Grinding: Mindless Filler, or A Different Kind of Fun?

by William Schwartz | Jan 27, 2025 | 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Console/Handheld, Early IBM DOS, Early IBM DOS Intro, Gaming, Indie, Indy Tools By Platform

  With the appearance of the role-playing game on video consoles, a genre less about actual role-playing and more about navigating enemy dungeons via numbers rather than reflexes, we also saw the appearance of grinding. How grinding works is simple enough. If...

Intellivision Thunder Castle | Swords & Sorcery in an Ever-Changing Maze!

by GenX Grownup | Jan 25, 2025 | 1970s, 1980s, Atari, Early IBM DOS, Early IBM DOS Intro, GenX Grownup, Heritage Auctions, Indie, Indy Tools By Platform, Stern

Thunder Castle is a 1986 maze video game for the Intellivision. The player controls a knight navigating three mazes, defeating enemies to progress. To defeat the enemies, the knight must interact with objects throughout the maze before interacting with them. The game...

Atari Gives End-of-Year 2024 Business Update

by Old School Gamer | Jan 17, 2025 | 1980s, 1990s, 2020s, Atari, Early IBM DOS, Early IBM DOS Intro, GenX Grownup, Heritage Auctions, Indie, Indy Tools By Platform, Stern

Company finishes 2024 with a slate of successful game releases; executes against retro-focused growth strategy NEW YORK, Jan. 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Atari® — one of the world’s most iconic consumer brands and interactive entertainment producers — has...

Pac-Man Resurgence: From Pixels to Reels – Exploring the Evolution of the Classic Game in Online Slots

by Old School Gamer | Jan 11, 2025 | 1980s, 1990s, Atari, Early IBM DOS, Early IBM DOS Intro, Gaming, GenX Grownup, Heritage Auctions, Indie, Indy Tools By Platform, Stern

After its 1980 release, Pac-Man became an international hit mainly due to its recognizable characters and easy gameplay. The iconic image of the yellow sphere with pixels traveling a maze came to represent the rapidly growing gaming sector. Since its release,...

Atari Acquires Intellivision Brand -HUGE Game Library!

by GenX Grownup | Jan 9, 2025 | 1980s, 1990s, Atari, Early IBM DOS, Early IBM DOS Intro, GenX Grownup, Heritage Auctions, Indie, Indy Tools By Platform, Stern

Atari® — one of the world’s most iconic consumer brands and interactive entertainment producers — announced today it has purchased the Intellivision brand and certain games from Intellivision Entertainment LLC. Atari will seek to expand digital and physical...

Stern Pinball Production Schedule: Comic Star Wars is Back

by Knapp Arcade | Jan 8, 2025 | 1980s, Atari, Early IBM DOS, Early IBM DOS Intro, GenX Grownup, Heritage Auctions, Indie, Indy Tools By Platform, KnappArcade, Pinball, Stern

I’m sitting here with no Internet or television, so I figured why not use my cell phone to write another article. I just saw a Facebook post from the distributor Mad Pinball (https://www.madpinball.com) staring that the much requested Comic Edition of Stern Pinball’s...