Atari gets a lot of credit for pioneering the ROM cartridge based home video gaming system craze and for good reason. They were the company that bought the rights to port popular arcade games and bring them into families living rooms. All anyone really wanted back...
Grandson: Grandpa, what were fantasy-adventure games like back when you were young? Way back in 1979? Grandpa: Well, sonny, there was this one particular game on the Atari VCS called Adventure that was kind of like your own grandpappy but in video game form. Today we...
“How many Munchies can your Munchkin munch before your Munchkin’s all munched out????” That is the question posed on the manual & back of the box of this week’s game of the week, the controversial (at the time) Odyssey² game, K.C. Munchkin. That question also...
Still Standing! The word retro has become a regular part of video gaming vernacular in recent years but it really wasn’t until Nintendo’s NES Classic Edition came on the scene November 11, 2016 that we witnessed a viable means for a modern video game hardware...
It has been well documented that Space Invaders was a quarter-hogging phenomenon back in the late 1970’s, and Atari catapulted themselves into 1st place during the early home console wars when they procured the rights to port it on their Video Computer System in 1980....