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Testing a New Game as a Stage of Its Creation
Game development has seven different stages that most developers follow. These stages include: Planning Pre-production Production Testing Pre-launch Launch Post-production Testing, the fourth stage of game development, is one of the most important steps that a...
Video Game of the Day – July 9th – Fell Seal: Arbiter’s Mark
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...
Prehistoric Times
Prehistoric Times Platform: Atari 2600 Programmer: Blake Leftwich Developer: Salute Games Release Date: May 2009 Okay, first things first. I know this might cost me a bit of street cred here, but here it goes: My name is Peter G, and I LIKED E.T. on the Atari 2600....
Of Dragons and (Game) Genies
He’s selling a “Secret Passage.” I’m confused…But I’m buying.
NES: Wolverine
As any X-Men fan that is also a NES gamer can tell you, the first ever X-Men video game was The Uncanny X-Men for the NES, which was released by LJN. And as any NES gamer can also tell you, that game stinks. So I can only imagine the feeling that X-Men fans got when...
The Secret Origin of Superhero Video Games
From the late 1980s to the present, the super-hero genre has been a constant of the video game industry. For years games based on Batman, The X-Men, The Punisher, The Fantastic Four, Spawn and other spandex-clad vigilantes have been jockeying for shelf space alongside...
Star Trek – Jim Combs
A long time ago... in a galaxy far far away.... oh wait wrong series. However, we are about to embark on a journey where no man has boldly gone before to take a look at a widely popular series and its video game incarnations that is just as big as “Star Wars”. I'm of...
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...
This Day In Video Game History
