by Marcus Albers | Feb 11, 2026 | 1980s, 1990s, Console/Handheld
The only console that we had growing up was a second-hand Sears Tele-Games Atari 2600 VCS rebrand. Beyond that, all my gaming was either on our Commodore computers or on the consoles my friends had at the time. When I got to college, I decided to get a console for my...
by Jahanzeb Khan | Feb 9, 2026 | 1980s, 1990s, Console/Handheld
Samurai Shodown was the very first pure weapon-based fighter from SNK, an innovative idea released during an era when the company had no shortage of flagship fighting games, with the likes of Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting, and later The King of Fighters. Proving their...
by Indie Retro News | Feb 7, 2026 | 1980s, 2010s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired
Stephen Cakebread’s Geometry Wars originally started as a Project Gotham Racing Easter egg, but from then on turned into a fully fledged eye candy neon top-down multi-directional shooter, with appearances on the DS all the way up to Steam. Well it’s time for the...
by Todd Friedman | Feb 6, 2026 | 1980s, 1990s, 2020s, ESports, Interviews
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features John Riggs who currently is displayed on card number 4098, from the Superstars of 2022 Collection. John Riggs has been playing video games for as long as he can remember. From his earliest gaming memory of playing Donkey Kong...
by Todd Friedman | Feb 5, 2026 | 1980s, 1990s, 2020s, Interviews
ARCADE 92 – THE INTERVIEW Are you originally from Texas? So, I’m a Yankee, I was born in New York, lived in Tulsa, Oklahoma for a short bit. Tulsa was my first interaction with video games as an eight-year-old. I’ve been in the Dallas Fort Worth area...
by Marcus Albers | Feb 4, 2026 | 1980s, C64 Vic20
As I’ve spent the last 5 days sick as a dog, trying desperately to focus enough to accomplish even the most basic tasks, I’m taken back to my childhood in the ’80s. Back then, a sick day was a careful balancing act between not feeling well enough to...