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Landstalker: The Treasures of King Nole
Landstalker was an isometric action RPG in which the treasure hunter Nigel searched for the legendary treasure of King Nole. The isometric perspective created navigation puzzles…
The history of video games, 1952–1999 — games, hardware, people, and culture
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Explore the history of every major video game genre — from the first arcade machines to the golden age of home computing
From Spacewar! to Space Invaders — the genre that launched a billion-dollar industry
Donkey Kong, Pitfall!, Super Mario Bros. — the jump that changed everything
Ultima, Wizardry, Rogue — character, growth, and the dungeon below
Colossal Cave, Zork, Monkey Island — the birth of interactive storytelling
Bosnan is an independent archive of video game history from 1952 to 1999. It covers 772 games on 29 platforms, together with the hardware, sound chips, designers, composers, studios, magazines, controversies and cancelled projects behind them, and 205 long-form essays. Entries are written from documented sources, many of which are cited on the page, and every entry links to the related games, people and machines elsewhere in the archive.
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