by Jason Russell | Oct 24, 2019 | Home, Home Consoles, Lists, Magazine
Next in Line for the Retro Mini Treatment from Sega? In my last column I talked about the Sega Genesis Mini and the fact that Sega actually managed to trump its arch rival of years past (Nintendo) in a few key areas of the retro mini market. In the time since, the...
by Todd Friedman | Oct 4, 2019 | 1980s, 1990s, 2010s, Columns, Magazine
This weekend the International Video Game Hall of Fame will be inducting its new members into the Class of 2019. One of these inductees is Jeff Peters. Jeff is a well-deserved inductee as you will read below. His gaming history goes back to the early 1980’s until...
by Bill Lange | Oct 3, 2019 | 1970s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired, Magazine
Until the late 1970s, electronic gaming consisted of playing one of the hundreds of ping-pong console variants on your home television, an LED-based electronic handheld game, or possibly playing a text-based computer game … if you were lucky enough to have had...
by Ken Horowitz | Oct 1, 2019 | 1970s, Arcade, Magazine
As gamers, we fondly remember certain titles that defined specific periods in our lives. Some of us grew up with one console or computer that became synonymous with our childhood or adolescence. That kind of impact is remarkable and likely beyond the scope of what the...
by Kevin Butler | Sep 26, 2019 | 1970s, Arcade, Magazine
Space Wars was the first vector-driven arcade game. Its success would enable Atari to create their own vector generator creating games such as Asteroids and Battlezone. Space Wars also enabled a fledgling company called Cinematronics (established in 1975) to finally...
by Michael Thomasson | Sep 24, 2019 | 1970s, Arcade, Magazine
Sometimes that amazing crossing of paths happens and you just get so excited that you have to jump on it. That opportunity came for our publisher, Ryan Burger at CES this past year when he ran into Tyler Bushnell who is working to make his place in the gaming industry...