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BurgerTime (Arcade, Colecovision, Intellivision)
Data East’s BurgerTime was one of my go-to arcade games as a kid. I dug the concept of controlling the frantic and portly chef Peter Pepper, moving up, down and left and right across the stages, or dropping ingredients (buns, lettuce, tomatoes, burgers, etc.) down...
The Many Identical Faces of Fast Eddie
No ones blames you for not giving Fast Eddie much of a chance. After all, it looks like what you'd get if you asked a four year old to make a Donkey Kong game. Its combination of crude graphics, garish colors and grating sound effects assaults your senses from the...
Phoenix IV: The Jaguar
Meanwhile, the oldest videogame company was also making its plans for 1993. Unlike 3DO, gaming pioneer Atari initially was highly secretive about its forthcoming Jaguar. In an early 1992 press release, Bob Schuricht, Atari’s National Sales Director, claimed that the...
Limbo Ported to the C64 by Original Developer
Limbo, if you’re not aware, was a fantastic platform puzzler released for a glut of platforms in 2010 by a studio called Playdead. It’s one of my personal favourite indie games of the era, involving a boy travelling through an eerie and treacherous environment....
Sega Forever Review: Ristar
Sega’s star-faced hero joins its mobile games lineup but can’t manage to stretch past problematic gameplay and slowdown issues.
Billy & Walter Go To The Library of Congress By Walter Day
I once calculated that I had spent more than 1,000 hours writing the 1st edition of the Twin Galaxies’ Official Video Game & Pinball Book of World Records. I started on Thanksgiving Day 1996 and worked diligently until the 984- page volume was finished in October,...
Sega Forever Review: Streets of Rage
Sega’s classic beat-’em-up joins its lineup of portable games, giving phone owners another great download to play on the go.
Review: Arcade Archives Vs. Super Mario Bros. for Nintendo Switch
Arcade Archives Vs. Super Mario Bros. is not the same game as the one you grew up with on the Nintendo Entertainment System. Arriving in arcades the year after that version sent shockwaves throughout the video game industry, this version of the game will challenge...
This Day In Video Game History
