Game 15: Adventure Construction Set (Electronic Arts, 1986)
Ice Cream Jonsey When I first started this project, my desire was to have a different platform featured every week. The PCjr! The arcade version of Elevator Action! Wirewalker on the PlayDate! Space…
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Game 14: Galacticon (Radin Games, 2022)
Galacticon, by Radin Games, is a modern-day arcade game, but for home systems. It’s got a great look for what you’d like to see for one of these. There are…
Game 13: Food Fight (Atari, 1983)
Food Fight can only exist as a video game, it is a perfect representation of a time and platform. It is colorful in a way that arcade games were only…
Game 12: Chopper Commando (Mark Currie, 1989)
Chopper Commando is a mission-based DOS game that was created by Mark Currie and released – depending on your source – in 1988, 1989 or 1990. (Rather than start each…
Game 10: Zwackery (Midway, 1985)
Zwackery is an arcade game with “complicated” controls from the mind of Brian Colin, an artist, animator and designer on other arcade titles like Rampage, Xenophobe and Arch Rivals. His…
Game 6: Rocket Jockey (SegaSoft, 1996)
Rocket Jockey is a science fiction arena sports game that has the player operating a rocket-propelled sled in three different modes of play: a race course, a soccer-like game where…
Annie
Annie, you silly, silly pup! She was the most beautiful spaniel and not because of her coat or posture but because she took to my wife Melissa and was her…
Frobozz
Frobozz died three years ago. Here is a picture of him. I miss him every day.
Our Visit to Arkadia Retrocade
I’m not going to be able to do justice to the incredible experience that is Shea Mathis’s arcade, Arkadia Retrocade. My wife surprised me with a trip to Fayetteville, Arkansas…
Jay Schilling’s Edge of Chaos
I made a new game with Mike Sousa! It’s called Jay Schilling’s Edge of Chaos. Let me see if I can in-line the blurb. There was an aye-aye behind the…