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Phoenix IV: Neo Geo

Phoenix IV: Neo Geo

SNK’s Neo•Geo Many of the third-party publishers that had released games for the Famicom, such as Konami, Capcom and Enix, went on to produce games for the Super Famicom as well. However, SNK, a publisher of nine Famicom games, didn’t have anything initially available...

System Spotlight – Atari 7800

System Spotlight – Atari 7800

There aren’t very many consoles in my collection that I’ve ignored in the manner that I’ve ignored the Atari 7800 ProSystem over the years. I’ve owned Atari’s 3rd (2600 x 3 = 7800) foray into home console gaming for many years but after my initial purchase along with...

Ed Averett is KC Munchkin

Ed Averett is KC Munchkin

Ed Averett developed a whopping twenty-four games for Magnavox’s Odyssey2 system. Responsible for roughly half the game library, Ed believed in the Odyssey2 and kept it humming long before Magnavox and parent company Philips saw the light. His creation, KC Munchkin,...

Hyperkin Developing Aluminium Aftermarket Game Boy

Hyperkin Developing Aluminium Aftermarket Game Boy

CES is a great time for the tech industry as many of the big players announce and showcase their new products. There is such a broad range of items on show that even retro gamers get a piece of the technological pie - and with it being 2018, that, of course, comes in...

Get Your Kicks From QIX By Michael Thomasson

Get Your Kicks From QIX By Michael Thomasson

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...

The Need for Speed  (3DO)

The Need for Speed (3DO)

The Need for Speed, or it’s official long winded title, Road & Track Presents The Need for Speed, is the first entry in the long running 3D car racing franchise that got its start on the 3DO. Developed by Electronic Arts Canada and released for the console in...

Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Alexis Crowley

Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Alexis Crowley

Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Alexis Crowley, who is displayed on card number 2721, from the Superstars of 2017.   Alexis is a collector of all things Nintendo.   He also collects arcade machines which were made by Nintendo.   You can see Alexis on his...

Downright Bizarre Games: I Want My Mommy

Downright Bizarre Games: I Want My Mommy

I Want My Mommy Atari 2600 1983 If the box featuring a crying teddy bear on the cover doesn’t pull on your heartstrings, you’re a cruel individual indeed! Teddy has had a bad dream, a nightmare actually, and he wants the comfort that only a  mother can offer. To reach...

Clean Footage of Super Mario 64 from Its Earliest Days

Clean Footage of Super Mario 64 from Its Earliest Days

The early days of the fifth generation of console hardware was a little bit of a rough one for Nintendo fans. While SEGA and Sony launched their entries into the market in May and September of 1995, respectively, fans of Mario would hear about Nintendo's Project...

Unreleased Dreamcast Game Agartha to be Launched

Unreleased Dreamcast Game Agartha to be Launched

When Sega pulled the pin on the Dreamcast unforgivably early in 2001, plenty of in-development games sunk with it. One such title was called Agartha. Coded by French developer, No Cliché (of Toy Commander fame) from 2000 until the news of the discontinuation surfaced,...

Race Drivin’ for Game Boy Review

Race Drivin’ for Game Boy Review

Originally released in the Arcades by Nintendo in 1990 (and being notable at the time for the 3D graphics used) Argonaut Software (of the SNES's Super FX fame) managed to pull off a conversion for the humble Game Boy - 3D graphics and all. While quite a short game,...

Carly Kocurek – Teacher, Author and Gamer

Carly Kocurek – Teacher, Author and Gamer

Carly Kocurek is what you call a gamer for life.   She is dedicated to spreading the word of gaming and the importance of it in our history and our everyday lives.  She loves to give her opinion on the good and the bad of video gaming in the world today as well as the...

The Many Identical Faces of Fast Eddie

The Many Identical Faces of Fast Eddie

No ones blames you for not giving Fast Eddie much of a chance. After all, it looks like what you'd get if you asked a four year old to make a Donkey Kong game. Its combination of crude graphics, garish colors and grating sound effects assaults your senses from the...

Phoenix IV: The Jaguar

Phoenix IV: The Jaguar

Meanwhile, the oldest videogame company was also making its plans for 1993. Unlike 3DO, gaming pioneer Atari initially was highly secretive about its forthcoming Jaguar. In an early 1992 press release, Bob Schuricht, Atari’s National Sales Director, claimed that the...

Limbo Ported to the C64 by Original Developer

Limbo Ported to the C64 by Original Developer

Limbo, if you’re not aware, was a fantastic platform puzzler released for a glut of platforms in 2010 by a studio called Playdead. It’s one of my personal favourite indie games of the era, involving a boy travelling through an eerie and treacherous environment....

Keep Calm and Insert Coin: Old As Pong

Keep Calm and Insert Coin: Old As Pong

So I will admit, there have been a small handful of women I have dated.  And sometimes I like to see if they share the same interests as me.  Be it video games, movies, Legos, etc. I mean, my current wife and my kids love Legos.  That really makes me kick myself when...

Phoenix IV: Mario Meets Sonic

Phoenix IV: Mario Meets Sonic

Sega released a Wii game on November 6 that received much more exposure. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games marked the first pairing of the iconic characters from Nintendo and Sega in a game together. The two companies had worked together previously in 2001, when...