Keep Calm and Insert Coin: The Race to the Finish

by Brad Feingold | Apr 9, 2018 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Arcade

Folks, as you may or may not have been aware, I have been away from the computer for a little while trying to get things back together in life.  It was like someone took a video game apart and said put it together.  For someone who has never done that, it was very...

System Spotlight – Fairchild Channel F

by JasonBreininger | Apr 7, 2018 | 1970s, 1980s, Columns, Console/Handheld, The Story Of...

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...

Head To Head Adventure for PC and Mac

by Ric Pryor | Mar 18, 2018 | 1970s, 1980s, 2010s, Console/Handheld

Adventure is one of the Atari 2600 games. It’s a game you either love profoundly or say you love profoundly to avoid being shunned by the classic gaming community. Almost everyone old enough to have had a 2600 as a kid has fond memories of sitting on the living...

Mr. Postman for the Atari 2600

by Ric Pryor | Mar 10, 2018 | 1970s, 1980s, Console/Handheld

I have no idea how the postal system works. Nearly every day, things from around the country, around the world even, appear in the metal box bolted to the front of my house and I don’t have a clue how they got from those far away locations to my door. But,...

The Last Official Release: Atari 2600 – Klax

by Brendan Meharry | Mar 8, 2018 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s

Hello retro friends, and welcome back to The Last Official Release! Kicking off a few weeks ago with the Game Boy, in this series we investigate what the last official release of a console was. In today’s edition, we’re examining Atari’s long-lived 2600. Released on...

Adventure (Atari VCS/2600)

by JasonBreininger | Feb 24, 2018 | 1970s, 1980s, Columns, Console/Handheld, Reviews

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...