More Galaga World Records
Both of these outstanding achievements were done in the Galaga Group. Mark Schult Single ship broke the world record on Points (Marathon - No double ship) - Arcade, 1,216,540 approved by Twin Galaxies. Single ship is extremely challenging due to the fact that your...
Video Game of the Day – July 5th – Owlboy
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NES: Star Wars
Star Wars just seems like it would be the perfect series to make video games for yet for some reason there have been many failures along the way. While this game is far from a failure, I still can‟t help but be a little disappointed by it. One of the problems that the...
Video Game of the Day – July 4th – Independence Day
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Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Jon Stoodley
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Jon Stoodley who currently is displayed on card number 56, from the Superstars of 2011 Collection. He is also featured on cards 1782 and 2209. There are only a handful of people who have achieved the perfect Pac-Man score of...
Video Game of the Day – July 3rd – Pyre
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Games In Other Media: Sonic The Hedgehog
It's bound to happen sooner or later. A game has become a sensation, copies of it are flying off the shelves and the next thing a 1980's/90's parent knows is that their kid LOVES that game/franchise. Being a child of the 90's I can tell you exactly what it was like...
Video Game of the Day – July 2nd – Hunt the Wumpus
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FC Mobile
When I was given the opportunity to review Hyperkin’s FC Mobile portable Nintendo (NES) system, I was excited. I had never even heard of it before. Over the years, I have bought and sold the original portable Nintendo system, called the Game Axe, which came out in the...
Mike Ditka’s Big Play Football
Mike Ditka’s Big Play Football is yet another miserable football game created for the NES. The one thing that separates this game from the pack is that it was never released. Nintendo Power mentioned it in their "Coming Soon" section for almost an entire year while...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Pat Larocque
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Pat Larocque, who is displayed on card number 3335, from the Superstars of 2020 Collection. Patrick is an accomplished musician who has used his talent to do music for top video game and media companies. He also is a superior...
Video Game of the Day – June 26th – Double Dragon
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Video Game of the Day – June 25th – House of the Dead
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River City Ransom
In 1986 Technos released a landmark game in Japan called Renegade. This was the first real beat ̳em up game on the NES. It introduced us to being able to walk in any direction, dueling it out with bad guys that take multiple hits to kill and the idea that only two bad...
Retro Roots: The stories behind our favourite online games
Old is gold, or so they say. When it comes to online gambling, almost every game you can play is rooted in history, passed down and played for centuries until it eventually translated to the screens. It’s difficult to pin down exactly when that was, the first online...
Duke Nukem 3D
When you think of Duke Nukem, you might think of actors like Arnold "Terminator" Schwarzenegger or Dolph "Ivan Drago" Lundgren. The truth is these guys don‘t have any thing on Duke. Sporting a red tank top, blue jeans, a blonde crew cut, black shades, a cigar clutched...
Why We Still Enjoy Retro Games Today
Most gamers have a special place in their hearts for retro games. At the moment, most avid adult gamers will have grown up in the 80s and 90s and so they can remember certain stylistic choices about these games. Choosing to play more modern iterations can be great...
Video Game of the Day – June 22nd – The Sims
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Launching a New Gameboy game on 2020? What the heck!
It seems that there are still people who are as enthusiastic as we are! Passionate about consoles and old gaming technology. A very small studio specialized in developing Game Boy games are creating a new game for this 2020 - Where is my body?. After visiting their...
Video Game of the Day – June 21st – Assassin’s Creed: Origins
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What is Hardocre?
E3 2008 has come and gone and there is one lingering issue I still cannot wrap my head around. No, I am not talking about Final Fantasy XIII finding its way to the Xbox 360. Nor am I talking about the lack of interest for E3 as of late. I am talking about the terms...
Video Game of the Day – June 20th – Skate.
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Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Joe Kaminkow
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Joe Kaminkow who is displayed on card number 273, from the Superstars of 2012 Collection. He is also featured on trading card number 793. Joe has had an amazing career in the pinball industry. He has worked with such companies...
Video Game of the Day – June 19th – Assassin’s Creed: Freedom Cry
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North and South
Have you ever wanted to relive the Civil War and lead the South to victory? Neither have I, but North and South is the only NES game that allows you to perform this very unpatriotic act as well many cooler things. North and South was originally released by Infogrames...
Video Game of the Day – June 18th – Icewind Dale
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6 Best Video Game Reboots
Just like Hollywood, the video game industry loves to reboot and remake old titles and franchises. It’s a great way of appealing to older gamer’s nostalgia, and introducing younger gamers to franchises past. In some cases, video game reboots are as “simple” as...
Darius Cosmic Collection Out Now
The Classic Shoot ‘Em Up is Out Today Two digital Collections of ground breaking games for PS4/Switch ININ Games and Taito are pleased to announce that the localised, digital versions of two Collections of classic Darus Shoot ‘Em Up titles are out today. Nintendo...
Interview with Galaxian World Champion – David Lyne
This is an interview done by Galloping Ghost's superstar and International Video Game Hall of Fame inductee Pete Hahn with World Champion Galaxian player, David Lyne. Pete Hahn: First of all, congrats again on your awesome achievement! How long was your entire entire...
Adventure for the 2600
First! No I’m not talking about those annoying posters that have to be the "first" to make a post on a video, blog, or anything else you can leave a comment on. I’m talking about the "first" game to be an action-adventure game, "Adventure"! Original title right? Well...
The Legalities and Pitfalls of Fan Tributes
Fan enthusiasm. It's a beautiful thing. Really. I mean, sure, you have those who occasionally push the pendulum a bit too far in one direction. But for the most part, everything is done from a particular point of origin – that "fan" is short for "fanatic". Fanatic...
Strangest pivots by the Street Fighter franchise
Certain words have power. Maybe not quite the force to break down a brick wall or smash up a car with your bare hands, but a unique ability, nevertheless. Uttered alone and without context, they can conjure up an entire world or take us back in time. They are the...
RIP Steve Epstein
It is with great sadness that Steve Epstein has passed away on Saturday June 13th, 2020. He was 71 years old. He was a true ambassador and icon in the pinball industry. Steve's accomplishments are no less impressive as the owner/operator of the world famous Broadway...
Amiga: It All Started With Lorraine
Amiga, world famous for their computers and joysticks, was founded in 1982 by Jay Miner, a former Atari employee. Jay, and other Atari employees who sought more creative freedom in their work environment, formed Hi-Toro (the companies original name before it was...
An Interview with Eugene Jarvis – By Kevin Butler
Defender was created by a company that was, up to that time, much more known for its pinball machines than electronic arcade machines. In 1974, Williams released its first arcade game, Paddle-Ball, and acquired Magnavox’s Magnetic Corporation of America. The Pong...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Ray Price
Our next Trading Card Spotlight is Ray Price who currently is displayed on card number 3084, from the Superstars of 2019 Collection. Ray is the founder and owner of an arcade coming soon called “Arcade816 Museum”. This new arcade located in the suburbs of Chicago,...
End of Days: Magic Knight Rayearth & the Sega Saturn – By Michael Mertes
The original Magic Knight Rayearthhas the dubious honor of being the last game released for the Sega Saturn in North America. Published in late 1998, the game was translated to English by Working Designs, a company known to RPG fans for their great packaging design...
How Play’n GO Slots Get inspiration from Classic Games
Sweden-based Play’n GO is one of the top five most popular software providers today. But when it started in 1997, it wasn’t big enough to create games independently. Instead, it created games for bigger companies. In 2004, Play’n GO stepped beneath the wings of bigger...
Donkey Kong: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Americans love a good monkey tale. From the legendary “King Kong” to “Planet of the Apes”, and other various cartoons, movies and television shows based on apes & monkeys. Americans are fascinated with these hairy creatures. So when Midway’s Pac-Man craze was...
MSX2: Game Changer – By Michael Mertes
The first time I heard the name MSX was when I stumbled upon a Metal GearFan Page on the internet in the mid-1990s. Browsing the website, a hyperlink popped up under the list of Metal Gear games that stopped me dead in my mouse clicks. It read:Metal Gear 2: Solid...