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A review of the Tetris My Play Watch

by | November 7, 2026 | 1980s, 2020s, Console/Handheld, Gaming, Reviews | 0 Comments

  I have to be honest. When I first heard of the concept of the My Play Watch, I was skeptical. Wristwatches aren't exactly the best fit for gaming. They're certainly not a great fit for Tetris, a game famous for requiring often precise movements, something which...
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Growing Up Gaming: What Life Was Like for a Gamer Kid in the ’80s and ’90s Part 1

by | November 6, 2026 | 1980s, 1990s, Arcade, Gaming, GenX Grownup | 0 Comments

When you walked through the doors of a store in 1988, video games did not live in a big, uniform storefront advertising the latest releases, and there were no midnight releases. They were physical, chaotic, and awesome. If you wanted a new release, you went to the...
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Trapped on Doomed Hardware: The Strange, Brilliant Legacy of Lucienne’s Quest

by | November 3, 2026 | 1990s, Console/Handheld | 0 Comments

When you walked into a game store in the mid-90s looking for a legitimate, awesome Japanese RPG to play on whatever console you had, your options were surprisingly slim. The SNES was winding down its legendary run, the Sony PlayStation was still finding its footing...
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Intellevision

by | Aug 3, 2020 | , | 0 Comments

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...

Splatterhouse

Splatterhouse

by | Aug 1, 2020 | , | 0 Comments

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...

Panzer Paladin: A Review

Panzer Paladin: A Review

by | Jul 30, 2020 | , , | 0 Comments

As much as I love video games, and really I LOVE video games, there are many other things in this world of ours that I enjoy as well.  One of those things is anime, and one of my favorite series is Mobile Suit Gundam.  Giant robots fighting each other and stuff...

Video Games Invade Pro Wrestling

Video Games Invade Pro Wrestling

by | Jul 29, 2020 | , | 0 Comments

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...

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