by Brett Weiss | Nov 30, 2017 | 1980s, Console/Handheld
Publisher : Atari. Developer: Atari, Action, 1 or 2 Players (alternating). 1987 A very nice port of Atari’s highly entertaining arcade game (1983), Food Fight for the 7800 has players guiding gluttonous Charlie Chuck (who starts on the right side of the screen)...
by David Oxford | Nov 30, 2017 | 1980s, 1990s, 2000s
When it comes to powering up your portable devices these days, all one really needs to do is plug it in and go. Whether you’re playing on your Nintendo Switch, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo DS, or Game Boy Advance SP, playing with portable power is a cinch. However,...
by Ric Pryor | Nov 29, 2017 | 1970s, 1980s, Console/Handheld
Asterix is the name of a very popular French comic that, like many Americans, I have never read. I can tell you that Asterix is the little guy, Obelix is the big guy and they both have Atari 2600 games named for them. That’s about it. Sales weren’t...
by Todd Friedman | Nov 27, 2017 | 1980s, Columns
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Joel West, who is displayed on card number 11, from the Circus Card Collection of 2011. Joel is also featured on cards 1236, 1911, 2103, 2189 and 2197. Joel grew up in the early 1980’s when the arcade boom began. He was one...
by BillLange | Nov 25, 2017 | 1980s, 2010s, Reviews
Star Castle Arcade is a frantic, single-screen space shooter for the iconic Atari 2600 video game console. You control a spaceship that navigates around a giant space cannon which is enclosed and protected by three oppositely rotating concentric energy rings. You must...
by Brad Feingold | Nov 24, 2017 | 1980s, Arcade
As a kid, I didn’t really travel that much. Sure I went on those fun loving car rides with my mom and dad and my brother once in a blue moon. But it seemed like those trips took forever. Why, oh why didn’t we have iPhones back then. Oh yeah, they...