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As a long-time technology and fitness enthusiast, I’m the perfect target for what is now becoming an avalanche of devices designed to help us be healthier, track our sleep patterns, and give us all kinds of purportedly useful data about our general state of being. Naturally, as a result, Microsoft’s recent announcement and release of their Microsoft […]

Just a quick heads up that I upgraded the Armchair Arcade Website to allow for major social media logins, commenting, and content sharing. What this means is that you can use your favorite major social media presence (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc.) to more easily interact with the Armchair Arcade Website. I hope to have a […]

Thanks to Marty Goldberg and his post on the Facebook group, Vintage Gaming (& Computing), we were given the heads-up on John Feagan’s photo and commentary on some early Commodore Vic-20 history. Here’s John’s commentary: History of the Vic-20 development has been rewritten by the non-participants–but I have the pictures. Here is the real deal […]

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Over the past several years, there has been a renaissance of sorts in the Commodore 64 homebrew community, with regular releases of commercial quality games on cartridge. Whether it’s with graphics, like with C64anabalt (2011, Paul Koller), which looks nearly as good as the modern mobile and Flash game, Canabalt (2009, Adam Saltsman), which it’s […]

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After 2 years, 6 months, and 6 days from when it was successfully funded on Kickstarter, I finally received my boxed copy of Wasteland 2. While the box quality and exterior design leave a little something to be desired, it’s still nice to have it in my hands. While I already activated the game on Steam, […]

It’s with great pleasure that I unveil the new Armchair Arcade. This is our third (and hopefully final) major site redesign since our inception in 2003. While the two previous incarnations of the Armchair Arcade Website still remain accessible (and a rough archive of the version prior to that), this site is where all new content […]