Brian talks about and shows off the latest addition to his Man Cave… the Colecovision Flashback, he also plays a few games to try it out.
Brian builds the Ghostbusters Ecto-1 Lego set and talks about displaying Lego in your Man Cave.
Brian talks about a rare Atari 2600 game he acquired that is both interesting and hard to find! …Chase the Chuck Wagon.
Brian talks about how he built his Man Cave without shelling out a lot of money… he also shows off some of his Atari and Transformers toys collection.
Brian talks and plays two classic Atari 2600 games (Stampede) (Adventure) that he didn’t realize were so much fun.
I keep wondering to myself “What is classified as Retro when it comes to gaming?”, its a term we use quite a bit but seem to have a hard time trying to define it. The term “Retro” tends to apply to things that began or were popular about 15-20 years ago, so this begs the question… “what about things from… Read more »
I really don’t remember when I actually started to worry about graphics or even began to think about them, I probably never really cared until it became all the rage. It could be that my first experience with video games was on the Intellivision (a system that was marketed for its great graphic abilities), or the simple fact that graphics… Read more »
Race to the end… (continued from part 1) It was when I got introduced to the Nintendo NES that I really started to notice a style of game-play where the objective was to race to the end, rather then continuous playing until you lose. Super Mario Bros was a completely new form of game that I just was not used… Read more »
The Endless Loop… The early video games had many things in common, some more obvious then others. If a game was successful then it was common place to expect a ton of clones to follow (Pac-man, Space Invaders, Pong) just to name a few. There were other subtleties such as similar graphics and sound, a large assortment of space themed… Read more »
Today’s kids have it so easy when it comes to gaming as the average household now has about two to three TV’s and a few computers, tablets and various devices. I doubt there is ever a time that a kid is denied the ability to play a video game, they can pull out their Xbox or they can hop on… Read more »