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Welcome to The Dot Eaters

www.thedoteaters.com

The companion site to this blog has been online nearly 15 years now, with lots of text, pics and video content added in the meantime. It hopes to chronicle the early years of video game history. Thanks for visiting it.

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  • Choplifter Takes Off Again
    Anyone who was into computers in the early 80's and had even a tiny interest in gaming had to have tried the classic side scroller Chop...
  • The Gallery Opens
    I'd like to announce a new feature to the site, a repository of vintage video game ads.  I'm just ramping up the entries, so bear ...
  • A Quick Look Back: The Castles of Dr. Creep
    Creep Cover Playing this game again brings back a flood of memories, of me and a buddy playing hours upon hours of it on the C64 back in...
  • A Quick Look Back: Aztec
    It's not an overstatement to describe  Aztec  as graphically dazzling, an action-adventure game released originally for the AppleII  an...
  • Paperboy Delivers to the iPhone
    If you hung around video game arcades in 1984, you most likely gave Atari Game's Paperboy a spin. In it, you are the titular newsie, ...
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    The Two Guys Coming down the ether, otherwise known as Kotaku , comes word that The Two Guys From Andromeda, aka Mark Crowe and Scott Mu...
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    In the tradition of Sierra's Police Quest series or the Tex Murphy FMV games from Access comes the latest from the-studio-that-can-d...
  • Classic British Computers Live Again
    Those who grew up in Britian and Europe in the 80's and early 90's know all about the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC . Most people w...
  • Two New Gallery Additions
    Submitted for approval, two new video game ad images for the gallery. One isn't exactly an ad, but an homage to Space Invaders and the ...
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    The following is a TV commercial for CBS Video Games.  Dating from 1982, it purports to show clips from what is called " Challenge of C...

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      • Amazon Opens Retro Game Store
      • Game On 2.0 Lands at the Ontario Science Centre
      • Just Say Yes, An 80's Drug Message Remixed
      • Monday Meme: Family Portrait
      • Hard Wares: Star Wars/Pac-Man iPad Back Cover
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