Bob “Rosha” Harris: Behind the Odyssey, Part 2
The Probe 2000 Story In mid-1983, North American Phillips began to preview a new console, the Odyssey 3. It would replace the Odyssey 2’s membrane keyboard with a PC Jr.-style “chiclet” keyboard, and offer new high-resolution graphics – some of...
Namco Museum By Kyle Snyder
I’m torn. When I recently purchased Namco Museum for the Sega Dreamcast, I sat down with a pen and paper to take notes on this classic compilation. How close did they get to the arcade games? Are there any detracting peculiarities? And then I was faced with a...
Fiery Political Correctness Rains Down From the Sky
So it’s 1980, and we’re all playing Missile Command, that brutally brilliant game by Atari featuring strategy, sacrifice, death and destruction. You know, according to legend, the game was originally going to be called Armageddon, but the marketing folks...
Playstation Collectibles? By Mark Androvich
Before the advent of the Internet, people searching for unusual collectibles were out of luck. Stamp and coin collectors had their magazines and newspapers, and it was easy to find books on Pez dispensers, G.I. Joe, Barbie, tin lunch boxes, baseball cards, and Hot...
ActionWinkle: International Man of Bidding
I am Actiontwinkle. I am a soldier in the greatest war humankind has ever fought: World Wide Web War 1, or WWWW1, or WWWWI if you’re a historian. It’s the web war to end all web wars, and it might succeed, considering the whole internet is folding. I wasn’t drafted; I...Latest Magazine For Paid Subscribers
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