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When it comes to the Game Boy the selection of independently developed and released titles is quite a mixed bag. Some games are simply stunning while others are, well, the Game Boy line was a great portable lineage wasn’t it? Airaki is one of those more interesting titles. Just check out the gameplay video below […]
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Revenge of the License: Dragon Magazine Archive
August 7th, 2016 
Michael Crisman No, the Dragon Magazine Archive is not a game, it’s something better–it’s knowledge. Following up on last week’s absurdly difficult adventures article, we’re keeping with the D&D theme and presenting this look at how a concern over copyright led one of the most awesome pieces of software ever to arrive on store shelves to vanish just as quickly […]
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Icewind Dale Takes R.A. Salvatore’s Story in New Direction – June 29th 2000 – Today in Video Game History
June 28th, 2016 Carl Williams Icewind Dale is an exemplary example of how to port a rich book to a computer game. The world in the book is a detailed, living, entity. How do you port that to a video game? Simple. You don’t. That is what Black Isle Studios did with Icewind Dale when they ported it to PC’s […]
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Blizzard Answers Fans with Diablo II on PC – June 29th, 2000 – Today in Video Game History
June 28th, 2016 Carl Williams When Blizzard released the original Diablo it was a completely different time in gaming. Internet was just becoming a thing that everyday people had access to. Magazines still ruled so it was required to get early builds of the game out to publications. Gamers had a slightly lower expectation of games on PC. That did […]
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Portland Retro Gaming Expo to Debut The Realm of No! A Text Adventure for Atari 2600
October 3rd, 2015 Carl Williams It is well known that the Atari 2600 was strictly a gaming console, there were no accessories like a full keyboard or disk drive released for it. That is not stopping Michael Thomasson and his company, Good Deal Games, from releasing a full text based adventure title on Atari’s classic console. Fans of Choose Your […]
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Revenge of the License: Dungeon Hack
September 13th, 2015 Michael Crisman You’d have been hard-pressed to find a company flying much higher in the early 90’s than TSR. Between the recently-published 2nd edition of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (aka: the best-selling pen-and-paper RPG in history) and a slew of hit computer games produced by SSI which used the AD&D License, TSR’s market position was so perfect […]
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New Game- Zombi Terror Brings The Walking Dead Adventuring to Classic Computers
February 16th, 2015 Carl Williams The Walking Dead is an interesting hit for A&E Television, a station that is kind of new to the zombie genre. On one hand it is completely outside of their comfort zone for content and on the other it fits right in with the current motif of action shows. The team at Kabuto Factory are […]
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Re-Release- Classic Macintosh Adventure Games Brought to Steam for Windows Retrogamers to Enjoy
January 31st, 2015 Carl Williams It is a good day to be a retrogaming fan as several classic Macintosh point and click adventure games have just been released onto Steam. Zojoi, the developer of these titles, has ported them to Windows and newer Macintosh platforms. Amongst the titles brought over only one will not be familiar to Nintendo Entertarinment System […]
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March 11th, 2014 Carl Williams We have been doing these historical articles for years on various sites that we have worked on, here, we collect the articles in one convenient place. Have a favorite? Have a game that we should cover when it comes time? Let us know via that contact form above. As this list grows, we will eventually […]
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Retro Gaming Sales Roundup for Valentines Weekend
February 14th, 2014 Carl Williams We have a huge sale list today. Some of these sales end on Sunday morning while some will go into next week sometime and others are indeterminate at this time. Basically, grab these deals while you can. These retro sales won’t last.
