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Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Steven Lucas

by Todd Friedman | November 10, 2026 | 1990s, 2010s, Columns | 0 Comments

Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Steven Lucas, who is displayed on card number 178, from the Superstars of 2011 Collection. Steven is the 1991 Nintendo Campus Challenge National Champion, in which players contested over Super Mario Bros. 3, Pin-bot and Dr....

The Legend of Zelda on the C64

by Marcus Albers | November 9, 2026 | 1980s, 2020s, C64 Vic20, Console/Handheld | 0 Comments

Emerging from the 80s, two of Nintendo's biggest franchises on its game systems were Super Mario Bros. and Zelda. While neither officially migrated the classic titles from their Nintendo console homes, that has changed in recent years. In 2012, the OG platformer...

Twinkle Tale confirmed for official English language release on Sega Genesis

by William Schwartz | November 9, 2026 | 1990s, 2020s, Console/Handheld, Gaming | 0 Comments

Earlier today, Limited Run Games confirmed that it will be releasing the classic Sega Genesis shooter Twinkle Tale on its original platform, with pre-orders for the game opening up on midnight November 10th and continuing onward through December 20th. The...

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Downright Bizarre Games: Shaq Fu – No balls!

by Michael Thomasson | Dec 31, 2017 | 1990s, Console/Handheld | 0 Comments

Shaq Fu Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo, Sega Game Gear and Nintendo GameBoy 1994 Professional basketball player Shaquille O’Neal is sightseeing in Tokyo before his all-star charity game. During a chance encounter, he meets Leotsu, an elderly martial arts grand master at...

BurgerTime (Arcade, Colecovision, Intellivision)

by JasonBreininger | Dec 31, 2017 | 1980s, Arcade, Console/Handheld, Reviews | 1 Comment

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

by Ric Pryor | Dec 30, 2017 | 1970s, 1980s, Console/Handheld | 0 Comments

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

by Leonard Herman | Dec 29, 2017 | 1990s, Console/Handheld | 0 Comments

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

by Brendan Meharry | Dec 28, 2017 | 1980s, 2010s | 0 Comments

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

by Ken Horowitz | Dec 28, 2017 | Console/Handheld, Reviews | 0 Comments

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

by Old School Gamer | Dec 28, 2017 | 1970s, 1980s, Console/Handheld, Magazine Preview | 0 Comments

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,...