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Bit Museum: Game & Watch

February 12th, 2010 | by GeoffS

Posted In: Gaming

The 5th installment in the indie game developer Robotube’s Bit Museum series of videos is out and it is all about Nintendo Game & Watch. It features several examples of the various Game & Watch form factors as well as a little history on their creation. One of the more interesting tidbits is the discussion regarding how the innovations that took place in the Game & Watch series ended up inspiring future designs that are still in use today.

I actually remember a friend having one of the orange plastic and metal cased Donkey Kong Game & Watch Systems. Though until now I was, admittedly, completely clueless to the existence of a whole series of the systems. The video runs about 13 minutes long so be sure to grab a soda!

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Microsoft Indie Marketplace Update

February 12th, 2010 | by GeoffS

Posted In: Gaming, XBLIG Update

There are two new titles coming to Microsoft’s Xbox Indie Marketplace this morning. First we have a platformer from developer Morsel called Kaleidoscope, which I gotta say at a glance looks intriguing. The screenshots(below) give the impression of a highly stylized world and with equally unique and strange inhabitants. I am looking forward to trying this one out. Kaleidoscope rings up at a total of 240 Microsoft Points.

The second title is Nega and it appears in the category of “Puzzle & Trivia” and comes from a developer listed as “see games”. At any rate it only has one particularly unimpressive screenshot(below) so hard to really tell how this one will be, but I have a feeling we may have a space for it in the “Failed the Sniff Test” series. It clocks in at a cost of 80 Microsoft Points.