The object of the BASIC 10 Liner Contest is to create a complete computer game in just 10 lines of BASIC. One of the first programming languages that my peers and I used was BASIC, which stands for ...

Most people would recognize E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600 by its reputation as one of the worst video games of all time. We’ll have more to say about that in a moment, but E.T. was ...

PC gaming in the modern era has become a GPU measuring contest, but back when computers had far fewer resources, every sprite had to be accounted for. To many, this was peak gaming. So let’s look to ...