Unearthing Entombed - a podcast by WNYC Studios and The New Yorker

Now that we are some sixty years into the digital era,the early days of modern computers are growing distant and mysterious to us. The field of game archeology seeks to uncover the origins and uses of these technological artifacts, and to determine what they tell us about the industry that created them. TheNew YorkerwriterSimon Parkinand his producerAlex Barrontry some archeology of their own on a video game from 1982 called Entombed. With the tiny amount of memory on an Atari 2600 cartridge, Entombed accomplished something new, and to this day nobody can figure out how it worked. Was it really developed during a programmer’s drunken blackout?

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