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Impossible Mission And the Rise of Digital Voices in Video Games
Another visitor. Stay awhile...stay FOREVER!!!! Those sinister words, spoken by the maniacal Professor Elvin Atombender, welcome players to the perilous world of Impossible Mission. Released for the Commodore 64 in 1984, the game has long been regarded as one of the...
Brett’s Old School Bargain Bin – By Brett Weiss
Welcome to the third installment of Brett’s Old School Bargain Bin, where I direct you to games worth playing that won’t send you to the poor house. This time the spotlight is on the Atari 2600 version of Mouse Trap, which is good despite its shortcomings, and Ms....
Dog Star Adventure And the Foundation of Text Based Gaming
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… George Lucas released the film Star Wars: A New Hope in 1977, beginning a pop culture phenomenon that continues to this day. People around the world latched on to the story of Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa, Han Solo, and the...
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...
This Day In Video Game History
