Welcome to our establishment! The special for the day is this weird but fun 13-year-old stop motion video, by Legobuilder9000, reproducing a number of video games but Legofied. It’s not perfect (I noticed the Pac-Man ghosts behaving in an unghostlike manner), but an entertaining thing to glimpse through of a Sunday morning. (5 minutes) For … Continue reading "Sunday Sundry: Video Games Reproduced…
What was the first type of video game you remember playing?
pc/personal computermobile (tablet or phone)browser or “flash” gamearcadeNintendo console (Switch, Wii, DS etc.)Sony console (PlayStation series)Microsoft console (Xbox series)Sega console (Dreamcast, Saturn, Game Gear etc.)another video game console (Jaguar, Atari, Quest headset, etc.)something elseI’ve never played video gamessee…
Used to be there were many thousands of different arcade games that you could find nearly, in arcades, convenience stores, grocery stores, gas stations and sometimes even just on a street corner. In the US (the country that originated arcade games somehow), those days have been gone for a long time, unless you count video … Continue reading "Obscure Arcade Games, Presented By Gary"
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It’s a weird thing to change, but there is a slight difference between the version of Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! in the Playchoice-10 version than any other version of the program. As explained on the NES/Famicom game’s page at The Cutting Room Floor, when you start a game in Playchoice Punch-Out, it asks you to enter … Continue reading "PlayChoice-10 Punch-Out Is Different From Cartridge"
We dusted off the image editor and made the first new page header in years! It’s about time too, for it’s time to shorten our list of pages before they threaten to overwhelm our nonexistent offices. 1. Seminal official D&D blobber Eye of The Beholder got a C64 port three years ago. That’s how long … Continue reading "Multilink Monday 5/11/26"
TEMPEST vs TEMPEST is a free book about two of the strangest-looking arcade games ever made. The first is Dave Theurer's _Tempest_ from 1981, the Atari cabinet where you spun a metal knob to rotate around the rim of a glowing geometric tube, shooting spiders and flippers as they crawled up toward you. — Read the rest
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Plaion and SNK have announced the return of the Neo Geo AES System, an arcade legend that unfortunately was likely priced well out of range for many of us back in the day. With this re-release, you can now correct the past with this return of this arcade king. Unlike other comebacks, this will be [...]
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When Ridge Racer hit the arcades in the early 1990s, it came in a few different versions. The last variant used three large CRTs to create a wraparound display for the …read more
It used to be a shit TGI Fridays. It's now going to be a food hall from the masters of cool venues and great food. This is what progress looks like.
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A while back [Jack] came across a Taito arcade game that neither he nor any of his mates recognized. The game was Adventure Canoe and part of the collection of …read more
"Mini arcade"-type products tend to be rinky and "tablet dock" products tend to be dinky, but I think I like Lenovo's new mini arcade dock for its Legion Y700 Android tablet. It has an 8-direction joystick, 8 control buttons and five at the back of the panel, and a power switch. — Read the rest
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It’s an hour and 54 minutes long, but Greg Sewart’s doc on the Ridge Racer series is a through backgrounder on every game with that name, and all the others too like Rave Racer and Rage Racer. From 1993 to 2016, it’s a family reunion of the whole dual-R clan, from arcades to Sony consoles … Continue reading "Web Documentary on Ridge Racer Games"
So this part three of my Next Fest demo impressions will be the last for single player titles. I am hoping to play some co-op and multiplayer games this weekend and put up one final impression post by Sunday or Monday. AI disclosure: I personally do not like the use of AI, and therefore did not play any demos that disclosed AI usage at the time of this writing. I checked every game’s description…
Gauntlet is one of the best games that Atari Games made, and is certainly one of the best known, but it’s interesting how little even people who played it know about it. Gauntlet has 100 levels, although seven of them take the form of an in-game tutorial. The first level has three exits; one if … Continue reading "10-hour Superplay of Arcade Gauntlet"