All of the photos in this set were taken in the late 1960s in the Lansing, Michigan area.
The first photo was processed in October 1968. It shows an anti-war protest in Lansing. There have been a few photos from this event in previous sets.
Vintage Photos - Lot 6 (397-400)
Outlander was released in 1993 for the Super Nintendo and would have been right at home as a Mad Max license. The theme is much the same. You drive along a post apocalyptic wasteland searching for weapons, food, fuel and other items while you fend off various enemies. In addition to the vehicular battle, there are also some side-scrolling walking around and fighting parts.
Unfortunately, while the theme of the game certainly resembles Mad Max, it doesn’t live up to the standard set by the movie. The graphics on the Super Nintendo have a digitized look and aren’t terrible but aren’t great either. The animation and frame rate seem pretty bad as well. Control is passable but the graphics and gameplay are extremely repetitive.
There was a Genesis version of this game also. The primary difference between the two was that the driving parts of the Genesis version were from a first person perspective while on the SNES they were from a third person perspective. Either way, it isn’t a very good game.
Other than owning a Super Nintendo (or Genesis) there really isn’t any other way to play this game besides emulation. It hasn’t had any re-releases and given the quality of the game I wouldn’t expect any. This is one of those games that would have been really disappointing had you bought it based on what the box art promised.
1976 was before the personal computer revolution really got going. That would happen the following year with the release of systems like the Commodore PET, Apple 2, Atari 400/800, and TRS-80. However, Byte was already covering computers for hobbyists and other small systems users. The July 1976 issue includes:
Byte (July 1976)
Most or all of the photos in this set were taken in the 1960s and they were probably all taken in the Lansing, Michigan area.
The first photo features a high school graduation. It looks like the name tag on the guy in uniform says 'Kipke' which I know to be the family name of the original photographer.
Vintage Photos - Lot 6 (393-396)
The Dell Latitude XT is a tablet PC that was released at the end of 2007. When closed or first opened, it looks like a fairly typical laptop albeit a relatively small one. However, the screen can rotate and fold back so that it functions as more of a tablet when you want it to.
Digital Archaeology: Dell Latitude XT
The photos in this set were all taken in the 1970s.
The first photo was processed in June 1971 and is labeled 'Mesa Verde Colo'. It wass taken in Mesa Verde, Colorado and features one of the archeological sites there.
Vintage Photos - Lot 6 (389-392)
If you like golf games, there were a number of good ones released for the Super Nintendo. This really isn't one of them. Mecarobot Golf features an odd story about a robot who is discriminated against on the golf course. Somebody purchases Eagle (the robot) and builds a course for him to practice on. It is up to you to determine if robots or humans are the better golfers.
The Sound is pretty minimal and while the graphics feature a couple of interesting effects, overall they are pretty subpar. In Japan this game was endorsed by a famous Japanese golfer but when it was released in 1993 in North America, the robot got all of the credit. It really isn't a terrible game but there were just so many better ones.
I don't think this game had any sequels or any subsequent releases so if you want to play it you'll have to break out your Super Nintendo and find an original cart. Or just resort to emulation. But unless you just want to see how the story ends, you will probably be better off picking from one of the better alternatives.
Byte was one of the earliest and most technical computer magazines available. In 1978, things were really starting to take off in the 'small computer' arena. The closest thing to a standard were the S100 bus based 8008 or Z80 machines running CP/M. However, the Commodore PET, TRS-80, and Apple II had all recently been introduced. The February 1978 issue of Byte includes:
Byte (February 1978)
All of the photos in this set were taken in the 1970s and were all probably taken in Michigan.
The first three photos were all processed in August 1979 and all appear to show the same lakeside vacation (or maybe just weekend getaway). There have been a bunch of photos from this same place in previous sets. The ones in this set show people sunbathing and playing in the water.
Vintage Photos - Lot 6 (385-388)
Maximum PC was my favorite PC magazine (and its incarnation as 'boot' before it). It covered PCs from an enthusiast point of view for those that liked to build or upgrade their own machines, gamers, those who liked to edit video, etc. The February 2002 issue includes:
Maximum PC (February 2002)
Town & Country Surf Designs: Wood & Water Rage was released in 1987 and reminds me a little bit of California Games. In part, this game seems to be an advertisement for the surfboard manufacturer of the same name. Where California Games has multiple events, this game has only two: skateboarding and surfing.
The skateboarding subgame is the better of the two. In it you maneuver through an obstacle course while performing as many tricks as you can. The surfing subgame works in much the same way. You are attempting to ride the wave all the way to shore while performing tricks and avoiding obstacles. It's kind of like the surfing part of California Games with a few more complexities.
Overall, the game isn't great and there isn't a enough to keep you interested for very long. The graphics are well done and the music is pretty good if limited but there just isn't enough game. This would be a good game to rent if such games were still rented.
You'll have to emulate or find an original NES cart for this one because there have been no re-releases I know about. However, there was a somewhat better sequel called Town & Country II: Thrilla's Surfari released for the NES several years later in 1992.
All of the photos in this set were taken from the early 1970s to the early 1980s.
The first photo was processed in October 1980. It's not clear exactly where it was taken but since most of the photos in this batch have been from Michigan, I'm inclined to think this is one of the Great Lakes.
Vintage Photos - Lot 6 (381-384)
PC World was probably the most popular PC specific magazine in the U.S. and the late 1990s was still pretty early days of the Internet (at least in terms of widespread public access). To me, the 1990s to the early 2000s will always be the golden age of the PC. The October 1997 issue of PC World includes:
PC World (October 1997)
All of the photos in this set were taken in the 1960s in the Lansing, Michigan area.
The first photo was processed in March 1966 and is labeled 'Kipke Birthday 66'. I believe this might be the photographer's father.
Vintage Photos - Lot 6 (377-380)
I don’t know why they have to be so confusing with game numbering sometimes. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game was in fact based on the original arcade game. However, when the original arcade game was released in 1989, a different Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game was released at the same time for the NES. Hence when they released the one actually based on the arcade game a year later, they put a II in the title. The home computer ports just stuck with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Arcade Game and left off the II.
he NES version is probably the best known port and included a couple of extra levels with new enemies and also extended many of the original arcade levels. The NES version also added some Pizza Hut product placement advertising. I believe that the computer ports (Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, etc.) were more straight ports of the arcade.
The original NES version, to the best of my knowledge, has not seen any subsequent releases. A port of the arcade version appears as a hidden bonus in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus for the PS2, Xbox and GameCube and an emulated version of the original arcade game appeared for Xbox Live Arcade in 2007 but if you want to play the NES version with extra levels, you’ll have to track down an NES or emulate.
The NES and arcade versions were especially good with most of the other versions being worthwhile as well. If you like arcade style games then this is one of the better ones from that era. And who can resist the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
The One is a computer gaming magazine that was published in the U.K. in the 1980s and 1990s. It covered various computers over its life but by 1993 it was exclusively covering the Amiga. In fact, at that time it was called The One Amiga. The April 1993 issue includes:
The One (April 1993)
The photos in this set were probably all taken in the 1960s and 1970s in Michigan.
The first photo features a woman standing in front of a bridge. It is labeled "Covered Ada Bridge". This bridge is located near Ada Township close to Grand Rapids. My best guess is that this photo was taken in the early 1960s. However, the car that can be seen at the other end looks to be from the 1950s so it could be older. This bridge was destroyed by fire and rebuilt in 1979. The original was built in 1867.
Vintage Photos - Lot 6 (373-376)
This post includes the contents of FEMALE.DOC. This file is dated September 2nd, 1985 and is in a subdirectory called TELEPSYC. This is an article on nonmedical female sexual problems. No name or other credit is listed in the file. I tried doing a web search on a few strings from this article but couldn't find anything so I'm not sure who wrote it. Like the last few posts in this series, I believe this article came from a special interest group or some other kind of feature or area on Delphi called "TelePsych". As far as I can tell, these articles were exclusive to Delphi.
Digital Archaeology: Floppy Disk #14 – FEMALE.DOC/a>
All of the photos in this set were processed in August 1979. It looks like these were all taken at a weekend getaway or vacation at a lake.
Vintage Photos - Lot 6 (369-372)
Super Mario Bros. 2 is of course the sequel to what was at the time the most popular video game ever, Super Mario Bros. However, Super Mario Bros. 2 in North America and most of the rest of the world was not the same sequel that was released in Japan. Nintendo of America deemed the Japanese sequel to be too difficult and too much like its predecessor to be successful. Instead, an unrelated game called Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic was improved upon and retrofitted with Mario Bros. related graphics, characters, etc. and released as Super Mario Bros. 2.
Despite being derived from a non-Super Mario Bros. game, SMB 2 was still a huge success. In fact, it was so successful that it was later also released in Japan as Super Mario Bros. USA. The original Japanese sequel was also later released to the rest of the world as Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels as part of Super Mario All-Stars on the Super Nintendo.
Super Mario Bros. 2 as a whole is very similar to the original. It is the epitome of the side-scrolling platform adventure game. However, gone is the two-player mode of the original and you now have four protagonists to chose from instead of just two. In addition, each one has slightly different abilities as opposed to all playing identically. One key new feature was the ability to lift and throw enemies and objects. This ability, along with a several new characters, have been included in a number of sequels and spin-offs since.
Super Mario Bros. 2 was hugely successful, selling in the neighborhood of 10 million copies and becoming the third highest selling video game for the original Nintendo Entertainment System. Because of its success, it has seen several re-releases. In 2001 it was released as Super Mario Bros. Advance for the Game Boy Advance. It was also included as part of Super Mario Bros. All-Stars for the Super Nintendo which was itself expanded and re-released multiple times for the Super Nintendo and Wii. It has also seen various Virtual Console releases for multiple subsequent Nintendo systems. This is one of those games that every gamer should at least try and it's pretty easy to come by in one form or another so what are you waiting for?
Personal Computer Games was a U.K. based magazine that was published in the 1980s. It covered games on popular computers of the time. The January 1985 issue includes:
Personal Computer Games (January 1985)
All of the photos in this set were processed in October 1980 and were probably taken around that time.
At least three out of the four look like they were taken at the same time and place. This was likely in Michigan, probably on the shore of one of the Great Lakes.
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