#coleco

Influential RPG adventure writer, artist, and video game creator Jennell Jaquays has died.

She was a founder of the Dungeoneer zine before it was sold to Judges Guild. Her D&D adventures Dark Tower and Caverns of Thracia became classics, often studied as examples of adventure design. She also wrote and illustrated for TSR, Metagaming, Steve Jackson Games, and many other publishers. Her video game career included developing many of Coleco's titles in the 1980s and level design for the Quake sequels at id Software in the 90s, and she co-founded the SMU Guildhall video game program.

I bought a new system today which brings my collection up to 50 gaming consoles. The best triangular gaming console money can buy.

In the scene in Kevin's bedroom, he's briefly playing a handheld game machine. It has been identified as Electronic Quarterback from 1978:

There's an in-browser emulator of it over in the Internet Archive, complete with manual, for anyone who wants to try it (I haven't tried it myself, since I don't know the rules of American Football, which I imagine is a requirement). Also, I found this amusing commercial for it, where it's compared to a competitor (kind of an predecessor to "Sega does what Nintendon't", "I'm a Mac and I'm a PC", etc.):

During the month of August, I took an much needed break from daily "social media" grind to focus on my overall health and well-being, but I have still been busy on my various retro Texas Instruments projects.

In the meantime, I have finally been able expanded my collection with a nice ColecoVision Adam full setup, this will allow me to port over some future software and hardware projects I been designing for the TI99 over to the Coleco since they share the same TMS9918 video processor and sound chips.

I need now to get an FujiNet adapter for the #Adam along with the latest CP/M software, then my new retro setup will be basically ready to start coding on.