Glen Planamento is the chief cook and bottle washer at Glen’s Retro Show, which really means he is the Concept Designer, Product Test Engineer and the Retail Guru at GRS, where he believes that every game, no matter if it’s an original arcade machine, an Arcade1Up, a...
…Yet somehow, on hardware that was vastly underpowered compared to any 16-bit hardware at the time, The Simpson’s Arcade Game was ported to the Commodore 64. Released in 1992, the game remains a high point of interest for Commodore 64 fans for being one...
Originally released in the arcade in 1989, Hard Drivin’ was pushing polygons, speed and a sexy sports car-inspired cockpit. The gameplay was fast, fun and influenced a ton of games afterwards, especially the Cruisin’ the World series. Essentially running on 32-bit...
Midway and Jarvis had a long history, one filled with collection of arcade hits. It was also a relationship that wasn’t entirely planned. What was clear from the beginning was that the video game industry was the career of choice for Jarvis; he spent far too many...
There have been many racing games before and after Mario Kart, but none of them compare to the popularity of Nintendo’s series of racing games that have been created for multiple consoles. Every console and handheld that proceeded after Super Nintendo had a new...
This is an article to tell you a little about my friends at iiRcade and the great product that I’m now excited to have in my own family room next to my Atari Breakout and Atari Star Wars Vector…it’s my iiRcade. When I first heard about the iiRcade I...