Radioactive Bumping – Reactor
This unusual arcade game came out in 1982 from Gottlieb who were one of the grand old pinball machine masters having made them since the 1930’s. In the early 80s, […]
This unusual arcade game came out in 1982 from Gottlieb who were one of the grand old pinball machine masters having made them since the 1930’s. In the early 80s, […]
Stern Electronics was one of the icons of the pinball scene in the late 70s and early 80s, but they had also dabbled in stand up arcade cabs. The year […]
Roberta Williams’ long career in gaming covered a number of incredible milestones for the adventure genre whether it was merging graphics with text parser driven mechanics or expanding on the […]
This arcade classic from Konami released in 1982 combined the thrills of treasure hunting and survival into a horizontal, side scrolling action game. It was apparently supposed to be called […]
In an interview with Scott Stilphen over at 2600 Connection, Bob Whitehead recounts how programmers were referred to over at Atari as “towel designers” by the president of the company. […]
As cool and as retro as Atari VCS/2600 games are, not all of them were super great. Some stood out for their simple challenge while others could actually be pretty […]
A reader had asked for help identifying a particular arcade game from the early 80s and what they were describing sounded a lot like Williams’ 1982 hit, Sinistar, an incredibly […]
IMPORTANT: Knight of Diamonds requires characters developed in Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord (Scenario #1), or other Wizardry Scenarios. You cannot play Knight of Diamonds unless you have played […]
Mondain, as evil as he was, had an apprentice. In this case, an enchantress by the name of Minax. And after offing him in Ultima I, she’s understandably upset. But […]
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 […]