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$114,000 Bid for Super Mario Bros. Video Game Sets World Record
A 1985 video game cartridge of Super Mario Bros. has sold for $114,000, Friday, July 10, setting the world record as the most expensive video game ever sold at public auction. Sealed for 35 years, the game was sold during a public auction of vintage comics and...
Testing a New Game as a Stage of Its Creation
Game development has seven different stages that most developers follow. These stages include: Planning Pre-production Production Testing Pre-launch Launch Post-production Testing, the fourth stage of game development, is one of the most important steps that a...
Video Game of the Day – July 9th – Fell Seal: Arbiter’s Mark
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...
Prehistoric Times
Prehistoric Times Platform: Atari 2600 Programmer: Blake Leftwich Developer: Salute Games Release Date: May 2009 Okay, first things first. I know this might cost me a bit of street cred here, but here it goes: My name is Peter G, and I LIKED E.T. on the Atari 2600....
Of Dragons and (Game) Genies
He’s selling a “Secret Passage.” I’m confused…But I’m buying.
NES: Wolverine
As any X-Men fan that is also a NES gamer can tell you, the first ever X-Men video game was The Uncanny X-Men for the NES, which was released by LJN. And as any NES gamer can also tell you, that game stinks. So I can only imagine the feeling that X-Men fans got when...
The Secret Origin of Superhero Video Games
From the late 1980s to the present, the super-hero genre has been a constant of the video game industry. For years games based on Batman, The X-Men, The Punisher, The Fantastic Four, Spawn and other spandex-clad vigilantes have been jockeying for shelf space alongside...
Star Trek – Jim Combs
A long time ago... in a galaxy far far away.... oh wait wrong series. However, we are about to embark on a journey where no man has boldly gone before to take a look at a widely popular series and its video game incarnations that is just as big as “Star Wars”. I'm of...
More Galaga World Records
Both of these outstanding achievements were done in the Galaga Group. Mark Schult Single ship broke the world record on Points (Marathon - No double ship) - Arcade, 1,216,540 approved by Twin Galaxies. Single ship is extremely challenging due to the fact that your...
Video Game of the Day – July 5th – Owlboy
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...
NES: Star Wars
Star Wars just seems like it would be the perfect series to make video games for yet for some reason there have been many failures along the way. While this game is far from a failure, I still can‟t help but be a little disappointed by it. One of the problems that the...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Jon Stoodley
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Jon Stoodley who currently is displayed on card number 56, from the Superstars of 2011 Collection. He is also featured on cards 1782 and 2209. There are only a handful of people who have achieved the perfect Pac-Man score of...
Video Game of the Day – July 3rd – Pyre
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...
Games In Other Media: Sonic The Hedgehog
It's bound to happen sooner or later. A game has become a sensation, copies of it are flying off the shelves and the next thing a 1980's/90's parent knows is that their kid LOVES that game/franchise. Being a child of the 90's I can tell you exactly what it was like...
Video Game of the Day – July 2nd – Hunt the Wumpus
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...
FC Mobile
When I was given the opportunity to review Hyperkin’s FC Mobile portable Nintendo (NES) system, I was excited. I had never even heard of it before. Over the years, I have bought and sold the original portable Nintendo system, called the Game Axe, which came out in the...
iiRcade Launched on Kickstarter
We have only been dreaming about owning an arcade machine in our home… But now everyone has the opportunity! This week iiRcade launched their new premium connected home arcade cabinet/platform that allows gamers, for the first time on a home arcade system, to add new,...
Switch Fighter and Switch Fighter Light Available on Indiegogo
Control your street fighter in Switch Fighter. Switch Fighter is a portable arcade cabinet accessory for your Switch. It includes a joystick and buttons, just like on a retro game controller, allowing it to be used as...
Feature Interview: Rob Fulop
Rob Fulop is a writer and game programmer who was chiefly responsible for some of the Atari 2600's biggest hits, such as 1982's enormously successful Demon Attack. He also worked on Night Driver (1978) and Missile Command (1981). Rob Fulop is the co-founder of Imagic...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Pat Larocque
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Pat Larocque, who is displayed on card number 3335, from the Superstars of 2020 Collection. Patrick is an accomplished musician who has used his talent to do music for top video game and media companies. He also is a superior...
Video Game of the Day – June 26th – Double Dragon
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 – June 25th – House of the Dead
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...
River City Ransom
In 1986 Technos released a landmark game in Japan called Renegade. This was the first real beat ̳em up game on the NES. It introduced us to being able to walk in any direction, dueling it out with bad guys that take multiple hits to kill and the idea that only two bad...
Duke Nukem 3D
When you think of Duke Nukem, you might think of actors like Arnold "Terminator" Schwarzenegger or Dolph "Ivan Drago" Lundgren. The truth is these guys don‘t have any thing on Duke. Sporting a red tank top, blue jeans, a blonde crew cut, black shades, a cigar clutched...
This Day In Video Game History
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