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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...
This Day In Video Game History
