I actually thought about doing one final roundup but then someone said they liked these so I’m being pulled back in. I might do them on a regular basis but have smaller posts so it feels less like a job and more like I’m just posting again, which is why I like having a blog.

As usual, if you enjoy these then add the site to your RSS feed reader. Social media networks come and go but RSS will never die! I use Inoreader and that is easy and free to use, and syncs across all your devices. If it ever gets bought by a billionaire I can just export all my feeds to something else. If you have a blog, do your own roundups. Search engines suck now from all the AI slop and people do look at these roundups if you want to help people discover interesting writing.

Here are this week’s links

Florence Smith Nicholls has a great post about archaeology in games.

Aura wrote a guide to submitting your games to MobyGames. Consider doing this if you aren’t already. I’ll admit to being vain enough that I like seeing my name pop up under more titles. But I think it’s also good for games preservation to have all these little indie games documented. I think there’s a bigger post in me about why I think you should do this over IGDB, which is used for Twitch and Backloggd, but it mostly comes down to: If you’re concerned that people are going to review bomb your experimental, queer indie game, no one uses the rating functionality anymore on MobyGames. Everyone that still looks at MobyGames is old now, which includes myself, and no longer has the energy to care. Still seems to be a thing on Backloggd though, which is a site that can fall into the ocean.

Misty De Méo wrote an article for Indie Tsushin way back in December that I don’t think I ever mentioned. This one is about 1994 Mac stray dog survival game Rodem the Wild.

Misty also wrote a post cd-rom preservation on The Future is Now.

Interactive fiction author Robb Sherwin has been doing a lot of fun game reviews on their blog. The most recent is NHL ’96.

Jay Tholen of Hypnospace Outlaw fame wrote about making games in the early 2000’s.

Dungeonsweeper has been one of my favorite games lately and Josh Grams has a fun post breaking down the thought process that goes into playing a round of the game.

Issue 2 of the Spooky Tomb Of Videogames is here. Highly recommended if you like my indie game roundups, because I basically copied the original form of those and did a worse job. If you want to know how much talking about small indie games matters, I originally found out about the game 3D Don’t Die Mr. Robot from Rob. Fell in love with the game and started talking about how great it was, which then led to my friend Ben picking up the game, getting really into it, and talking about it on his adventure games podcast Quest Quest (where else would you talk about an arcade game?). It’s like a little chain reaction, much like the ones you set off in 3D Don’t Die Mr. Robot.

After Yochai was basically harassed off Bluesky for pointless ttrpg discourse, he made a post about how it’s time to bring back forums. I think everyone who knows me is not surprised at all that I endorse this post. But like I said earlier, social media networks come and go and can get bought by shitty billionaires, and I think forums are a tiny bit safer. Or at least, having a lot of little sites is probably better for a healthy internet than 3 big websites, and I don’t trust Bluesky at all, sorry.

Amiga Boing Boing is ending its blog by the end of the year and is looking for a new person to run it. Are you an Amiga nerd with lots of time? Maybe you should consider taking over.

Chuck Jordan posted a recipe for vegetarian chili that looks very nice. I like when game developers post recipes because then I can say I’m a fan of their work on Curse of Monkey Island, Sam & Max season 3, and vegetarian chili recipe. I don’t think I have any recipes on me that I made up but if you do, consider sharing it.

Well, that does it for this week. I suppose that wasn’t so bad. I guess don’t have to do a big organized thing every week like Critical Distance does. Unless people started giving me as much money as their patreon pulls in. Man, that would be nice.