Author: Marshall Garvey
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This Day in Gaming History – The Nintendo Entertainment System is released in the U.S. (October 18, 1985)
By Marshall Garvey When the video game industry crashed in 1983, the medium’s once seemingly endless potential seemed more than completely destroyed. If anything, video games looked instead like another ephemeral cultural fad whose time had come and gone. Hula hoops, disco, the pet rock…as weird as it may seem now, Atari console and arcade…
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Last Token Gaming Interview – Daryl Rodriguez and Jeanette Garcia, Filmmakers of “World 1-1”
By Marshall Garvey Earlier this year, Last Token Gaming was approached on Twitter by the filmmakers of a documentary entitled World 1-1 to officially review it. Given the film’s focus on the early days of Atari and the video game medium as we know it, we were excited to give it a watch. To say…
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Last Token Gaming News Roundup – 8/21/15
By Marshall Garvey Team Fortress 2 is receiving a new mode, called PASS Time, which is being developed by J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot company. As it celebrates 20 (!) years, take a look at the previously untold story of the Mortal Kombat movie. After a long legal dispute, the Duke Nukem license is now…
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LTG Spotlight – Insert Coin: Inside Midway’s 90’s Revolution
By Marshall Garvey When Last Token Gaming was established two years ago, one of my first hopes was to spotlight the history of video games in various ways. Aside from my obvious inclination from being a history major and writer, a crucial motivation behind this was just how underrated and largely untold the stories of…
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Editorial: R.I.P. Konami – From Auteur Game Company to (Arguably) Worse Than EA
By Marshall Garvey For decades, the name Konami has been synonymous with more than just great video games. Originally founded as a jukebox rental and repair business in 1969, the company’s name is intertwined with gaming from its infancy as a medium to its current status as the most profitable entertainment industry in the world.…
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Hall of Fame Review – Batman: Arkham Asylum (2009)
By Marshall Garvey and Reshan Nicolson-Singh Release Date: August 25, 2009 Platforms: Playstation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows, OS X Developer: Rocksteady Studios Publishers: Eidos Interactive, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Genre: Action-Adventure, Beat ‘Em Up, Stealth Mode: Single player By 2009, the superhero genre had achieved new dimensions in entertainment culture thanks…
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LTG News Roundup – July 3, 2015
By Marshall Garvey Now that the annual hype train of E3 has settled down enough for everyone to sort through (which we tried our best to do here at LTG), we can get back to the routine gaming news cycle that isn’t bottled up in a mere three days. But just because E3 has ended,…
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LTG Arcade Adventures – Coin-Op Game Room (Sacramento, CA)
By Marshall Garvey A short time ago in my World 1-1 movie review, I lamented the tremendous decline of the classic video game arcade in recent years. As the console wars rage on (and may even be supplanted yet by mobile games), it’s economically understandable why people don’t make the effort to drive out to…
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The Return of a Legend: Master of Orion is back!
By Marshall Garvey With E3 a week away, and so many huge titles already announced (“Fallout 4” being just the latest), you might think you’ve had your fill of huge gaming announcements. And why not? 2015 was going to be a huge year in gaming with Arkham Knight and Metal Gear Solid V alone. Aside from a next-gen…
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Hall of Fame Review – NBA Courtside 2: Featuring Kobe Bryant (1999)
By Marshall Garvey Developer: Left Field Productions Publisher: Nintendo Platform: Nintendo 64 Release date: November 8, 1999 Genre: Sports Modes: Single-player, multiplayer If you follow me on Facebook, know me in real life, or basically live on the same planet as I do, you know I love baseball to the point where I…