Video games, like many entertainment mediums, are no strangers to controversy. But one thing that controversy has sometimes done, however, is provide free press for the material in question which […]
Released in 1992, Ultima Underworld set the CRPG world on fire when it arrived. Although first-person 3D dungeons were nothing new by the time it came out thanks to games […]
As one of the powerhouse publishers in computer gaming, Mindscape was as prolific as its rivals, EA and Activision, and until 2011, had a history nearly as long as either […]
If the Mayan apocalypse was going to involve giant monsters, Crush, Crumble, & Chomp would have been the primer to prepare people for the end — at least from the […]
In an interview with G4′s X-Play, the director of Wreck-It-Ralph, Rich Moore, was asked what game he would like to be in and he asked if Leisure Suit Larry was […]
Breakdancing was huge in the eighties. Everyone who grew up in that era couldn’t get away from kids windmilling into each other or moonwalking across your driveway. Do-it-yourself books and […]
Origin’s Crusader: No Remorse hit CD-ROM only shelves in 1995 for PCs and was, in many ways, a bold experiment in pushing the envelope. As Tony Zurovec notes in an […]
Because of hardware limitations back in the day, developers found many creative ways to try and cram their games with as much content as possible while working under them. In […]
It’s hard to remember what memory expansion options were like the further back we go, but peeking through the mags of the eighties has really opened my eyes on what […]
Aside from this ad from 1984, you might not have heard about Aardvark Action Software. I only knew about them from their port of Bag It Man for the C64 […]
