RETROSPECTIVE: DreamGEAR Data East Hits Gamestation Wireless Console

by Jason Russell | Mar 1, 2018 | 1980s, Arcade, Columns, Console/Handheld, Reviews

A Big Step in the Right Direction DreamGEAR is one of those companies that’s been steadily releasing affordable plug and play (as well as handheld and mini) hardware for years.  Well over a decade in fact.  So it’s a safe bet nearly everyone with even a modicum of...

Donkey Kong 3: “The Great Counterattack” Finally Dumped & Emulated

by Brendan Meharry | Feb 28, 2018 | 1980s

When you think of game emulation in general terms, do you expect that everything is available to play? Clearly, no one who works for this website/magazine has ever traversed a legally dubious ROM site to see for themselves, but we’re under good authority that most...

Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Todd Rogers

by Todd Friedman | Feb 28, 2018 | 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Columns

Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Todd Rogers, who is displayed on card number 100, from the Superstars of 2011.  Also Todd can be found on card numbers 356, 397, 521, 551, 660, 1763, 1869, 2049, 2135 and 2516.  The Video Games first “Pro Gamer”, Todd has...

Adventure (Atari VCS/2600)

by JasonBreininger | Feb 24, 2018 | 1970s, 1980s, Columns, Console/Handheld, Reviews

Grandson: Grandpa, what were fantasy-adventure games like back when you were young? Way back in 1979? Grandpa: Well, sonny, there was this one particular game on the Atari VCS called Adventure that was kind of like your own grandpappy but in video game form. Today we...

Keep Calm and Insert Coin: Listening to Slipknot in the 8 Bit Universe

by Brad Feingold | Feb 20, 2018 | 1980s, Console/Handheld

When you play any type of video game, you are experiencing several elements to make that game cool.  There is the graphics, control, playability, characters, storyline and most important, the audio/music.  There is not a day that goes by where I play Tetris and then...

RETROSPECTIVE: Making Sense of THEC64 Mini

by Jason Russell | Feb 19, 2018 | 1980s, Columns, Console/Handheld

If ever there were a plug and play mini retro system that I couldn’t quite be sure about, THEC64 Mini would have to be the one.  On the surface it looks like there’s a lot for a retro gaming enthusiast to appreciate but dig a little deeper and some of the early...