Designing Yars’ Revenge (Part 1 – The Inception) – By Howard Scott Warshaw
“Talent borrows, genius steals.” -Oscar Wilde My first game for Atari ultimately became what is now known as Yars’ Revenge. This is not how it started. Originally it was assigned as a coin-op conversion of a Cinematronics arcade game called Star Castle. The key to...
Just for Qix: Space Invaders – By Michael Thomasson
The Story of How Tomohiro Nisikado Revived the Early Coin-Op Industry and Inadvertently Helped Save Atari’s Home VCS Console In the late 70s, PONG clones were running amok and the market was so saturated that the coin-op industry was in a real slump. The release...
Games That Haunt Me: Mega Man 8
I’ve been playing video games for a good long while, but there are some games that, to this very day, haunt me. Not because the game is bad per se, or because something happened to said game that made it unplayable. No, I’m talking about games that, for...
The Seventies: The Magnavox Odyssey – By Ethan Johnson
The Magnavox Odyssey, the world’s first game console, wasn’t actually successful upon its initial release. While it would reimagine itself with the Odyssey 100 and 200 dedicated consoles as well as the Odyssey 2, the original model only sold 350,000 units over three...
The Lion King
Earlier this year, Disney released their CGI remake of The Lion King. This fall, they will re-release their 1994 Sega Genesis adaptation of the film. It will be part of a package which also includes the Aladdin video game (as mentioned in last week’s post). For those...Latest Magazine For Paid Subscribers
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