Pong / Tennis / Soccer / Hockey
I played the the bright orange PAL version (everything plastic that's grey on this machine was bright orange in ours) It was a cold day in the beginning of march 1976, we were supposed to visit our...
View ArticleSpace Invaders
A game that needs no introduction, Space Invaders, at one point someones bound to have played it; its one of those games that you can find tons of versions of the game in Flash. Anyways… the whole...
View ArticleAdventure
It's hard to believe this is almost thirty years old now. Your mission, as the heroic dot, is to retrieve the enchanted chalice and return it to the golden castle. Standing in your way are confusing...
View ArticleAsteroids
Asteroids is one of Atari’s many early hits and another high flier in Retro Gamer's "Top 25 Arcade Games of All Time". As noted in RG54, it’s an update of Spacewar, one of the earliest video games....
View ArticlePong
OK, here’s a challenge. Before you read much further, I want you to try to set aside everything you know about videogames. Yes, it's very difficult. But to really understand Pong, you have to bring...
View ArticleLunar Lander
I liked this game so much in the late 70’s and early 80’s that I spent 5 hours of my time with a programming book typing a listing into my ZX81 that purported to be the same game. It wasn’t the same...
View ArticleBreakout
Now, the reason I love this game is more the history of it as much as the actual game itself. An interview I read with Atari founder Nolan Bushnell some years ago in which he shed light upon the...
View ArticleStar Raiders
Star Raiders is one of those games that static screenshots don't do the game justice. You have to see it in action to appreciate what the game is all about – after all – it's the very first 3D space...
View ArticleSuperman
Who would have thought that the Superman game released in 1979 (yes, that’s nineteen-seventy-nine) will remain the BEST EVER game in the franchise for at least next thirty years? Featuring standard (as...
View ArticleCombat
For many of us this was probably the first introduction to a cartridge based console game, and for that reason has a special place in many peoples retro memories. As one of the launch titles for the...
View ArticleBowling
Bowling may very well be one of the most simple games for the Atari 2600 (and that’s saying something) but it is also one of the more recognizable sports titles for the console as well, and just so...
View ArticleThe Making Of BreakOut
Breakout took the original bat and ball approach of Pong and added a brand new spin to it, creating a brand new genre in the process. Here Steve ‘Woz’ Wozniak recalls how the design of the game first...
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