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1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die

February 19, 2023

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Lists

This is a great list with expert overviews of all the games that are edifying to play, that give the rich history and
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Zork I

February 13, 2023

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1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die, Video Games

A great podcast about Zork I is Eaten By A Grue: Episode 1. and here’s a good article Eaten by a Grue: A
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1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die

February 12, 2023

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Lists, Songs

This is a work in progress. I’m trying to list all songs in the book 1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die
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Blendo Games

December 31, 2025

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1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die, Video Games

Gravity Bone, Thirty Flights of Loving, and Quadrilateral Cowboy are amazing games in that they tell stories with low-polygon 3d models, giving it
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Footnotes in Gaza, Palestine, Safe Area Gorazde

August 8, 2025

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Uncategorized

Riveting picture of war or refugees. It shows how it is in war zones or Palestine
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Star Fox series

July 14, 2025

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1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die, Uncategorized, Video Games

First things first, the line drawing star ship game started with X. It’s pretty good for the old time hardware on Game Boy.
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Douglas Adams, Spider Robinson, Terry Pratchett

December 10, 2024

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Uncategorized

Douglas Adams wrote Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy which is both a book on the 1o01 Books You Must Read Before You Die
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Doomsday Book, Infomocracy, and Eagle

November 27, 2024

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Uncategorized

For me, after taking a bunch of free Political Science courses at Open Yale website or Coursera I get a good kick out
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Dragon’s Lair

February 4, 2024

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1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die

This arcade game was a very successful pioneer, melding extremely well-done animation with new LaserDisc technology and funneled that into the emerging technology
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Portal

January 30, 2024

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1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die

Portal, along with Half-Life, is one of the unique video games Valve made. The puzzle mechanics are quite good, but what brings it
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Manhunter / Silence of the Lambs / Hannibal

January 27, 2024

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1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, 1001 TV Shows You Must Watch Before You Die

When Thomas Harris was writing the first book, Red Dragon, it came to him how Hannibal would be so evil and end up
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Akira Toriyama

January 23, 2024

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1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die, 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die

Photo By https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/08/arts/akira-toriyama-dead.html, Fair use, Link This manga creator is responsible for the most famous and beloved video games and comics of all
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MSX

January 23, 2024

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Video Game Systems

In the 1980s, home computer systems were just getting off the ground, While IBM PC and Commodore dominated the US, Sinclair and Amstrad
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