40 years ago, Commodore released the Commodore 64 home computer, which set sales records, shook the American video game industry to its core, and introduced programming to a generation of kids around the world. Here’s why it was special.
In 1988, HAL Laboratory released three NES games, ports of the arcade games Defender II, Millipede, and Joust. One doesn’t associate HAL Laboratory with arca.
About forty five years ago, a team of developers at Motorola had a great idea for a new microprocessor: one that would be simple, easy to use, and less expensive to build. Motorola wasn’t interested…