by Mike Mertes | Oct 20, 2019 | 1990s, Arcade, Reviews
Like many others in 1993, I spent a lot of money at the arcade, dropping token after token into NBA Jam. I was ten years old at the time, and our state basketball team, the Chicago Bulls were tearing through the NBA for championship gold for the third year in a row....
by Old School Gamer | Oct 19, 2019 | 1990s, 2000s, Arcade, Columns
In Parts 1 and 2, I talked about the development of WTARG, the software I developed at Williams/Bally/ Midway to allow artists to incorporate digitized video of live actors in our games. My exploration into digitizing began in 1986, and the first version of WTARG came...
by Old School Gamer | Oct 14, 2019 | 2010s, Arcade, Press Release
Killer Queen Black, the strategic eight-player action platformer from Liquid Bit and BumbleBear Games, triumphantly soars out of arcades and onto Nintendo Switch and PC via Discord and Steam today. The ultimate arcade eSport with millions of play sessions is finally...
by Brendan Meharry | Oct 14, 2019 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Arcade
There are many ways one can track their game collection, be it an app or some other sort of online service. While these offer niceties like box art, market worth and social networking features so you can gloat about your collection of cardboard and plastic to other...
by Brett Weiss | Oct 13, 2019 | 2010s, Arcade, Columns, Magazine Preview
If you know me well, you know I love a good bargain, and YouTube is about as good as it gets. If you’ve got a device to play it on, such as a modern game console or computer, a Roku device, a Blu-ray player, or a smartphone, YouTube gives you countless hours of free...
by Michael Thomasson | Oct 11, 2019 | 1970s, Arcade, The Story Of...
The Story of How Tomohiro Nisikado Revived the Early Coin-Op Industry and Inadvertently Helped Save Atari’s Home VCS Console In the late 70s, PONG clones were running amok and the market was so saturated that the coin-op industry was in a real slump. The release...