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Thursday, July 15, 2010

Import Game Shopping - A Challenger Appears

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Time for a little consumer reporting.  The laws of supply and demand hold fast, if not always efficiently, worldwide, and I recently got an ...
Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Elsewhere: How to Beat Home Video Games - Demon Attack

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No video podcast this week, so enjoy this vintage YouTube clip from the fabled Vestron VHS video, How to Beat Home Video Games - Volume 1 , ...
Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Adventure of the Week: Nancy Drew #8 - The Haunted Carousel (2003)

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I've been playing a lot of seriously old-school adventures lately, and decided it was time to look at a more current example of the genr...
Monday, July 12, 2010

The LoadDown - 07/12/2010

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What's new... WiiWare --  Two new games this week.  Balloon Pop Festival is another balloon-popping puzzle game.  Toribash is more i...
Sunday, July 11, 2010

The Best Way to Break Your Intellivision

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When videogame controllers were still in a highly experimental phase, Mattel decided to go with a keypad/disc controller for its Intellivisi...
Saturday, July 10, 2010

Atari Recruits

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Once upon a time, working in the videogame industry was still a newfangled thing.  There were no video game development classes, or widely-u...
Friday, July 9, 2010

Of Import: Space Invaders - Fukkatsu no Hi

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Taito's seminal Space Invaders hit arcades in 1978, and was a huge hit worldwide.  Even as late as 1990, Taito produced Space Invaders:...