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As often happens, two new upcoming products from AtGames and Atari for the Sony PlayStation 4 (PS4) and Microsoft Xbox One, Atari Flashback Classics Volume 1 and Atari Flashback Classics Volume 2, have been “leaked” ahead of the pending official Press Release thanks to early retailer listings (Amazon for Volume 1 (PS4 / Xbox One) […]

While I’m not personally familiar with the 33 1/3 book series from Bloomsbury Academic, it’s apparently well regarded for its analyses of famous music. As far as I know, Koji Kondo’s Super Mario Bros. Soundtrack (33 1/3) (Andrew Schartmann; 2015) is their first videogame entry. The legendary Super Mario Bros. (1985) for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) […]

Atari is back at it again with another value-packed collection of Atari 2600 VCS and arcade games, which is now available on Steam. Of the 100 games, which I listed yesterday, 18 are arcade games, of which the majority are vector-based. That leaves 82 Atari 2600 games that span the launch titles from 1977 to […]

UPDATE: A review is posted here. Now that Atari has officially revealed the list of 100 games included on the soon-to-be-released Atari Vault for PC, which includes a mix of Atari 2600 and arcade games, I can share my own list, properly alphabetized with the corrected names, for reference: 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe (2600) A Game of Concentration […]

I posted some photos to Instagram late last night related to my set up and play of the Midway Arcade Lego Dimensions Level Pack and realized that a lot of you may not know exactly what that game is. I aim to rectify that in this blog post (including the Instagram photos), along with providing […]

In Armchair Arcade‘s  ongoing series (first started back in 2012 on the old version of our Website, here and continued on our current site, here), we ask the provocative question, “What makes a particular videogame sexy?” Each feature explores some of the many intriguing approaches game designers have taken over the years to make their games more […]

Noticing a pattern of particularly high (and completely justified) interest over the past several days after several friends and family commented on and forwarded me links to the newly unveiled Internet Arcade, I thought it might be useful to create a quick blog post about my experiences getting this wonderful service running. While Jason Scott himself posted just […]