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In Tomytronic’s Scramble Handheld toy, your mission is to invade the Scramble Star System and destroy the Enemy Space Base which is guarded by a barrier. You must break through the barrier to destroy the Enemy Space Base. Based on the Stern arcade video game first released in 1981, this consumer electronics toy is a […]

Ever since I got my Hyperkin RetroN 77 Atari 2600 console last year, I’ve been want to try out the matching Hyperkin Ranger hybrid controller. Does it live up to the hype? Control your favorite games in a way you’ve never done before. The ranger for Atari 2600 and RetroN 77 is a gamepad-style controller […]

In this week’s comic review episode we take a look at Zinnober from Scout Comics, written by Ralph Singh & Thorsten Brochhaus. Twenty years ago dragons returned to Earth and laid waste to human civilization. In the event the surviving humans named “Zinnober,” Claire, then a young girl, lost her parents to the devastating force […]

Launched in 1977, The Atari VCS turned four years old in 1981. The number units sold in '81 more than doubled from the previous year meaning greater than five million homes now had an Atari hooked up to the TV and were potential customers for new games. Slowing from previous years' schedules, Atari only rolled out only nine new games this year - with two of those being Sears exclusives. How did the runaway success of the previous year's Space Invaders influence this new roster AND, how would Atari shift to adapt to new competition? In this video, I'll be ranking every VCS game Atari released in 1981. #atari #retrogaming #tierlist #genxgrownup - SHOP http://genxgrownup.com/amazon http://GenXGrownUp.com/merch - PODCAST http://GenXGrownUp.com/pod - SUPPORT US https://patreon.com/genxgrownup - WEB & SOCIAL http://GenXGrownUp.com/discord https://twitch.tv/genxgrownup http://fb.me/GenXGrownUp https://bsky.app/profile/genxgrownup.com https://www.tiktok.com/@genxgrownup https://www.instagram.com/genxgrownup/ http://GenXGrownUp.com - SPONSORS King of Nerds » http://kingofnerds.tv Order of Cosmic Champions » http://www.orderofcosmicchampions.com - CHAPTERS 00:00 Atari 1981 00:54 Taking a Breath 02:07 Asteroids 03:26 Missile Command 04:35 Othello 05:47 Pelé's Soccer 07:12 Steeplechase 08:37 Stellar Track 10:20 Super Breakout 11:23 Video Pinball 12:30 Warlords 13:42 Summary

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 […]

The Atari 8-bit computer line is finally getting its due in the form of THE400 Mini from Retro Games & PLAION. If you are an Atari 8-bit fan, then you know what this is exciting news. But if you maybe don’t have any experience with or exposure to this mid-80s computer line, then allow us […]