Greetings lords and ladies! I have decided to venture into the classic realm, and make my own Amiga game: Catagon. It’s a clone of a LoadStar game called Paragon, originally created by Nick Peck for the C64. SoftDisk later released few different remakes (two for DOS, one for Windows 3.1). I started writing an Amiga […]
Damaged Goods: Why Retro Gamers Should Learn To Love Worn Cardboard Boxes & Poor Condition Classics

“I’m really sorry” read the email from the eBay seller, “the corners of the box are a bit worn but otherwise it’s in perfect condition”. There really was no reason for the seller to be sorry; this was exactly what I wanted to hear and I put a bid in immediately. In the antiques world […]
Arcades In The Movies: A Mashup Of Iconic Scenes Featuring Coin-Op Classics

Since the early 80s, video games, arcades, and the movies have been somewhat synonymous with one another as technology has advanced. During this time, countless coin-ops have made numerous appearances on the silver-screen, from the likes of Back To The Future’s nostalgic look back on Wild Gunman, to The Wizard’s laughable high-score antics with Double […]
New Hardware Hack Brings Digital Counter & Location Notation To The Commodore Datasette
As time and technology advance, some parts of video games and computers tend to become obsolete, and in the world of preservation, in some cases time is becoming limited. This is more so for computer based video games that were […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
How to tell an Atari CX2600 Heavy Sixer from a Light Sixer

Since I have had a complete Atari CX2600 ‘Heavy Sixer’ in my collection, I have been getting asked regularly how you tell a ‘Heavy’ from a ‘Light’ Sixer. At first glance they look pretty similar; six switches, woodgrain, same general shape. But look a little closer and the differences in Atari’s original VCS start to […]
Olympic Summer Games Review
Author: jrsupermoore Like so many American children, every two years I became glued to the television set where the world’s bravest amateurs from across the globe put their dreams on the line in the winter and summer Olympics. The only thing nearly as grand as watching such athletic drama unfold was reenacting that … Continue reading
 
														 
														 
														 
														 
														