by Brad Feingold | Feb 3, 2018 | 2010s, Console/Handheld, Reviews
The Super Bowl is Sunday and the most important question to ask is, what commercial is going to win? Actually this is the first year I don’t care. Lately, the commercials have been boring and not funny and I’m not caring if Justin Timberlake is going to...
by Brad Feingold | Jan 30, 2018 | 2010s, Console/Handheld, Magazine Preview, Reviews
Let me start this review by saying I forgot how much I really hated the Teenage Mutant Turtles game for the Nintendo until I started to review this product. Also, I would like to say how much I forgot how much I hated Super Mario 3. Now before we start to get letters,...
by JasonBreininger | Jan 30, 2018 | 1970s, 1980s, Arcade, Columns, Console/Handheld, Reviews
It has been well documented that Space Invaders was a quarter-hogging phenomenon back in the late 1970’s, and Atari catapulted themselves into 1st place during the early home console wars when they procured the rights to port it on their Video Computer System in 1980....
by Ric Pryor | Jan 28, 2018 | 1970s, 1980s, 2010s, Console/Handheld, Reviews
There’s nothing wrong with the old Marauder if you ask me. It’s a perfectly good Berzerk rip-off with an interesting line-of-sight mechanic. That means that any enemies or objects the main character can’t “see,” because they’re...
by Old School Gamer | Jan 26, 2018 | 1980s, Console/Handheld, Magazine Preview, Reviews
Hyperkin’s Retron HD is cool no doubt about it. As the owner of a Hyperkin Retron 5 (plays tons of different consoles through downloading the Roms from the cartridge slots and has its own interface for loading games, etc, I’m thrilled that they made a unit like this...
by JasonBreininger | Jan 25, 2018 | 1980s, 1990s, Arcade, Atari, Columns, Console/Handheld, Reviews
Back in 1994, Atari were in need of a flagship game for their latest console, the Jaguar. The launch titles they had released for the console weren’t doing the trick in moving systems out the retailer’s doors. Thankfully, Jeff Minter had been designing a game that...