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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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  • A Quick Look Back: Mail Order Monsters
    Post Office refuses to deliver to your house ever again As part of the glorious early history of Electronic Arts, Mail Order Monsters  (...
  • Market percentages of game platforms and genres analyzed.
    This is a graph of the percentages that various gaming platforms and genres have made up of the video game market, from 1975 to present d...
  • BurgerTime Remake
    The Interwebs has been a-twitter the past week or so.  It could be that the retro-nerds have suffered a blood-sugar level crash, because the...
  • Helping Preserve Video Game History
    Hoping to find a suitable, convenient display space to house their extensive materials concerning the history of video games and other digit...
  • Pinball Resurrected
    Someone who grew up during the birth and golden age of video games would also have to be at least passingly familiar with the electronic p...
  • The Visual Cortex: Joust An Ad
    Today the Visual Cortex hatches an ad for the Atari 2600 and 5200 versions of Williams' arcade hit Joust:   Click to enlarge Runn...
  • Happy Birthday Atari 7800!
     With the 27th anniversary of the proper launch of the Atari 7800 this month, here is a little retrospective on the console. While the A...
  • Monday Meme: Skyrim on NES
    If it's Monday, it must be another video game retomeme: Yesterday we posted an image of the massive open-world RPG Skyrim as an Intell...
  • The Visual Cortex: Beautiful Skye
    Where I flip through my image archive and ruminate on what pops up. This time we land on Lady Deirdre Skye, leader of Gaia's Stepdaug...
  • Atari Files for Bankruptcy Protection
    Founded by Nolan Bushnell and the maker of PONG, the arcade video game that established the industry in 1972, the Atari brand has bounce...

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      • Big Changes Ahead for The Dot Eaters
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      • 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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