The Look Back: The Moving Nature Of RollerCoaster Tycoon, 25 Years Later

By Sarah Granoff In the final days of the last millennium, I sat in the playroom of my childhood home in front of a beige brick of a computer. A tinny combination of fairground organ music, laughter, and delighted screams blared from the speakers on the windowsill. I was playing one of my favorite games,…

Awards: It’s A Brand New Day! A Look Back On Our First Award, And A Look Forward

By Harold Goldberg It’s a brand new day! 10 years ago when Barack Obama was president, I was self-funding our first New York Game Awards. We took old Atari controllers procured from eBay, spray painted them gold, ripped little NYC plaques from dollar store key chains and glued them on the controllers, making an award.…