ScummVM, the collection of recreated last-century game engines that allows replaying classic adventures from the likes of LucasArts and Revolution, has just added support for Macromedia Director. This ...

You have it way easier these days, but back in the day, when you wanted to play a game on your PC, you had to take a similar approach to consoles. Go to a physical store, get a disc, then pop it into ...

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After over a year of on-and-off tinkering, the “Nintendo PlayStation” is fully operational. The unreleased console — which was formed out of an ill-fated partnership between Nintendo and Sony in the ...

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The ScummVM community has just made the early CD-ROM gaming era more accessible. For five years, multiple people have worked on making Macromedia Director games playable on modern hardware, and today, ...

I’m just old enough to remember interactive CD-ROMs from the early days of the internet. Back in the ’90s, countless brands and publications offered CDs you’d put in your computer and they’d have ...

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