From the pages of the past, ads of yesteryear – Howard the Duck
Howard the Duck’s 1986 film adaptation is considered one of the worst films ever made but I have to admit a soft spot for it as a guilty pleasure. It […]
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From the pages of the past, ads of yesteryear – Hacker II: The Doomsday Papers
The sequel to 1985′s Hacker from Activision was grounded in a bit more reality. The last game had speedy, underground robots that traversed the world in seconds with a dastardly, […]
From the pages of the past, ads of yesteryear – Hacker
Matthew Broderick’s character in 1983′s WarGames nearly starts WW3 after accidentally tapping into the military’s super-computer at NORAD, the WOPR, thanks to a chance discovery made after war dialing to […]
From the pages of the past, ads of yesteryear – Infocom
Infocom stood as one of the giants of interactive fiction during the eighties. The ad above from 1984 was perfectly accurate — the best graphics were in the heads of […]
From the pages of the past, ads of yesteryear – Pitfall II: Lost Caverns
David Crane’s sequel to Pitfall, which he also worked on, had the worst release timing. It arrived in 1984 in the midst of the “Video Game Crash”. But like the […]
From the Atari of the past! Sims of yesteryear – Space Shuttle: A Journey Into Space
Despite the hardware limitations of the Atari 2600, clever programmers found ways to make the most out of it in surprising ways. Take this “game” for example which seems as […]
From the pages of the past! Ads of yesteryear – MegaMania
This bizarre, Space Invaders-like shooter came out in 1982 from Activision’s Steve Cartwright on the Atari 2600 and would later migrate its madness over to the 5200 and the Atari […]
From the pages of the past! Ads of yesteryear – Pitfall!
Back in the early eighties, Activision was at the top of its multi-title game on the Atari 2600. Its programmers knew how to knock pixels around the screen glossing Activision’s […]
From the pages of the past! Ads of yesteryear – Kaboom!
Kaboom! was an Activision classic for the Atari 2600 in 1981 that pit players against a black masked and prison striped Mad Bomber. It was pure, scoring fun that was […]
So EA and Activision had their Q1 calls…
…and they were loaded with a lot of back patting and congratulatory news. Neither company is in danger of being “taken over” or bought out. They did have a number […]
