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In Smash TV did Mark Turmell A stately pleasure dome decree: Where silver, sacred quarters ran Through coin slots, measureless, oh and An ending you can’t see. Apologies to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, but now that we’ve gotten Poetry 101 out of the way, let’s get to the meat of the matter: Smash TV. Developed jointly […]
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Wacky Wednesday: Smash TV’s Pleasure Dome
April 27th, 2016 
Michael Crisman 
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Tags: action, arcade, Midway, shooter, Smash TV, wacky wednesday, williams 
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Today in Retro Gaming: Williams Arcade’s Greatest Hits
September 1st, 2015 Michael Crisman Compilations of older video games didn’t start with PS1-era titles like Namco Museum and Activision Classic Games, but the exponential upgrade to storage offered by CD-based media certainly helped boost their popularity. After all, who wouldn’t love the chance to play some arcade hits of yesteryear without needing to sink several thousand bucks into acquiring […]
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Rampage Through Time Bashing History on PlayStation – June 9th, 2000 – Today in Video Game History
June 9th, 2015 Carl Williams sdThe Rampage series of games is one of a storied history. The original was well received, and ported to quite a few platforms, but the sequels have been hit or miss. Mostly miss. That did not stop Midway Games from trying to milk the series drier than Capcom levels. Cough…cough… Street Fighter franchise… cough. The […]
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Wacky Wednesday: Sheena Easton Beats Defender. Literally.
December 17th, 2014 Michael Crisman Scottish singer Sheena Easton exploded onto the pop music scene in the 1980s with a ridiculous number of back-to-back chart-topping hits, went on to record with some of the biggest names in music of the day (including Kenny Rogers and Prince), performed the title song to the James Bond film “For Your Eyes Only”, and […]
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Cruisin USA Powerslides Onto the Nintendo 64: Today in History- December 3rd 1996
December 3rd, 2014 Carl Williams Having lived through the build up to the launch, the launch and the gaming drought shortly thereafter of the Nintendo 64 has given me a rather unique point of view when looking back in these historical articles. The build up for Cruisin USA was HUGE, it was to be THE game that got gamers to […]
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