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Basic Fun Bringing Arcade Classic Mini Arcade Toys BACK in 2024? | NEW Pac-Man Spotted!

Basic Fun’s line of Arcade Classics tabletop video game toys were all the rage in the late teens, but new released evaporated around 2020 – or so we thought! Just in the past week, sightings of a new Pac-Man with a 2024 copyright and updated box art started to appear in Walmart retail stores. Could […]

Jon

April 29, 2024

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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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Was Coleco’s Donkey Kong Port for Atari 2600 SABOTAGED? | Garry Kitchen Settles It!

FULL ONE-HOUR INTERVIEW: genxgrownup.com/GK One of the coolest benefits of being a content creator is having the opportunity to actually speak with some of the key figures who laid the foundation of the video game industry, and my guest for this video is without a doubt one of those individuals. He was there in the […]

Jon

April 24, 2024

Atari’s Lunar Lander Beyond | The 2024 Reimagining of the Arcade Original

In this narrative-centric revival of Atari’s classic IP, players are placed in the shoes of a newly appointed captain of the Pegasus corporation with the task of leading a fleet of landers. What begins as a simple task of completing risky (but standard) landing missions quickly escalates when a series of mysterious portals open up […]

Jon

April 22, 2024

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Atari 2600 Spider-Man – He Can Sling a Web, But CAN’T CRAWL UP WALLS?!

Spider-Man is a vertical scrolling action game programmed by Laura Nikolich for the Atari 2600, and released in 1982 by Parker Brothers. It was both the first video game to feature Spider-Man and the first Marvel Comics based video game. Norman Osborn has been removed of the Goblin formula and incarcerated by Spider-Man. He manages […]

Jon

April 19, 2024

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Atari Berzerk Review – 1:6 Scale RepliCade from New Wave Toys – 1980 Arcade Classic

Berzerk is a multidirectional shooter designed by Alan McNeil and released for arcades in 1980 by Stern Electronics of Chicago. Following Taito’s Stratovox, it is one of the first arcade video games with speech synthesis. Berzerk places the player in a series of top-down, maze-like rooms containing armed robots. Home ports were published for the […]

Jon

April 17, 2024

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