It’s nice to know that a lot of people out there are crazier than I am when it comes to old video games. One such example is the producer of the video montage I am about to show you.

I know, I know … it’s nothing new. But it takes a lot of patience, not to mention a good grasp of video games history, to come up with a clip like this. Tell me what you think.
Personally, I like the background music and that little parody the video’s producer pulled off two minutes into the video.

I do … I remember it very well. For those not in the know, here’s a brief backgrounder, courtesy of Wikipedia:
Tron is a 1982 Disney science fiction film starring Jeff Bridges as Kevin Flynn (and his counterpart inside the electronic world, Clu), Bruce Boxleitner as Alan Bradley (and Tron), Cindy Morgan as Dr. Lora Baines (and Yori) and Dan Shor as Ram. David Warner plays the villain, Ed Dillinger (and Sark), as well as providing the voice of the Master Control Program. It was written and directed by Steven Lisberger. Being one of the first films from a major studio …read more

Here’s yet another take on the history of video games:

Great production. Hey, what else can I say? Wait! I need to ask this question: Why the hell did the video jump from the 1980s to the 1990s? I’m sure I am not the only one asking this.

What do Breakout, Joust, Pac-Man and Q-bert have in common? Well, aside from being really old video games, the four have been featured in a cartoon-like video of someone’s Top 20 Retro Games of All Time.
Here, go take a gander (hint: focus on the way the games are represented rather than struggling with the fact that your favorite games didn’t make it to the list):

Now tell me … tell me you missed Number 20. Gawd! You mean I’m the only one who missed Frogger?

I’m currently watching a video on the history of video games by YouTube user applemctom, and my wife, Joyce, keeps asking me why I know majority of the games featured in the video. I guess my video games addiction is finally showing, eh? To test my mettle, I tried to list down in order all the games shown in the two-minute footage. Unfortunately, I didn’t get them all. Before I show my list (rather, before you take a look at it), watch the video and try listing down in order all the games that you see. Let’s compare notes later.

Well, …read more

This image put a smile on my face today. It’s a screenshot of the classic Atari 2600 game Circus Atari, designed by Mike Lorenzen and published by (who else!) Atari.
Prior to its release as an Atari 2600 game, Circus Atari was an arcade game (Exidy’s Circus, 1977) and an older Atari game (Clowns, 1978).
Oh, yeah, about the smile. Well, aside from playing this game as a (very) young man, some very good memories come to the fore whenever I view the image: Hours of playing with cousins and friends, despite the very angry glare of our grandmother, who was adamantly …read more

If you’re a regular visitor of this blog and the rest of the Video Games Channel of b5media, then you probably already know why I’ve been gone for almost a week. If not, well, here’s a short explanation (which I also posted on my other b5media blog, MMOtaku):
Whew! What a nasty week! I won’t bore you guys with details; suffice it to say that I—and I guess a hundred or so Internet service subscribers in this little town—had a hell of a boring time with little or no Internet connection.
Well, if any good came out of the sudden loss of …read more

Here’s another video featuring a television commercial for the Coleco Telstar Arcade, my first video game console. Sigh, wish my Coleco Telstar Arcade’s still in pristine condition. But that’s all it is, a wish, since the cartridges that contain the video games have been lost. So here’s a toast to this personal trip down memory lane:

In February 2005, a petition to put video game stars such as Mario and Donkey Kong on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was launched. The rallying cry of the big push:
Interactive entertainment is an important part of the entertainment industry. Each year, video games usually make as much money—or even more—than the movie box offices. Let’s get a category created on the world-famous Hollywood Walk of Fame to recognize the video game starts who have become part of our daily lives.
Video games have been popular for decades, and visitors to Hollywood would like to see their favorite interactive stars honored, …read more

Yes, you read that right. I have mighty big shoes to fill, and I better hop to it.
I welcome you to the first post of the new Re:Retro (sounds kinda ironic, doesn’t it?). Since, admittedly, I can never match the writing prowess of the venerable Al Ewing, this space’s former blogger, I’ll focus more on what I know—old video games.
Well, not just old games, but games I played when I was young(er)—from the dot-crazy world of the chomping smiley face known as Pacman to the vertically challenged player movement in Space Invaders to the fast-becoming classic role-playing games from Strategic …read more