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Qa$hing in on Q*bert By Earl Green
Let's say you're a major toy manufacturer named Kenner. Let's say it's late 1983, and your last big license - a little summer flick called "Return of the Jedi" - is now but a memory, with no sequels in sight. TV is a barren wasteland of variety shows and programming...
25 Years of PlayStation: A Retrospective.
The PlayStation has been in my life for years, practically since it came out. It was the very first home video game console I've ever owned and I still have my original console to this day. 25 years ago the original PlayStation hit the shelves and ever since Sony...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Dennis Bartlett
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Dennis Bartlett, who is displayed on card number 285, from the Superstars of 2012 Collection. Dennis was fortunate enough to have grown up Ottumwa, Iowa where the Twin Galaxies arcade was first opened. He was in attendance...
Five Galar Pokemon That Will Take You Back to Where It All Started
Pokemon Sword and Shield are the newest games in the Pokemon series, filled with a ton of new things to do and obviously, new pocket monsters to catch. But what if you haven’t been around for the past few games? Why should you jump in, all over again, on a new...
The Next Best Thing to Being There By Earl Green
Once upon a time, many years before Game Boy Color, MAME, and Namco Museum, there were low end console games and there were battery-operated LED-display games. Back then, it was roughly an equal trade-off. Did you prefer blocky, clunky graphics that moved with some...
Toys of Tron By Earl Green
In the summer of 1982, there was no hotter ticket in Hollywood than a new Disney movie that boasted impressive computer graphics, including some scenes created entirely with computer animation. The movie, of course, was Tron, and although it ended up as more of a cult...
Space Firebird By Kyle Snyder
Space Firebird is a game that seemed to taunt me for several summers. From the summer of '81 through sometime in '83, I would always run across a Space Firebird machine when I either didn't have a quarter or didn't have the time to stop and play. The 7-11 on the...
Tetris In Pop Culture – By David Oxford
What has seven shapes (or Tetrominos, if you prefer), each consisting of four blocks, falling down a welland disappearing when lines are formed? Obviously, a great concept for a video game – one of the greatest of all time, but unlike a Pac-Man or a Mario, there...
This Day In Video Game History
