by William Winter | Apr 29, 2026 | 1970s, 1980s, Console/Handheld
Some toys are fun. Some toys accidentally predict the future. The Texas Instruments Speak & Spell did both. To a kid in early middle school back in the late 70s / early 80s, it felt less like a spelling toy and more like a tiny robot computer from another planet....
by Old School Gamer | Apr 29, 2026 | 1970s, 1980s, 2020s
A new news item titled “C” You Soon – Commodore 64 Ultimate Line-Up Expands with C64C Edition Later this Year (dated April 28, 2026) was added to the What’s New feed and includes a “News” link. https://commodore.net/news/...
by Old School Gamer | Apr 28, 2026 | 1970s, 1980s, 2010s
We knew from the start, it would be a race. From the moment the first Commodore 64 Ultimate arrived, the community was going to find a way to give their Ultimate the C64C ‘Slimline’ treatment. We knew you wanted it. We were hoping we could beat you to it....
by William Winter | Apr 23, 2026 | 1970s, 1980s, Atari, Console/Handheld
I pulled something off the shelf the other day that I haven’t looked at in a while. It’s an old cartridge from the Atari 2600. The game: Adventure. You don’t need to be into games to follow this; it’s more about the connection than anything else. I was about ten when...
by Raiford Guins | Apr 15, 2026 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Arcade
The Colossus of Maroussi, Henry Miller’s travelogue of Greece, was meant to inspire my visit to Heraklion’s Video Games Museum but teargas blurred that vision. I left The James Joyce Irish Pub (no, I didn’t start this journey in Dublin—I came across the pub in Athens)...
by Jeremy Parish | Apr 11, 2026 | 1970s, 2020s, Magazine Preview, Opinions
Gaming historians often write about popular media in the pre-internet age as if it all existed in vacuum-sealed silos by country, but that’s not true at all. Intercontinental communication may have been a lot more complicated back then, but consider Heiankyo Alien, a...