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My Experience at Midwest Gaming Classic 2018
The first video gaming convention I ever attended was the inaugural Missouri Game Con held in St. Louis (where I live) in 2016. Gaming conventions always seemed like cool events that other people attended. Those lucky people that lived within a 2 or 3 hour drive of...
The CRASH Annual 2018 | Nostalgia Nerd
Early NES (Nintendo) Box Art Pt 1 – Black Box Titles
Nintendo Power was an enormous resource when it came to helping NES owners determine what games were worth buying, renting, or better off skipping entirely. However, not everyone was blessed enough to be a Nintendo Power subscriber, and there were very few other ways...
Mario Mania: Game Cameos for the Fan’s Complete Collection – Wrecking Crew ’98
While the "Mario Mania" series of articles is more for games featuring Mario that aren't immediately obvious, you can see from the title screen above that Wrecking Crew '98 is considerably more up-front about who its star is than its worldwide-released predecessor. In...
Bart Vs. The Space Mutants
The first animated shorts featuring The Simpsons debuted on the Tracey Ullman Show in 1987. The characters got their own prime time series two years later. Over three decades later and the show has becomes longest running American sitcom and the country’s longest...
PS1 Fans Rejoice… a Mini “Classic” Version is Coming
Well, I now know what I want for Christmas. Obviously inspired by Nintendo’s success with their mini NES and SNES Classic consoles, Sony is taking a punt at the concept with their own PlayStation (the original). Originally released on the 3rd of December, 1994 in...
Midwest Gaming Classic Dates Announced!
We are excited to announce that we will be returning April 12, 13 and 14 to the Wisconsin Center in downtown Milwaukee! Tickets are on sale right now at https://www.midwestgamingclassic.com/buy-tickets/ Hotel rooms may be booked now through...
12-inch RepliCade X Centipede Arcade Cabinet Now Available From New Wave
New Wave Toys has officially launched RepliCade X Centipede, an officially licensed, fully-playable 1/6-scale reproduction of the classic Atari arcade cabinet. RepliCade X Centipede is now available for $160 on NewWaveToys.com, and soon on Amazon, Walmart, and Best...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Pete Hahn
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Pete Hahn, who is displayed on card number 1930 from the Superstars of 2014 Collection. Pete is also featured on card 2544. Pete, or as most know him as “GGA HAN”, is an employee of one of the largest arcades in the country...
The Last Official Release: Virtual Boy – 3D Tetris (1996)
Hello again, retro gaming friends, and welcome back to The Last Official Release. It’s been a while since the last entry of this series – the retro gaming news cycle has instead been quite fruitful thanks to E3 – but with all that simmering down, it’s back to...
Kid Chameleon on the Sega Genesis
Mark Cerny began working in the video game industry at the tender age of 17. In the early 1980s, he joined Atari and worked on titles like Major Havoc and Marble Madness. Over the course of his career, his name has been connected to some of the industry’s most iconic...
Intellivision To Reveal Extensive Details of New Video Game Console On October 20th
Intellivision Entertainment President Tommy Tallarico to Keynote the Portland Retro Gaming Expo in Portland, OR IRVINE, CA, September 10, 2018 – Intellivision® Entertainment is proud to announce that it will be revealing extensive details about its upcoming new family...
Mario Mania: Game Cameos for the Fan’s Complete Collection – Tennis
For this week's "Mario Mania," we've got something of a two-for-one special on that ever-popular sport, Tennis! It's no secret that Mario has starred in many a tennis game, from the simplistic Mario's Tennis that was packed in with the Virtual Boy to the more recent...
StarTropics for the NES
What do you do if aliens abduct your archaeologist uncle? Well, if you’re a young, baseball playing boy named Mike Jones, you set out to rescue him armed with a yo-yo that the chief of the Coralcola people of Island-C gave you. Of course, I’m talking about the 1990...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Greg Mott
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Greg Mott, who is displayed on card number 34, from the Superstars of 2011. Greg has been around the gaming scene since 1999 when he joined UKvac group on line and first met up with other UK collectors. He holds a record on...
Attack of the Mutant Camels
It is a truth universally acknowledged that hostile aliens in possession of advanced technology and a desire to invade a planet, must be in want of camels. At least, so we are led to believe by the 1983 game Attack of the Mutant Camels. The game was developed by...
Keep Calm and Insert Coin: Sooner Or Later Everyone Goes to the Zoo
In life, there are too many games to even think of that creates memories. And ever since my trip to Pittsburgh, PA for the ReplayFx, my brain almost went into self destruct mode. The question of why is that? Because I pretty much have played 99% of the retro games...
Mario Mania: Game Cameos for the Fan’s Complete Collection – Wrecking Crew
Labor Day was this past Monday, and what better way to (belatedly) celebrate than with a look at a Mario game in which our plumber hero puts his nose to the grindstone and performs a little hard labor himself? Wrecking Crew was released just months apart for the...
