Time for more terrible Italian webseries, bad hotels and scary New Jersey pizzas. HELP. Live 9.30 www.twitch.tv/thegenesiste...
Damiano Gerli
@damiano.bsky.social
Gaming historian / digital archeologist @ https://genesistemple.com Join my Discord: https://discord.gg/trKjYjtnjP Twitch streamer/podcaster - https://www.twitch.tv/thegenesistemple Unemployed gaming journalist - support https://ko-fi.com/thegenesistemple
Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
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A lovely huge preservation update today! Thanks to @malcseventyfour.bsky.social, 15 previously unpreserved Commodore 64 educational titles from Grolier/Mindflight have now been recovered, including the long sought-after The Story of Miss Mouse and Rhyme Land. www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/08/grol...
The Steam reviews I leave during my streams are something special. (here I was making fun of a copy and paste)
The Steam reviews I leave during my streams are something special. (here I was making fun of a copy and paste)
ICYMI a lil' Quake history, more historical thingies to come soon
Damiano Gerli@damiano.bsky.social · 4d agoFor my Patreon this month I was writing a whole history of an Amiga studio with interviews but I ran out of time. Instead, here's 30th years of Quake, a history on how the game went from d&d-inspired rpg to 3d multiplayer extravaganza. www.patreon.com/thegenesiste...
Fuck that AI, enjoy some lovely pixel art from 1994's Realms of ArkaniaRealms of Arkania: Star Trail (1994) aka Das Schwarze Auge: Sternenschweif, developed by Attic.
For my Patreon this month I was writing a whole history of an Amiga studio with interviews but I ran out of time. Instead, here's 30th years of Quake, a history on how the game went from d&d-inspired rpg to 3d multiplayer extravaganza. www.patreon.com/thegenesiste...
Finally played the definitive version of Mafia II
Damiano Gerli@damiano.bsky.social · 3d agoAfter last Sunday's beautiful stream, I'm back for more mobile games that nobody remembers existed. This time I'll delve into licensed crap and forgotten sequels (a Livingstone mobile exclusive??). 6.30 here: www.twitch.tv/thegenesiste...
After last Sunday's beautiful stream, I'm back for more mobile games that nobody remembers existed. This time I'll delve into licensed crap and forgotten sequels (a Livingstone mobile exclusive??). 6.30 here: www.twitch.tv/thegenesiste...
After last Sunday's beautiful stream, I'm back for more mobile games that nobody remembers existed. This time I'll delve into licensed crap and forgotten sequels (a Livingstone mobile exclusive??). 6.30 here: www.twitch.tv/thegenesiste...
For my Patreon this month I was writing a whole history of an Amiga studio with interviews but I ran out of time. Instead, here's 30th years of Quake, a history on how the game went from d&d-inspired rpg to 3d multiplayer extravaganza. www.patreon.com/thegenesiste...
In 1992, German PC distributor VOBIS hired designer Luigi Colani to design a more rounded and unique looking laptop, the Blue Note. Released in 1993, it was one of the more unique looking PCs of the time (in Europe at least) awarded high ratings in reviews.
I was hunting down images for my next video and I find this one of a kid playing Commodore 64. It's from Wikipedia. The file name?
Time for another deep dive into my Steam library plus time to play some Tormentum II. LIVE NOW www.twitch.tv/thegenesiste...
I can also add that at one point this game was advertised on magazines as to feature "the longest kissing scene ever to be put in a video game". Yeah, basically you hit pause and there you go.
Games That Weren't@gamesthatwerent.com · 6d agoRimini, Mare Azzurro was one of Simulmondo's earliest announced projects - a 1950s Commodore Amiga graphic adventure that never left the planning stages. Here's the story behind the lost game: www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/07/rimi...
I can also add that at one point this game was advertised on magazines as to feature "the longest kissing scene ever to be put in a video game". Yeah, basically you hit pause and there you go.
Games That Weren't@gamesthatwerent.com · 6d agoRimini, Mare Azzurro was one of Simulmondo's earliest announced projects - a 1950s Commodore Amiga graphic adventure that never left the planning stages. Here's the story behind the lost game: www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/07/rimi...
So the first 90 seconds of my new video on an obscure French game took me approximately 3 hours of research to make. For a video that will get, at best, 200 views. Ain't life grand?
La Ville Idéale is a 1986 city management/edutainment Thomson title, where the goal is to "build a city where the evils that generally accompany the anarchic development of large cities are absent". Between a god and a mayor, you have plenty of choices, like even defunding the police.
So the first 90 seconds of my new video on an obscure French game took me approximately 3 hours of research to make. For a video that will get, at best, 200 views. Ain't life grand?
My hunger knows no bounds so tonight along with bad pizzas from New Jersey I will look at bad hotels from Italy. This never ends. I might also play some games but y'know, at this point, why even bother? Live in 10 mins
Ghajini (2008) is an action/stealth game released with the movie of the same name, with a classic revenge story told in Max Payne-style cutscenes. Part of the late 00s trend of games based on Bollywood movies, it was apparently the first big Indian 3D pc title.
