Last week, Atari announced its latest gaming offering: the all-new Atari VCS. Formerly called the “Ataribox,” (from a defunct Kickstarter campaign from last year), the new VCS is a Linux-based machine with an AMD processor that promises to run games old and new. But even with the reveal, there still remained questions about the Atari…
Tag: nostalgic gaming
Playing Games of the Past in the Present, or, Ready Player Two?
It’s easy to forget that the video game industry hasn’t been around forever. In terms of mass producing games, it hasn’t even reached the half-century mark. (I cite Pong [1972] as the first mass-produced game – the choice is debatable.) And in terms of its competitors in the “sports and leisure” Trivial Pursuit category, such…
YouTube Time: Activision Anthology (PS2) – Atlantis (1982) – Nostalgic Notions
Greetings, good people of the Internet! I’m very pleased to share with you the first in what we hope will be a long line of videos celebrating the wonders of retro/old-school gaming. The series is titled Nostalgic Notions, and I start things off here with the first of what will be eight videos (posted weekly…
[REVISITED] What Does Nostalgia Do To Your Games?
Image By Flickr User: Richard ‘Tenspeed’ Heaven Nostalgia is a subject that often comes up when talking about video games and it’s something that’s been on my mind lately. It certainly has a power over games, but what exactly does it do to them? I’ve touched on the subject before and think the discussion is…
What Does Nostalgia Do To Your Games?
Something I like to do from time to time is read a retro review from one blog or another, or even in Game Informer back when they used to do those. It’s fun to see if an old game you love holds up in the modern age. Whether they do or not varies from writer to…
VIRTUAL BASTION 