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Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration – GenXGrownUp Live

Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration takes players on an interactive journey through 50 years of video games via interviews with designers, developers and industry leaders, documentary footage, product design documents, high-res original artwork, and a curated list of more than 90 playable games. We’ve been waiting for this one for a while now — let’s […]

Jon

November 11, 2022

Atari 2600 Superman: Game-Breaking Exploits to Achieve an IMPOSSIBLE SCORE!

Superman is a video game programmed by John Dunn for the Atari Video Computer System (later renamed Atari 2600) and released in 1979 by Atari, Inc. The player controls Superman, whose quest is to explore an open-ended environment to find three pieces of a bridge that was destroyed by Lex Luthor, capture Luthor and his […]

Jon

April 6, 2024

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

Casey’s Gold for Atari 2600 | EXPLORE Gold Rush Gulch!

In CASEY’S GOLD™, you play as Casey O’Kelly, conductor for the Gold Rush Gulch Railroad. With the recent gold strike in the hills just outside of town, thousands of prospectors have inundated the sleepy town of Gold Rush Gulch and the railroad has been hired to move all that gold safely back East. But there’s […]

Jon

December 14, 2024

Joystick-It Touchscreen Controller Review

Directional controls on a touchscreen device are pretty far from ideal. The Joystick-It promises to fix that. Does it deliver on that promise? Buy » amzn.to/2vpTKZs Subscribe » GenXGrownUp.com/yt Facebook » fb.me/GenXGrownUp Twitter » GenXGrownUp.com/twitter Website » GenXGrownUp.com Podcast » GenXGrownUp.com/pod Merchandise » GenXGrownUp.com/merch Theme: “Grown Up” by Beefy » beefyness.com A proud affiliate of […]

Jon

June 18, 2017

Pac-Man: Birth of an Icon Special Edition Quick Look – Cook & Becker / Tim Lapetino

Pac-Man: Birth of an Icon is a new commemorative hardcover book full of historical imagery, concept designs, marketing photos and more. The book examines Pac-Man’s design philosophy and origins through the artists, designers, developers, and other creative teams who brought PAC-MAN to life. #pacman #collectible #genxgrownup BUY NOW amzn.to/3KSSGkU (affiliate) PATREONpatreon.com/genxgrownup MERCH GenXGrownUp.com/merch PODCAST GenXGrownUp.com/pod […]

Jon

April 16, 2022