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CD-ROM Journal is your guide to the most interesting, obscure, and strange games and multimedia art throughout history. My goal is to bring you fascinating things you've never heard of and to provide deep dives into underexplored art.

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Blog 3 months ago
A Trip to 90s Kansai: Exploring the XD FirstClass Network BBS
Let's take a trip to Kansai with an archive of the music BBS XD First Class Networks!
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Blog 8 months ago
Father Christmas
One of the strangest artifacts of video games as a global medium is that games aren't always developed in the places they're meant to be released. It must be a strange experience developing a game knowing that people in your own country are unlikely to ev
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Blog 9 months ago
IGF 2026 Games I Want to Talk About
For the last few years, I've been a judge in the annual Independent Games Festival. With judging wrapping up for the year, I wanted to write about some of the games I found interesting this year. In previous years I posted my lists on a social media site
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Blog 1 year ago
Moon Light Café
Writing about early CD-ROMs means coming across a lot of early examples of things that became famous later. Sometimes that means finding new and exciting angles on something familiar... and sometimes it means something that's only notable for being early.
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