Inadvertent theme this week: games.  Yet somehow I didn’t include a roguelike?  Dang.

• Why USB plugs aren’t/weren’t reversible.
• 10 Awesome Ways to Upcycle Old Devices With a Raspberry Pi.  Some nice connecting of analog controls on these projects.  (via)
• A bug so cool that the development team was reluctant to fix it.
• Open Source Game Clones.  I seem to link to this every two years or so.  Still iffy on it.  (via)
• Notes on recent games: nifty little experiments.
• The fate of an archive.  Linked cause I still have a pile of CRO2 bootleg music cassettes that I don’t think exist digitally, anywhere.
• The Church of the Subgenius’s Salvation Pack is the best $35 I ever spent.
• The Fight Over The Legacy Of Dungeons & Dragons.  (via)
• A Gopher server in sh.  (via)
• Textreme.  The Most! Exciting! Text! Editor!  EVER!  (via)
• tokyo60 keyboards.  (via)
• HHKB layouts, related to the last link.
• Tokyo Mechanical Keyboard Meetup Vol.6.  (via)
• Day of the Tentacle, a history.
• A Very Brief History of Gamebooks (up to 1979).
• Screenshots from developers & Unix people (2002).  Also, the 2015 followup.  It may surprise nobody that the average answer is “bunch of terminals and a web browser”.  (via)
• Advent of Computing: Episode 5 Notes – How much has UNIX changed?  (via)