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Kind of a weird flex, really, to turn out your best port of an arcade license for one of the competition's consoles, but hey, Atarisoft went there.



We'll actually cover the classic Playstation 1 arcade compilation Nichibutsu Arcade Classics, but Puck shows up for take one to remind us that he wants everyone to see HIS Nichibutsu.  A little something for our Patreon patrons.

Phosphor Dot Fossils ( http://www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/​ ) is one of the web's oldest archives of vintage console, computer, and arcade games; there was also a 2-DVD documentary of the same name, covering the early history of video games, produced in 2008 and 2009 (now available for download at http://www.thelogbook.com/store/​ ).  And these days?  PDF aims to bring a more laid-back, less-caffeinated, less-profanity-spewing experience to the retro video game longplay video.

Check out my other projects and podcasts: eBooks "VWORP!1", "VWORP!2", "WARP!1" and "Fatherhood, Fandom, And Fading Out" available at http://www.thelogbook.com/store/​ and at Amazon!

Select Game: Expanded Memories of the Odyssey2 podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/selectgame/​

Retrogram podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/retrogram/​

Don't Give This Tape To Earl podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/thistape/​

theLogBook.com's Escape Pod daily mini-podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/podcast/​

And, of course, the site that started it all, combining sci-fi, retro video games, book, music and toy reviews, and all sorts of retro-futurist fun: http://www.thelogbook.com​

All of the above podcasts are available on iTunes and Stitcher. Want to support more projects like all of the above? Feel free to throw a few coins in the hat at http://www.patreon.com/thelogbook/​ or help rebuild the post-cross-country-move studio via our Amazon wish list at http://a.co/7oUbGgb​ - and many many thanks to everyone who has supported theLogBook.com's podcasting and videocasting endeavours!

The theme music is the "Phosphor Dot Fossils Theme" by Earl Green.
Phosphor Dot Fossils: Galaxian (Colecovision, 1983)
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A more thorough tour of a fully-terraformed Mars colony in Surviving Mars.  Lasts about 20 minutes, and I tried to take manual control of the camera angle less here, and just let the game show you everything in its own time.  I was about to track the whole thing with some Babylon 5 music, then I thought... nah.  Provide your own tunes.  Less hassle for me, more fun for you.  It's almost 20 minutes total.  Enjoy!
Surviving Mars - Terraformed Mars Montage II
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We're gonna need a montage!  To celebrate the fact that I was today years old when I figured out that you could "follow" supply/personnel shuttles - automated things that you completely ignore in the game unless they're not working - I grabbed some video and put together a little montage.  (The music is not from the game itself; I did that music quite some time back.)


The game is Surviving Mars, with the Green Planet terraforming add-on, and I've fully terraformed the planet - at least my little corner of it.  The population of the colony is hovering at around 5,000, and it's self-sustaining enough that I can put the game in real-time mode and attach a "camera" to various shuttles as they do their thing and just fly over my creation.


I'll get back to demoing this game soon since I now have a setup that's much less prone to glitching/freezing video.
Surviving Mars - Terraformed Mars Montage
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Why would you go streaking in a video game?  Just...why?  Why is this game even here?  This game might just take the prize for being the weirdest "homage" to the Pac-Man format your host has ever seen.  Even his cat has things to say about it.


Phosphor Dot Fossils ( http://www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/​ ) is one of the web's oldest archives of vintage console, computer, and arcade games; there was also a 2-DVD documentary of the same name, covering the early history of video games, produced in 2008 and 2009 (now available for download at http://www.thelogbook.com/store/​ ).  And these days?  PDF aims to bring a more laid-back, less-caffeinated, less-profanity-spewing experience to the retro video game longplay video.

Check out my other projects and podcasts: eBooks "VWORP!1", "VWORP!2", "WARP!1" and "Fatherhood, Fandom, And Fading Out" available at http://www.thelogbook.com/store/​ and at Amazon!

Select Game: Expanded Memories of the Odyssey2 podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/selectgame/​

Retrogram podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/retrogram/​

Don't Give This Tape To Earl podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/thistape/​

theLogBook.com's Escape Pod daily mini-podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/podcast/​

And, of course, the site that started it all, combining sci-fi, retro video games, book, music and toy reviews, and all sorts of retro-futurist fun: http://www.thelogbook.com​

All of the above podcasts are available on iTunes and Stitcher. Want to support more projects like all of the above? Feel free to throw a few coins in the hat at http://www.patreon.com/thelogbook/​ or help rebuild the post-cross-country-move studio via our Amazon wish list at http://a.co/7oUbGgb​ - and many many thanks to everyone who has supported theLogBook.com's podcasting and videocasting endeavours!

The theme music is the "Phosphor Dot Fossils Theme" by Earl Green.
Phosphor Dot Fossils: Streaking (arcade, 1980)
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Robot City: for all your robot needs!  Or at least if you have need of a bunch of robots who are out to kill you dead at the first opportunity.  A really neat unreleased prototype from the European Videopac library (basically the Odyssey2).


Phosphor Dot Fossils ( http://www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/​ ) is one of the web's oldest archives of vintage console, computer, and arcade games; there was also a 2-DVD documentary of the same name, covering the early history of video games, produced in 2008 and 2009 (now available for download at http://www.thelogbook.com/store/​ ).  And these days?  PDF aims to bring a more laid-back, less-caffeinated, less-profanity-spewing experience to the retro video game longplay video.

Check out my other projects and podcasts: eBooks "VWORP!1", "VWORP!2", "WARP!1" and "Fatherhood, Fandom, And Fading Out" available at http://www.thelogbook.com/store/​ and at Amazon!

Select Game: Expanded Memories of the Odyssey2 podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/selectgame/​

Retrogram podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/retrogram/​

Don't Give This Tape To Earl podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/thistape/​

theLogBook.com's Escape Pod daily mini-podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/podcast/​

And, of course, the site that started it all, combining sci-fi, retro video games, book, music and toy reviews, and all sorts of retro-futurist fun: http://www.thelogbook.com​

All of the above podcasts are available on iTunes and Stitcher. Want to support more projects like all of the above? Feel free to throw a few coins in the hat at http://www.patreon.com/thelogbook/​ or help rebuild the post-cross-country-move studio via our Amazon wish list at http://a.co/7oUbGgb​ - and many many thanks to everyone who has supported theLogBook.com's podcasting and videocasting endeavours!

The theme music is the "Phosphor Dot Fossils Theme" by Earl Green.
Phosphor Dot Fossils: Robot City (Odyssey2/Videopac, 1983)
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Sinistar: contains asteroids, crystals, worker ships, gunships, and one very hungry Sinistar.  He's so hungry.  He'll tell you so.  As he eats your ship in a single mechanical gulp.


Phosphor Dot Fossils ( http://www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/​ ) is one of the web's oldest archives of vintage console, computer, and arcade games; there was also a 2-DVD documentary of the same name, covering the early history of video games, produced in 2008 and 2009 (now available for download at http://www.thelogbook.com/store/​ ).  And these days?  PDF aims to bring a more laid-back, less-caffeinated, less-profanity-spewing experience to the retro video game longplay video.

Check out my other projects and podcasts: eBooks "VWORP!1", "VWORP!2", "WARP!1" and "Fatherhood, Fandom, And Fading Out" available at http://www.thelogbook.com/store/​ and at Amazon!

Select Game: Expanded Memories of the Odyssey2 podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/selectgame/​

Retrogram podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/retrogram/​

Don't Give This Tape To Earl podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/thistape/​

theLogBook.com's Escape Pod daily mini-podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/podcast/​

And, of course, the site that started it all, combining sci-fi, retro video games, book, music and toy reviews, and all sorts of retro-futurist fun: http://www.thelogbook.com​

All of the above podcasts are available on iTunes and Stitcher. Want to support more projects like all of the above? Feel free to throw a few coins in the hat at http://www.patreon.com/thelogbook/​ or help rebuild the post-cross-country-move studio via our Amazon wish list at http://a.co/7oUbGgb​ - and many many thanks to everyone who has supported theLogBook.com's podcasting and videocasting endeavours!

The theme music is the "Phosphor Dot Fossils Theme" by Earl Green.
Phosphor Dot Fossils: Sinistar (arcade, 1983)
YouTube Video UCQhbcY-vixBkryMO0UMZ5UQ_Qq-Jz8biImc
Wait, am I the UFO or are these other guys the UFOs?  Aren't we all UFOs in someone else's sky?  And was Magnavox trying to hump the leg of someone else's UFO?  I mean...aside from this being the Odyssey2's lovely near-beer version of Asteroids, that is.


Phosphor Dot Fossils ( http://www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/​ ) is one of the web's oldest archives of vintage console, computer, and arcade games; there was also a 2-DVD documentary of the same name, covering the early history of video games, produced in 2008 and 2009 (now available for download at http://www.thelogbook.com/store/​ ).  And these days?  PDF aims to bring a more laid-back, less-caffeinated, less-profanity-spewing experience to the retro video game longplay video.

Check out my other projects and podcasts: eBooks "VWORP!1", "VWORP!2", "WARP!1" and "Fatherhood, Fandom, And Fading Out" available at http://www.thelogbook.com/store/​ and at Amazon!

Select Game: Expanded Memories of the Odyssey2 podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/selectgame/​

Retrogram podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/retrogram/​

Don't Give This Tape To Earl podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/thistape/​

theLogBook.com's Escape Pod daily mini-podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/podcast/​

And, of course, the site that started it all, combining sci-fi, retro video games, book, music and toy reviews, and all sorts of retro-futurist fun: http://www.thelogbook.com​

All of the above podcasts are available on iTunes and Stitcher. Want to support more projects like all of the above? Feel free to throw a few coins in the hat at http://www.patreon.com/thelogbook/​ or help rebuild the post-cross-country-move studio via our Amazon wish list at http://a.co/7oUbGgb​ - and many many thanks to everyone who has supported theLogBook.com's podcasting and videocasting endeavours!

The theme music is the "Phosphor Dot Fossils Theme" by Earl Green.
Phosphor Dot Fossils: UFO! (Odyssey2/Videopac, 1981)
YouTube Video UCQhbcY-vixBkryMO0UMZ5UQ_o8joirIoy6M
Phosphor Dot Fossils steps into the 1990s, and into the realm of Neo Geo arcade gaming, to take on Neo Turf Masters, a surprisingly buff name for a perfectly pleasant game of golf.


Phosphor Dot Fossils ( http://www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/​ ) is one of the web's oldest archives of vintage console, computer, and arcade games; there was also a 2-DVD documentary of the same name, covering the early history of video games, produced in 2008 and 2009 (now available for download at http://www.thelogbook.com/store/​ ).  And these days?  PDF aims to bring a more laid-back, less-caffeinated, less-profanity-spewing experience to the retro video game longplay video.

Check out my other projects and podcasts: eBooks "VWORP!1", "VWORP!2", "WARP!1" and "Fatherhood, Fandom, And Fading Out" available at http://www.thelogbook.com/store/​ and at Amazon!

Select Game: Expanded Memories of the Odyssey2 podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/selectgame/​

Retrogram podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/retrogram/​

Don't Give This Tape To Earl podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/thistape/​

theLogBook.com's Escape Pod daily mini-podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/podcast/​

And, of course, the site that started it all, combining sci-fi, retro video games, book, music and toy reviews, and all sorts of retro-futurist fun: http://www.thelogbook.com​

All of the above podcasts are available on iTunes and Stitcher. Want to support more projects like all of the above? Feel free to throw a few coins in the hat at http://www.patreon.com/thelogbook/​ or help rebuild the post-cross-country-move studio via our Amazon wish list at http://a.co/7oUbGgb​ - and many many thanks to everyone who has supported theLogBook.com's podcasting and videocasting endeavours!

The theme music is the "Phosphor Dot Fossils Theme" by Earl Green.
Phosphor Dot Fossils: Neo Turf Masters (arcade, 1996)
YouTube Video UCQhbcY-vixBkryMO0UMZ5UQ_r59WRc60re8
Was Q*Bert too easy?  Apparently its creators thought so, and they prepared a little something for players who were too good at the original.

Phosphor Dot Fossils ( http://www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/ ) is one of the web's oldest archives of vintage console, computer, and arcade games; there was also a 2-DVD documentary of the same name, covering the early history of video games, produced in 2008 and 2009 (now available for download at http://www.thelogbook.com/store/ ).  And these days?  PDF aims to bring a more laid-back, less-caffeinated, less-profanity-spewing experience to the retro video game longplay video.

Check out my other projects and podcasts: eBooks "VWORP!1", "VWORP!2", "WARP!1" and "Fatherhood, Fandom, And Fading Out" available at http://www.thelogbook.com/store/ and at Amazon!

Select Game: Expanded Memories of the Odyssey2 podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/selectgame/

Retrogram podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/retrogram/

Don't Give This Tape To Earl podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/thistape/

theLogBook.com's Escape Pod daily mini-podcast - http://www.thelogbook.com/podcast/

And, of course, the site that started it all, combining sci-fi, retro video games, book, music and toy reviews, and all sorts of retro-futurist fun: http://www.thelogbook.com

All of the above podcasts are available on iTunes and Stitcher. Want to support more projects like all of the above? Feel free to throw a few coins in the hat at http://www.patreon.com/thelogbook/ or help rebuild the post-cross-country-move studio via our Amazon wish list at http://a.co/7oUbGgb - and many many thanks to everyone who has supported theLogBook.com's podcasting and videocasting endeavours!

The theme music is the "Phosphor Dot Fossils Theme" by Earl Green.
Phosphor Dot Fossils: Faster Harder More Challenging Q*Bert (arcade, 1983)
YouTube Video UCQhbcY-vixBkryMO0UMZ5UQ_UqkzEijQ8ng
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Phosphor Dot FossilsWelcome to one of the web's oldest and most-respected repositories of information and critiques on classic video games: Phosphor Dot Fossils. You'll find hundreds of reviews here, covering vintage arcade games, classic console games and long-forgotten early home computer software. The reviews here judge these games not by what technology has made possible since then, but by what was possible at the time of the game's release. The articles here attempt to put each game into the context of its time, and you can use the sidebar menu to the right to browse through our massive database using just about any criteria you can think of. You can also view short video segments of the games in action (and, like the games themselves, some video segments have hidden "easter eggs" that can be revealed with a click!). Phosphor Dot Fossils Phosphor Dot Fossils covers all hardware platforms, but special emphasis is placed on arcade games, which set the standards to which home consoles and computers had to at least attempt to rise, often with far more limited resources for memory and graphics. More than a few still-thriving franchises were born in massive plywood cabinets that took our quarters and our time in the 1970s and 1980s.

Phosphor Dot FossilsWe frequently follow these arcade hits home, where they appeared on numerous consoles and computers that were underpowered compared to their coin-op counterparts. But despite memory and hardware limitations, consoles - and their brilliant game designers and programmers - found ways to excel at games that simply weren't suited to the arcade environment, where a never-ending stream of quarters was more important than a "deep" gaming experience that might last for more than a few minutes. There was room for both kinds of games back then - and there still is.

Phosphor Dot FossilsPhosphor Dot Fossils covers arcade, console and computer games - as well as, to a slightly lesser extent, non-programmable dedicated game consoles and handheld and portable games. In some cases, where classic game franchises have continued to emerge through the 1990s and the 21st century, we follow those games too, whether they're "greatest hits" collections of classic games, or complete remakes with modern graphics and sound. We also cover imported games never released in North Phosphor Dot FossilsAmerica, newly-programmed "homebrew games" for classic systems, and even games that never saw the light of day.

Along the way, there is a single narrative being told by this multimedia study of classic games: it's the creation and rise of an industry that now dominates the entertainment landscape, and the advancement of multiple technologies whose effects can be felt far beyond our living rooms. Controversies have come and gone, but the medium of the video game is here to stay.

This is how it all started, and how it evolved from there.

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