Author: John Legendoffzelda With its studio glitz, its recurring bodybuilder characters who called themselves the Gladiators, and its playground environment of red, white, and blue gym pads, the syndicated TV series American Gladiators made sports into a heightened form of escapism. Audiences could tune into an episode and see folks exert … Continue reading
Hi all I’m trying to locate a game. Heres what I remembee -It,was a speed typing challenge. -On each screen was a phrase such as "A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss" -The phrases were random -You had a time limit in which to type the whole phrase. This would reduce. – It was either Amiga […]
Often, innovative games can look tired as the years go by. If an original game attracts any kind of attention, it’s usually not long before the imitators emerge and the sequel machine kicks into action. Inevitably, some of those will improve upon the original and the genre will develop until the original game looks rather […]
Just when you thought you’d played every Nintendo NES game out there, another previously undiscovered title has surfaced on eBay of all places. Arriving on a one of a kind prototype cartridge, bidding has gotten fierce for the 8-bit console port of Chip’s Challenge – a fan favourite top down puzzler which first arrived on […]
If for whatever reason Christmas NiGHTs isn’t enough to keep you busy this winter, dust off the Vectrex and get ready to feel festive. One homebrew developer is gearing up the release of two brand new games for the vector-based console – a high score frantic scrolling shooter and an addictive collect ’em up.
Once we saw this tale of a bizarre parenting experiment, we had to share it with you – it really is quite something. Andy Baio’s son Eliot was born in 2004, and the new father had plans to perform very strange long-form experiments on his child. While these were eventually shot down by his wife, […]