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Richard Moss
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Writer/Director: *TerrorBytes: The Evolution of Horror Gaming*

Author: *A Tale of Two Halves*, *Shareware Heroes*, *The Secret History of Mac Gaming*, a book on Age of Empires 1 dev (TBA)

Co-Writer/producer: FPSDOC

Australian

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Richard Moss @mossrc.bsky.social · Jul 15
The feature-length first episode of @terrorbytesdoc.bsky.social is now free to watch on YouTube. Dozens of interviews digging into the history and evolution of horror in games, written and directed by me. And if you like it, you can buy the whole series from terrorbytesdoc.com. youtu.be/TA2aZVn9FvE
TerrorBytes Ep. 1 – Enter the Survival Horror | Full Documentary Episode (FREE)
YouTube video by CREATORVC LIVE
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visitthecave.bsky.social
Just a few random titles with charming artwork I came across while unpacking boxes into the new library today.
December 9, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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bossfightbooks.com
Hey! We are thinking about THE FUTURE and want to know what you think of our book covers.

Would love to get your feedback in this Google survey.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Boss Fight Books - Book Covers and Book Titles Survey
We are getting ready to put out our 39th & 40th books! Feels like maybe it could be a cool time to refresh the style of our book covers... especially if those covers might (1) entice new readers and/o...
docs.google.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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p1xelcoder.bsky.social
Just in case ever you wanted to see all (remastered) animation frames from Day of the Tentacle scaled down on a single image.
December 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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bitmapbooks.com
The Secret History of Mac Gaming: Expanded Edition

Discover the forgotten legacy of video gaming on the Apple Mac.

Buy now: www.bitmapbooks.com/collections/...

#bitmapbooks #books #retrogaming #gaming #apple #macgaming #booksky @mossrc.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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retrogamerdaz.bsky.social
This is absolutely heartbreaking news.
Nick Thorpe
@hkt3030.neocities.org
our incredible features editor, sadly passed away yesterday. He was an incredible asset to the magazine and a compassionate and fantastic friend. My thoughts go out to his friends and family.
I just can’t believe he’s gone
December 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
mossrc.bsky.social
Fifteen years ago today, I got my first paid writing assignment. I had responded to a call for "evergreen" feature pitches at my (then-)favourite website, Ars Technica, and was shocked that they actually wanted me—a student with hardly any experience with long-form writing—to write for them.
December 1, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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bossfightbooks.com
Our Black Friday deal just dropped! Discount code BFCM25 at bossfightbooks.com for 20% off your order.
November 26, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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dotmaetrix.bsky.social
Rebecca Heineman is a goddamn legend among women. She did SO much great stuff, from her impossible game ports, to tirelessly keeping the mac gaming scene alive, to making sure that the Kinect works when you're wearing a skirt, to making the worst version of DOOM kinda glorious in its own way.
November 17, 2025 at 10:49 PM
mossrc.bsky.social
A broad history of the key early football/soccer game that I called "a stroke of genius" (albeit one compromised by intense tech constraints) in my football games history book A Tale of Two Halves.
November 17, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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engineersneedart.com
I put together an electronics kit + book intended as a gentle introduction to transistors and early computer logic gates (resistor-transistor logic or RTL).

I set up a Tindie store page for the little over a dozen I have readied. (I'll create a web site soon.)

www.tindie.com/products/jca...
Transistor Logic Pixie by EngineersNeedArt on Tindie
An educational kit to learn about transistors and simple logic gates. Easy for beginners and a stepping stone to more advanced electronics.
www.tindie.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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jasonbwilson.bsky.social
Rebecca Heineman is a giant in the game industry. May she be long remembered.
November 17, 2025 at 10:05 PM
mossrc.bsky.social
Interesting assertion in this essay on postjournalism that the switch from an advertiser- to reader-funded model locked the New York Times and other traditional news outlets in ideological filter bubbles that suppress balanced views and amplify extremist ones. andrey4mir.substack.com/p/postjourna...
Postjournalism and news sourcing: supplying opinions instead of news
Postjournalism insulated the media in their ideological filter bubbles, including their bubbles of experts
andrey4mir.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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engineersneedart.com
Dialing back to the 1990's and the first commercial Glider (4.0) game…

Ward Hartenstein blew my mind when I downloaded his "Hands-Off House" from AOL. You don't touch the controls to play—the house itself takes care of moving the glider along.

B&W version playthrough:

youtu.be/nIzy_Fmjexs
Glider 4.0 || Hands-Off House
YouTube video by James Howell
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November 9, 2025 at 2:22 AM
mossrc.bsky.social
Ron asked some excellent questions and got me sharing a few stories I rarely tell from across my 15 years writing about videogames and technology.
November 8, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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ronscompvids.bsky.social
Join us for an entertaining discussion of gaming, writing and what it takes to get a passion project over the finish line.

Let's Chat w/ Richard Moss - author and Macintosh gaming historian!

youtu.be/3q4Lgoreb74
Let's Chat with Richard Moss - author and Macintosh gaming expert!
YouTube video by Ron's Computer Videos
youtu.be
November 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
mossrc.bsky.social
Found in a box of Playmobil, of all things, which my almost-four year old is now enraptured by.
roadtotheball.bsky.social Retro Football Video Games @roadtotheball.bsky.social · Nov 1
Didn't know I had this. (It's the mascot for USA '94, the first World Cup after the back pass was outlawed.)
A toy of the World Cup 1994 mascot.
November 1, 2025 at 8:36 AM
mossrc.bsky.social
The Retro Gamers Podcast interviewed me about some of the processes behind — and stuff covered in — TerrorBytes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYhV...
The Retro Gamers Podcast - Episode #421: Talking Terrorbytes
YouTube video by The Retro Gamers Podcast
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October 24, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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opinionhaver.bsky.social
The responses this post is getting, combined with the animating grievances of large swathes of politics, has convinced me we need a kind of society wide PSA about how Buying Things Is Optional.

You don’t think video games should cost $100? Don’t buy the videogame. Buying Things Is Optional.
beijingpalmer.bsky.social BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · Oct 23
AAA video games should cost $100 on launch. this would still be extremely cheap for the amount of time and enjoyment you get out of them! But an audience of whiny babies has kept them literally at the same price for *two decades* despite both general inflation *and* sector-specific costs rising
October 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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anildash.com
Imagine a browser where you type in “Taylor Swift” and it doesn’t even admit that her website exists. I write about Atlas, ChatGPT’s new anti-web browser that should come with a warning label. www.anildash.com/2025/10/22/a...
ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:13 PM
mossrc.bsky.social
The Broken Sword: Reforged Collector's Edition is huge! About 1.5 times taller and double the thickness of a traditional big box game. My OG copy for scale.
The original and new Broken Sword boxes side by side. Another angle
October 23, 2025 at 12:01 AM
mossrc.bsky.social
I spent so much time playing New Star Soccer 2010 back when it came out. The life sim stuff at the series' core was augmented by a deeper football simulation wherein your player attributes would go up and down in real time during matches, based on your performance — like it's simulating confidence.
roadtotheball.bsky.social Retro Football Video Games @roadtotheball.bsky.social · Oct 21
Millions of people are familiar with the hit mobile game New Star Soccer, but few know of its roots as a series of excellent indie PC/Mac games.
New Star Soccer iPhone screenshot The original New Star Soccer, for Windows XP New Star Soccer 2 New Star Soccer 2010. I skipped NSS3, which had a 2D match engine. After this one, they went back to 2D again.
October 21, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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ovcollyer.com
Always nice to find a stash of old CM2 source code and data disks. These would’ve been backups I sent to Mum for safekeeping back in 1994!
October 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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designroom.bsky.social
🚨🚨🚨

We are live! Welcome to Design Room, a new independent games media site.

• We specialize in oral histories like the Final Fantasy 7 and Street Fighter 2 ones I (@mattleone.bsky.social) did at Polygon
• Our first big story is on Shadow of the Colossus: bit.ly/4hjwz8n
• See more: designroom.site
Design Room
Video game oral histories
designroom.site
October 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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roadtotheball.bsky.social
An ad for Commodore International Soccer, one of the best (and most popular) football games of the 1980s.
An ad for International Soccer, with two small graphics and a lot of text. My phone's OCR gives this transcript: Or play safe and choose somewhere in between. At each level you're able to play either a friend or the computer. (But be warned, it plays a pretty mean game does the Commodore 64). You can also choose your team's colours, and those of the opposing team. • Which is great. It means you can play for Chelsea one day, and GPR the next. Or Celtic, then Rangers. THEIR FEET EE IN YOUR HANDS. you can play football like Pele. cheers madly. own front room. Well, now's your chance & How often you score The game is a real test of to prove it. depends on how good you are. skill, dexterity and speed, and With the best football It also depends on the level at guaranteed to very quickly drive game that's ever been seen which you choose to play. you football crazy. outside of commodore. Altogether Like all of our software, Wembley. COMPUTER SOFTWARE there are seven International Football has been Not only is International levels. From good amateur to... designed to make the very most Football startlingly life-like, but well, good professional. of our hardware. it gives you near perfect control You can choose the Commodore software. It over the players. easiest level of play, so long as costs no more, even though The ball's at their feet, and you don't expect a walk-over. there's more to it. their feet are in your hands. Or, if you fancy seeing You can kick the ball and what it's like to play in OCCE you can dribble it. You can pass a Cup Final, then you can it or even head it. always choose the most And every time you belt difficult level. INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL CARTRIDGE E14.38.
October 12, 2025 at 9:42 AM
mossrc.bsky.social
I played this when it came out and bounced off it in confusion, then tried again 25 years later and loved it. It's like old-school hip-hop as a computer game, effortlessly blending references and samples from all over the place into a unique, mostly-cohesive whole.
roadtotheball.bsky.social Retro Football Video Games @roadtotheball.bsky.social · Oct 9
Philips SV Eindhoven Manager was a late 90s Amiga freeware game by a couple of Polish guys who called themselves Frey United. It is like nothing else, with constant, creative sampling of pop culture to add sparkle to the dryness of a football management simulation.
The title screen A loading screen promising it'll be a game you never forget A photo of John Cleese at a desk, sourced from a Monty Python sketch, serves as your welcome to the club The match engine provides a mix of text commentary and images from either pop culture or real football matches
October 9, 2025 at 9:18 AM