Classic Games

John Aycock, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Stevenson Hall 1300
11:00 AM - 11:50 AM

Even the simplest old computer games may have required technical miracles to get running at all --retrogame programmers were constrained by both hardware and software in ways that are unimaginable now. Retrogame archeology looks under the hood of old games to uncover the clever tricks that make them tick. Learn about what retrogame archeology is (and isn't) and how old games are studied today