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Command & Conquer by Westwood Studios and Virgin Interactive was quite the success story. It was the granddaddy of real-time strategy gaming as we know it today. Sure, another game predates C&C but minor tweaks separated the two by miles. Considering this was released in the mid-1990’s, there is also a heaping helping of Full […]
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Control Troops Wreak Havoc in Command & Conquer – September 26th, 1995 – Today in Video Game History
September 26th, 2020 
Carl Williams 
Stranger Things Retro Game Created by 12 Year Old Programmer Using QBASIC
December 23rd, 2017 Carl Williams What did you do at 12 years old? I remember playing a lot of 8-Bit Nintendo, doing some type-in programs from Compute! and Compute!’s Gazette, and generally skipping school whenever I could. The programmer behind Stranger Things Retro Game is a 12-year-old girl whose father wanted her to have opportunities opened to her via S.T.E.A.M. […]
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Is MS-DOS Considered Retro?
April 27th, 2017 brianhedley It’s time to ask “is MS-DOS considered a retro platform?” After all, it’s not as if you can go into your local computer store or local supermarket and find DOS games lying on the shelf. Sure, you find an array of them in your average charity shops or thrift stores.
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Revenge of the License: Alien Trilogy
October 16th, 2016 Michael Crisman One of iD Software’s initial ideas for Doom was to make a first-person shooter set in the world of James Cameron’s ‘Aliens’. When a licensing deal couldn’t be worked out between iD and 20th Century Fox, Carmack and Romero’s team fell back on a more generic ‘space marine kills everything’ setting, and an FPS classic […]
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Wing Commander Brings Cinematic Space Battles to PC Players – September 26th, 1990 – Today in Video Game History
September 25th, 2016 Carl Williams To say Origin was ahead of their time is quite an understatement, Wing Commander proves that. It is almost pointless to bring that back up. Retro gamers that were gaming around the “Origin Era” on PC’s know this well. For everyone else, Origin was this development company that was doing stuff gamers only dreamed of. […]
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Revenge of the License: Five NES Games That Missed the Point
July 24th, 2016 Michael Crisman I love licensed NES games. I love the sound they make as I yank them out of my system and hurl them against the wall. The relentless plundering through the morass in search of something worth playing and finding the occasional surprise is always delightful, and why I keep coming back to this column over […]
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Wolfenstein 3D Pits Gamers Against Nazis – May 5th, 1992 – Today in Video Game History
May 5th, 2016 Carl Williams Okay, back in the early 1990’s PC gaming was COMPLETELY different than it is today. We actually went to stores and bought games. We didn’t have online capabilities standard in games. Games back then barely had modem, land line, multiplayer. Direct, in the same room multiplayer was common around this time. We also would call […]
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Revenge of the License: Dark Seed
April 17th, 2016 Michael Crisman Over the lifespan of this column, we’ve looked at games licensed from every conceivable medium: blockbuster films, television shows, comic books, sporting events, fashion dolls, a casino, a restaurant, table top role-playing games, and even real life. Just when you sit back and think you’ve covered every conceivable thing a game company could pay money […]
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Today in Retro Gaming: Daleks!
February 12th, 2016 Michael Crisman While the list of foes faced by the Doctor could fill an entire book, none is more iconic than the Daleks, Terry Nation’s armored, emotionless mobile gun platforms. They went from silly-looking pepper pots to pop culture icon in the blink of an eye, and no matter what the Doctor does, no matter how many […]
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Beast Within A Gabriel Knight Mystery Jumps to FMV – December 31st, 1995 – Today in Video Game History
December 31st, 2015 Carl Williams The Beast Within – A Gabriel Knight Mystery is a unique adventure for gamers to take on. What do you do when you are Sierra On-Line, a company known for pushing the envelope, and it is the dawn of a new age in computing? CD-ROM technology was picking up, becoming cheaper and more widespread with […]
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