Game Boy: The Early Arcade Ports

by Brett Weiss | Jan 29, 2021 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Columns, Gaming, Magazine Preview

Despite being outgunned by the Atari Lynx and Sega Game Gear in terms of color palette, lighting, screen size, and sheer processing power, the original Game Boy trounced the competition in the category that mattered most to Nintendo: unit sales. The success was driven...

Hold That Tiger! Tiger Electronic LCD

by Mike Mertes | Jan 27, 2021 | 1990s, 2000s, Columns, Magazine Preview

Despite Tiger Handheld games being considered video games, they often did not sit in the electronics section where one would expect to find a Game Boy and its games. Instead, Tiger’s LCD games would sit in the toy aisles at stores. Having Tiger games next to...

Welcome to the Video Game Capital of the World

by Walter Day | Jan 27, 2021 | 1980s, 2020s, Arcade, Columns, Gaming, Magazine Preview

I started making plans to have the Scoreboard grow into  becoming the “crossroads” of gaming. It was perfectly  fine that the scoreboard had existed so far as a free  service to help all the arcades, but I thought of all the fun  we would all have if the players came...

Atari 2600 Encyclopedia: Do you know Battlezone?

by Derek Slaton | Jan 23, 2021 | 1980s, Atari 2600 Encyclopedia, Columns

Release Date: 1983 Publisher: Atari Controller: Joystick Players: 1 Genre: Shoot’em Up – 3D Alternate Title: N/A Model #: CX2681 Rarity: 3 Programmer: Michael Feinstein This is one of the more technically impressive games in the 2600 catalog. The year is 1999...

Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Jesse Porter

by Todd Friedman | Jan 23, 2021 | 2000s, 2010s, Columns, Console/Handheld

Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Jesse Porter, who is displayed on card number 2644, from the Superstars of 2017.  Jesse is a huge classic console fan.  Jesse holds over 300 Twin Galaxies world records, which one of them, Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi...

Burning Force – A Hidden Gem

by Old School Gamer | Jan 20, 2021 | 1990s, Columns, Console/Handheld, Magazine Preview

You know, it’s hard to remember a time when video games weren’t ubiquitous. Today, we experience video games everywhere, from Twitter to Twitch. Even if you could afford every video game magazine that was published in the 80’s and 90’s, what you really learned...