The ScummVM community has just made the early CD-ROM gaming era more accessible. For five years, multiple people have worked on making Macromedia Director games playable on modern hardware, and today, ...

The Sega CD, or Mega CD, was an accessory for the Sega Megadrive/Genesis, allowing the machine to play more advanced games, ...

I think the headline might give the wrong impression to some people. ScummVM isn't general-purpose like DOSBox: each supported game engine has been painstakingly reimplemented in modern code. It's not ...

ScummVM, the collection of recreated last-century game engines that allows replaying classic adventures from the likes of LucasArts and Revolution, has just added support for Macromedia Director. This ...

Carmen Sandiego developers Broderbund started the Living Books series in 1992 as an attempt to put animation and voice to story books. While this perhaps took away a bit of the imagination inherent to ...

Theresa Duncan was well-known in the New York City art world when she and her talented boyfriend Jeremy Blake took their own lives two weeks apart in the summer of 2007. Years before her untimely ...

Part of what made the recently-departed Prince so immensely popular was not just how great his music was, but also just how downright strange he was. Prince was so comfortable in his own peculiarities ...

1993: Broderbund Software releases Myst, a game for the Macintosh computer that becomes a record-setting best-seller and the killer app that sparks sales of CD-ROM drives. Brothers Rand and Robyn ...

Believe it or not, back in the 1990s, a lot of people thought CD-ROMs were going to the change the world. We were wrong, of course, and with the rise of the World Wide Web, most people have now long ...

Disappointed that ABC’s new “Muppets Tonight” didn’t live up to the “Muppet Show” tradition? You’re in luck: There’s a new “Muppets Inside” CD-ROM with comedy and musical bits far more entertaining ...

“I wanted it to be a rich literary experience, so I tried to use words and ideas that children might not otherwise experience. People aren’t as critical of New Media as they are of cinema or ...