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The Rise of the Female Gamer
When it comes to gaming, many have preconceptions about the average gamer. If movies and TV shows were anything to go by, online gaming is dominated by nerdy teenage boys in bedsits. However, that couldn’t be further from the truth, and today, gaming is multicultural,...
Double Dragon
This issue’s arcade game of choice is none other than the immensely popular side-scrolling beat-em up Double Dragon. The initial game was released in 1987 by Technos in Japan, and licensed to Taito for manufacture and distribution in the United States and Europe. The...
Hidden Gems: Amidar
Intro: Ah yes, the maze chase genre, filled with incredible classics such as Pac-Man, Lady Bug, Chu Chu Rocket and of course-Amidar. Released in North American Arcades in 1981, Amidar was developed by Konami and published by Stern. Stern also published other Konami...
Tron
In Disney’s 1982 classic film Tron, programs and humans did battle against one another inside a computer through multiple gaming competitions and events. Under the watchful eye of the Master Control Program, our heroes Flynn and Tron fought head-to-head against the...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Dan Yamnitz
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Dan Yamnitz who currently is displayed on card number 3319, from the Superstars of 2020 Collection. Dan is a multi-world record holder on the arcade version of Pole Position II. He holds the record on all four tracks of the...
Made In Japan: Radiant SilverGun
Released in 1998 in Arcades on the SEGA ST-V Titan hardware, followed by a SEGA Saturn release later that year, Radiant Silvergun is a shmup (shoot’em up) that almost didn’t come to be. According to the diary of Hiroshi Iuchi, the director & producer of Radiant...
What is behind the retro gaming craze?
Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be, as the old joke goes. People get nostalgic about all sorts of things, and psychologists have written tomes that attempt to explain some of the reasons. There’s always been a market for retro, whether it is in the clothes we wear,...
Hidden Gems: Bloody Wolf
Bloody Wolf, developed by Data East and designed by Yoshiaki Honda, does for the TurboGrafx 16 what Contra does for the NES. It rocks the machine! Originally released in the Arcades (1988), Bloody Wolf, also known as Battle Rangers (Europe), made its US console debut...
Video Game of the Day – August 17th – Chrono Trigger
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...
Made In Japan: Elevator Action
Elevator Action was one of my favorite games as a kid. I used to remember going to a diner with my folks and playing the game after we ate. I loved being a secret agent trying to go around to find documents in a building swarming with bad guys. While there have been a...
Missing Secret Characters in Fighting Games
As awesome as fighting games are, there has always been one aspect that made me want to get good at certain fighting games. It wasn't because there was a tournament that I was going to participate in or because I wanted to school my brother in a game. I wanted to...
Hidden Gems: Vice: Project Doom
What do you get when you combine the over head perspective of the amazing Spy Hunter, the stellar side scrolling game play of Ninja Gaiden and the killer First Person Sniper game play found in games like T2: The Arcade Game? You get the kick ass Hidden Gem, Vice:...
Video Game of the Day – August 14th – Wing Commander 2: Vengeance of the Kilrathi
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...
Made in Japan: Bangai-O
Most everyone in the classic gaming community knows of the Japanese game developer Treasure and their impeccable track record for making some of the best action games to ever grace a video game console (and even a candy cab or two). So this being an article on...
Hidden Gems: Total Recall
According to the June 1990 issue of Videogames & Computer Entertainment, Acclaim took an unexpected turn in the development of the Nintendo Entertainment System version of Total Recall. It commissioned Interplay to transform the expected summer blockbuster into...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Stephen Westbrook
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Stephen Westbrook who currently is displayed on card number 3309, from the Superstars of 2020 Collection. Stephen is one of those hands-on technicians that can fix any arcade games and uses his talent to help friends in need...
Gen Mobile: Handheld Video Game Console
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that a majority of us who grew up with video games at some point wanted to untether our consoles from the TV and play where ever we wanted. I know I'm not the only one who sat inside during a rainy recess at school thinking...
Protecting your retro video game boxes
I was organizing my video games the other day and came across an unopened Pokemon SoulSilver with Pokewalker Accessory in box. I looked up what an unopened box would be and to my surprise saw a range between 250 -350 dollars on Ebay. I wanted to make sure this game...
Aliens Vs Predator Games
Very few film and comic franchises have yielded positive results when translated into the video game medium. Pick any random five video games based on either a film or comic and the odds of just one of those games being remotely decent are pretty slim. As gamers we‘ve...
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...
