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Inducted Year: 2007 When people play today, chances are very good they’re playing a video game. No company did more to make that true than Atari. Atari did not make the first home video game system—that honor belonged to Magnavox Odyssey. But Atari was the company that truly popularized this play form. Atari first entered the home market with its 1975 electronic table-tennis game Pong. But its true game changer came out two years later: Atari 2600 Video Computer System. The 2600 [...]
If you are from my generation, then you would surely know what a Game & Watch is. No? Well, long before the Sony PSP and the Nintendo GameBoy, we had the Game & Watch (also by Nintendo). The games themselves are quite repetitive and simplistic in nature, but that's the beauty of it. You do not need to memorize any fancy button combinations and such. It just repeats it cycle and it gets faster and faster until, well, you drop an egg or get caught by the octopus or drop the person you are rescuing from the fire. And when you're not playing the game (which is rare!), the console can double as a watch. Hence, Game & Watch! In the mid-90s, I banded together with a colleague and fellow 80s enthusiast to search all over Metro Manila for stuff that we can buy from those glorious years. We were able to buy a number of die cast metal action figures from our favourite anime shows, and even a couple of VHS tapes. But not the elusive Game & Watch. Very rare. Well, I found something in the internet that can just as well satisfy our yearning for reliving those good old days: Pica Pic's handheld electronic games! The website has a horde of these fantastic games which you can play! Yes! Play! And as a bonus, you get a really huge screen to play your games in! Good for these eyes which have seen a lot of gaming for many years. Sadly, Fire and Parachute is not in the range of games available, but the collection more than makes up for it. Well, there's Octopus! And there's also a Russian version of Mickey Mouse Factory, which I'm sure works the same way as the one I am familiar with. I can't wait to play... but hang on, it's nearly midnight so it's way past my bedtime. Should've found this last weekend! Oh well, I'll surely be back tomorrow. I hope it records scores... Visit the Pica Pic website to play!
Tim Sweeney warns the eighties Epic games' Tim Sweeney has felt the need to remind the the world that Unreal Engine 5 won't work on the Commodore 64.
At one time, this was essential. Now, kids wouldn't have a clue what it did.
Is it too soon to be nostalgic for old computer games? We don't think so, as Good Things celebrates all things nineties and 8-bit
Back before downloads and torrents and ridiculously large (let’s just say unlimited) capacity hard drives and USB sticks; the amount of storage for software piracy could be determined by the physical size of the would-be pirate’s table or desk (those piles of disks were all over them), and the distribution and exchanges were determined by the physical size of their pockets – you could only fit so many floppies in them per day! That being said, the ultimate downfall of the retro gaming scene (back when it was simply called “gaming”) was undoubtedly software piracy.It was everywhere; on the streets, in the pub (I assume), at work and at school. Kids were swapping floppies like Panini stickers in the yard and taking 50 pack boxes of disks to their friend’s house and not leaving until every one of them had the name of a new game freshly scrawled on their labels with a pencil.
Once again I've knocked up another screenshot quiz. This time 30 screenshots for the fantastic Commodore Amiga 500. In my opinion the best retro microcomputer in the world. They're not all great or classic games by any means because then most Amiga fans would breeze through the quiz in minutes. But I have played them all so none of them are ridiculously rare. So as before, either give your answers in the comments section here or on the Retro Rekall Page or the Retro Rekall Group or even on my personal Facebook page. Don't worry, if you need to send me a friend request I'll accept.
Simply put, classic board games are classic gift ideas. If you’re giving one gift for an entire family, board games are the way to go. They’re also great for young families just startin…
Here's a collection of classic photos from arcades in America, London and even Iran.
