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King of Arcades Next Up, Picks Up After King of Kong – By Brad Feingold
A long time ago, in a.... wait, wrong movie...Another video game documentary has surfaced, but what is nice is that it’s not about competition or egos. And I do want to point out that egos are NOT a bad thing during competition. All the people that I have been exposed...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Phil Day
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Phil Day who is displayed on card number 124, from the Superstars of 2011 Collection. Phil is one of the best Galaga players in the world. From the land down under, Phil resides from Australia and is an avid gamer, author and...
Remembering the Nintendo Ultra 64 Dream Team: DMA Design
The Nintendo Ultra 64 Dream Team studio we're looking at this week bears some interesting parallels to the last one we looked at, Angel Studios. Like Angel, the Edinburgh, Scotland-based DMA Design began in 1984 as Acme Software, though unlike Angel, they were all...
The Wonderful Weirdness of IK+
If you created a Venn diagram with circles for the Commodore 64, Jackie Chan, John Travolta, and the ancient art of karate, the overlap would be International Karate +. The game, typically referred to as IK+ (released in the United States as Chop N’ Drop), was not the...
The rise of retro gaming
The rise of retro gaming In a world obsessed with innovation and progress, we also do great deal of looking back at the past. In fact, retro is such a phenomenon these days that it’s reaching into virtually every area of our lives. Of course, it’s always played a huge...
Return of Double Dragon to be Re-Released in the US
While most Double Dragon enthusiasts will no doubt be familiar with Super Double Dragon, some may not be aware that its Japanese counterpart was a fair bit different. Also released in 1992, Return of Double Dragon was basically Super Double Dragon+, featuring...
Keep Calm and Insert Coin: Thanks for the Nightmares
In a childs' life, if he/she sees something so scary at one point in time, they could be scarred for life. For some it's clowns, for some it's spiders. And believe it or not, for some it's eating bananas after 8PM at night that causes nightmares. Seriously, don't...
Fox N Forests Initial Thoughts
EuroVideo’s Fox N Forests is aptly named, but it doesn’t do the game’s mechanics, throwback look and feel and challenge into consideration at all. A more suitable name would be “Rick the Fox vs. The Forest,” or something to show the cool journey our character is about...
This Day In Video Game History
