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Dungeons & Dragons has some truly iconic monsters outside of the one from which it takes half its namesake. There’s a reason Wizards of the Coast picked a Beholder for the cover of the Monster Manual which you see in that little thumbnail. But if your players have any sort of history with D&D via […]
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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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Tags: 2600, adventure, atari, Charles F. Gray, d&d, dungeons and dragons, Good Deal Games, Greg Zumwalt, Michael Thomasson, Portland Retro Gaming Expo, retro, retro gaming, text 
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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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Revenge of the License: AD&D Heroes of the Lance
September 14th, 2014 Michael Crisman Admit it, you knew this was coming. Maybe not today, maybe not next week, but you knew, at some point, I was going to dig into the hog waller. If that’s what you’ve been waiting for, retro gaming fans, then today’s your lucky day. Rejoice. Clap your hands. Give the ol’ banjo a tune-up. Because […]
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Kickstarter: Skara Blade Uses Unreal Engine 4 to Follow in Final Fight Footsteps
June 7th, 2014 Carl Williams Retro gamers know of one genre that is painfully gone from major publishers libraries. The scrolling brawler. Games like Final Fight, Streets of Rage, Knights of the Round and King of Dragons were all great side scrolling brawlers that were left in the 16-Bit era. Future iterations of this genre such as Fighting Force on […]
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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.
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