Video Games Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/category/videogames/ Electronics, Computing and Videogame History! Sun, 13 Dec 2020 19:40:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 http://paleotronic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/cropped-keyicon-1-32x32.png Video Games Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/category/videogames/ 32 32 146320098 Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro Christmas Returns… Again! http://paleotronic.com/2020/12/14/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-returns-again/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/12/14/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-returns-again/#respond Sun, 13 Dec 2020 19:06:25 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=15904 Did you miss it last year? Well, here’s another chance to check out Paleotronic’s 12 years of Retro-Christmas, a series of 12 mini-mags looking back at consumer electronics covering the years 1980-1991. It was the [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/12/14/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-returns-again/feed/ 0 15904 The Vampire’s Inn: Castlevania http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/13/the-vampires-inn-castlevania/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/13/the-vampires-inn-castlevania/#respond Tue, 13 Oct 2020 00:56:54 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=14793 No other video game franchise screams Halloween more than Castlevania. 33 years of Dracula whipping fun, quirkiness and extreme frustration has spanned more than 30 game releases of hunter versus vampire killing across various arcade, [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/13/the-vampires-inn-castlevania/feed/ 0 14793 Rabid Arcade Rats: Scary Arcade Games http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/10/rabid-arcade-rats-scary-arcade-games/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/10/rabid-arcade-rats-scary-arcade-games/#respond Sat, 10 Oct 2020 01:38:58 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=14710 As this issue of Paleotronic magazine is Halloween themed, being asked to write an article discussing the history of arcade horror games fits perfectly, even if you are not a big fan on the horror [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/10/rabid-arcade-rats-scary-arcade-games/feed/ 0 14710 Pumpkin’ Playas: More Tricks than Treats http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/07/pumpkin-playas-more-tricks-than-treats/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/07/pumpkin-playas-more-tricks-than-treats/#respond Tue, 06 Oct 2020 14:00:34 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=14481 Pac-Man was the hottest arcade game of 1981 and Atari saw an opportunity to capitalise on it with a VCS version… By the end of that year, people had pumped more money into Pac-Man machines [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/07/pumpkin-playas-more-tricks-than-treats/feed/ 0 14481 Gadget Graveyard: The Nintendo Virtual Boy http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/06/gadget-graveyard-the-nintendo-virtual-boy/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/06/gadget-graveyard-the-nintendo-virtual-boy/#respond Mon, 05 Oct 2020 14:00:23 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=14476 Computer and video game companies often dive into the deep end of innovation in a bid to capture the next big thing in gaming. The driving force is revenue, profits and capturing market share from [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/06/gadget-graveyard-the-nintendo-virtual-boy/feed/ 0 14476 Gremlins, Goonies and Ghostbusters: A Trio of Terrifying Movie Games http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/05/gremlins-goonies-and-ghostbusters-a-trio-of-terrifying-movie-games/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/05/gremlins-goonies-and-ghostbusters-a-trio-of-terrifying-movie-games/#respond Sun, 04 Oct 2020 14:00:44 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=14464 The 1980s are famous for its horror-action-comedy movies, three of the most well-recognised being Gremlins, Goonies and Ghostbusters. Of course, given their popularity, they all had computer games made for them as well! Let’s take [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/05/gremlins-goonies-and-ghostbusters-a-trio-of-terrifying-movie-games/feed/ 0 14464 A Nightmare on Retro Street: Horror at Home http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/02/a-nightmare-on-retro-street-horror-at-home/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/02/a-nightmare-on-retro-street-horror-at-home/#respond Thu, 01 Oct 2020 14:00:52 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=14422 People love to be scared, and the forms of media we consume reflect that. From Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein to Capcom’s Resident Evil series, audiences have actively sought out fear in its various incarnations. It’s [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/02/a-nightmare-on-retro-street-horror-at-home/feed/ 0 14422 Kill a Happy Face: The Mayhem of MIDI Maze, the first FPS http://paleotronic.com/2020/09/28/kill-a-happy-face-the-mayhem-of-midi-maze-the-first-fps/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/09/28/kill-a-happy-face-the-mayhem-of-midi-maze-the-first-fps/#respond Mon, 28 Sep 2020 04:32:02 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=14391 In the previous two issues of Paleotronic I have written about RPG games, their origins, the games credited with being the first of their kinds on home computers in the RPG video gaming category. Midi [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/09/28/kill-a-happy-face-the-mayhem-of-midi-maze-the-first-fps/feed/ 0 14391 The Artistic Worlds of CD-ROM http://paleotronic.com/2020/09/28/myst-wing-commander-zork/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/09/28/myst-wing-commander-zork/#respond Mon, 28 Sep 2020 03:59:58 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=14374 The multimedia boom of the 1990s saw an influx of computer programs released on compact discs. With the extra storage allowed by the format, games could begin to provide gamers with a far richer experience [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/09/28/myst-wing-commander-zork/feed/ 0 14374 Play over 300 Apple II games with Total Replay, get bonus SHR box art with our microM8 Apple IIe emulator http://paleotronic.com/2020/07/29/play-over-300-apple-ii-games-with-total-replay-get-bonus-shr-box-art-with-our-microm8-apple-iie-emulator/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/07/29/play-over-300-apple-ii-games-with-total-replay-get-bonus-shr-box-art-with-our-microm8-apple-iie-emulator/#respond Wed, 29 Jul 2020 03:28:39 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=13487 Total Replay is an awesome hard disk image created and constantly updated by Apple II heroes 4AM, Qkumba and others. It contains 328 (current count) classic Apple II action games, including just about every game [more...]

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