by Brett Weiss | Jan 22, 2025 | 1970s, 2020s, Magazine Preview
The mid-to-late ‘70s saw the dawn of handheld electronic games and the beginning of my collecting something other than comic books. Console systems like the Fairchild Channel F and Atari 2600 launched in 1976 and 1977 respectively, but their high prices – $250...
by GenX Grownup | Dec 30, 2024 | 1980s, 1990s, Atari, Early IBM DOS, Early IBM DOS Intro, GenX Grownup, Heritage Auctions, Indie, Indy Tools By Platform, Stern
About two weeks ago, a user on X by the name of Cear Dragon posted that two of their limited AtariXP carts – Haunted House & Crystal Castles – were defective. Haunted House, he claimed, had the PCB inserted backwards and Crystal Castles, he said, was buggy and...
by Curry Derek Blaha | Dec 16, 2024 | 1990s, 2000s, Magazine Preview
Behind the doors of an unassuming building hidden away in an industrial complex in the heart of Texas lies one of the most creative and revolutionary pinball companies around. If you are a pinball fan and have never heard of Multimorphic, you’re missing out on a whole...
by Old School Gamer | Dec 15, 2024 | 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Magazine Preview
I was born in 1981, the same year that Jump Man and Donkey Kong had everyone over a barrel and shortly after Pac-Man gave everyone a certain fever. Back then, video games as an entertainment medium were in their infant years and still just a curiosity to most. The...
by Brian Lesyk | Dec 13, 2024 | 1980s, 1990s, Magazine Preview
I remember reading a quote once by famed French novelist and literary critic Marcel Proust: “Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.” In that vein, our zeal for the experiences of yesteryear as gamers often unintentionally...