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Stamp Out the Terrorists! – By Michael Thomason
Move over James Bond, there is a new secret agent to save the day! Be warned that the CIA agent in question, Roy Heart, throws stealth and espionage out the door. He is capable of sliding past security cameras to avoid detection, but primarily he is just a bad ass...
Video Game of the Day – April 20th – Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair
Video Game of the Day is a daily show available on Amazon Alexa devices and here on this website. Each day, we briefly discuss the history of a single game, randomly chosen. If you would like to listen on your daily flash briefing, you can enable Video Game of the Day...
Why retro throwbacks still have a place among 2020’s groundbreaking games
In 2016 an anonymous Reddit user known only as The-King-of-Spain said they’d developed a way to play Virtual Boy games using newly released VR technology from Google and Samsung. Using an emulator – software enabling older operating systems to run on modern devices –...
Metal Storm – By Michael Mertes
The open elevator ride on the Pluto defense outpost has easily been the worst you’ve ever taken. Laser shots from almost every direction have almost hit you, and robotic cargo movers have malfunctioned and are blocking your attempts to get down the elevator shaft. Up...
Mac Attack! – Yes, Virginia, Mac Computers Had Shooters… Really!” – By Richard Moss
It may be strange to imagine, but there has never been a point in the Mac’s life where shooters weren’t available for it. I mean, when you think Mac, even if you think games, you probably don’t think shooters, except maybe Marathon (more on that later). Shooters...
Video Game of the Day – April 19th – Yukon Trail (ft. Adrian Simple)
Video Game of the Day is a daily show available on Amazon Alexa devices and here on this website. Each day, we briefly discuss the history of a single game, randomly chosen. If you would like to listen on your daily flash briefing, you can enable Video Game of the Day...
3D Dot Game Heroes: Inspiration or Limitation
From the outset of 3D Dot Game Heroes, two things are made plainly clear: The game is an unabashed clone of The Legend of Zelda, and the developers at From Software never let the task of emulating a classic franchise get in the way of lighthearted fun. Both...
RETROSPECTIVE: A Tale of Street Fighters
Days of Future's Past My nephew is 11 years old. He has just about every modern console known to man, a gaming PC, a powerhouse iPad and iPhone and the other day, in casual video gaming conversation, he happens to mention Street Fighter II. I paused immediately,...
Video Game of the Day – April 18th – Final Fantasy 3
Video Game of the Day is a daily show available on Amazon Alexa devices and here on this website. Each day, we briefly discuss the history of a single game, randomly chosen. If you would like to listen on your daily flash briefing, you can enable Video Game of the Day...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Chris Cavanaugh
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Chris Cavanaugh who is displayed on card number 512, from the Superstars of 2013 Collection. Chris is also featured on card number 588. Chris is the Co-founder of Classic Gamer Magazine which was founded in 1999. Chris was...
Video Game of the Day – April 17th – Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!!
Video Game of the Day is a daily show available on Amazon Alexa devices and here on this website. Each day, we briefly discuss the history of a single game, randomly chosen. If you would like to listen on your daily flash briefing, you can enable Video Game of the Day...
ARCADE…TO GO By Skyler Miller
Despite its promise of evolution, Atari Classics Evolved can't help but feel a bit stale. It contains the familiar lineup of Atari arcade games -- Asteroids, Missile Command, Centipede, etc. -- found in other compilations, with 11 games in total. Each game comes in...
Airborne Ranger or MMU812A – By the writer formerly known as The Jaded Gamer – Bill Donohue
Airborne Ranger is a very intense military combat simulator that requires careful planning and stealthy execution in order to win over a numerically superior hostile force. These ops take place in a number of different environments; everything from the baking desert...
Shooters Not Available On the Atari 2600-By Brett Weiss
When the word “shooter” is brought up among gamers, first-person shooters like Call of Duty and Halo typically come to mind, or maybe vertical scrolling “bullet hell” games like Ikaruga and Raiden IV. That’s not the case for this old-school gamer. My mind goes...
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
It's in with the old, out with the new for the developers of The Forgotten Sands. Casting aside the cel-shaded, “new age” prince from 2008's Prince of Persia, Ubisoft returns to familiar ground for the movie tie-in to The Sands of Time, itself inspired by the 2003...
The Konami Arcade Classics – Review – By Brad Feingold
In a previous issue, I talked about the Switch collections from Konami: the Contra Collection and the Castlevania Collection. But did you know that there was a third one... or should I say a first one? Prior to these two awesome classic collections, in April 2019,...
Pixel Memories By Kyle Snyder
Nowadays, children will never know the bliss kids in the ‘80s experienced when even a mundane trip with your family to run errands typically meant playing coin-op machines in several different places. The gaming industry referred to them as “street locations” --...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Frankie Cardulla
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Frankie Cardulla who is displayed on card number 201, from the Twin Galaxies Superstars Collection of 2012. When it comes to Atari, Frankie is one of the best. Back in the 1980s, Frankie competed in major Atari tournaments...
The Age of Remakes, Remasters, and Reboots (And Why That’s Not A Bad Thing).
The past few years we have seen so many games get the 21st Century upgrade. Games that we loved back in the day getting facelifts and being introduced to the younger generation makes me smile. It's also a change of pace because unlike another industry I know of,...
Shovelware Alert! Astro Invaders!
If you blinked, you may have missed this one. If you didn’t, you may have wished you had. Not to be confused with Stern's classic coin-op Astro Invader, this Nintendo DS shoot-em-up from Zoo Games attempts to replicate the frantic, fixed-screen action found in...
The Pacman Legacy By Scott Marriott
If you had to name the first three significant arcade games in the industry -- and we're talking historically significant, not the game you first fell in love with -- the answer would have to be Pong (1972), Space Invaders (1978), and Pac-Man (1980). Each helped...
Revenge of the Birds By Chris Cavanaugh
Angry Birds has soared through the list of killer app titles for the iPhone and iPod touch, and it's not hard to see why. This highly accessible title has players seeking revenge on a herd of green pigs that have stolen a collection of bird eggs. Reprisal comes in the...
Podcast Review: RetroGaming Roundup
Classic gaming podcasts are becoming as common as Combat cartridges, so finding a quality one can become an exasperating experience. Too often the hosts forget to make the show about the games and focus too much on themselves. Fortunately, the guys at RetroGaming...
Top ways to make money as a gamer
Gaming has come a long way since the glory days of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. Technology has naturally been a big driver here as the way that consoles and games have developed has seen massive changes in how we play. The whole essence of what being a gamer means...
This Day In Video Game History
