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The Digital Antiquarian

posted by Zed on September 12 2011 07:46

Last night I posted this article to Metafilter" about The Digital Antiquarian blog.

The Digital Antiquarian discusses ludic narrative and has been filling in by bits and pieces an amazing history of recreational computing and adventure gaming. [...]

Highly recommended for geeks who were there in the '70's and '80's, and those who weren't.

From it, I learned that H.G. Wells wrote a wargame (arguably the first) for use with toy soldiers, Little Wars: a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books. And a whole lot of other interesting things, even about topics I thought I knew a lot about.

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