Retro Gaming Archives – May/June 1991

by JasonBreininger | May 15, 2018 | 1980s, 1990s, Arcade, Columns, Console/Handheld, Reviews, The Story Of...

Consoles When any sort of new technology is made available for public consumption, there’s a portion of the population that will resist it and a portion that will embrace it wholeheartedly. Consumers of video games are no different in this regard. 1991 was a couple of...

Relating on a Personal Level with Atari’s Paperboy

by JasonBreininger | May 1, 2018 | 1980s, Arcade, Columns, Console/Handheld, Reviews, The Story Of...

Spring of 1985 was a dark time for video games. The Nintendo Entertainment System was still 6 months from seeing the light of day in the United States. Atari mania and Pac-Man fever felt like ages ago thanks to the shift away from home console gaming towards computer...

System Spotlight – Fairchild Channel F

by JasonBreininger | Apr 7, 2018 | 1970s, 1980s, Columns, Console/Handheld, The Story Of...

Atari gets a lot of credit for pioneering the ROM cartridge based home video gaming system craze and for good reason. They were the company that bought the rights to port popular arcade games and bring them into families living rooms. All anyone really wanted back...

45 Years of Arcade Gaming: 1980–1983 – By Adam Pratt

by Old School Gamer | Apr 3, 2018 | 1980s, Arcade, Magazine Preview, The Story Of...

  This is an update & re-write of an original article that was published on ArcadeHeroes.com on June 27th, 2012 entitled ‘40 Years Of Arcade Games’. You can still read that post here: http://arcadeheroes.com/2012/06/27/ 40-years-of-arcade-games/   In...

System Spotlight – 3DO

by JasonBreininger | Mar 31, 2018 | 1990s, Columns, Console/Handheld, Reviews, The Story Of...

  The early ’90s were something of a second coming for the wild west of video game console manufacturing. The early ’80s saw a number of console manufacturers trying to make a go of it after the success of the Atari VCS. Then there was the crash of ’83 and...

RETROSPECTIVE: Are We Ready for an N64 Classic Edition?

by Jason Russell | Mar 24, 2018 | Columns, Console/Handheld, Magazine Preview, The Story Of...

Hey Big N, What’s Next? By and large, we human-types like things in linear fashion.  We binge watch our shows by season and by episode, we like our phone books alphabetized and when it comes to experiencing our video games from years ago, we sort of expect a...