by Magazine Writer | Oct 15, 2019 | 1980s, Other Magazines Preview
Odds are, if you consider yourself a “Classic Gamer,” you’ve seen the movie “Tron” 112.4 times. That number comes from the fact that we know you scan the movie to the “Space Paranoids” scene and then straight to when Flynn gets digitized and brought into the computer...
by Brendan Meharry | Oct 14, 2019 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Arcade
There are many ways one can track their game collection, be it an app or some other sort of online service. While these offer niceties like box art, market worth and social networking features so you can gloat about your collection of cardboard and plastic to other...
by Magazine Writer | Oct 13, 2019 | 1980s, Other Magazines Preview
When I was growing up, there was a quaint little country store about a mile from home called Maloney’s. In addition to candy, milk, cigarettes, and trinkets, they featured two arcade games for their patrons to play. Most of the biggest hits cycled through this...
by Magazine Writer | Oct 9, 2019 | 1980s, Other Magazines Preview
When I was in high school, the only friend of mine who had an Atari videogame was Rosalind Goldberg. Roz, as we called her, was from a family that not only owned the most ultimate high tech video game player available—the Atari 2600—but also had a home computer! They...
by Magazine Writer | Oct 5, 2019 | 1980s, Other Magazines Preview
An underdog in the arcade became a winner in the living room. Based on Universal’s sleeper arcade game, Cosmic Avenger became a huge hit for the Colecovision. As with many of their arcade ports, Coleco took a chance in bringing this game to the home market. However,...
by Magazine Writer | Oct 5, 2019 | 1980s, Other Magazines Preview
Midnight Magic – The game that brought it all back for me. I remember when I first saw this game for the Atari 2600. It was on clearance at a video store in one of our local malls. Having played the game of the same name for the Apple back in the early 80’s, I...