The last few years I’ve spent a lot of time taking pictures and writing about the experience of each of my days in PAX Australia at occasionally sunny Melbourne which kept me way too busy at the end of each day. This time I needed a break and […]
From time to time I’ve been keeping an eye out for Atari 2600 games to improve my small collection, especially boxed copies. I didn’t have too many back in the day so almost everything is new in terms of both owning and playing. And though the system is […]
The Atari VCS/2600 was the first games console I was introduced to and would help lead to years of time spent playing on other Atari systems before I moved into the wider world of games. It’s also a case where there was a thirty year gap between my […]
Instead of jumping through a few more boxes of Atari ST software, I ended up taking a brief detour and running a stock take of what I had collected so far for my Atari 2600. My collection is fairly minimal right now – my parents bought the family […]
1982 was a good year for Activision; not only was there the brilliant River Raid wowing Atari 2600 gamers but another iconic game from the company would arrive in the form of David Crane’s classic platformer Pitfall!. The game was a massive hit and is believed to be the second […]
Atari has been associated with many popular video games over the decades however there is one that is spoken little of today whose influence in multiple genres shouldn’t be forgotten as it may be one of the most important games they ever produced. Star Raiders is a real-time 3D space combat simulator developed […]
Greatest Games is a new feature where we highlight our favourite games from the past and try to explain what we think makes them great and worth searching out to play again. Released in 1982 for the Atari 2600, Carol Shaw’s River Raid provided gamers with a vertical shooter that seemed to […]