Microsurgeon: An Intellivision Classic

by Shaun Jex | Sep 5, 2018 | 1980s, Reviews, The Story Of...

A few months ago I had a brilliant idea for a video game: players would control nanotechnology that had been injected into a human body. As the nanotech, you would battle things like disease and infection as they sprang up through the body. You could also repair...

Pinball Hall of Fame to MOVE to the strip!

by Old School Gamer | Sep 4, 2018 | 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Pinball

For many of you this is older news but Old School Gamer just heard about it last week and this is exciting!  One of our favorite places to play arcade games and pinball has a very bright future that is moving along nicely.  As covered in this story on PinballNews.Com,...

Big News: NEOGEO mini International Version will land in USA and European Markets

by Old School Gamer | Sep 4, 2018 | 1980s, 1990s, Console/Handheld

NEOGEO mini has attracted a lot of attention from many retro gamers, SNK super fans and other gamers and animation enthusiasts in Europe and America since the first official appearance of the E3 exhibition. With the selling in Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan and...

Arkyology for the Atari 2600 – Released at Last!

by Ric Pryor | Sep 1, 2018 | 1970s, 1980s, Console/Handheld

NES fans have 678 licensed games to collect. Intellivision collectors have The 125. But if you’re an Atari 2600 collector, things are a bit more nebulous. There are, of course, the first-party games Atari itself released. Then there are the big-name third-party...

Tron: Deadly Discs

by Shaun Jex | Sep 1, 2018 | 1980s, Reviews, The Story Of...

In 1982, Disney released the film Tron starring Jeff Bridges. The story gave the world iconic characters like Kevin Flynn, a software engineer who gets transported into a computer mainframe, the artificial intelligence known as the Master Control Program (or MCP),...

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

by Shaun Jex | Aug 29, 2018 | 1980s, Reviews, The Story Of...

Don’t panic. Now that we’ve got that settled, let’s double check the essentials. Do you have a towel with you? A towel is the most massively useful item an interstellar hitchhiker can carry. Next, find your copy of “The Best Vogon Poems of 1984.” Once you’ve got that,...