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AtGames Announces Classic Disney and Star Wars Video Games to Be Featured in Products
AtGames Digital Media Inc. has announced that iconic video games from Disney and Lucasfilm will be featured in their upcoming products. Fans can expect classic games from beloved properties like Disney’s Donald Duck, Tron, Walt Disney Animation Studios’ The Jungle...
Shareware: Influential Origins of Shareware in Gaming – By Robert Seale
If you were playing PC games, or even just using PC software in general, at any point throughout the 90s, you almost certainly saw or heard the term “shareware”. Not quite a demo, not quite freeware, shareware was a revolution in software distribution. It was crucial...
Boy, Oh Game Boy: Play It Loud!
Not the color Game Boy anyone was expecting.
Requiem for Game Room – Microsoft’s Arcade Revival and It’s Lost Potential – By Ken Horowitz
The death of the American Arcade has been somewhat overstated, I think. Given the rise in barcades and the growing popularity of classic arcades like Chicago’s Galloping Ghosts, Mark Twain would likely chuckle at pronouncements of the industry’s demise. People have...
Just for Qix: Hopping Zombie Vampires And the Last Apostle Puppet Show – By Michael Thomasson
Many video game fans believe that 1992’s Mortal Kombat was the first fighting game to use digitized sprite graphics. Others recognize Atari’s 1990 hit Pit-Fighter as the premiere beat ‘em up boasting the technology. The truth is that a rather obscure title, released...
The Untold Story of Highlander: The Video Game (No, not the one you are thinking of)- By Warren Davis
If ever there was a licensed property that would lend itself to becoming a video game, Highlander was it! You’ve got a collection of immortals who challenge each other to sword fights to the death (by beheading, no less!), over the course of centuries, until there can...
My Experience as an Expert Witness CAPCOM VS. DATA EAST – By Bill “The Game Doctor” Kunkel
By 1993, the last thing I was looking for was an expert witness gig facing off against yet another of the most popular and powerful software developers in the business. So of course I wound up working the expert witness deal for tiny Data East against the all-powerful...
Dino Eggs for the Commodore 64
Everyone knows that if you travel to the past and tinker with historical events, nothing can possibly go wrong. It certainly won’t alter the course of history forever. There’s simply no risk associated with messing with the space-time continuum and anyone who tries to...
This Day In Video Game History
