Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Derek Sorrells

by Todd Friedman | Jul 14, 2026 | 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Columns

Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Derek Sorrells, who is displayed on card number 832, from the Superstars of 2014 Collection.  Derek is also featured on cards 1280, 2158 and 2254.   Derek is an old school gamer who loves arcade machines.  He grew up in the...

Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – David Klingler

by Todd Friedman | Jul 10, 2026 | 1980s, 2010s, Columns

Our next Trading Card Spotlight features David Klingler, who is displayed on card number 416, from the Superstars of 2013.  David created an independent software company called Solanimus which has created games such as Signal to Noise and Crashland.  You can view his...

Steel Ranger 2 – Hessian creators Covert Bitops are working on another fantastic C64 game!

by Indie Retro News | Jul 8, 2026 | 1980s, 1990s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

If you’ve ever heard of Covert Bitops then you would’ve known they released the fantastic action adventure game ‘ Hessian ‘ for the C64 in 2016. A game which blew us away with over 667 screens with specialized AI enemies found throughout that...

Germany’s Video Game Preservation Project Loses Public Funding

by Patrick Hickey Jr. | Jul 7, 2026 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Gaming

Germany-based, Internationale Computerspielesammlung (ICS), whose goal was to assemble the world’s largest publicly accessible video game archive, has lost its public funding, leaving the future of the program in jeopardy, according to the Gameswirtschaft...

Brett’s Bargain Bin – by Brett Weiss

by Brett Weiss | Jul 5, 2026 | 1980s, 1990s, Magazine Preview

When it comes to cheap yet worthwhile Atari 2600 games, the usual suspects like Asteroids, Missile Command, and Space Invaders tend to dominate the conversation. And for good reason: they’re iconic, easy to find, and still offer plenty of arcade fun. In fact, many of...

Video Game of the Day – July 4th – Independence Day

by Todd Friedman | Jul 4, 2026 | 1980s, 1990s, Console/Handheld

Hello and welcome! My name is Katosepe and I’ll be your host for today’s Video Game of the Day! If I had more forethought, I would have recorded today’s episode yesterday so you could all hear it on July 4th but oh well. At least I’m recording this on the 4th so happy...