Re:Railroad Tycoon
by dmazin on Friday March 17, 2017 @08:16PM
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By the way, filfre is probably the highest quality VG and possibly computer history writer I've read. His archives are gold. He mostly focuses on interactive storytelling, but that was most of gaming in the early days of computing, so his histories amount to histories of computing.
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Could you recommend some specific articles of theirs worth reading?
Yes!
Though it's not his domain and is a one-off like Railroad Tycoon, I love the article on Sim City: http://www.filfre.net/2016/06/simcity-part-1-will-wrights-ci...
The history of the TRS-80, whose place in PC history I did not appreciate before reading: http://www.filfre.net/2011/06/the-trash-80-part-1/
There are many more interesting articles he lists on his own best-of list: http://www.filfre.net/hall-of-fame/
If your into Retro gaming, I highly recommend reading it as he has written it http://www.filfre.net/sitemap.
His writing his amazing and I'm always interested in how pieces of gaming history fit together.
Another way to read it, is as I have come across a theme I'm interested in I just follow that tag for a while e.g. http://www.filfre.net/tag/sierra
All in all, this blog is amazing and well worth supporting IMHO.
He also wrote "The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga", part of the MIT Press "Platform Studies" series.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/future-was-here