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Intellivision Beauty and the Beast from Imagic | It’s TOTALLY NOT Donkey Kong!

What do you get when you combine equal parts Donkey Kong, Popeye, and Crazy Climber into a single Intellivision cartridge? You get the first non-2600 game we’ve covered in this Friday Plays series, Beauty and the Beast! With the announcement last week that Atari acquired the Intellivision brand and game library, my interest in learning […]

Jon

May 31, 2024

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Tetris Tiny Arcade from Super Impulse – REVIEW

This fast paced puzzle game never gets old! As the Tetrimino shapes fall from the top of the Matrix, you must arrange them to make horizontal rows of blocks in order to clear lines. As you increase your skill, so does the pace of the falling Tetriminos. If your stack reaches the top of the […]

Jon

December 13, 2022

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Atari 2600 Yars’ Revenge – The Ultimate Variation of the Ultimate VCS Game!

Yars’ Revenge is a video game released for the Atari 2600 in 1982. It was created by Howard Scott Warshaw and is Atari’s best-selling original game for the 2600. The player controls an insect-like creature called a Yar who must nibble or shoot through a barrier in order to fire its Zorlon Cannon into the […]

Jon

April 26, 2024

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FMV Psychological Horror-Thriller Hello Stranger Out Today for PC via Steam

Enter a world where your choices are the only thing standing between life and death – from renowned FMV storyteller Paul Raschid.  London, UK – May 29th 2025. PRM Games is thrilled to announce that Hello Stranger, the highly anticipated FMV psychological horror-thriller from Paul Raschid releases today for PC via Steam for $9.99 USD/ […]

George

May 29, 2025

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Why Spend Money on RETROGAMING Toys & Gadgets? ?

We review a LOT of arcade and retro video game toys & gadgets here on GenXGrownUp. And without fail, on each one, we’ll get at least a comment or two asking, “Why would anyone spend money on these products when you could just emulate the game for free on your home computer or a Raspberry […]

Jon

August 17, 2024

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Atari Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back | “The Latest Icon of the Imbecile Industry?”

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back is a scrolling shooter video game programmed by Rex Bradford for the Atari 2600 and published by Parker Brothers in 1982. It was the first licensed Star Wars video game. The player must control Luke Skywalker in a snowspeeder to battle against Imperial AT-AT walkers on the planet Hoth. […]

Jon

April 5, 2024

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