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Brett’s Old School Bargain Bin: So You Want to Be a YouTuber – By Brett Weiss
If you know me well, you know I love a good bargain, and YouTube is about as good as it gets. If you’ve got a device to play it on, such as a modern game console or computer, a Roku device, a Blu-ray player, or a smartphone, YouTube gives you countless hours of free...
Lost Arcade Classic: Stratovox by Kyle Snyder
When I was growing up, there was a quaint little country store about a mile from home called Maloney's. In addition to candy, milk, cigarettes, and trinkets, they featured two arcade games for their patrons to play. Most of the biggest hits cycled through this little...
Just for Qix: Space Invaders – By Michael Thomasson
The Story of How Tomohiro Nisikado Revived the Early Coin-Op Industry and Inadvertently Helped Save Atari's Home VCS Console In the late 70s, PONG clones were running amok and the market was so saturated that the coin-op industry was in a real slump. The release of...
Pac-Man World Review by Sarah Thomas
You’re invited to Pac-Man’s 20th birthday party! In celebration of our favorite yellow dot’s birthday, Namco has released Pac-Man World, a 3D version of the classic game. While at first it may appear Namco has released this 3D game in order to keep up with the Joneses...
Games That Haunt Me: Mega Man 8
I've been playing video games for a good long while, but there are some games that, to this very day, haunt me. Not because the game is bad per se, or because something happened to said game that made it unplayable. No, I'm talking about games that, for the life of...
Deep Thaw by Chris Lion
When I was in high school, the only friend of mine who had an Atari videogame was Rosalind Goldberg. Roz, as we called her, was from a family that not only owned the most ultimate high tech video game player available—the Atari 2600—but also had a home computer! They...
Fixture Gaming Launches Fixture S1 For Nintendo Switch – By Brad Feingold
When I was at the Game On convention in Phoenix, Az, I came across a booth that was actually hidden and almost missed. Austin Stark, owner of Fixture Gaming, was displaying a product that he was ready to launch on Indiegogo, but was still working on the details. But...
That 70’s Show, or The Pinball Wizard Breaks Out! – By Bill Donohue
From the Writer Formerly Known as The Jaded Gamer Editor’s note: In order to capture the entire zeitgeist of the decade in question, I had to attempt a simulation of my mindset at that time. As a result, I’ve had several “beverages,” I’ve driven the neighborhood crazy...
This Day In Video Game History
