The World Inside Your Computer: Little Computer People

by Shaun Jex | Jul 28, 2018 | 1980s, Reviews, The Story Of...

Before The Sims, before Tamagotchi, there were Little Computer People. It’s hard to know what to say about Little Computer People. The concept was profoundly, wonderfully bizarre: Little people have been found living inside your computer. Players were given an open...

Run Through The Jungle: Remembering Pitfall!

by Shaun Jex | Jul 25, 2018 | 1980s, Reviews, The Story Of...

Growing up, I wanted to be an archeologist. Not a real archeologist mind you. I wanted to be Indiana Jones. I wanted to carry a whip, wear a leather jacket, and travel the world searching for rare (and possibly cursed) historical items. I even built a museum of...

A Few Minutes with Buck Stein of Retro Game Treasure – By Old School Gamer

by Brad Feingold | Jul 23, 2018 | Magazine Preview, The Story Of...

Buck Stine, of Retro Game Treasure, grew up as a Nintendo kid in the 1980s and got his NES for his fifth birthday. If you were to assess his NES inventory at Retro Game Treasure at any given time, he may have the largest collection of Nintendo games around. But his...

Retro Gaming Archives – Nintendo Edition: July/August 1987

by JasonBreininger | Jul 23, 2018 | 1980s, 1990s, Columns, Console/Handheld, The Story Of...

The summer of 1987 proved quite the landmark season for a certain gray toaster-shaped home video game console. By the summer of ’87, the Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES, was wildly outselling both the Sega Master System and the Atari 7800. Their technique of...

Pirate Adventure and the Story of Adventure International

by Shaun Jex | Jul 14, 2018 | 1970s, The Story Of...

Robert Louis Stevenson published his classic novel Treasure Island in 1882, telling the story of Jim Hawkins, the pirate Long John Silver and their quest for buried gold. Almost 100 years later, the book would serve as the inspiration for the classic adventure game...

Wiz(ardor) Talk: Memories of Wizardry – By Kevin Butler

by Kevin Butler | Jul 6, 2018 | 1980s, Magazine Preview, The Story Of...

During my sophomore year in August, 1981, our high school was gifted a black (Darth Vader) Bell & Howell Apple computer.  These were given to select secondary educational institutions around the country.  Additionally, our school purchased three or four more of...