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The Adventures of Stuart Smith – Early Adventure Games By Bill Lange

The Adventures of Stuart Smith – Early Adventure Games By Bill Lange

by BillLange | Feb 26, 2019 | 1970s, 1980s, Columns

  Stuart Smith is the legendary game designer and programmer of a number of influential, early to mid 1980s, computer role playing games, including: FRACAS, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, The Return Of Heracles, Adventure Construction Set and Rivers of Light...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Eddie Adlum

Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Eddie Adlum

by Todd Friedman | Feb 24, 2019 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Columns, Magazine Preview

Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Eddie Adlum, who currently is displayed on card number 2050, from the Superstars of 2015 Collection.  Eddie is the founder and publisher of RePlay Magazine.  He has been writing or publishing since 1964, where he worked for...
Chase the Chuck Wagon for the Atari 2600

Chase the Chuck Wagon for the Atari 2600

by Ric Pryor | Feb 24, 2019 | 1970s, 1980s, Console/Handheld

When I started collecting Atari 2600 games in the nineties, Chase the Chuck Wagon was the Holy Grail. There were entire Geocities pages dedicated to its rarity complete with lists of the privileged few who owned a copy, those either lucky enough to find it in the wild...
Go West: The Story of the Oregon Trail

Go West: The Story of the Oregon Trail

by Shaun Jex | Feb 16, 2019 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, The Story Of...

The Pet Shop Boys, and to a lesser extent Horace Greeley, once advised us all to GO WEST, and as a general rule I do what the Pet Shop Boys tell me to do.  After all, life is peaceful there in the open air. Sadly, I was born roughly a century and half too late to take...
Shareware: Influential Origins of Shareware in Gaming – By Robert Seale

Shareware: Influential Origins of Shareware in Gaming – By Robert Seale

by Old School Gamer | Feb 14, 2019 | 1970s, 1980s, Arcade, The Story Of...

If you were playing PC games, or even just using PC software in general, at any point throughout the 90s, you almost certainly saw or heard the term “shareware”. Not quite a demo, not quite freeware, shareware was a revolution in software distribution. It was crucial...
Requiem for Game Room – Microsoft’s Arcade Revival and It’s Lost Potential – By Ken Horowitz

Requiem for Game Room – Microsoft’s Arcade Revival and It’s Lost Potential – By Ken Horowitz

by Old School Gamer | Feb 13, 2019 | 1970s, 1980s, 2010s, Arcade

The death of the American Arcade has been somewhat overstated, I think. Given the rise in barcades and the growing popularity of classic arcades like Chicago’s Galloping Ghosts, Mark Twain would likely chuckle at pronouncements of the industry’s demise. People have...
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