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Why Classic Computer Card Players Are Switching to Browser Spades
Tuesday, August 4, 2026
Windows 95 never shipped with Spades, but browser play is finally fixing that. Here's why retro PC gamers are returning to this LAN party classic.
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How Tetris Defined Puzzle Gaming for an Entire Generation of PC Players
Saturday, August 1, 2026
Born on a Soviet computer in 1984, Tetris survived a brutal licensing war to become the most-copied shareware program of 1987.
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Gaming Writers Are Turning to AI Detection Tools to Stay Authentic
Thursday, July 30, 2026
AI-generated guides are flooding retro PC gaming communities. Here's how writers use an AI checker to protect their credibility before submitting work.
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The Windows FreeCell Game That Kept Office Workers Busy for 20 Years
Wednesday, July 29, 2026
FreeCell started on a 1978 PLATO mainframe, conquered every Windows desktop for two decades, then vanished in Windows 8, triggering surprisingly loud complaints.
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How PC Software Collections Introduced a Generation to Canasta
Sunday, July 26, 2026
Bundled card-game software like Hoyle Card Games introduced a whole generation to canasta. Here's how those CD collections kept the game alive.
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How Digital Checkers Grew From DOS Shareware to Eleven Online Variants
Thursday, July 23, 2026
From Arthur Samuel's 1962 IBM checkers AI to eleven online rulesets, here's how digital checkers grew from shareware curiosity to a global game family.
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How Tic Tac Toe Became One of the First Games Computers Learned to Play
Monday, July 20, 2026
How a 1952 Cambridge experiment turned tic tac toe into the world's first graphical computer game and a cornerstone of early AI research.
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The Card Game That Shipped With Every Windows PC and Still Holds up
Friday, July 17, 2026
Microsoft bundled Solitaire with Windows 3.0 to teach mouse skills, and it became the world's most-played game. Here's how, and what to play next.
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Mortalus: The Quest for Immortality
Saturday, June 1, 2019
This Myst clone would have been something spectacular if it had come out immediately after the original Myst. Instead, it’s just one in a long line of immersive quest games with a fondness for logic puzzles that involve cogs (there’s something rustic and old-fashioned about logic puzzles using cogs), and Mortalus has ’em in spades. […]
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Tony Hawk’s Underground 2
Friday, May 31, 2019
Back in 1999, there’s no way anyone could’ve predicted the success of the Tony Hawk series. Five sequels, and a slight genre change later, it’s now Tony Hawk’s Underground 2, also known as THUG 2. Where the first four games just added new moves, larger parks, and the possibility for nearly endless combos, the first […]
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