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Pac-Man is Calling You! (on this vintage landline Pac-Phone)

In the early ’80s, Pac-Man fever was at its height, and this Pac-Man landline telephone from American Telecommunication Corporation is just one more example of how broad Pac-Man’s marketing reach was. Once more, Jon takes to the shelves in Studio G to tell you a bit about how this decoration made its way to the […]

Jon

December 3, 2022

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We Deduce the Next RepliCade X from New Wave Toys – See if You Agree!

New Wave Toys is slated to reveal the next Wave 2 cabinet release at 2pm on the day of this video. We at GXG had a blast trying to deduce what the next logical unit would be based on the teased silhouette and what makes sense to us for the marketplace. Follow along, see if […]

Jon

March 23, 2023

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Crystal Castles: Atari XP SOLD OUT Collectors’ Series! – Atari VCS / 2600

Crystal Castles is an arcade game released by Atari, Inc. in 1983. The player controls Bentley Bear who has to collect gems located throughout trimetric-projected rendered castles while avoiding enemies, some of whom are after the gems as well. Crystal Castles is one of the first arcade action games with an ending, instead of continuing […]

Jon

July 13, 2023

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Atari Buys Digital Eclipse | See What Both Parties Have to Say!

Atari® — one of the world’s most iconic consumer brands and interactive entertainment producers — is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Digital Eclipse Entertainment Partners Co (“Digital Eclipse”), a game development studio originally founded in 1992 focused on the digital restoration of classic video games, based in Emeryville, […]

Jon

October 31, 2023

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Atari 2600 Target Fun: Can I BEAT Every “Robot” Game Option?

Target Fun (known as Air-Sea Battle from Atari) was released in 1977 by Sears as a launch title for the Sears Tele-Games Video Arcade. An amazing multiplayer competitive game, some players (including me) didn’t even realize that it included single-player “robot” variations. Let’s find out what passed for artificial computer intelligence in a game from […]

Jon

February 24, 2024

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Atari 2600 Thunderground from SEGA | It’s All About Design!

Thunderground is an Atari 2600 video game developed by Sega Electronics and released by Sega in 1983. It appears to have been inspired mainly by one section of arcade game Borderline (1981), which sees a player drive a tank underground firing at other tanks while avoiding not to get hit. Your task is to tunnel […]

Jon

May 17, 2024