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A review of the Tetris My Play Watch

by William Schwartz | 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...

Growing Up Gaming: What Life Was Like for a Gamer Kid in the ’80s and ’90s Part 1

by Chris Martin | 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...

Trapped on Doomed Hardware: The Strange, Brilliant Legacy of Lucienne’s Quest

by Chris Martin | 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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Jonah: The Legend of The Pink Panther

by Magazine Writer | Jun 5, 2020 | 1970s, Other Magazines Preview | 0 Comments

The Pink Panther was born in the opening sequence of the eponymous 1963 United Artists film comedy starring David Niven and Peter Sellers. However, in the film, the Pink Panther was the name of a priceless jewel that thief David Niven was determined to pilfer and the...

Life, The Universer & Network Gaming

by Magazine Writer | Jun 3, 2020 | 1990s, Other Magazines Preview | 0 Comments

1972 was a very boring year. I Googled it and it was utterly depressing. The free spirit of the 60‟s was coming to an end, calculators were $150, and I wasn't born yet. It was simply a very bad year. Luckily, in 1973, NASA decided to take a break from the unimportant...

Meet The Latest Retro Mini: The Sega Game Gear Micro

by Jason Russell | Jun 3, 2020 | 1980s, 1990s, 2020s, Console/Handheld, Lists | 1 Comment

When Sega Heard the World Wanted a New Retro Mini, They Took it Literally Admittedly, Sega has one of the most desirable backlog of hardware and game libraries due for the retro mini treatment (Master System, Sega CD, Saturn, Dreamcast) so when rumors of new hardware...

Nintendo NES Book Now on Kickstarter!

by Old School Gamer | Jun 1, 2020 | 1980s, Console/Handheld, Press Release | 0 Comments

Nintendo NES Book Now on Kickstarter! Welcome to the Kickstarter for The NES Omnibus: The Nintendo Entertainment System and Its Games, Volume 1 (A–L)! Featuring a robust, hugely entertaining, 1,200-word foreword by The...

Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – John Newcomer

by Todd Friedman | May 30, 2020 | 1980s, 1990s, 2010s, Arcade, Columns | 0 Comments

Our next Trading Card Spotlight features John Newcomer, who currently is displayed on card number 626 from the Superstars of 2014 Collection. John is the creator of the ever-popular game “Joust”. Joust is considered one of the golden age games from the original...

Video Game of the Day – May 29th – Aurion: Legacy of the Kori-Odan

by Video Game of the Day | May 29, 2020 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Arcade | 0 Comments

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...

Nuclear Green: The TRS-80 Color Computer

by Magazine Writer | May 29, 2020 | 1980s, Other Magazines Preview, TandyTRS | 0 Comments

"So, do I turn this "Winger" tape into MP3's or do I just plop it to the bottom of the stack, never again to see the light of day?" This was the first question I posed to myself as I was sifting through the collection of audio cassettes my wife and I have accumulated...

Digging Deeper Into Big Announcement From Sega

by Jason Russell | May 29, 2020 | 2020s, Columns, Lists, Magazine Preview | 0 Comments

Sega is About to Unleash Some Big News In case you haven’t heard, amid a global pandemic, domestic rioting and unrest, and seemingly endless troubling news, a rumor has escaped Japan that Sega is in the process of readying an announcement next week that will rile the...

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