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At Game Developers Conference #GDC in March, I gave a retrospective talk about making my first game, Karateka.

You can watch it for free at youtube.com/watch?v=mHc2iCfDor…

As so often, I found many illustrations for my slides on @internetarchive (Examples below). It's a free online library, currently being sued by publishers who dislike its existence. To learn more, or to support their mission: blog.archive.org. In a world with fewer archivists and librarians, more slides will be text-only.

Screenshot and box of Choplifter, Softalk magazine, and a typewriter, circa 1982. Archived by MobyGames and Internet Archive, found by me and downloaded for free, included in my GDC talk and posted here with no one's permission. Hope no one complains.
Article about Broderbund in Softalk magazine, 1981. Archived by Internet Archive, found by me and downloaded for free, included in my GDC talk and posted here with no one's permission. Hope no one complains. The excerpt from my journal is the only thing on this page I actually have rights to use.
My high school AV club yearbook photo, and a TRS-80 and Commodore PET computer from that year, 1978. Archived by Internet Archive, found by me and downloaded for free, included in my GDC talk and posted here with no one's permission. The REPLAY comics panel is the only thing on this page I actually have rights to use.
Photos of four Broderbund executives as they looked when I met them in summer 1984, from a company brochure. Archived by Internet Archive, found by me and downloaded for free, included in my GDC talk and posted here with no one's permission. Hope no one complains.

Classic Game Postmortem: 'Karateka'

Before Prince of Persia, there was Karateka. Released in 1984, the directorial debut of game creator Jordan Mechner was a worldwide hit, full of groundbreaki...
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