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Game Discoverability Weekly – newsletter #2!

A few weeks ago, I launched my second regular video game-related newsletter, following the success of Video Game Deep Cuts. This one is hosted on Substack and called Game Discoverability Weekly. Here’s the skinny: “Welcome to Game Discoverability Weekly by me, Simon Carless. I’m a long-time video game industry watcher and participant, and a former …

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The MIDI Tiki Show: a new YouTube channel for your pleasure

So here’s an announcement – I’ve started a new YouTube channel, called ‘The MIDI Tiki Show’, that showcases high quality hardware-played MIDI files in a tiki room setting. Uh… wha? Why? Maybe I’d better explain… The Inspiration This all started when I checked out the excellent YouTube channel Techmoan‘s video on ‘the floppy disk boombox’, which …

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Longread: The ‘lost’ Alan Moore interview (The Telegraph Wire, 1985)

[Poking around at a Bay Area antiques fair, I came across a copy of local comic book store zine Telegraph Wire. And in it, there’s a great longform Wendi Lee interview from SDCC 1985 with Alan Moore, who was known for his Swamp Thing work & V For Vendetta at the time, and in the process …

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Retro Wonders Game Bundle – a bunch more great eBooks!

[Here’s the latest eBook bundle I compiled for the Storybundle crew – and it’s a particular favorite of mine because of the amount of exclusives we commissioned, and the depth of some of the writing – so much good/rare/overlooked stuff here, dig in!] The Retro Wonders Game Bundle – Curated by Simon Carless The first Video …

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