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The pandemic has been the catalyst for gaming records to be smashed
As many an industry suffers due to the continuing effects of the lockdown, the same cannot be said of the gaming industry - and video gaming in particular. With entertainment drifting away from live sporting events given the danger that they pose, people have had to...
Biggest Changes from Classic WoW to Classic Burning Crusade
Classic WoW has been a huge success for Blizzard, attracting new and returning fans of the game in their thousands! We're now in phase 4 out of 6 of Classic WoW and racing through the much-loved old content. This has led fans to ask, "what's next?". Well, we have the...
How Casino Games Have Featured In Video Games Throughout Time
Image: Pexels Developers recognise the entertainment value of incorporating casino games into their own titles. Some games get it wrong by bombarding players with loot crates — tedious tack-ons, which ruin immersion and squeeze every penny from your pockets. Others...
Intellevision
As a kid in the late 1970s, before I had a video game system of my very own (Santa didn‘t come through until 1982, when he brought a ColecoVision to our house), I would make any excuse I could think of to visit friends who owned an Atari 2600, an Odyssey2,or even a...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Hector Rodriguez
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Hector Rodriguez who is displayed on card number 253, from the Superstars of 2012 Collection. Hector is also displayed on cards 300F and 2134. Hector is a true competitive gamer and has a very successful gaming resume. He...
Video Game of the Day – August 1st – Dragon Slayer
Video Game of the Day is a daily show available on Amazon Alexa devices and here on this website. Each day, we briefly discuss the history of a single game, randomly chosen. If you would like to listen on your daily flash briefing, you can enable Video Game of the Day...
Splatterhouse
Imagine if you will: you and your girlfriend, both parapsychology majors from a local university, decide to take a trip to an abandoned mansion that had the reputation of housing evil experiments run by the mad scientist known as Dr. West. On the way, you‘re hit by a...
Panzer Paladin: A Review
As much as I love video games, and really I LOVE video games, there are many other things in this world of ours that I enjoy as well. One of those things is anime, and one of my favorite series is Mobile Suit Gundam. Giant robots fighting each other and stuff...
Video Game of the Day – July 30th – Path of Exile
Video Game of the Day is a daily show available on Amazon Alexa devices and here on this website. Each day, we briefly discuss the history of a single game, randomly chosen. If you would like to listen on your daily flash briefing, you can enable Video Game of the Day...
Two Darius Collections – PS4/Switch Digital Out Today – Review By Adam Pratt
When Taito released Space Invaders in 1978, it triggered a cultural earthquake that changed the face of gaming as it was known. That game in particular would shape the “Shoot ‘Em Up” ( “shmup” or STG for short) genre, a veritable grandfather to thousands of games that...
Video Games Invade Pro Wrestling
With perspiration splattering and hands blistering, the children of the ̳80s and ̳90s ascended to the heights of spectacular televised main events - by wearing out A buttons and dislodging the directional pad in marathon sessions of Nintendo‘s Pro Wrestling. They did...
The Legend of Zelda Game Maker
It all began when we were first introduced to Link, a small elven boy charged with the task of finding the scattered pieces of the Triforce of Courage and saving Princess Zelda from the evil clutches of Ganon. I am talking, of course, about Nintendo‘s The Legend of...
Video Game of the Day – July 28th – Suikoden 2
Video Game of the Day is a daily show available on Amazon Alexa devices and here on this website. Each day, we briefly discuss the history of a single game, randomly chosen. If you would like to listen on your daily flash briefing, you can enable Video Game of the Day...
Video Game of the Day – July 27th – Fullmetal Alchemist and the Broken Angel
Video Game of the Day is a daily show available on Amazon Alexa devices and here on this website. Each day, we briefly discuss the history of a single game, randomly chosen. If you would like to listen on your daily flash briefing, you can enable Video Game of the Day...
Missing Older Sports Games.
With the world being in the shape it is it was nice to have one of my favorite things come back. Baseball. I love baseball, ever since I was little I've loved the game. Watching it, playing it, going to Dodger games on the weekends with my family. Even playing...
Video Game of the Day – July 26th – Enter the Matrix
Video Game of the Day is a daily show available on Amazon Alexa devices and here on this website. Each day, we briefly discuss the history of a single game, randomly chosen. If you would like to listen on your daily flash briefing, you can enable Video Game of the Day...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Greg Degeneffe
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Greg Degeneffe, who is displayed on card number 2647 from the Superstars of 2017 Collection. When it comes to Atari 2600, Greg is among the best in the world. He holds over 150 records on Twin Galaxies International...
Video Game of the Day – July 25th – The Wolf Among Us
Video Game of the Day is a daily show available on Amazon Alexa devices and here on this website. Each day, we briefly discuss the history of a single game, randomly chosen. If you would like to listen on your daily flash briefing, you can enable Video Game of the Day...
Just 4 Qix
The screen flickers "Your marker controlled with joystick. To draw stix press fast or slow. Claim areas by joining walls with stix." Or so the first three simple sentences of the original Qix attract mode boldly stated. It continues, "Scores based on area. Fast score...
Video Game of the Day – July 24th – The Settlers
Video Game of the Day is a daily show available on Amazon Alexa devices and here on this website. Each day, we briefly discuss the history of a single game, randomly chosen. If you would like to listen on your daily flash briefing, you can enable Video Game of the Day...
Video Game of the Day – July 23rd – Halo: Combat Evolved
Video Game of the Day is a daily show available on Amazon Alexa devices and here on this website. Each day, we briefly discuss the history of a single game, randomly chosen. If you would like to listen on your daily flash briefing, you can enable Video Game of the Day...
Twinklestar Sprites
This month I‘ll be talking about one of my favorite games, Twinkle Star Sprites. Twinkle Star Sprites was released on the Neo-Geo MVS and AES in 1996 by ADK, who also made games like Aggressors of Dark Kombat, Ninja Masters and World Heroes. The only time Twinkle Star...
The Future of Retro Gaming
As retro gaming enthusiasts, there is one overarching problem that constantly stands in our way. This is the issue of access. Despite having systems today that are many hundreds or even thousands of times more powerful than the gaming setups we had years ago, poor...
Dragon’s Lair
Debuting in 1983, Cinematronics‘ Dragon‘s Lair Arcade expanded and redefined our definition of video games away from just crudely drawn flickering blocks, with the advent of fresh, detailed, cinema-style animation. Leaving the squared bits of quarter-munchers behind,...
