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Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Ken Horowitz
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Ken Horowitz, who is currently displayed on card number 3190, from the Superstars of 2019 Collection. Ken is a huge historian and a writer of many gaming topics. Sega is his love and he has been writing about it for the last...
Best Retro Gaming Consoles that are Brought Back to Life in 2019
If you are a die-hard fan of old school gaming, you will be pretty excited to find out that there are retro consoles built today and adapted to modern technology. Most of these consoles come with some of the best classic retro games that are extremely fun to play....
My 25 “The New Classic Gamer” By Damien Quicksilver
It can be difficult to write a magazine article. You have to sit down, focus, etc... It's not really FUN. Actually, it's quite easy to put off. I'd rather just play Bomberman on my Sega Saturn. What's that? Did I just say I was playing on one of the "newer" systems?...
The Seventies: Space Wars – By Kevin Butler
Space Wars was the first vector-driven arcade game. Its success would enable Atari to create their own vector generator creating games such as Asteroids and Battlezone. Space Wars also enabled a fledgling company called Cinematronics (established in 1975) to finally...
Nintendo Ultra 64 Controller Prototype Discovered
A while back, I took a brief look at what made the Nintendo 64 controller unique among its contemporaries in the market. What I didn't look at, however, was the controller we didn't get. Recently, retrogaming "preservationist, restorer, hobby sw + hw engineer" Shane...
The Atari 5200 a closer look by Patrick Wong
Atari's motto was "Power without the Price." It should have read "Power at a Price." When Atari took their low-end computer, the Atari 400, gave her a facelift, a model number twice the value of the 2600 and called her their "Super System," they also gave her an...
A Conversation With Nolan Bushnell Part 1 of 2 – Arcades Through the VCS – By Michael Thomasson
Sometimes that amazing crossing of paths happens and you just get so excited that you have to jump on it. That opportunity came for our publisher, Ryan Burger at CES this past year when he ran into Tyler Bushnell who is working to make his place in the gaming industry...
R.I.P. Sean Quigley
On September 18th, 2019, A dear friend and fellow gamer passed away. He was a local gamer in my home state of Illinois. Sean was a frequent visitor of Galloping Ghost Arcade in Brookfield, IL. He was a true compeitive gamer that loved hanging out with his...
This Day In Video Game History
