Most everyone in the classic gaming community knows of the Japanese game developer Treasure and their impeccable track record for making some of the best action games to ever grace a video game console (and even a candy cab or two). So this being an article on...

According to the June 1990 issue of Videogames & Computer Entertainment, Acclaim took an unexpected turn in the development of the Nintendo Entertainment System version of Total Recall. It commissioned Interplay to transform the expected summer blockbuster into...

Very few film and comic franchises have yielded positive results when translated into the video game medium. Pick any random five video games based on either a film or comic and the odds of just one of those games being remotely decent are pretty slim. As gamers we‘ve...

As a kid in the late 1970s, before I had a video game system of my very own (Santa didn‘t come through until 1982, when he brought a ColecoVision to our house), I would make any excuse I could think of to visit friends who owned an Atari 2600, an Odyssey2,or even a...

Imagine if you will: you and your girlfriend, both parapsychology majors from a local university, decide to take a trip to an abandoned mansion that had the reputation of housing evil experiments run by the mad scientist known as Dr. West. On the way, you‘re hit by a...

With perspiration splattering and hands blistering, the children of the ̳80s and ̳90s ascended to the heights of spectacular televised main events - by wearing out A buttons and dislodging the directional pad in marathon sessions of Nintendo‘s Pro Wrestling. They did...

It all began when we were first introduced to Link, a small elven boy charged with the task of finding the scattered pieces of the Triforce of Courage and saving Princess Zelda from the evil clutches of Ganon. I am talking, of course, about Nintendo‘s The Legend of...

The screen flickers "Your marker controlled with joystick. To draw stix press fast or slow. Claim areas by joining walls with stix." Or so the first three simple sentences of the original Qix attract mode boldly stated. It continues, "Scores based on area. Fast score...

This month I‘ll be talking about one of my favorite games, Twinkle Star Sprites. Twinkle Star Sprites was released on the Neo-Geo MVS and AES in 1996 by ADK, who also made games like Aggressors of Dark Kombat, Ninja Masters and World Heroes. The only time Twinkle Star...

Debuting in 1983, Cinematronics‘ Dragon‘s Lair Arcade expanded and redefined our definition of video games away from just crudely drawn flickering blocks, with the advent of fresh, detailed, cinema-style animation. Leaving the squared bits of quarter-munchers behind,...

Back in the day as a gamer, you where the coolest kid on the block if you owned an SNK Neo-Geo AES (Advanced Entertainment System) home system. Since the AES was essentially the "home version" of SNK‘s arcade hardware, the MVS (Multi Video System), and retailed for...

Phantasm For the Atari 2600 Original Gameplay and Programming - David Weavil Additional Programming - Fred Quimby (BATARI BASIC Phantasm Title Music - Fred Quimby (BATARI BASIC Produced by - Scott Dayton (NEO GAMES Label Artwork Provided by - Ray Catuto...

It‘s pretty obvious that the Vectrex is different. It‘s the only games console that‘s ever used vector scan graphics. While competing consoles used raster drawn pixels for the imaging, vector scanned graphics are sharp lines drawn dot to dot, making Vectrex games very...

Whether it’s early mornings with Mickey or feature length blockbusters at the movies, Disney has been a part of nearly everyone’s life. Not only has Walt and his team basically built the animation genre, but with the help of some of the industries biggest studios,...

What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Those were the very first words I ever heard uttered by Bubsy Bobcat. Being a huge Sega Genesis fan, I was there when a blue blur called Sonic The Hedgehog was unleashed on an unsuspecting video game world. Many had tried games with...