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The Last Don: An Interview with Don Thomas
Classic Gamer Magazine: The birth of video games began with a couple of kids standing around in a soda place playing Pong. What would you say was the defining moment in history that transformed video games from being a casual, almost obscure, pastime to one that has...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Tim Hanson
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Tim Hanson who currently is displayed on card number 2309, from the Superstars of 2015 Collection. Tim is a huge Nintendo fan and gamer. Games like Super Metroid and Super Mario Bros. 3 to name a few. Tim finds himself...
Timeless Games That Span Multiple Decades
Recently I’ve been getting into my retro games, or retro style independent games that I stumble on for cheap in the PS Store. They not only give me a feeling of nostalgia, but they’re also just really decent games – good dynamics and gameplay, witty dialogue and...
Games From the Trenches
When George Lucas unleashed Star Wars into theatres in 1977, he created more than a great film. He forever changed how Hollywood would design and market movies, particularly on the merchandising front. After an avalanche of Star Wars action figures, T-shirts, plastic...
RETROSPECTIVE: The Theoretical Sega CD Mini
Next in Line for the Retro Mini Treatment from Sega? In my last column I talked about the Sega Genesis Mini and the fact that Sega actually managed to trump its arch rival of years past (Nintendo) in a few key areas of the retro mini market. In the time since, the...
Online Gaming: A Brief History
The history of online gaming is very long and storied, and we could take it all the way back to packet-based LAN games on the earliest versions of personal computers. And while there’s something to be said about how local network games came before online games, we...
Howard’s Revenge By Darrin Powell
In 1982, a daring archaeologist named Indiana Jones was thrilling movie audiences across the country as he battled poisonous snakes, runaway boulders, and ruthless Nazis in a fast-paced adventure film called "Raiders of the Lost Ark." Meanwhile, at the offices of the...
Designing Yars’ Revenge (Part 1 – The Inception) – By Howard Scott Warshaw
“Talent borrows, genius steals.” -Oscar Wilde My first game for Atari ultimately became what is now known as Yars’ Revenge. This is not how it started. Originally it was assigned as a coin-op conversion of a Cinematronics arcade game called Star Castle. The key to...
This Day In Video Game History
