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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 […]

The announcement of the Atari 7800+ has been met with a fair amount of pushback from some fans. The key criticism being, “it’s the same as last year’s model in a new shell.” And, to be fair, they have a point. In this brief video, Jon outlines what he perceives to be the root cause […]

  In this video, Jon pores over every frame of the reveal trailer to see what advance information we can deduce about this forthcoming title from Atari. Atari’s Fatal Run 2089 delivers over-the-top driving action across a post-apocalyptic landscape. You’ll be drifting into hairpin turns while traveling at insane speeds across 20 levels, each with […]

Atari has just announced the 7800+ coming winter 2024, and the Atari+ Platform initiative virtually guarantees this won’t be the last “plus” console. But while there are plenty of voices suggesting the Jaguar+, 5200+, or even Lynx+ is the next logical step, in this video, we make the case for why the next “plus” console […]

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 […]

Digital Eclipse, the developer behind the likes of Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration and Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story, has unveiled another entry in its critically acclaimed series of interactive documentaries, this time focusing on legendary puzzler Tetris. It’s called Tetris Forever, and it’s coming to PC and “multiple” consoles this winter. Tetris Forever is […]