by Todd Friedman | Dec 19, 2021 | 1970s, 1980s, Columns
The Atari 2600 “Joystick” to me is the father of them all. There have been controllers made before the little black stick with the red button, but this controller changed the way gaming was played on what is considered the birth of home console era. ...
by Todd Friedman | Jun 30, 2021 | 1980s, 1990s, Columns, Console/Handheld
Before the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) hit the states, Nintendo had a console in Japan that would start a revolution of gaming. It was called the Famicom, or the full name, Family Computer. In 1983, the console hit the homes of gamers in Japan and test the...
by Jason Russell | Mar 24, 2018 | Columns, Console/Handheld, Magazine, The Story Of...
Hey Big N, What’s Next? By and large, we human-types like things in linear fashion. We binge watch our shows by season and by episode, we like our phone books alphabetized and when it comes to experiencing our video games from years ago, we sort of expect a...
by Jason Russell | Feb 11, 2018 | Columns, Console/Handheld, Reviews
A Tale of Immediate Regret Were you spying through my kitchen window this past Friday night, you’d be forgiven for suspecting the 8-bit graphics and sounds flooding the room were being generated by hardware manufactured while Reagan was still in office. However, upon...
