Tag: retroGaming

The Time Sierra On-Line Nearly Unionized

Post author By Todd Mitchell
Post date October 8, 2020
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Ken Williams has released a new book, Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings: The rise and fall of Sierra On-Line. In the process of telling Sierra’s entire story from his perspective for the first time, he reveals what was surely among the very earliest attempts at unionization within the game industry.

Tags GameDev, retroGaming, SierraOnLine

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Our Trip to the Last Aladdin’s Castle Arcade

Post author By Todd Mitchell
Post date July 26, 2020
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Because my photo post exploded on Twitter with nearly 10,000 impressions and engagement from about 2,500 people at the time of writing, here’s the story of our trip to the last remaining Aladdin’s Castle in Quincy, Illinois.

Tags aladdinsCastle, arcade, retroGaming