Star Wars – Atari’s 1983 Arcade Game: A Short Star Wars Day Story
It’s the 40th Anniversary of both Return of the Jedi and Atari’s Star Wars arcade game. So I thought I’d revisit the latter for Star Wars Day 2023! I was […]
Video Game Review: Gematombe
Out now on: PS4, Steam, Switch, Xbox One (Version Tested: Xbox Series X) Though remnants of 90s puzzle games still persist, for the most part the genre and style is […]
A New Article Appears: Rare Atari Games
I had a lot of fun putting together an article for Retro Dodo recently, in which I took a look at what the rarest and most valuable Atari games in […]
Video Game Review: Asteroids: Recharged (Xbox Series X)
Atari’s classic arcade games are still iconic and instantly recognisable today, especially for old gamers like me. Though Atari haven’t done a huge amount of exciting things with their back […]
Alien (Atari 2600): An Alien Day Video Game Review
Happy Alien Day everyone! Yes, it’s that day of the year which coincidentally matches up with the name of the planet in Aliens (at least if you’re using the American […]
News: Evercade Announces Gremlin Collection 1, Coming March 2022
This was genuinely exciting news to wake up to; the latest Evercade compilation is a collection of games from Gremlin, a sadly defunct publisher. Beginning in 1984 as Gremlin Graphics […]
Review: Atari Collection 2 (Evercade Cartridge 05)
With 20 Atari titles already represented on the Evercade (thanks to the very first cartridge in the console’s library, Atari Collection 1), it seems a bit odd that Blaze decided […]
Review: Atari Collection 1 (Evercade Cartridge 01)
Though the Starter Pack of the Evercade comes complete with Namco Museum Collection 1 – making that cartridge the one that many new Evercade owners are likely to try first […]
Console Review: Evercade
Since launching in May 2020, accompanied by a good selection of software, Blaze Entertainment’s cartridge-based, retro handheld console, the Evercade, seems to have been well received by the retro gaming […]
Review: Atari Pong Table (2019)
The sad, slow decline of the Atari brand, which began with the US video game crash of 1983, has been increasingly painful to behold. The once-beloved brand has been absolutely run […]
Star Wars – Atari’s 1983 Arcade Game: A Short Star Wars Day Story
I was just three years old when my Dad took me to the cinema to watch The Empire Strikes Back – and it made such a huge impact on my […]
Preview: Danger Scavenger
Launching this week on Nintendo Switch (as well as leaving early access on PC and Atari VCS), Forever Entertainment’s Danger Scavenger is a cyberpunk-themed roguelike shooter with a seriously cool […]
Opinion: The Influence and Appeal of Retro Games
Note: This is an amended and expanded version of an article I wrote for the first issue of print magazine, Pixel Bison. There was a time back in the 90s […]
Opinion: Next Gen – Again
I know I’ve written about this before, but something weird has happened not just with the ‘new’ next gen consoles, but also with the last few generations: I’m just not […]
Board Game Review: Centipede
Having owned an Atari 2600 as a kid – and playing it well into the late 80s, given that games could easily and regularly found for pennies at car boot […]
Gaming: 1979-2019
I was enchanted by the magic of video games from an incredibly early age. It’s hard to tell what the first game I saw was, but it was likely Space Invaders or a variation on it; there were always machines in local pubs and social clubs. A social club close to my home had a Phoenix cocktail table, though by […]
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