It's January, time to start working on those New Years Resolutions. This year in addition to the regular self-promise to play more video games, it's also time to start exercising our minds. Starting today we introduce to you a brand new regular feature, the Retro Video Game Book Club. Once a month you'll find a new review focusing on books about or based on classic video games.
What better book to kick-start our new feature than with the new video game guide, Classic Home Video Games, 1989 - 1990!
This latest volume in Brett Weiss' Classic Home Video Games book series covers the console systems released between 1989 and 1990, spanning the Sega Genesis, Neo Geo and TurboGrafx-16. The hardback book is chock-full of encapsulated reviews of each and every single game released for the systems throughout North America.
So sit yourself down in a comfy chair, put on them reading glasses and join me as we curl up with a good book...about retro video games.
Happy New Year! It's the beginning of 2012 and time for us to take a look back at the very best arcade games of the year. Of course we're all about classic video games, so it don't make sense for us to look back on this past year. We're gong to take a retro rewind back 30 years to celebrate the 
In a far off galaxy alien invaders torment an innocent planet, kidnapping the humanoid inhabitants and transforming them into berserk killer mutants. Their only hope for survival is in the hands of The Defender, a lone gunner space ship who must destroy the enemy crafts and rescue their victims in the first side-scrolling video game...
The game as well as our hungry hero have become icons of arcade games and