Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: Knives Chau Add-On Pack
Released first on PSN and then XBLA a month later, the Knives Chau Add-On Pack DLC adds one more playable character to the game, plus three new achievements/trophies. It also …
Read More
10 years ago
X-Men Arcade
I remember the first time I encountered the 6-player X-Men arcade. It was 1993, and I had just discovered that the local university had an arcade parlor in the basement …
Read More
First Official Post
A first post to break in the new blog, and mark the date it was finally finished.
Moonlander: One Giant Leap For Game Design
Everyone knows Neil Armstrong was the first man on the Moon, but who was the first man in a video game?
Early video game history is littered with “firsts” — …
Read More
Box Art History #3: Fairchild Channel F
Before the NES, before the Atari 2600…
Fairchild’s Channel F was the first video game console to run games directly from a cartridge. While Magnavox’s Odyssey had game cards that …
Read More
Infographic: The Evolution Of Carmen Sandiego’s Crest
Carmen Sandiego’s first showed up 35 years ago today in WHERE IN THE WORLD IS CARMEN SANDIEGO? for the Apple II. But she wasn’t yet wearing her iconic red outfit …
Read More
Box Art History #2: Computer Games On Printed Paper
Early computer game history often gets overlooked.
Maybe it’s because “computer games” used to be considered different from “video games,” back when “video” was defined by the presence of a …
Read More
Carmen Sandiego: To Steal Or Not To Steal Walkthrough
Netflix has a new Bandersnatch-style interactive adventure. But where that film was about a character creating a fictional menu-driven adventure, the new film is based on one of the first …
Read More
