MECC: When Generation X Got to Play Games in School

by Marcus Albers | Apr 29, 2026 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Apple 2, C64 Vic20, Early IBM DOS

The majority of my formative years were spent growing up in Minnesota. I didn’t realize until much later in life that I had advantages afforded to me, from a computer technology standpoint, that other states simply did not have. MECC, originally the Minnesota...

Musing of a Retro Gamer: Lost Media and Game Preservation

by Marcus Albers | Apr 19, 2026 | 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s, Arcade, Console/Handheld, Early IBM DOS, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

As I was browsing Reddit the other day, as I’m wont to do from time to time, I came across a post about something of great interest to me that I knew nothing about. The post discussed the release of a PC port of Infinity Blade II. For the uninitiated, the...

Montezuma’s Revenge now available for home consoles

by William Schwartz | Dec 10, 2025 | 1980s, 1990s, 2020s, Console/Handheld, Early IBM DOS, Early IBM DOS Intro, Press Release

  As of December 10th, Montezuma’s Revenge – The 40th Anniversary Edition is now available for download on the Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4, Playstation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and S, as well as the Microsoft Store. The porting of...

How I love the GameBoy – by Mat Bradley-Tschirgi

by Old School Gamer | Nov 10, 2025 | 1980s, 1990s, Atari, Early IBM DOS, Early IBM DOS Intro, Stern

The first time I encountered a Game Boy was not long after it came out. My family lived in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1989. Our friends were mostly Americans who attended an international school with us. Although video game systems and handhelds were not easily...

Atari 2600 Keystone Kapers from Activision | The Third Time REALLY IS the Charm!

by GenX Grownup | Feb 27, 2025 | 1980s, 1990s, Atari, Early IBM DOS, Early IBM DOS Intro, GenX Grownup, Indie, Indy Tools By Platform, Stern

Atari 2600 Keystone Kapers from Activision | The Third Time REALLY IS the Charm! Kitchen designed the game after working on Atari 2600 games Space Jockey and a port of Donkey Kong. He wanted to develop a game similar to the latter game, and began developing what would...

Arcade to Console – by Eugenio Anguiera

by Eugenio Angueira | Feb 17, 2025 | 1980s, 1990s, Atari, Early IBM DOS, Early IBM DOS Intro, Stern

This article is a follow-up to my Donkey Kong on Atari article published in Issue 31 of this magazine. That article was limited to home versions of Donkey Kong released for Atari systems during the commercial life of the systems, so no homebrew versions or versions...