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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I'm going to be blunt, the kind of blunt that comes from years of making my way through the trenches of gaming consumerism, and is delivered with the tone of one of those "back in my day" speeches. Today's video game advertising is neutered. Sure we get bombarded with...

It’s 1993. The Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis are warring over territory. The industry is growing and a name from the past aims to recapture what it once owned. The tactic? Raw power. The play? Hail Mary. The player? Atari. Atari made one last comeback attempt into...

The Pink Panther was born in the opening sequence of the eponymous 1963 United Artists film comedy starring David Niven and Peter Sellers. However, in the film, the Pink Panther was the name of a priceless jewel that thief David Niven was determined to pilfer and the...

1972 was a very boring year. I Googled it and it was utterly depressing. The free spirit of the 60‟s was coming to an end, calculators were $150, and I wasn't born yet. It was simply a very bad year. Luckily, in 1973, NASA decided to take a break from the unimportant...