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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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  • Just Say Yes, An 80's Drug Message Remixed
    Reverberating throughout the 80's landscape of bleeping arcades and flashing colours of home video game consoles is Nancy R...
  • 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...
  • Two Guys From Andromeda, Together Again
    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...
  • The 12 Video Games of Christmas: Pitfall!
    Leaping into The 12 Video Games of Christmas today is Pitfall Harry, in a drastic iOS remake of Activision's original 1982 Atari VCS/...
  • 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...
  • The Visual Cortex: Remembering Christmas Wishes
    I'm fairly certain that heading into the Christmas season, a lot of kids in 1983 were lying under their blankets at night with a flash...
  • What Nolan Said: Dissing GTA
    Nolan Bushnell helped to form the video game industry by creating Atari and PONG .  These days he's like the curmudgeonly neighbour who ...
  • Monday Meme: Family Portrait
    If it's Monday, it must be another video game retromeme: Source: Ry-Spirit via Reddit
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    Had famed author and raconteur Douglas Noel Adams not been so rudely taken from us in 2001, he would be turning 60 today. ...
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    I've talked about this upcoming game and its pedigree in earlier posts, so here is a recently released video showing the various paths a...

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      • Big Changes Ahead for The Dot Eaters
      • 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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