by Ric Pryor | Mar 10, 2018 | 1970s, 1980s, Console/Handheld
I have no idea how the postal system works. Nearly every day, things from around the country, around the world even, appear in the metal box bolted to the front of my house and I don’t have a clue how they got from those far away locations to my door. But,...
by Brendan Meharry | Mar 8, 2018 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Gaming
Hello retro friends, and welcome back to The Last Official Release! Kicking off a few weeks ago with the Game Boy, in this series we investigate what the last official release of a console was. In today’s edition, we’re examining Atari’s long-lived 2600. Released on...
by JasonBreininger | Feb 24, 2018 | 1970s, 1980s, Columns, Console/Handheld, Reviews
Grandson: Grandpa, what were fantasy-adventure games like back when you were young? Way back in 1979? Grandpa: Well, sonny, there was this one particular game on the Atari VCS called Adventure that was kind of like your own grandpappy but in video game form. Today we...
by JasonBreininger | Feb 9, 2018 | 1970s, 1980s, Columns, Console/Handheld, Reviews
“How many Munchies can your Munchkin munch before your Munchkin’s all munched out????” That is the question posed on the manual & back of the box of this week’s game of the week, the controversial (at the time) Odyssey² game, K.C. Munchkin. That question also...
by Brad Feingold | Feb 7, 2018 | 1970s, Arcade
There is a lot of things that are happening in the next couple of months. The Super Bowl was today and good thing we didn’t see any wardrobe malfunctions. But the half time show wasn’t bad. We were introduced to a few new movie trailers that are making...
by Kristopher Purzycki | Feb 2, 2018 | 1970s, Console/Handheld, Magazine Preview, The Story Of...
When we think of classic games, we might typically think as far back as to those days when Nintendo and Sega were battling for supremacy over the market. Many still look back further to when similar lines were being drawn in the sand between Atari, Coleco, and...