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In Atari’s Yars Rising promo kit, they include the regular swag, but a fascinating boxed cartridge housing the “Qotech Training Program!” What’s in this weird little custom cart? From the renowned development studio WayForward Technologies, Inc. (Shantae, River City Girls, Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp) comes Yars Rising, a 2D action adventure exploration of one […]

“Why do old people play bad games?” That’s a common question in comments, and while I disagree with the phrasing, I understand what’s being asked. Why, when games with so much more depth and audiovisual fidelity exist, do gamers in my demographic tend to still gravitate toward blocky old games from 30 & 40 years […]

Demon Attack is a fixed shooter video game created by Rob Fulop for the Atari 2600 and published by Imagic in 1982. The game involves the player controlling a laser cannon from the surface of a planet, shooting winged demons that fly down and attack the player in different sets of patterns. Fulop designed the […]

Micro Games of America (later known as MGA Entertainment) released a line of handheld LCD games based on the original Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man arcade games. The handheld line was launched in 1992, and continued production well into the 2000s. The series is noted as being very ubiquitous, with over 25 different models released in […]

New “story trailer” for Yars Rising (coming September 10, 2024) just dropped, and Jon does his best to break it down in this reaction & analysis without giving anything away! From the renowned development studio WayForward Technologies, Inc. (Shantae, River City Girls, Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp) comes Yars Rising, a 2D action adventure exploration […]

River Raid is a video game developed by Carol Shaw for the Atari Video Computer System (later renamed Atari 2600) and released in 1982 by Activision. The player controls a fighter jet over the River of No Return in a raid behind enemy lines. The goal is to navigate the flight by destroying enemy tankers, […]