By Marshall Garvey If one were to ask me what my favorite kind of book is, I’d have to go with encyclopedia and guide books. Which isn’t to say I don’t love novels, biographies and whatnot. Perhaps it’s just because I’m a historian and love soaking up facts, but these kinds of books had a […]
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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 […]
“Growing Up an Unbiased Gamer”
By Michael Mygind On several occasions, I’ve had debates with one of my oldest friends about whether or not the Sega Genesis was a good console. He attests to how much better the Super Nintendo is/was and how crappy the Genesis is/was. I never took a side on this when I was younger and I […]
Retro Review: “Jaws” (1987, LJN, NES)
By Michael Mygind Next to Super Mario Bros and Blaster Master, Jaws was probably the game that I remember most from my childhood. It was simplistic and felt like an arcade port. But, it gets a bad rap for what I feel are its strengths. It was loosely based off “Jaws: The Revenge” and was […]