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A History of Atari, Part 2 – by Leonard Herman

A History of Atari, Part 2 – by Leonard Herman

by Leonard Herman | Sep 29, 2024 | 1970s, 2020s, Atari

From late 1975 and throughout 1976, work proceeded on Atari’snew programmable home system.Bushnell and Atari’s president, Joe Keenan, hoped to release it in time for Christmas 1977, but realized they didn’t have the finances to do so. Bushnell wanted to take the...
Reading the Classics – From Back in the Day to Today – By Leonard Herman, the Father of Video Game History

Reading the Classics – From Back in the Day to Today – By Leonard Herman, the Father of Video Game History

by Leonard Herman | Jun 16, 2024 | 1980s, Columns, Magazine Preview

  Ever since the world’s first two videogame magazines, Great Britain’s Computer and Video Games and the United States’ Electronic Games, debuted two weeks apart in November 1981, printed videogame magazines have basically come in four flavors. General: The...
War Games – By Leonard Herman The Father of Video Game History

War Games – By Leonard Herman The Father of Video Game History

by Leonard Herman | Apr 28, 2020 | 1980s, Columns, Magazine Preview

A strit Begolli, commonly known as Polaki, is just an average video game collector like the rest of us. His niche is rare consoles and he boasts a collection of over 181 systems including some of the rarest and mostexpensive consoles, such as a Japanese Atari2800, a...
The Game Scholar – Let’s Go to the Videotape By Leonard Herman The Father of Video Game History

The Game Scholar – Let’s Go to the Videotape By Leonard Herman The Father of Video Game History

by Leonard Herman | Feb 21, 2020 | 1980s, Columns

Video game software can reside on many different types of media. In the early dedicated consoles of the seventies, the games were built into the consoles themselves. The introduction of cartridges in 1976 eventually gave way to CDs in 1988 and DVDs in 2000. Magnetic...
The Game Scholar: Plug and Plays – By By Leonard Herman, the Father of Video Game History

The Game Scholar: Plug and Plays – By By Leonard Herman, the Father of Video Game History

by Leonard Herman | Dec 19, 2019 | 1980s, The Story Of...

Following the success of the NES Classic in 2016. we’ve seen the SNES Classic, the forgettable PlayStation Classic and the well- received Genesis Mini. Although these gaming machines are referred to as dedicated consoles, they are not derived from the early ‘70s...
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