Getting Familiar With Japan’s Arcade Music Games

Ever since I moved here last year, I’ve made a point of getting out and doing things rather than just holing up in my room. It was rather intimidating at first since everything is so different, but iit got easier as time went on. One of the things I really wanted to do was try…

Today in Gaming History: 10/19/2013

1973: 40th anniversary of Gotcha Let’s enter the way-back machine – before Donkey Kong, before Pac-Man, before Space invaders, there was Gotcha.  Atari’s Gotcha was an early arcade game and the first commercially successful maze game. Its premise was quite simple: two players weaved their way around a maze, one the “pursuer,” the other the…