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30 Years of TurboGrafx-16 – By Rob Faraldi
Jeff Masser of Chicago, Illinois is a proud father and honorable veteran. He’s also an incredibly enthusiastic videogame collector with a fondness for the three-decade old TurboGrafx-16, a game console that’s notoriously expensive to collect for these days. Called PC...
Lost Arcade Classic: Guzzler
Odd. That's the word; the word that perfectly sums up Tehkan's Guzzler, a 1983 entry into the “cute” genre of arcade games. It's a maze game, but one quite unlike the myriad of Pac-Man clones that populated game rooms during this era. It's more of a Wizard of Wor...
THE FIRST QUARTER: A 25-YEAR HISTORY OF VIDEO GAMES
If you follow video game “journalism,” you’re probably familiar with Steven Kent. He has written about electronic entertainment for mainstream sources such as MSNBC and USA Today, and has been a frequent contributor to Next Generation magazine. A few years ago, I’d...
Video Game Trading Spotlight – Wolff Morrow
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Wolff Morrow who currently is displayed on card number 978, from the Superstars of 2014 Collection. Wolff is a legendary console world champion. He has posted high scores and won tournaments on many retro consoles such as...
December 28th – True Golf Classics: Wicked 18
https://videogameofthedayhome.files.wordpress.com/2019/12/12282019-wicked-18.mp3Hello and welcome! My name is Katosepe and I’ll be your host for today’s Video Game of the Day. Golf is one of the earliest sports portrayed in gaming. The lack of opponent AI,...
December 27th – Star Wars: Obi-Wan
https://videogameofthedayhome.files.wordpress.com/2019/12/12272019-star-wars-obi-wan.mp3Hello and welcome! My name is Katosepe and I’ll be your host for today’s Video Game of the Day. Another Star Wars trilogy has come to a close and it seems like a good...
CVG 101: The Comic Book Connection
In the early 1980s, video games were everywhere as everyone was trying to cash in on the booming video game business. This included the comic book companies. First of all, both DC and Marvel, two of the largest publishers at the time, were licensing their characters...
Flash Forward: AOL Anywhere By Patrick Wong
In what's being billed as the biggest corporate union of all time, the pending merger of America Online and Time-Warner proves that to be the leader in the Internet world, you must not only have the largest paying subscription base in the world, but you must also...
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