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Rather than sweltering in the Sunday afternoon Adelaide sun, what better way to spend it than in a sweltering room next to a machine that is folding?
The Sydney Morning Herald recently reported on the retro game revival. For some of us, the classic era of gaming never ended, but it's nice to see that mainstream media outlets are also catching on.
Remember the film "The Last Starfighter"? If not, make sure you watch it when it's on at 3am at some stage. In any case, the title of the film comes from the name of the arcade game at the centre of it. This site not only has a replica Last Starfighter cabinet, but it also has the game available for downloading.
Now to my favourite IT-related website at the moment. Many of us (most OCAU readers?) are far too young to remember Computer Space, the first arcade machine (hell, some people here are too young to even remember arcades at their peak...). This site documents the first - and arguably most beautiful - arcade machine ever.
Interested? Well, although it's not Computer Space, it is the inspiration for it. Spacewar! was the inspiration for Computer Space and was developed at MIT. The original source code has been modified to run under Java, and you can play it here.
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