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...
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....
![The original Commodore Vic-20 Prototype. [Photo credit: John Feagan]](https://armchairarcade.com/perspectives/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Commodore_VIC20_Proto_John_Feagan.jpg)
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....
If you don’t know me well, let me make one thing clear right off the bat. I don’t care one iota for platform wars, fanboys, or any other designation or term that indicates a strong bias for one platform over another for “reasons.” Bottom line, I use what I like,...
Soulless title screen 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...
Although it comes as no surprise at this point, it’s still worth it to report that yet another Kickstarter has failed to deliver. This time, it’s for the Writerase, which featured the tagline, “Simply write and erase, or ‘Writerase’, with our customizable dry erase notebooks!.” In this case, despite receiving over 32,000...
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...
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...
All editorial content © 2003 - 2021 Armchair Arcade, Inc., an Armchair Creative Services, LLC, property. All rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. All trademarks and copyrights are retained by their respective owners. No content is to be removed or reused from the Armchair Arcade Website for commercial purposes without explicit permission from the principal Armchair Arcade staff, or the original trademark or copyright holders. Armchair Arcade, Inc., is not responsible for the content of any external sources or links. Further, endorsement of any external sources or links is neither implied nor suggested.
We thank you for your support and encourage you to contact us for any reason, including, but not limited to, questions, concerns, business endeavors, or praise. Especially praise.
Your total news and information resource for all things Science, Technology, Engineering / Mathematics, Art, and Medicine / Health. 
Recent Comments