In 1981, Automated Simulations (which would later become known as Epyx), released the tactical monster sim, Crush, Crumble, and Chomp!. It turned tiled cities into turn-based buffets for whatever monster […]
In the 1980s and early 90s, TSR was a tabletop juggernaut thanks to its Advanced Dungeons and Dragons ruleset bolstered by rich campaign worlds like the Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance. […]
I never found out how Sega had ever come up with the name “Zaxxon” until I started looking into the game for this article. It apparently comes from the term […]
Released in arcades in 1986, Out Run was a thundering success for Sega as it gobbled quarters and tokens from one side of the world to the next selling over […]
If you haven’t heard yet, Arnie’s back on the big screen in a new action vehicle called “The Last Stand”. The bad news is that it doesn’t look like it’s […]
Released in 1985, The Eidolon from Lucasarts was one of the earliest free-roaming, first-person shooters on PCs. It was an innovative technical achievement that leveraged the fractal tech they had […]
SSI explored their license with TSR and the developers they published for were not shy about experimenting with different kinds of approaches to their properties. With Dragonlance, they not only […]
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 […]
John Carpenter’s Big Trouble in Little China in 1986 is a fantastic action mash-up of Chinese mysticism, American swagger, and outrageous martial arts sequences set in modern Chinatown. The game […]
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 […]
