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My Arcade Micro Player – Elevator Action

We love the My Arcade Micro Player machines here at GenXGrownUp and Elevator Action is one of our favorite arcade machines from the golden era. We’ve shown you the My Arcade Micro Player Galaga machine and we’ve even shown you a My Arcade Micro Player hack. Now it’s time to dig in on Elevator Action. […]

Jon

August 28, 2020

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Atari VCS Honest Review: Six Months Later

Join GenXGrownUp for Perks! » bit.ly/395HEr9 Six months ago we first got out hands on the Atari VCS and delivered our honest review of this latest offering from Atari. Atari has delivered updates to both the software and firmware of the console & controller, but we want to know what these changes have done, if […]

Jon

July 10, 2021

CONTINUE IS FOR SUCKERS! – Using Continue in Classic Arcade Games is a Terrible Idea

In classic arcade games, where a play costs a quarter, the introduction of the “continue” option was interesting. It offered to let you resume the game from where you were when you last ran out of lives. It seemed great, but is it really just a ploy to get your quarters faster and deny you […]

Jon

February 6, 2022

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Atari’s Yars Recharged Review Prep Live Stream – GenXGrownUp Live

Yars: Recharged is the fully modern update to the Atari 2600 classic, Yars’ Revenge. Dodge projectiles and nibble away the enemy shields to power up the mighty Zorlon Cannon. Take down the Qotile space stations in this frantic bullet swarm shooter. Level the playing field by teaming up with a friend in two player co-op […]

Jon

August 26, 2022

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Genuine Arcade ROMs in New My Arcade Releases? Let’s Check the Evidence!

My Arcade (Dreamgear) and Atari are collaborating on three new pieces of hardware first showcased at CES 2023. But that’s not all that was shown featured Atari, but rather some familiar franchises in some unfamiliar packaging. Do all these clues point to the evidence of arcade ROMs coming in new units from My Arcade? My […]

Jon

January 9, 2023

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Collectible Arcade Cabinet Printed Circuit Boards from Atari?

Atari has partnered with restoration and recreation specialists Retro Arcade to create a new series of collectible printed circuit boards. These amazing reproductions are officially licensed and authentic reproductions based on the original PCB sets. This new offering seems a bit odd to us; watch this quick video and then sound off in the comments […]

Jon

April 27, 2023

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