Walking into a typical mall arcade nowadays results in finding many cookie cutter games. That is, games that have very similar gameplay (the myriad of fighting games and first person shooters), and very similar, bland looking cabinets. In the early days of arcades,...
From hit video games and cartoons to toys and lunchboxes bearing his image, there’s no doubt the Sonic the Hedgehog series has become one of the most popular franchises today. With the upcoming releases of Sonic Adventure 2, and Sonic Square for the Sega...
Odd. That’s the word; the word that perfectly sums up Tehkan’s Guzzler, a 1983 entry into the “cute” genre of arcade games. It’s a maze game, but one quite unlike the myriad of Pac-Man clones that populated game rooms during this era. It’s more...
If you follow video game “journalism,” you’re probably familiar with Steven Kent. He has written about electronic entertainment for mainstream sources such as MSNBC and USA Today, and has been a frequent contributor to Next Generation magazine. A few years ago, I’d...
In the early 1980s, video games were everywhere as everyone was trying to cash in on the booming video game business. This included the comic book companies. First of all, both DC and Marvel, two of the largest publishers at the time, were licensing their characters...