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It’s upgrade time for the small form-factor PC Jon hooks up to hotel TVs when he’s on the road (the last few have fallen victim to rough baggage handers). This time he’s stepping up to the Gigabyte Brix S (GB-BSi5HA-6200). Come along for the upgrade, setup, and review of this barebones PC from Gigabyte. Gigabyte […]

In this week’s round table comic book review we take a look at Aether & Empire from Blue Juice Comics written by Michael Horan & illustrated by Bong Dazo. At the height of Victoria’s reign, a scientific expedition to Mars has vanished and the daring rescue mission is now a race against time and space. […]

Donkey Kong,[a] also referred to as Donkey Kong ’94, is a 1994 puzzle-platform game developed by Nintendo and Pax Softnica and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy. Donkey Kong is loosely based on the 1981 arcade game of the same name and its sequel Donkey Kong Jr. Like in the original arcade and NES […]

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a 1964 Christmas stop motion animated television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions. It first aired December 6, 1964, on the NBC television network in the United States and was sponsored by General Electric under the umbrella title of The General Electric Fantasy Hour. The special was based on the 1949 […]

Rolling Thunder from the My Arcade line of Micro Players hit the scene back, in 2019, but if you’re looking to flesh out your tiny arcade collection, is this one you should seek out? Rolling Thunder is a run-and-gun shooter action game produced by Namco, originally released as a coin-operated arcade game in 1986. Take […]

As the Atari Video Computer System turned three years old in 1980, the installed userbase of just over a million consoles had doubled to over 2 million. More consoles meant more gamers, and more gamers meant a growing demand for more games. Keeping up their established pace, Atari released just shy of a dozen new titles during 1980, and while some of their key talent had departed by the end of '79 to form Activision, 1980 would prove to be a breakout year with the release of what would become the console's first killer-app. In this video, I'll be ranking every VCS game Atari released in 1980. #atari #retrogaming #tierlist #genxgrownup - LINKS BASIC Programming footage courtesy @MissionEdPossible - SHOP http://genxgrownup.com/amazon http://GenXGrownUp.com/merch - PODCAST http://GenXGrownUp.com/pod - SUPPORT US https://patreon.com/genxgrownup - WEB & SOCIAL http://GenXGrownUp.com/discord https://twitch.tv/genxgrownup http://fb.me/GenXGrownUp https://bsky.app/profile/genxgrownup.com https://www.tiktok.com/@genxgrownup https://www.instagram.com/genxgrownup/ http://GenXGrownUp.com - CHAPTERS 00:00 Welcome to 1980 01:00 VCS Growth 02:01 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe 03:07 Adventure 04:50 BASIC Programming 06:42 Circus Atari 07:56 Dodge 'Em 08:28 Golf 10:20 Maze Craze 11:39 Night Driver 12:53 Space Invaders 14:10 Video Checkers 14:59 Summary