I find myself dying constantly in Donkey Kong. Although I don't have to pay money each time, it's still annoying to keep having to watch the intro each time. I've tried pressing all buttons I could think of, so I don't think it's skipable, but maybe it is. Same thing with Puckman/PAC-MAN. On pinb...

From the earliest K&R reference manuals I read, 'int' was synonymous with machine word and it seemed to raise adverse reactions in various user domains. With the UNIX crowd, they minimally required an MMU so the word had to be 32bits at least to do memory management without segmentation overhead ...

On early microcomputers it was common to have 40 columns of text with the alternative usually being 32 or 64 for technical reasons as well as ambitious 80 column models that became more common as technology improved and prices for memory and dedicated monitors came down. But the VIC-20 had a rath...

I grew up with the classic video games. Years later, after realizing that I would never afford to make an actual collection like the Angry Video Game Nerd and Mike Matei (although they were barely around at that time), I started playing emulators on my modded Xbox. I was always annoyed by how inc...