by Kevin Butler | Aug 5, 2022 | 1990s, 2000s, Gaming, Magazine, The Story Of...
Mortal Kombat is an Action-Adventure, “Beat-em-Up” type of game, created by Midway in 1992, where you get to play as several characters in a Kung-Fu style of fighting. Each of these characters has certain signature moves and the biggest draw is each character’s type...
by Brett Weiss | Aug 3, 2022 | 1990s, 2000s, Magazine, The Story Of...
When I’m a guest author (and now YouTuber) at various video game conventions around the country, the question I get more than any other is, “What is your favorite game of all time?” The answer is always Universal’s Mr. DoIf you haven’t played this classic maze title,...
by Todd Friedman | Jul 24, 2022 | 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s, Magazine, The Story Of...
When I was a senior in high school in 1992, I worked in the local bowling alley which had an arcade in the back of the building. Each month or so, the gaming distributor would bring in some new arcade and pinball games that had just come out. There were a lot of...
by Jason Russell | Jun 4, 2022 | 1970s, 1980s, Arcade, Columns, Gaming, Home Consoles, The Story Of...
Q) I know that the third console generation (NES/ Master System) were 8-bit but what were the systems before that? Was Pong 1-bit? That’s a surprisingly good question but the answer may disappoint. What we classify as the first console hardware generation (the...
by Old School Gamer | May 4, 2022 | 1980s, Reviews, The Story Of...
It’s the holiday season, which means it is time to sit down and watch The Star Wars Holiday Special. It has become something of a cult classic since its one and only airing forty years ago. This made for TV masterpiece told the story of Chewbacca, his wife Mallatobuck...
by Jason Russell | Mar 2, 2022 | Columns, Console/PC/Handheld, Home Consoles, Indie Built-Retro Inspired, Magazine, The Story Of...
Thanks in no small part to the widely publicized antics of company front-man Tommy Tallarico and a host of questionable money-raising stunts by Intellivision, the world at large has been seemingly all too thrilled to watch the slow and torturous unraveling of the...
