavations.ie/report/1977-79/Dublin/0032220/) might be referring to it as a 13th century scored gaming board. That's all
(National Museum of Ireland)
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A quick one tonight. A lovely little Viking-era glass gaming piece, from the same site as yesterday's board (Fishamble Street, Dublin). When gaming pieces are found without a board, especially when they're on their own, its usually not possibly to know what game they were used in (unless they're a carved chess piece, for example). But it is still very nice.
Its friend at the front is made from jet (Christchurch Street site).
Both from the National Museum of Ireland.
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OK I have a confession. I love old games and I obsessively take photos when I see them in museums. That's a lot of photos, so I thought I should actually have a look at which I have examples of (and share some here as I go).
This is a Viking-era Nine Men's Morris board, from Fishamble St, Dublin (at the National Museum of Ireland)
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I just found my Tomodachi cartridge, I found old friends' Miis, I was reminded I'm an adult... And surprisingly enough I'm apparently "soothing" according to the game
#nintendo3ds #tomodachilife #oldgames -
Lunar Lander (1976, Apple I)
https://youtu.be/izZ4BydZgWw
Lunar Lander for the Apple I, written in machine language.
Take control of the Lunar Module and try to land on the moon.
#retrogaming #retrogames #oldgames #レトロゲーム #juegosretro #레트로게임 #复古游戏 #ретроигры -
LLMs fail at old video games because LLMs don't think, they just regurgitate pre-ingested information, and older video games (and some new ones) have so much chaos and unpredictability baked in that you can't navigate them simply by regurgitating things.