Recent Posts Tagged With 'atari'

• Missile Command

  Posted on Sunday July 26th, 2009 at 23:36 in video games, review, atari

  I recently purchased one of those retro flashback style systems that feature 50 classic Atari games and, low and behold, Missile Command was amongst the games offered. Needless to say, after spending the last handful of years playing the classics as ...

• ET

  Posted on Wednesday December 10th, 2008 at 00:45 in video games, review, Nostalgia, atari

  So was this game the worst game ever or what? I used to have this game for my 2600 back in the day and was never able to figure it out. Well, I managed to secure a copy of ET off of Amazon.com for a pocketful of change and gave it another try and was...

• NFL Week 6 Review "RealSports Football"

  Posted on Sunday October 12th, 2008 at 04:44 in video games, review, nfl, Nostalgia, atari

  Real Sports Football on the Atari sucked hard! This game was quite possibly the biggest pile of s#@t I ever played. We have been talking about different football games on the classic console for 5 weeks now and are yet to really delve into the horrif...

• Week 2 NFL Review "Football"

  Posted on Sunday September 14th, 2008 at 04:34 in video games, review, nfl, Nostalgia, atari

  There have been a lot of great football games on the old school consoles, but none was worse than Football for the Atari 2600. I've got to be honest, I never knew what the hell was going on at any given time during that game. Basically, you have 3 bl...

• Apple II Series

  Posted on Tuesday September 2nd, 2008 at 05:29 in video games, Nostalgia, atari

  This is where it all really began. In 1985, I began attending school at St. Patrick's in Lawrence, MA, and like all the other kids in the 1st grade I took computer class. That faithful day in September of 85 was the first time I saw her. Sitting in m...

• Extra Terrestrial Style

  Posted on Thursday August 28th, 2008 at 23:29 in video games, Nostalgia, atari

  I was digging through the bargain bin at an old school gaming store in Plaistow, NH a few months ago and managed to pick up a copy of E.T. for the Atari 2600. I bought the game for 35 cents, and I think it was almost worth every penny (or at least 14...

• Slim Atari 2600

  Posted on Wednesday August 20th, 2008 at 22:12 in video games, sega, Nostalgia, atari, coleco vision

  Atari must have had about 50 different console designs in the 80's. Whether it was the original 2600, the slim 2600, the beefy 7800 or that peculiar 5200, a gamer always knew they were going to have a wide variety of great games to play. What I never...

• Avoiding The Pitfall

  Posted on Sunday August 10th, 2008 at 21:41 in video games, Nostalgia, atari

  The first time I ever played Pitfall on the Atari 2600, I knew something wasn't right. I continued to run to the right of the screen assuming there would be some new obstacles or a boss to somehow defeat, but there was nothing. There was just the sam...

• 1UP

  Posted on Sunday August 10th, 2008 at 21:17 in Nintendo, video games, 8-bit, atari

  Having grown up in the 1980's, I had the opportunity to experience the boom of the 8-Bit era. I began "gaming" in 1984 with my Atari 2600, Coleco Vision and Aquarius computer. A couple of years later my parents bought my brother and I a Nintendo and ...