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Pete Rose Baseball on the Atari 2600 and 7800
Pete Rose Baseball is a game that makes people sit up and say "Wow, I can't believe this is an Atari 2600 game." And not just people whose only experience with the 2600 is watching YouTube videos of kids making fun of the dragons in Adventure. Pete Rose Baseball makes...
Super Nt to be released with Director’s Cut of Super Turrican
Following on from our story last week of the Super Nt release (abridged version: a FPGA SNES with a high degree of build quality) it’s been announced that every console sold will also come preloaded with a director’s cut of Super Turrican as well as its sequel, Super...
Keep Kalm and Insert Koin: Happy 25th Birthday….FINISH HIM!!!!
I wanted to take a moment to post a very special CCAIC blog which, again is dated but it is also extremely important! 25 years ago, the arcade industry was forever changed by the release of one loud game with two joysticks and ten buttons. In 1988, there was a game...
Keep Calm and Insert Coin: SAVE ME!!!!
Ever since the days of Super Mario Brothers where your goal is to save the damsel in distress, there have been hundreds of games to represent this concept. Well, at least in the past for arcade games. Now a days, its kicking, punching, dancing, driving and shooting....
Retro-Bit releases Multi-Carts for NES and SNES
POMONA, CA, October 26th, 2017 – For retro gaming fans looking to build their collection in one easy step, Retro-Bit® has provided the perfect solution - Multi-Cartridges! Retro-Bit® has partnered up with legendary game publishers Data East and Jaleco to release new...
The Super Mario 64 Difference: Not Your Father’s Mario
Super Mario Odyssey arrives on the Nintendo Switch tomorrow, and returns the series back to its roots -- well, its 3D roots, that is. "What's the difference," you may ask? While the Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario 3D titles have taken approaches to a gameplay style...
Keep Calm and Insert Coin: May the Force Be With You
Ok, ok. I know that a person like me should have talked about this first when I started blogging since I am an avid fan of Star Wars. So much that, as my bio says, I was accepted into the local 501st Central Garrison here in Des Moines. But on October 9, 2017, Star...
Phoenix IV: Sony’s Trojan Horse
Nuon consoles were basically DVD players that played games. The PlayStation 2 (PS2) was a game machine that also played DVDs. And it was the console from the three major hardware manufacturers, Nintendo, Sega and even SCE, that could play DVDs. While the Xbox...
This Day In Video Game History
