Keep Calm and Insert Coin: “Molo Ram! Prepare to meet Kali…in hell!”

by Brad Feingold | Jan 9, 2018 | 1980s, Arcade

There are hundreds and thousands of video games out there.  And when you look at the list, it is almost a 50/50 split in the games that keep going and the games that have an end.  Back in the 80’s though, finishing a game was not only a milestone in someones...

Downright Bizarre Games: I Want My Mommy

by Michael Thomasson | Jan 8, 2018 | 1980s, Console/Handheld

I Want My Mommy Atari 2600 1983 If the box featuring a crying teddy bear on the cover doesn’t pull on your heartstrings, you’re a cruel individual indeed! Teddy has had a bad dream, a nightmare actually, and he wants the comfort that only a  mother can offer. To reach...

Gene Medic – A Homebrew Edutainment Game for the Atari 2600

by Ric Pryor | Jan 1, 2018 | 1970s, 1980s, 2010s, Console/Handheld

I’ve always liked being edutained. As a kid I’d keep an eye out for interesting episodes of Nova to watch instead of whatever the family TV would normally be tuned to that night. I even played the educational video games my parents bought for me. Some of...

BurgerTime (Arcade, Colecovision, Intellivision)

by JasonBreininger | Dec 31, 2017 | 1980s, Arcade, Console/Handheld, Reviews

 Data East’s BurgerTime was one of my go-to arcade games as a kid. I dug the concept of controlling the frantic and portly chef Peter Pepper, moving up, down and left and right across the stages, or dropping ingredients (buns, lettuce, tomatoes, burgers, etc.) down...

The Many Identical Faces of Fast Eddie

by Ric Pryor | Dec 30, 2017 | 1970s, 1980s, Console/Handheld

No ones blames you for not giving Fast Eddie much of a chance. After all, it looks like what you’d get if you asked a four year old to make a Donkey Kong game. Its combination of crude graphics, garish colors and grating sound effects assaults your senses from...

Limbo Ported to the C64 by Original Developer

by Brendan Meharry | Dec 28, 2017 | 1980s, 2010s

Limbo, if you’re not aware, was a fantastic platform puzzler released for a glut of platforms in 2010 by a studio called Playdead. It’s one of my personal favourite indie games of the era, involving a boy travelling through an eerie and treacherous environment....