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STERN OF THE UNION ADDRESS – FEBRUARY 2025
The Stern of the Union Address, your monthly resource for news, information and highlights on all things Stern Pinball. Without further ado my fellow pinheads: DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: The Tyrant’s Eye: We scored a critical hit at this year’s CES show with the debut of...
Atari 2600 Keystone Kapers from Activision | The Third Time REALLY IS the Charm!
Atari 2600 Keystone Kapers from Activision | The Third Time REALLY IS the Charm! Kitchen designed the game after working on Atari 2600 games Space Jockey and a port of Donkey Kong. He wanted to develop a game similar to the latter game, and began developing what would...
Snow Bros. 2 Special Confirmed for Nintendo Switch
On February 26th, the Swedish company Clear River Games confirmed the upcoming release of Snow Bros. 2 Special for the Nintendo Switch this coming April 10th. The news follows up the release of Snow Bros. Wonderland last November, which released on the Nintendo...
FIRST LOOK: Ramp’s Road Trip Pinball Gameplay
Here it is, Hot off the Press, to use a phrase that no one uses any more lol. As I promised in my earlier post about the reveal of the new pinball machine Ramp's Road Trip, I now have exclusive gameplay video for everyone. Paul Fusco, a friend of the game's designer...
Pre-orders now open: Atari Arcade 2 and Tomb Raider Collection 2!
Pre-orders now open! The next two Evercade collections are available to pre-order today from Evercade retailers! Evercade’s Atari Arcade 2 includes 10 brilliant games. Whether you want iconic hits or cult favourites, this is the ideal cart for you. From 80s action...
Bug Fables by Red Art Games
Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling is an adventure-RPG following three heroes, Vi, Kabbu, and Leif, as they embark on an epic quest in Bugaria in search of The Everlasting Sapling, a treasure that can grant immortality! Bug Fables combines colorful platforming with...
Plyuk – Another unique ZX Spectrum 128k game from RetroSouls
While RetroSouls has released many games such as GLUF, Old Tower and Alter Ego, one of the more unique games they released, was a game called Ringo. What made this game unique was the fact that it was one of the first games to use their new 'experimental graphics...
A look back at Promenade by Red Art Games
"Promenade the critically acclaimed 2D collectathon combining exploration and puzzles in a dreamlike, colorful universe is still available digitally or physically on all platforms " Join Nemo and his octopus companion on an oniric and enchanting journey through a...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Keisha Howard
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Keisha Howard who currently is displayed on card number 9, from the Superstars of 2011 Collection. Infectiously passionate about the worlds of video games and geek culture, Keisha Howard is a leader who has created a...
The Ballad of Walter Day: Autobiography of an Arcade Legend
In this bio of interest to any retro gaming fan, Walter Day shares his personal history — and in the process, sheds light on the development of arcade culture. Starting with his life before video games, he reminisces about his family and upbringing, as well as his...
The Angry Video Game Nerd 8-Bit
Now available to download on Steam, The Angry Video Game Nerd 8-bit’s demo allows AVGN fans to experience two stages from the highly-anticipated title ahead of its Q2 2025 launch Philadelphia, PA – Feb. 21, 2025 –Starting today, AVGN fans can now get an exclusive...
Pinball Expo tickets on sale – Retro vendor registration open
In 1984 Rob Berk put together a questionnaire that ran in Steve Young’s publication called Silverball Quarterly. The questionnaire basically said, "We are considering doing a national pinball convention. Are you interested? Would you come?" The resounding answer was...
Pinball Accessories released for Stern’s John Wick table
Stern Pinball recently released a new trailer spotlighting the new accessories for the John Wick table. The accessories spotlighted include an illuminated and mechanical Hourglass Topper, the Blood Oath Marker Shooter Knob, the Speaker Expression Lighting...
Gravitators by Red Art Games
"RAG Indies is Red Art Games’ serialized range of budget PS5 titles priced at €19.99. Each and every game released as part of this collection gets its own RAG Indies number as well as a 999 copies run. That makes every copy truly one of a kind." Secure the future of...
Retro Racers Moto Roader – Review by Todd Friedman
This 2D 16-bit looking race car game reminds me of the old arcade game Off-Road. The rules are simple, get to the finish line first before your opponents to win the race. While racing around the track you can pickup special items and hit a turbo boost icon to get a...
Preorder of Banners of Ruin from Red Art Games
Out now - Pre Order Banners of Ruin from Red Art Games CLICK HERE TO PRE ORDER Lead House Blackfoot to Revenge! The mighty Blackfoots have fallen to ruthless House Ender—now it’s time to strike back! 🃟 Build your deck, recruit warriors, and craft a winning strategy....
Stern Pinball Doing “Extremely Limited” Production Runs of Beatles, Stranger Things, Black Knight in December + Contract Manufacturing?
Let's start the pinball talk for the week off with some news out of Stern Pinball. Stern recently informed its distributors that it is using the remaining parts that it has sitting around the factory to do "extremely limited runs" of a number of older titles during...
‘MonsterBag’ Retro Review’: Unusually Brilliant
With limited releases, but cool hardware, the PlayStation Vita became a console for weird and unusually quirky games. IguanaBee’s “MonsterBag” is definitely one of them. Hard to describe, the game centers around a little monster that must get from one end of a stage...
Arcade to Console – by Eugenio Anguiera
This article is a follow-up to my Donkey Kong on Atari article published in Issue 31 of this magazine. That article was limited to home versions of Donkey Kong released for Atari systems during the commercial life of the systems, so no homebrew versions or versions...
Atari’s Yars Rising: Where’s All the FAN HATE Coming From?
Fan reaction to the recently-announced Yars Rising has been surprisingly divisive. It’s been accused of being too talky, too different, and “not Yars” at all. In this editorial, Jon shares his thoughts on Yars Rising and the negative fan feedback. From the renowned...
GameBoy Advance – by Ben Magnet
There’s no doubt that the grey brick created by Gunpei Yokoi in 1989 revolutionized video games as a whole. A system that, on paper, couldn’t hold a candle to handhelds like SEGA’s Game Gear or Atari’s Lynx. No color screen or backlight made the original Game Boy a...
Aqua Ippan – This love letter to Metal Slug by Division 六 looks fantastic!
I can say for sure there's probably not many of you that haven't heard of 'Metal Slug', a game in a series of games that are well known in the gaming community, going back to the days of the Neo Geo system. This game has plenty of humor, while remaining action packed...
Spice Up Valentine’s Day with These Retro Co-op Games
Valentine's Day is here, so if you've got someone special to celebrate the holiday with, it's a perfect day to bond over shared experiences and create new memories along the way. Sure, you could default to the old “dinner and a movie” date, but why not spice things up...
New version released of tool to play SimCity 2000 on modern operating systems
Steam has been a fairly decent service in terms of providing modern compatibility for older games. But there's one curious exception to this trend- the classic game SimCity 2000. While SimCity 2000 is available on Steam, it's only available as the DOS version....
