by Ric Pryor | Oct 28, 2018 | 1970s, Console/Handheld
The dark times are here. The World Series is over, and that means five long, cold months without the life-giving light of baseball. Also, the sun. I live in Portland so it’s quite possible I won’t see the sun again until April either. Fortunately, just as...
by Ric Pryor | Sep 1, 2018 | 1970s, 1980s, Console/Handheld
NES fans have 678 licensed games to collect. Intellivision collectors have The 125. But if you’re an Atari 2600 collector, things are a bit more nebulous. There are, of course, the first-party games Atari itself released. Then there are the big-name third-party...
by Ric Pryor | Jul 1, 2018 | 1980s, 1990s, Console/Handheld
When I discovered Action 52 ten years ago I thought it might be fun to play a new game every week and write about it. It wasn’t (the games are terrible and repetitive), but I kept at it for several months until I ran out of not only new and clever things to say...
by Ric Pryor | Jun 24, 2018 | 1970s, 1980s, Console/Handheld
The image above is from an Atari 2600 game. Before you continue reading, pause for a bit and let that really sink in. As soon as you’re suitably dumbfounded, you may continue. I have something of a love/hate relationship with homebrew arcade ports for the Atari...
by Ric Pryor | May 21, 2018 | 1980s, Console/Handheld
Junior high was a rough time for me. Not for the reasons you might expect junior high to have been rough for a guy who’s now in his forties and writes about video games. I wasn’t harassed by bullies or painfully awkward around girls or constantly picked...