This issue’s theme of computers offers me a chance to relate my journey as an arcade and console gamer who once hated playing on them in the early days. The PC is now my primary platform to game on today, so how did that come to be? Growing up in the game industry...

On July 15, 1983, Nintendo launched its first programmable console, the Family Computer. A couple of years later, the Famicom would arrive in America as the Nintendo Entertainment System. In the decade following the console’s Japanese debut, it would help transform...

Nestled in a quiet corner in the Buffalo suburb of Depew sits a modest building with a simple façade. It was once a corner bar - long abandoned, idle, and forgotten. Today, it pulses with new life as the Nickel City Pinball Club. The front door bears the club’s bold...

Video Game Connections, located in the Regal Plaza on 2209 Rt 9 North, Howell, NJ 07731, is well-known to many videogame collectors along the east coast of the United States. Unlike many videogame stores that dot the United States and\ abroad, it is one of the few...

I realized a long time ago that video games were great for releasing a lot of pent-up emotions which prevented me from ending up in jail, or worse… Malicious ramblings from the man who’s played it all you plaster some pedestrians to the pavement, you’re brain dead!...

If you’ve lived in California, you drove. The uniqueness of your personal transportation said a lot about who you were, since you spent most of your day relegated behind the wheel, and that car was indeed an extension of you. The average person accumulates about...