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Again this year, My Arcade continues to drop cryptic, teaser images on social media hinting at new product designs which we expect to be revealed at CES 2024 (Consumer Electronics Show). Join Jon has he scours the images for clues to what My Arcade might have in store for the gaming market this year. #myarcade […]

Have you heard of the Coleco Chameleon book through Kickstarter? That’s right. One of the original Co-Hosts/Founders of the Retro Gaming Roundup podcast, Mike James, agreed to sit down with GenXGrownUp and discuss his new book, Smoke & Mirrors, which gives readers the inside scoop on one of the most famous Crowdfunding Scams of all […]

In 1980, Mattel Electronics published this Dungeons & Dragons Computer Labyrinth board game. One or two players battle against the computer in a randomly-generated maze to find the treasure and avoid the dragon that guards it. Jon found this one at a local toy show and despite never seeing it before, immediately decided to give […]

The Atari 2600’s TV Type Switch: An Important Piece of the VCS Legacy The “TV Type” switch on the Atari 2600 was a hardware feature that allowed users to switch between two different video output modes: “Color” and “Black and White”. Initially, in the “Color” mode, Atari 2600 titles would output a color signal to […]

In this week’s comic review episode we take a look at The Vigis, a self-published book written by Matthew Foote & illustrated by Ryan English. The cops are incompetent and the supers don’t care, so it’s up to these five teens to look after their own neighborhood in this awesome black & white book from […]

In Colossal Fossil Fight from Gabriel Toys, each of the two players use a dinosaur to pick up bones from the bone yard and place them into their den. There are three types of bones (legs, ribs, and skulls) which are worth one, three, and five points, respectively. Once all the bones are removed from […]