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Five years ago, My Arcade released the Namco Museum Mini Player. It was a 10” cabinet with a vertical aspect ratio screen, loaded with real arcade versions of a number of classics like Pac-Man, Dig Dug, & Galaga. It was released right alongside the first wave of Micro Players that included NES ports of the […]

Atari brings the computer age home. Again! Welcome back to the Atari 8-bit world of computing! The powerful Atari 400 set a new standard of capability with its release in 1979, and along with its subsequent models, has been loved by gamers and computer enthusiasts for decades. Now Retro Games and Atari have collaborated to […]

Atari and PLAION have a number of new products about to be released, and they were generous enough to drop-ship a care package to GenXGrownUp HQ with some samples a few weeks back. At the time we could only look at the oustide of the packages, but now we can take a deeper look at […]

Manic Miner is a platform game written for the ZX Spectrum by Matthew Smith. It was published by Bug-Byte in 1983, then later the same year by Software Projects. The first game in the Miner Willy series, the design was inspired by Miner 2049er (1982) for the Atari 8-bit computers. Retro Gamer called Manic Miner […]

Welcome to another episode of Bit By Bit, your go-to source for the latest in gaming news! In this video, we’re revealing a little-known secret: how to play FREE retro games on your Nintendo Switch without breaking the bank! We’ll also dive into the latest developments around DRM in gaming, what it means for players, […]

All the thrills and spills of the arcade game in a cardboard format in the Pole Position board game! Released in 1983 by Parker Brothers, players use various movement cards (move 5, move 4, move rookie/move 2, move 2/shift track) in an attempt to be the first car around the track. Adapted from the popular […]