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.
Tetris
- Gail Penney
- 8 August 2018
- Games
Donkey Kong outmuscles Popeye
- jkychan@hotmail.com
- 6 August 2018
- Games
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’ […]
The Riffle Shuffle
- Gail Penney
- 3 August 2018
- Cards
DID YOU KNOW A perfect shuffle is called a ‘riffle.‘ There are two types: an ‘in shuffle‘ where a pack of cards is split exactly in half (a bottom and top) and then each half of the deck is interwoven so that every other card comes from the same half of the deck.
Super NES
- Gail Penney
- 30 July 2018
- Games , Video
DID YOU KNOW The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (Super NES) also known in Japan as the Super Famicom was released in 1990 and was a super same-day success with the initial 300,000 units selling out within hours.
Solitaire and The Boss Key
- Gail Penney
- 27 July 2018
- Cards
In the mid to late 90’s people began getting computers in their homes. Microsoft touted ‘Solitaire’ as the way to teach them how to use the computer mouse but in reality Wes Cherry (its creator and an intern at Microsoft at the time) said, “it was something just to have fun with.”