A history of the first games you could hook up to your television, from Atari Home Pong, to all of its various and sundry clones.
Category: retrogaming

Bomb Bee, a 1979 Namco video pinball/breakout hybrid that wasn’t distributed in the US. Created by Touru Iwatani, father of Pac-Man.

1979 saw more than a few Space Invaders clones, but Cosmo is closer to Taito’s Galaxian, released the same year in Japan by the company TDS.

In which I sift through the arcade titles I’ve got on my Steam Deck and decide what’s worth keeping and what needs to go, in

Continuing to sift through the “All Killer no Filler” list of arcade games on my steam deck, deciding what to keep, what to pass on.

I evaluate ’88 games, 1000 Miglia, 1943 Kai, 19XX, 2 on 2, 2020 Super Baseball, 64th Street, Aero Fighters 2, Aero Fighters Special, and Age of Heroes 2 to see if they’re worth keeping on my steamdeck.

Thoughts on the foundational CRPG Wizardry, a game I was fascinated with as a kid but never got around to playing