Run on Over!
Published: January 7th, 2021 Author: Caitlynn Joann Road Runner is a side-scrolling racing arcade machine game based on a cartoon short,...
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- Dec 31, 2021
- 6 min
Command Your Missiles
Published: December 31st, 2021 Author: Caitlynn Joann Missile Command was developed and published by Atari in 1980. It was licensed to...
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- Dec 21, 2021
- 4 min
Breakout of wondering what game influenced Apple
Published: December 21st, 2021 Author: Caitlynn Joann Breakout was released in April of 1976 by Atari. But in homage to the 45 year...
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- Dec 14, 2021
- 3 min
Put your TIE Fighter in hyperdrive
Published: December 14th, 2021 Author: Caitlynn Joann Star Wars Atari is a rail shooter game that was released by Atari in 1983. Color...
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- Dec 7, 2021
- 3 min
Mr. Do or Mr. Don't
Published: December 7th, 2021 Author: Caitlynn Joann Mr. Do is a maze-based game that was developed by Universal in 1982. It was created...
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- Nov 19, 2021
- 2 min
Bust through Each Ghoulish Level
Published: November 23rd, 2021 Author: Caitlynn Joann The Real Ghostbusters was released in 1987 by Data East. This game was coded by...
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- Nov 12, 2021
- 2 min
Serving the Daily Scoop
Published: November 15th, 2021 Author: Caitlynn Joann Paperboy was designed by John Salwitz, Dave Ralston, Russel Dawe, and Carl Bedard....
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- Nov 5, 2021
- 4 min
Defending the Galaxy
Published: November 9th, 2021 Author: Caitlynn Joann Defender was released in 1981 by William Electronics and quickly went down in...
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- Oct 29, 2021
- 4 min
Kombatting Censorship
Published: November 2nd, 2021 Author: Caitlynn Joann Mortal Kombat came about via game designers John Tobias and Ed Boon, both of whom...
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- Oct 21, 2021
- 3 min
STOP, BurgerTime!
Published: October 26th, 2021 Author: Caitlynn Joann Chef Peter Pepper has been building burgers and fighting off pickles for decades...
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- Oct 14, 2021
- 3 min
Dig on In!
Published: October 19th, 2021 Author: Caitlynn Joann Namco had no idea Dig Dug would bury their concerns and dig up what is currently...
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- Oct 6, 2021
- 5 min
It's-a-him, Mario!
Published: October 12th, 2021 Author: Caitlynn Joann As we all know, Mario came from humble beginnings. He wasn’t always the star of the...
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- Sep 30, 2021
- 2 min
Feelin Froggy? Jump!
Published: October 4th, 2021 Author: Caitlynn Joann Akira Hashimoto worked for a video game developer, Konami, in 1981. Hashimoto...
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- Sep 24, 2021
- 5 min
An Arcade Industry Trailblazer
Published: September 27th, 2021 Author: Caitlynn Joann Dona Bailey was born in 1956 in Little Rock, Arkansas. We don’t know much about...
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- Sep 17, 2021
- 3 min
The Father of Pac-Man
Published: September 17th, 2021 Author: Caitlynn Joann Masaya (maa·saa·yuh) Nakamura (naa·kuh·moo·ruh) born in Yokohama...
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- Sep 14, 2021
- 7 min
The Many Deaths of the Atari Empire
Published: September 6th, 2021 Author: Caitlynn Joann If we’re going to get into the long-winded tale of Atari and its many deaths, (try...
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- Sep 6, 2021
- 3 min
Atari's Hidden Gem - Trash or Treasure?
Published: September 6th, 2021 Author: Caitlynn Joann The day Atari hoped would never come, September 22nd of 1983, was the day their...
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- Aug 31, 2021
- 2 min
Have You Heard Video Games Would Rot Your Brain....?
Published: August 30th, 2021 Author: Caitlynn Joann Did you know... When you play action-based video games, you’re training to make the...
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- Jun 24, 2021
- 2 min
Abandoned Arcades: The Long Goodbye
It’s hard to put a figure on the number of classic arcade machines that are still around. As you will have read on this blog, these...
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