TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: THE ARCADE GAME – by Mat Bradley-Tschirgi
Beat-em-ups, also known as belt scroll action games in Japan, were all the rage in the 1980s and 1990s in arcades. Players controlled beefy characters who pummeled their way through thugs of a dubious nature with their fists, or a special weapon if they were lucky,...
The Arcade Quarter Was the OG Microtransaction and Matched Honesty
Drop a quarter, get a game. Everyone within earshot knew exactly what that transaction meant. No subscription tier, no loot box probability table, no auto-renewal buried in a terms and conditions update. The quarter-per-play model was the most transparent payment...
Poker Hand Reading Lessons Old Card Games Never Taught
Old poker games were great at explaining the rules, but weak when it came to showing uncertainty. They taught us how to calculate hand rankings and how a digital table flows. What they rarely captured was the invisible part of poker: the shifting story built from...
Dune II – by Mat Bradley- Tschirgi
By far the best and most influential of these is Westwood Studios’ Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty from 1992, a landmark Real Time Strategy (RTS) game that not only laid the way for Command & Conquer, but also for the whole genre. Of course, Dune II wasn’t the...Latest Magazine For Paid Subscribers
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