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Captain America and The Avengers Dis-Assemble for An NES Platformer Created: Sunday, May 13, 2012 Updated: Monday, May 14, 2012
When Data East assembled the Avengers for the beat-'em-up 4-player arcade experience, Captain America and the Avengers, the game was successful enough to see a series of 2-player ports for the Sega...
Captain America and the Avengers Assemble In 4-Player Arcade Action Created: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 Updated: Sunday, May 13, 2012
Nazi's on the moon?! When the Red Skull constructs a giant laser pointed at Earth, it's time for the game's title hog Captain America to assemble Iron Man, Hawkeye, and The Vision in a 4-way beat-'...
2nd Annual Mario Invasion of the San Diego Comic-Con – 2008 Created: Monday, August 04, 2008 Updated: Friday, May 04, 2012
All the Mario, Luigi, Yoshi and Princess costumes, toys, clothes and art sightings at the 2008 San Diego Comic-Con International, all confidently collected in one handy-dandy image gallery for your...
2nd Annual Mario Invasion of the San Diego Comic-Con – 2008 Created: Sunday, August 03, 2008 Updated: Friday, May 04, 2012
All the Mario, Luigi, Yoshi and Princess costumes, toys, clothes and art sightings at the 2008 San Diego Comic-Con International, all confidently collected in one handy-dandy image gallery for your...
Adventures in Text - The Origin of Adventure Games Created: Monday, April 30, 2012 Updated: Monday, April 30, 2012
Today with graphically rich games in high definition, with 3D art so detailed that you can literally see the pours in a characters skin, and every strand of their flowing hair, it's hard to believe..
The Life of Jack Tramiel Part 3 - From Commodore to Atari Created: Saturday, April 28, 2012 Updated: Sunday, April 29, 2012
After Jack Tramiel took his company, Commodore, from a small typewriter importer/manufacturer to become one of the biggest players in the home computer market with the release of the Commodore 64,...
The Life of Jack Tramiel Part 2 - Commodore Enters The Computer Age Created: Friday, April 20, 2012 Updated: Sunday, April 29, 2012
After surviving the Jewish Ghetto of Nazi occupied Poland and the Ahlem concentration camp, Jack Tramiel worked his way up to the top of the business world with his typewriter importer turned calcu...
The Life of Jack Tramiel Part 1 - Holocaust Survivor to Commodore Founder Created: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 Updated: Sunday, April 29, 2012
Not only was Tramiel founder of Commodore, taking it from typewriter repair to home computer giant, then followed it up by purchasing Atari, Inc. moving it into the 32-bit computer age, but in his ...
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline – Retro Gaming Rules in a Dystopian Future Created: Sunday, April 29, 2012 Updated: Sunday, April 29, 2012
In a bleak future the
The Life of Jack Tramiel Part 4 - The Atari Commodore War Created: Saturday, April 28, 2012 Updated: Saturday, April 28, 2012
After bouncing back from being forced out of Commodore, the company he founded and single handedly built into an empire, Jack Tramiel was now the owner of Atari, with plans to be the first to relea..
Outhouse for the TRS-80: Defending Video Game Toilets from Thieves and Aliens Created: Sunday, April 08, 2012 Updated: Thursday, April 19, 2012
Doesn't it just go figure? You finally get an outhouse all to yourself, in the middle of nowhere, where no one can bother you; then out of nowhere, a bunch of thieves and squatters come along to us..
Super Breakout - Arcade Success Though Design Iteration Created: Saturday, March 31, 2012 Updated: Saturday, March 31, 2012
Video game experts state that great games come from iterative design, meaning that the more you build upon your ideas and design, expand upon them, and rework them based on testing and feedback, th..
The Art of Video Games: From Pac-Man to Mass Effect - A Video Game Coffee Table Book Created: Saturday, March 31, 2012 Updated: Saturday, March 31, 2012
The coffee table art book The Art of Video Games: From Pac-Man to Mass Effect, was put together by the team who spearheaded the Smithsonian Institute exhibit by the same name, showcasing the games ..
Breakout – Atari's Block Breaking Single Player Pong Created: Sunday, March 25, 2012 Updated: Sunday, March 25, 2012
After Atari made a big splash on the arcade and home-console market with Pong, the company's co-founder Nolan Bushnell, sought to find a new way to milk the franchise. They had already exhaustively..
Gotcha: The Original Sex Maze - Atari 1973 Created: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 Updated: Sunday, March 25, 2012
Video games are always the topic of controversy, but have you ever wondered what was the very first controversial video game? Surprisingly it wasn't due to violence, or even the game's content. The..
The Best Arcade Games of 1978 - A Classic Video Game Year In Review Created: Monday, December 29, 2008 Updated: Sunday, March 25, 2012
It was the year that Grease and Halloween made their theatrical premiere, the Blues Brothers debuted on Saturday Night Live, The Village Peoples’ song Y.M.C.A. was at the top of the charts an..
Best Arcade Games of 1981 – The Year of Video Arcade Innovation Created: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 Updated: Sunday, March 25, 2012
In the early '80s video games were hot, with video arcades popping up all over the country. While the arcade market had been saturated with rip-offs and clones of previous hits such as Pong and Spa..
Ms. Pac-Man – The Unauthorized History of Arcades First Female Hero Created: Saturday, March 17, 2012 Updated: Sunday, March 18, 2012
After landing the North American license to distribute Namco's megahit Pac-Man in North America, Midway Games came up with a foolproof plan to keep the Pac-train moving. They put out an unofficial,..
Retro Video Game Cereal - A Balanced Breakfast for Old-School Gamers Created: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 Updated: Monday, March 05, 2012
Everyone knows that classic video games are fun to play, but did you also know they were once part of a sugar-infused
Shigeru Miyamoto - The Historic Creator of Mario, Donkey Kong, and Zelda Created: Thursday, February 23, 2012 Updated: Monday, March 05, 2012
After years of developing his latest epic, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, historic game designer Shigeru Miyamoto announced he is going to return to his retro video game roots. Nintendo claims..
Shigeru Miyamoto – Classic Video Game Database – 1979 to 1999 Created: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 Updated: Wednesday, February 29, 2012
A hub of historic game designer and producer Shigeru Miyamoto’s classic video games and a launch pad to view reviews and profiles of his historic titles.
The Legend of Zelda – History of Link's First Adventure Created: Monday, April 07, 2008 Updated: Thursday, February 23, 2012
The original fantasy adventure that blends RPG and arcade action into the largest, richest, most powerful game created for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
Pac-Man: The Complete First Season – DVD Review Created: Thursday, February 23, 2012 Updated: Thursday, February 23, 2012
29 years after it went off the air, Warner Archive's has released ultra-rate'80s retro pop-culture Saturday Morning phenomena, Pac-Man, in a DVD collection of the shows first season that is a retro..
Sonic The Hedgehog - Sega Genesis Game Review Created: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 Updated: Monday, February 20, 2012
At the height of the console wars Sega took the battle in a whole new direction by releasing a game so popular that it would allow the Sega Genesis to become the dominating console of the 16-bit er..
History of Popeye the Arcade Game - Nintendo and Miyamoto Bring The Spinach Scarfing Sailor to Video Games Created: Sunday, February 19, 2012 Updated: Sunday, February 19, 2012
A year after negotiations for the Popeye video game license fell apart, Nintendo and their legendary game designer Shigeru Miyamoto got a second crack at a Popeye arcade game thanks to the success ..
Greatest Classic Video Game Romances Created: Saturday, February 13, 2010 Updated: Monday, February 13, 2012
Ah, digital amore! Even in the world of gaming romance always springs eternal. While most of the lady loves are Princesses who need rescuing by their dashing working class heroes, video games have ..
Greatest Classic Video Game Romances Created: Saturday, February 13, 2010 Updated: Monday, February 13, 2012
Ah, digital amore! Even in the world of gaming romance always springs eternal. While most of the lady loves are Princesses who need rescuing by their dashing working class heroes, video games have ..
Greatest Classic Video Game Romances Created: Sunday, February 14, 2010 Updated: Monday, February 13, 2012
Ah, digital amore! Even in the world of gaming romance always springs eternal. While most of the lady loves are Princesses who need rescuing by their dashing working class heroes, video games have ..
Weirdest Pong Cabinets - Atari's Classic In Bizarre Packages Created: Sunday, February 12, 2012 Updated: Sunday, February 12, 2012
Ever spot Pong in a barrel, or see Snoopy taking a snooze on top of the game cabinet? Don't you wish your doctor had a Pong cabinet in their waiting room? Well at one time all of these weird versio..
History of the Sonic The Hedgehog - Speeding Genesis To The Top Created: Sunday, January 22, 2012 Updated: Wednesday, February 08, 2012
When the Sega Genesis launched in 1989 it was off to a rough start. While the Genesis may have been the first true 16-bit console, its direct competitor, the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System, w..
Weird Pong Cabinets – Atari’s Classic In Bizarre Packages Created: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 Updated: Tuesday, January 31, 2012
When Atari released Pong in 1972, the game was a monumental hit! Soon bars and entertainment arcades were shoving their pinball machines aside to make room for the addictive two-player video take o..
Gun Fight aka Western Gun - The First People Killing Game Created: Sunday, January 29, 2012 Updated: Sunday, January 29, 2012
While there are loads of popular non-violent video games ranging from Pong and Tetris to Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games, video games have always been associated with violence. There..

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