Here on United We Game, one of the things that often come up in our posts and comments has how wonderful it is to be a gamer these days. With nothing less than a plethora of games at our fingertips and means by which to play them, it’s hard to imagine going back to time…
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Today in Gaming History: 11/7/13
1980: Atari releases Battlezone, a version which was made for the military On its surface, Battlezone was simply another old school, vector graphics, arcade game. It played out like target practice with players attempted to destroy tanks and flying saucers. Those players took the view from their own tanks, which did all the shooting and which they could…
Today in Gaming History: 10/23/2013
October 1976: Warner buys Atari from Nolan Bushnell for $28 million dollars In 1972, Nolan Bushnell, an engineer from a California-based company called Ampex, and one his fellow engineers, Ted Dabney, founded Atari. Between 1972 and 1976, the early electronic game market rose quickly, giving rise to classic entertainments such as Pong and Breakout. Bushnell…
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…
Today in Gaming History: 10/14/2013
October 1977: Atari Video Computer System (later 2600) hits the market Though the Atari VCS was not the first home video game console to be released, it would become the most popular and recognized home console of the early era of gaming. With a small cache of games available at its release, one might not…
Review a Bad Game: Alone in the Dark: Inferno
It’s never been my favorite genre, but I’ll say right here that I absolutely love horror games! The best horror games elicit a real sense of dread and fear. You don’t understand what’s going on, you can’t understand what’s going on. All you can do is try to make it to the next room and…
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