Hoffman's song for DiskFight starts slow and builds to match the rising intensity of the game. The tune in question, called Disk Menace, is an Amiga-generated drum and bass song that does get quite ...

In 1991, the first Space Quest was remade using Sierra's new (at the time) SCI, or Sierra Creative Interpreter, which allowed ...

Unlik the Famicom or NES, the Famicom Disk System device allowed to insert floppy disk games into the Famicom system. The game developer revealed this information after answering a question on his ...

Robert Smith created an alternate version of the iconic Whac-A-Mole arcade game for the generation that both remembers arcades and knows why the save icon looks the way it does, as spotted by Hackaday ...

By comparison, floppy disks were fast. And they were freeing, due to allowing a computer to get at arbitrary data on demand. This made possible ambitious fare like Little Computer People – a kind of ...

A staple of PC games hardware in the 1980s and early 1990s, floppy disks took several forms over the years, from massive 8-inch disks to the mini 3.5-inch disks that became synonymous with the ...