Bill Laimbeer’s Combat Basketball

Bill Laimbeer’s Combat Basketball

by | May 16, 2019 | 1990s, Reviews

The 1980s were a Golden Age for cartoonish super villains. Consider the brutish evil of Dolph Lundgren as Ivan Drago in Rocky IV, the greed of Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko in Wall Street. Yet both pale in comparison to Bill Laimbeer as portrayed by himself on the...
Arcade 1Up – By Michael Thomasson

Arcade 1Up – By Michael Thomasson

by | May 12, 2019 | 2010s, Arcade, Reviews

Coin-op nostalgia was in full swing this past holiday season, and odds are that your heart was elevated when you first gazed upon the 3⁄4 scale arcade cabinets by Arcade 1UP in your local mall. My initial impression was that they were made for small people or...
HardBall!

HardBall!

by | May 12, 2019 | 1980s, Reviews, The Story Of...

The Say Hey Kid Willie Mays. Joltin’ Joe DiMaggio. Shoeless Joe Jackson. Sadly, a mix of genetics, which kept me short with a stick figure physique, and a startling lack of hand-eye coordination ensured that I would never join the ranks of these baseball immortals....
Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective

Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective

by | May 9, 2019 | 1990s, Reviews

I still remember the overwhelming excitement I felt when I first acquired the Sega CD system. I had owned a Commodore 64, an NES and a Sega Genesis, but the Sega CD was going to change everything. After all, it’s games were on compact disc, not dusty, old cartridges....