Honoring a Pioneer – By Leonard Herman
In January 2000, Electronic Gaming Monthly magazine, which at the time was the world’s best-selling video game magazine, published my seven-piece article about Ralph Baer, the inventor of the home video game console. Baer later told me, several times, that he...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Jacob Spring
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Jacob Spring, who is displayed on card number 2490, from the Superstars of 2016 Collection. Jacob is the current world record holder on Metal Slug SuperVehicle-001 with a score of 2,761,200. Jacob is a huge fan of arcade...
Atari Program Exchange – By Bill Lange
An Early App Store Long before the advent of the Google Play Store, the official app store for the Android operating system, or the Apple App Store for the iOS operating system, and even before the idea of Shareware, there was the Atari Program Exchange (APX), an...
Opining on Designing – By Howard Scott Warshaw
“Talent borrows, genius steals.” -Oscar Wilde When Oscar said this in the late 1800’s, his medium was the written word. He said many new things, but his medium was firmly established and didn’t change much during his lifetime. He stood on the shoulders (and picked the...
Brett’s Old School Bargain Bin: Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel’s Castle and Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure – By Brett Weiss
Platformers were ubiquitous during the ’80s and ’90s, so I could have picked from any of hundreds of titles for this installment of Old School Bargain Bin. I decided to focus on an early platformer based on a cartoon I didn’t care about and a sequel to one of the most...Latest Magazine For Paid Subscribers
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