August 2025 – Retro365
3 posts published by Ernst Krogtoft during August 2025| Retro365
In the early 1990s, the games industry found itself on the edge of a revolution. For more than a decade, developers had battled against the limited capacities of floppy disks. Graphics, audio, and every line of code had to be squeezed, trimmed, and compressed until barely fitting into a handful of megabytes. With the arrival […]| Retro365
Born in 1946, Jeffrey Stanton was a child of the post–World War II generation, growing up in an era when science and technology were shaping both industry and imagination. From an early age, he was drawn to how things worked, an interest that pointed him toward engineering. After graduating from James Madison High School in […]| Retro365
In the spring of 1980, Ken and Roberta Williams were unknowingly about to change gaming. Working out of their small home in Simi Valley, California, their first game, Mystery House, had just been c…| Retro365
Lawrence Hollandfrom archaeology to a World War II trilogy A new mini-documentary that tells the story of Lawrence Holland, a man whose path from prehistoric archaeology to pioneering combat flight…| Retro365
Before starting detailed write-ups on some of the games released under SSI’s short-lived RapidFire label, I wanted to give a brief overview of the brand and the titles it introduced between 1982 and 1983. By 1982, Strategic Simulations Inc. had firmly established itself as the premier publisher of computer wargames. Founded in 1979 by Joel […]| Retro365
By 1982, the home computer software market was evolving fast. What had begun just a few years earlier as a freewheeling space dominated by garage developers and bedroom coders was now becoming an i…| Retro365
The 1980s saw a surge in post-apocalyptic action films, with movies like Mad Max and Escape from New York shaping a vision of dystopian futures dominated by wasteland survival, ruthless gangs, and …| Retro365
I recently did a small write-up on Lost Patrol, a game I first encountered in the early ’90s at a friend’s house, as we didn’t have an Amiga at home. At the time, I was too young to grasp the game’s heavier themes, and it was only years later, revisiting it with adult eyes, that […]| Retro365
By the early 1980s, the Apple II had emerged as the centerpiece of the growing software boom. One of the new companies capitalizing on the momentum was Datamost, founded in 1981 by Dave Gordon foll…| Retro365
‘Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, “This was their finest hour”’ – Winston Churchill, 1940 In the summer of 1940, the world watched as the skies over Britain became the stage for […]| Retro365
By the late 80s, Spectrum Holobyte was in the midst of major changes. Originally founded in 1983, the company had established itself with high-end simulation and strategy games. In 1987, Spectrum Holobyte merged with another software house, Nexa Corporation, founded by Gilman Louie, a young entrepreneur with a strong interest in simulations and emerging computer […]| Retro365
