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  1. 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, swandro.co.uk/post/viking-hnef)
    #Picts #OldGames #MuseumPhotos

  2. Depuis quelques jours est sorti l'adaptation de #StarWars Episode I Jedi Power Battles sur toutes les plateformes (dont #GoG ). Bien entendu, #LimitedRun n'est pas en reste et a mis en pré-commande une édition limitée.

    #VideoGame #OldGames #ObiWanKenobi #Kenobi

    mintinbox.net/2025/02/21/limit

  3. Depuis quelques jours est sorti l'adaptation de #StarWars Episode I Jedi Power Battles sur toutes les plateformes (dont #GoG ). Bien entendu, #LimitedRun n'est pas en reste et a mis en pré-commande une édition limitée.

    #VideoGame #OldGames #ObiWanKenobi #Kenobi

    mintinbox.net/2025/02/21/limit

  4. Depuis quelques jours est sorti l'adaptation de #StarWars Episode I Jedi Power Battles sur toutes les plateformes (dont #GoG ). Bien entendu, #LimitedRun n'est pas en reste et a mis en pré-commande une édition limitée.

    #VideoGame #OldGames #ObiWanKenobi #Kenobi

    mintinbox.net/2025/02/21/limit

  5. Depuis quelques jours est sorti l'adaptation de #StarWars Episode I Jedi Power Battles sur toutes les plateformes (dont #GoG ). Bien entendu, #LimitedRun n'est pas en reste et a mis en pré-commande une édition limitée.

    #VideoGame #OldGames #ObiWanKenobi #Kenobi

    mintinbox.net/2025/02/21/limit

  6. A question for the more technical gang here.

    I know that retro consoles (with all their microcontrollers) had way different architectures than modern ones (that resemble more like a small PC) and probably this had something to do with cutting production costs and compatibility.

    When did this change happen? When did consoles stop being this intricate electronical marvels and became what we have now?

    #RetroGaming #RetroConsoles #OldGames #Technician #Thechies

  7. does anyone remember a very old mac black & white game where you programmed robots to fight each other? they looked like circles and had scanners. *not* maxis robosport #maxis #oldgames #emulator #macgames there was a basic like language

  8. From the vault: my 2012 retrospective of Roberta Williams's MYSTERY HOUSE - bit.ly/3X2418V

    #games #writing #gameswriting #computergames #adventuregame #appleii #oldgames (I can't seem to add alt-text for some reason, so it's a pixilated line drawing of a person lying on the ground on their back)