Gamebits was founded in 1997 to provide entertainment reviews to print publications. Over the next seven years, over 300 original columns were written and published in such outlets as The Boston Herald and the Mensa Bulletin. Gamebits.net is not only an archive of those articles but also a day-to-day blog on the authors' musings regarding the gaming industry.
Gamebits was also a syndicated community on the online service of Syndicomm. It was the first non-Apple-oriented SIG on that service and remained open from May of 2001 until Syndicomm Online's discontinuation on December 1st, 2006. The messages acculumated during that era are collected here in the Syndicomm archives.
Several people have contributed to Gamebits over the years, among them:
| Ken Gagne |
Also the site's editor, Ken founded Gamebits in 1997, three years into his career as a technical writer. He has previously served on the writing staff of Syndicomm's Showbiz RoundTable on the GEnie online service, and as a sysop of Games Site on CompuServe (previously Video Gaming Central) from 1994 to 2004. He is currently editor-in-chief and publisher of Juiced.GS, the last remaining print publication devoted to the Apple II computer.
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| Robert Boyd |
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Robert Boyd is a student at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, and is affiliated with Games Site forum on CompuServe. He enjoys RPGs, strategy games, books, anime, and Asian languages.
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| Dain Neater |
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Dain has been involved in gaming since the Atari 2600 days. His favorite games include Adventure, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, F-Zero, Final Fantasy II (IV), Dragon Warrior III, and Wave Race 64. He still uses an Apple IIgs daily.
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| Richard Rae |
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| Larry Tipton |
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Larry previously held the title of system operator on the Video Gaming Forum on CompuServe. He continues to maintain his own extensive gaming web site, Tiptonium.
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| Joe Talladira |
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Joe lives in Quebec and has been a long-time system operator of the Games Site forum on CompuServe.
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| Jeremy Pallant |
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Jeremy is regarded by some as an old man in the world of console video gaming, to which he is a latecomer. His first review was of Doom 64 and was written in 1997. In his off-time, he serves as a moderator for the Science and Skepticism forum and Biblical Criticism and Archaeology forum at the Internet Infidels Discussion board, and also publishes a newsletter, VGA News.
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Gamebits is registered as a sole proprietorship in the city of
Leominster, Mass., and is owned by Ken Gagne. Copyright © 1999-2010 by Ken Gagne.
