DID YOU KNOW Breakout was an arcade game developed and published by Atari, Inc and released on 13 May 1976. It was conceived as a Nolan Bushnell/Steve Bristow partnership and built by Steve Wozniak with the help of Steve Jobs. Breakout was a stable mate of the earlier Alan Alcorn creation, ‘Pong.’
DID YOU KNOW The card game ‘Hearts’ aka Rickety Kate in Australia shares some similarities and is the closest established game to BAM! Both are trick-taking games. It’s also known as Black Lady, Black Maria or Black Widow which is a reference to the Queen of Clubs aka ‘Calamity Jane’ and has a 13 point […]
DID YOU KNOW In an earlier post we talked about the origins of Tetris. The first version of Tetris was a text-based computer game using square brackets [ ] to make up a block.
Ever wondered how to change your avatar profile image? To see BAM! high scores on the Google Play Leaderboard you need to create a Google Play Gamer ID. Each Gamer ID is automatically assigned one (of 40) avatar images. Don’t like your avatar?
DID YOU KNOW Donkey Kong was originally set to be a Popeye video game? Mario was Popeye, Pauline was Olive Oyl and Donkey Kong was Bluto. Japanese video game designer and producer Shigeru Miyamoto was unable to acquire the licence for the Popeye franchise so decided to stick with the three-way love triangle and Popeye became ‘Jumpman’ […]
