CD-ROM Journal

This post is going to do something a little different.

One of the strangest artifacts of video games as a global medium is that games aren't always developed in the places they're meant to be released.

For the last few years, I've been a judge in the annual Independent Games Festival.

Writing about early CD-ROMs means coming across a lot of early examples of things that became famous later.

When I started this blog, I had ideas about games I wanted to write about—but some of those games, I couldn't write about yet, because neither I nor anyone else had them.

I've been invited to guest over at the excellent Indie Tsushin, so you can find my latest post over there.

If you were listening to the radio in the 90s, or got a certain flavour of email forward, there's a good chance you've heard the song Jingle Cats.

As long as computers have existed, we've had the desire to type funny little symbols into them.

NOTE: The artwork discussed in this article contains explicit nudity and sexual content.

What kind of life would a dog have at the North Pole?