Along with Ripley's Believe It Or Not!, the early 1980s television show That's Incredible! had a big influence on me, with its coverage of an eclectic mix of curiosities, oddities, strange phenomena, stunts, and unusual people. Over at Dangerous Minds, Tara spotted this great moment from the "That's Incredible! Video Game Invitational." Tara says, "They're so serious!" Damn straight. "'That's Incredible' Broadcasts History's First Video Game World Championship (1983)"
That's Incredible! Video Game Invitational (1983)
Rotaboxes is a simple but challenging puzzle game
This peaceful game presents a photograph, broken into squares that have been randomly rotated some multiple of 90 degrees. Your challenge is the click on the boxes to rotate them into their correct orientation. The best strategy seems to be finding squares that you can easily determine need uprighting and then working on the adjacent… READ THE REST
Quake for Apple Watch
You may now run classic first-person shooter Quake on the Apple Watch. Even if it's not much fun to play, it'll be nice to walk around with one's timepiece constantly making slide-racking sounds, zombie moaning noises, clunking grenades, the sound of meat slapping wetly, etc., as the demo loops. Quake 1 port for Apple Watches… READ THE REST
"Gaming the Past" and other guided studies of history
Regardless of your relationship to a syllabus—excited, hostile, or indifferent—"Gaming the Past" is a guide to "explore several arenas of global interaction and conflict through different history-based games," This syllabus is for consummate nerds. Playing these history-based games, according to the syllabus, "will examine issues of representation, public memory, and the pedagogical value of interactive… READ THE REST
Subscribe to this top-rated language-learning app for $199
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Get Black Friday Savings on this 13.3-inch Apple MacBook Air, now under $300
We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views. If you find yourself constantly restarting your laptop or clearing out gigabytes of files to make space, it may be time to invest in a replacement computer. But if your holiday gifting… READ THE REST
Get two Microsoft Office licenses for Mac for only $55 this Thanksgiving and Black Friday
We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views. Gone are the days when you could crack open a brand-new computer and expect essential apps to be pre-installed. And more often than not, getting your hands on this software involves… READ THE REST
