Atari 2600 Encyclopedia: Do you know BurgerTime?

by Derek Slaton | Mar 16, 2022 | 1980s, Atari 2600 Encyclopedia, Columns

Release Date: 1982 Publisher: M Network Controller: Joystick Players: 1 – 2 Genre: Arcade – Platformer Alternate Title: N/A Model #: MT4518 Rarity: 3 Programmer: Ron Surratt This port of the arcade classic is one of the ugliest games ever made. Have you...

Celebrating 5 years of The Video Game History Foundation!

by Todd Friedman | Mar 7, 2022 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2020s, Columns, Magazine Preview

Since February 27, 2017, The Video Game History Foundation has been working hard to preserve, celebrate, and teach video game history. We want to thank you so much for believing in what we do! It’s our mission to make video game history better. Over these past...

Atari 2600 Encyclopedia: Do you know Spy Hunter?

by Derek Slaton | Mar 7, 2022 | 1980s, Atari 2600 Encyclopedia, Columns

Publisher: Sega Release: 1984 Controller: Joystick Players: 1 Genre: Shoot’em Up Alternate Title: N/A Model: # 011-01 Rarity: 6 Programmer: Jeff Lorenz Dual Controller Module, basically a piece of plastic This port of the arcade classic is scaled down, but passable....

What The Fall of the Amico Really Means

by Jason Russell | Mar 2, 2022 | Columns, Console/Handheld, Indie Built-Retro Inspired, Magazine Preview, The Story Of...

Thanks in no small part to the widely publicized antics of company front-man Tommy Tallarico and a host of questionable money-raising stunts by Intellivision, the world at large has been seemingly all too thrilled to watch the slow and torturous unraveling of the...

Atari 2600 Encyclopedia: Do you know Ikari Warriors?

by Derek Slaton | Mar 1, 2022 | 1980s, Atari 2600 Encyclopedia, Columns

Release Date: 1989 Publisher: Atari Controller: Joystick Players: 1 – 2 Genre: Arcade Alternate Title: N/A Model #: CX26177 Rarity: 5 Programmer: N/A This port of the arcade title is an admirable attempt at bringing it to the 2600. You are an Ikari Warrior, a...

Green Beret(Rush’n Attack) – Highly challenging retro classic finally arrives on the Amiga as an Arcade(ish) conversion!

by Indie Retro News | Feb 28, 2022 | 1980s, 2020s, Columns, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

Green Beret was an action arcade game released by Konami in 1985. It is remembered for its Cold War setting and its reliance on the player using mainly a knife to dispatch enemies, although you were able to collect many different weapons including the flame thrower....