This issue’s theme of computers offers me a chance to relate my journey as an arcade and console gamer who once hated playing on them in the early days. The PC is now my primary platform to game on today, so how did that come to be? Growing up in the game industry...
On July 15, 1983, Nintendo launched its first programmable console, the Family Computer. A couple of years later, the Famicom would arrive in America as the Nintendo Entertainment System. In the decade following the console’s Japanese debut, it would help transform...
It was on my birthday, October 18th, 1985 where console gaming changed forever. The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) hit North America and the consoled world has never looked back. Millions of NES consoles were purchased, and ten of million number of NES carts...
Nestled in a quiet corner in the Buffalo suburb of Depew sits a modest building with a simple façade. It was once a corner bar – long abandoned, idle, and forgotten. Today, it pulses with new life as the Nickel City Pinball Club. The front door bears the club’s...
Many will argue that the 90s were the peak of gaming, and they might not be wrong. After all, iconic consoles like the SNES, Dreamcast, Nintendo 64, and PlayStation 1 were all released in that era. The world also got introduced to some legendary games and characters...
Video Game Connections, located in the Regal Plaza on 2209 Rt 9 North, Howell, NJ 07731, is well-known to many videogame collectors along the east coast of the United States. Unlike many videogame stores that dot the United States and\ abroad, it is one of the few...