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Oct 203 min read

Double Dragon for Atari 2600 Review

Double Dragon for Atari is a technical wonder. Check it out: many different screens of detailed city backgrounds; music, however beepy...

Apr 284 min read

Atari Karma: Sadness

Instead of games, I sometimes like to look at aspects of mental health. Such as . . . How do you get rid of sadness? The cynical side of...

Apr 203 min read

Snoopy and the Red Baron

Twenty years ago, I saw a screenshot for Snoopy and the Red Baron. This was in the early 2000s, when I was changing from someone who...

Apr 126 min read

The Sega Pico: Sega's Most Obscure Console, and a Lesson in the Limits of Retro Collecting

A look at the Sega Pico and a few of its major franchise games.

Apr 51 min read

Night Driver

When I played Night Driver as a child, I was impressed by the illusion of speed and movement. I still am, especially considering this is...

Apr 31 min read

M.A.D.

If you're a big fan of missile defense games like Missile Command and Atlantis, you may enjoy M.A.D. Waves of enemies fly in, then drop...

Mar 231 min read

Picnic

After playing Bugs, a paddle game featuring bugs, I played Picnic, another paddle game featuring bugs. Picnic isn't great, but it's not...

Mar 191 min read

Bugs

Bugs by Data East is a great example of the low-quality games that flooded the market, leading to the Video Game Crash of '83. Using a...

Mar 162 min read

Human Cannonball

Human Cannonball is a "puzzle game that tests memory skills," according to the Atari Flashback Companion guide. Well, it is, but it's...