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The official game list for the Walmart-exclusive AtGames Atari Flashback Blast! vol. 3 (2018) [NOTE: All are Atari 2600 console versions]: 1. Backgammon 2. Blackjack 3. Breakout 4. Canyon Bomber 5. Circus Atari 6. Demons to Diamonds 7. Night Driver 8. Steeplechase 9. Street Racer 10.Stunt Cycle 11.Super Breakout 12.Video Olympics (Basketball) 13.Video Olympics (Foozpong) 14.Video Olympics (Handball) […]

The official game list for the AtGames Atari Flashback Blast! vol. 2 (2018) [NOTE: All are Atari 2600 console versions]: 1. Adventure 2. Adventure II 3. Asteroids 4. Atari Video Cube 5. Championship Soccer 6. Crystal Castles 7. Double Dunk 8. Gravitar 9. Haunted House 10. Maze Craze 11. Missile Command 12. Off the Wall 13. RealSports Baseball 14. […]

The official game list for the AtGames Atari Flashback Blast! vol. 1 (2018) [NOTE: All are Atari 2600 console versions]: 1. 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe 2. Air-Sea Battle 3. Bowling 4. Centipede 5. Desert Falcon 6. Dodge ‘Em 7. Fatal Run 8. Golf 9. Human Cannonball 10. Millipede 11. Miniature Golf 12. Radar Lock 13. Save Mary 14. Sprint Master […]

This Walmart exclusive, which includes a small HDMI dongle with 20 built-in Atari 2600 games and matching wireless paddle controllers for authentic play, is now available to pre-order for just $19.99. Here’s the link! Official press release for entire Blast! product family. You’ll have a Blast! with this third volume of legendary Atari 2600 classics. […]

In this latest entry in our ongoing series on gambling technology, we take a look at some of the arcade style casino games that are available today. While most slot machines simply require lots of luck, a new breed of these machines is also requiring some solid video game playing skills. For example, Next Gaming, […]

UPDATE EXCLUSIVE TO MAY 31, 2018:  The online portion, which is only a small 64 lots, runs for a few more hours, New Jersey time: https://connect.invaluable.com/bodnar/ The live portion, which is the bulk of the stuff, starts at 3PM and runs until at least midnight tonight. That allows for absentee bidding and shipping: https://www.bodnarsa…ming-collection Bodnar’s […]

(UPDATE 1: Check out this cool Kotaku article on the collection/auction.) (UPDATE 2: PC Gamer’s coverage.) If you’ve been following along on my previous updates, here, you’ll already be familiar with the backstory for this massive single owner (me!) auction. Long story short, this is primarily an onsite auction of countless hundreds of videogame and […]

The Humble Book Bundle: Game Studies by MIT Press Here’s the link. Offer expires 2018-04-23 11:00:00 PDT. We’ve never MIT a book from this press we didn’t like. OMG, MIT brought Humble a bundle of gems from their game studies catalog. Pick up titles like How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design; Super Power, Spoony Bards, and Silverware: […]