by Magazine Writer | Aug 15, 2020 | 1980s, Other Magazines Preview
What do you get when you combine the over head perspective of the amazing Spy Hunter, the stellar side scrolling game play of Ninja Gaiden and the killer First Person Sniper game play found in games like T2: The Arcade Game? You get the kick ass Hidden Gem, Vice:...
by Rob OHara | Aug 13, 2020 | Indie Built-Retro Inspired, Other Magazines Preview
Emulators are computer programs that, as their name suggests, “emulate” hardware through software. There are emulators all kinds of machines, everything from old computers to old calculators, but the emulators most gamers are familiar with are emulators...
by Magazine Writer | Aug 11, 2020 | 1980s, Other Magazines Preview
Most everyone in the classic gaming community knows of the Japanese game developer Treasure and their impeccable track record for making some of the best action games to ever grace a video game console (and even a candy cab or two). So this being an article on...
by Magazine Writer | Aug 9, 2020 | 1980s, Other Magazines Preview
According to the June 1990 issue of Videogames & Computer Entertainment, Acclaim took an unexpected turn in the development of the Nintendo Entertainment System version of Total Recall. It commissioned Interplay to transform the expected summer blockbuster into...
by Magazine Writer | Aug 7, 2020 | Other Magazines Preview, Reviews
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that a majority of us who grew up with video games at some point wanted to untether our consoles from the TV and play where ever we wanted. I know I’m not the only one who sat inside during a rainy recess at...
by Magazine Writer | Aug 5, 2020 | 1980s, Other Magazines Preview
Very few film and comic franchises have yielded positive results when translated into the video game medium. Pick any random five video games based on either a film or comic and the odds of just one of those games being remotely decent are pretty slim. As gamers we‘ve...