In the many years before convincing three-dimensional graphics were possible, video game developers had to get creative to realize their vision. When it came to racing games, that creativity typically ...

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When the early-'80s home video game business began dwindling in the US, Atari looked to a Laserdisc arcade cabinet to boost its fortunes. That's according to Richard Taylor, who served as the film ...

When Roger Ebert declared that video games could never be a true art form on the order of film and literature, it ignited the outrage of game designers and fans alike. After all, in fusing visual art, ...

I bought things in Japan. Duh. When I go digging through thrift stores in San Francisco, I only occasionally find some piece of old videogame history that I want to buy. Going to Akihabara is the ...

This past weekend, many people binge-watched Stranger Things 2, the 80s-soaked monster series on Netflix. Like its mega-popular first season, the show's second outing loves basking in its era, with ...

Thailand based Sanuk Games has an interesting PlayStation Mini game coming out tomorrow called Hysteria Project. Similar to Night Trap, Hysteria Project is entirely filmed. You pay attention to the ...

Sonic LaserDisc is a fangame that tributes to Sonic CD, focused on exploration and puzzles based on time travel. Pokemon, Super Mario Bros, Zelda, Resident Evil, and more classic games have been ...

If you played arcade games in the 1980s, then you probably remember the quarter-sucking craze of laserdisc games which were led by the juggernaut of Dragon’s Lair. Enough small fortunes were lost to ...

Reminds me of the cracking of CPS2 encryption. All those years trying to extract an encryption key and what happens? Key is discovered on a CPS Changer cartridge Click to expand... Close. The CPS2 ...

Like Defender before it, Robotron introduced a completely radical control scheme – two joysticks and no buttons – and with that came a new ability: the player could move in one direction and shoot in ...