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We have polished up the site a bit for everyone. When we hit legend #20 we realized it was becoming pretty darn impossible to scroll through all the posts if you wanted to see the older stuff -- so we have redone its index and now bring to you the Nomad
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In 1983 "going to the arcade" was all the rage. Consoles were still fun, but nothing could beat the graphics that you could find in the stand-ups. If you walked into an arcade in 1983 you would pass screen after screen of "sprite-based"
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There is one piece of hardware in the history of gaming that has had an impact above all others. It set in motion a multi billion dollar industry and set the standard that console manufacturers have built on for years. No less than three previous legends
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The history of video gaming is littered with 2D platform games. During the early years (pre Wolf 3d) this was pretty much the de-facto standard in game design. These games displayed a side view of the “level” with an animated character that
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I'm kind of playing catch up here on this, but its still notable nonetheless. AMD has apparently shipped its last Socket A processor and we hardware geeks have a slight twang in our heart over it. The Socket A design of the original Athlon is really
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1989 was really a defining year for video games. SimCity burst on to the scene as the software toy that everyone wanted to play with, Prince of Persia debuted with its groundbreaking animation and Tetris was at the height of its popularity with its “pack-in”
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Since the dawn of computer gaming the attraction for many has always been the competition against a live opponent. While AI is always fun to play against there is a certain rush you get when you beat your friend sitting next to you who has broken out
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This is our FIFTEENTH entry in the Legends series and since I never thought I would write fifteen of anything. To celebrate I wanted to make this entry special, so I have turned to the one game I have avoided writing about since day one of Nomad Gamer.
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It is a rarity when a married mother of two has such an effect on gaming that they change the industry – but in 1983 one Mom did just that. As co-founder of a fledgling gaming company she created a game that would become a gaming sensation. The
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It is hard to believe that a video game would have an impact on the infrastructure of our nation but one game has. In 1989 a game that no distributor wanted to touch was released. In it you zoned land, built roads and layed power lines. The game had no
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On April 25, 1980 A rogue group of programmers broke off from ATARI to program for themselves, becoming the first "Third-Party" developer in gaming history. This group was tired of the poor treatment a programmer received at ATARI and wanted
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“Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe.” - Indian Proverb Turn based gaming is the oldest form of strategy gaming in the world. Chess, the granddaddy of all turn based games, is said to have been in existence as
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OK Sherman, load up the Wayback Machine. Like finding the source of a mountain spring, we are going back to the very beginnings of gaming. Like most great inventions, there were several people working on the concept of video gaming, but when everything
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When being inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame there are certain players that transcend their accomplishments for any one team. Fans argue insatiably over which “cap” the player should be inducted under. We have found ourselves with a
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In 1986 he made a statement. ''If it's not 11 on 11, it's not real football. I will not put my name on it if it's not real.'' This requirement set a standard that created the greatest franchise in video game history. It took
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