by Ryan Burger | Sep 12, 2026 | 2000s, 2010s
Let’s start this out by telling you that Glen Planamento is one of the nicest people I have ever met in the ten years that I’ve been actively involved in the retro gaming community. I have had the pleasure of being his friend for a couple of years now and have been...
by Ryan Burger | Jun 2, 2026 | 1990s, 2020s, Magazine Preview
It was all about Time Crisis and The House of the Dead. Time Crisis hit me harder overall. This rail shooter takes you through different missions across the series. Each mission typically has three stages, and each stage has four areas you fight through. I have never...
by Ryan Burger | Apr 23, 2026 | 1980s, 2020s, Magazine Preview
This masterpiece was one of the largest games ever made back in 1982. Think about this: 255 screens of gaming, all packed in 4 KB. The file size of Activision’s breakout title, Pitfall! (1982), was 4 KB. Every copy sold of this game would total 15.25 GB (4 million...
by Ryan Burger | Apr 7, 2026 | 1970s, 2020s, Magazine Preview
Before home computers ever had an “adventure game,” there was Colossal Cave Adventure (1976- 1977) by Will Crowther and Don Woods. Often referred to simply as Adventure or ADVENT, it ran on a PDP-10 mainframe, a machine that cost about $150,000 in the 1970s, roughly...
by Ryan Burger | Sep 30, 2025 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Magazine Preview
Kickstarter is an amazing website. It helps bring to light new ideas from people and companies that want to release something but funding and research support through its unique system. In this case, Tassei Denki/Dashine Electronics, which is a company behind many...