Renga in Blue

Recently I played Genma Taisen, published by Pony Canyon in Japan in March 1983 to coincide with the accompanying film.

Most soap operas take a while to work their way up to murder, but EastEnders kicks off with it from the very first scene, airing February 1985 on BBC One.

I’ve finished the game; I was nearly at the end.

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In the 1960s, Qantas wanted to improve their flight reservation system.

I owned an Acorn Electron as a kid.

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It’s not your world.

(Continued from my previous post about what is likely the first adventure game written in Sweden on a home computer.)

The last time this blog visited Sweden was with Stuga a full 15 years ago; one day, I will go back to that game and toss in the history of Swedish mainframes and academic computing alongside.

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In 1980, Commodore got their first factory in Germany (in Braunschweig).

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This is one of the most infamous computer games from Japan ever made.

People are going to buy these things and then after six weeks or so they’re going to put them up on a shelf in their closet and ignore them … we saw that there was a need for something that helped people to both socialize with other people and get practic…