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Early NES (Nintendo) Box Art Pt 2 – Black Box Games Continued
Continuing the topic of the early Nintendo black box titles and their box art, I wanted to quickly highlight a few more from some of the other series that really caught my attention in the 80s, such as the light gun, programmable and arcade series. Arcade series games...
My Experience at Midwest Gaming Classic 2018
The first video gaming convention I ever attended was the inaugural Missouri Game Con held in St. Louis (where I live) in 2016. Gaming conventions always seemed like cool events that other people attended. Those lucky people that lived within a 2 or 3 hour drive of...
How I Clean Retro Games | Gaming Historian
Get Ready, PONG Just Got Way More Awesome!!!
Thanks to Kickstarter, the relaunch of the classic game of Pong was a successful reincarnation that has created a tremendous buzz across the video game world. The sit down cocktail marvel has people stopping by and staring at several video game conventions and even...
Wasteland II: Director’s Cut (Nintendo Switch) Review: Stellar
Wasteland II: Director’s Cut on the Nintendo Switch is like reuniting with a best friend you haven’t seen in a year. And when you lock eyes with them, you see them a little happier, with a fresh new outfit on and killer shades. Once you start talking, you see that...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Xander Skullion
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Xander Skullion who currently is displayed on card number 2725, from the Superstars of 2017 Collection. Xander is a full-time podcaster who loves the gaming community and gives back when ever he has a chance. Some of his time...
Josh Neels – Collector Stories – By Josh Yawn
It was the fall of 2014. I had just purchased my first arcade machine on a whim. I had no idea what I was doing. I always wanted to own one (that one became forty) and was excited to get working on getting it running. I asked around in the mid-sized Texas city I’m...
The Evil Dead And the “Video Nasties” Menace
I believe I have made a significant find in the Kandarian ruins, a volume of ancient Sumarian burial practices and funerary incantations. It is entitled "Naturum De Montum", roughly translated: Book of the Dead. The book is bound in human flesh and inked in human...
The Last Official Release: N-Gage – Civilization (2006)
Hello again, retro gaming fanatics, and welcome back to The Last Official Release. Throughout these pixels, projected outwards into your eyeballs, I take you through the final games released for your favourite consoles. I’ve covered quite a few consoles thus far (a...
New Nintendo Patent Could Bring Game Boy Games to Mobile Devices (Officially)
Is Nintendo looking at bringing Portable Power to mobile devices? And would they consider going beyond that?
The Spooks and Chills of Atari’s Haunted House
Many years ago in the small town of Spirit Bay, there lived a mean old man named Zachary Graves… So begins the tale of Atari’s Haunted House, released in 1982 for the Atari 2600 console. As we lurch toward Halloween, let’s pay a brief visit to Old Man Graves’s house...
Go Retro Portable from Retro Bit hitting major retailers this fall and winter!
Pomona, Ca, October 3, 2018 -- Retro-Bit®, the leading manufacturer of classic gaming accessories, is bringing some of the most popular video games into your hands this holiday season with its new GoRetro! Portable handheld console. Available throughout North America...
Keep Calm and Insert Coin – This is Why I Hate Horror Games
I have always talked about video games and the arcade world. But this time I just want to take a step back because we are at the beginning of October and you know what that means. Stale candy to be gathered and eaten at the end of December. But all of the stories...
The Walter Day Report – G.O.A.T.s Of the 21st Century Part 2 – By Walter Day
March’s issue of the 20th Century G.O.A.T.s and May’s G.O.A.T.s of the 21st Century covered a lot of ground, but by no means are we done yet! Andrew Barrow With 157 registered high scores on the Twin Galaxies Scoreboard, Andrew holds 75 world records, mostly in the...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Robert Racek
Our next Trading Card Spotlight Features Robert Racek/Sid Seattle who currently is displayed on card number 2293, from the Superstars of 2015 Collection. Robert also represents himself and "Arcade Culture" on cards 2735, 2849, and 2850 and a couple others with the...
The 11th Hour
Sixty years after the events of The 7th Guest, television producer Robin Morales goes missing while investigating murders that occurred in Harley-On-The-Hudson, New York. Carl Denning, a reporter and Morales’s lover, has gone in search of her. The story of Morales’s...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Warren Davis
This weekend Warren Davis will be inducted into the International Video Game Hall of Fame. He is inducted in the category of Game Developer. This trading card spotlight was featured on January 19, 2018. Congratulations Warren on being in the Hall of Fame. Our next...
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Nintendo 64 Chronicles [8] War Gods & Hexen
#15 : War Gods A very long time ago, there was a spaceship passing close to Earth, carrying ore that had the ability to give life, when the ship crashed on the planet, scattering all of it's cargo across the planet. Over time, ten humans discover rock pieces of the...
Celebrating 30 Years of Super Mario Bros. 2
Looking back and ahead at the impact of “Mario Madness.”
