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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...
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