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RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 Was Built Entirely in Assembly

Chris Sawyer wrote RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 solo in x86 assembly. Here’s why that was a deliberate, defensible choice, and what it says about building tools that work for you.

• By Oliver Karlsson

Atari 2600's Pac-Man and the 1983 crash

How an overhyped, underpreforming port of an arcade phenomenon became a cautionary tale in gaming history.

• By Oliver Karlsson

Shin Megami Tensei and the Inokashira Park Murder

A look at how a 1992 Super Famicom role-playing game became entangled with an unsolved 1994 dismemberment case in Tokyo’s Inokashira Park.

• By Oliver Karlsson

Atari Pong's source code doesn't exist

Atari’s Pong arcade machine never executes code, because there is none. So how does it work?

• By Oliver Karlsson