A Scorpion Behind the Rock – Then and Now
Over the years I’ve worked in the business software industry, I’ve had the pleasure of working on and off with a particular friend I’ve known since high school in the 1980s. One day, just a little while back, while working together in a meeting with engineering and...
Retro Review – Choplifter for the Sega Master System
Set the wayback machine to the early ’80s. While we had recently gotten our first home computer, the Commodore VIC-20, my cousins had been enjoying the Apple II system that my uncle used for writing sermons and the like. One of the first home computer games that...
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Some games change everything. Over the last several decades, video games have evolved rapidly, thanks to developers who kept finding new ways to surprise us with the tools they had. Their ideas gave us the franchises we still celebrate and the genre landmarks that...
The Nintendo Famicom Controller
Before the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) hit the states, Nintendo had a console in Japan that would start a revolution of gaming. It was called the Famicom, or the full name, Family Computer. In 1983, the console hit the homes of gamers in Japan and test the...
Retro Review: Fort Apocalypse for the C64
Early in my video gaming life, one of the first computer games I ever played was Dan Gorlin’s classic Choplifter on my cousin’s Apple II. The simple presentation, on that glowing monochrome green CRT, was instantly addictive. When we got our Commodore 64...Latest Magazine For Paid Subscribers
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