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"I used to save up my change and play while my parents grocery shopped," he remembers. Myers, now 48, can play all the Donkey Kong he wants, along with Pac Man, Ms. Pac Man, Asteroids, Space Invaders, Centipede, Joust, Frogger and Galaxian. He and his wife, Julie, have just opened Rack It Up, an arcade dedicated to classic video games and pinball. Its in the former Canton Music Center location at 3208 Whipple Ave. NW. The place clearly inspires nostalgia in its owners. "Life was just so good ...

  [This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Gamasutra and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource Games Press.] Stuttgart, December 11th 2020 - TAITO and ININ Games are happy to announce that Space Invaders Forever, a collection featuring the iconic shooter brand, is out today, 11th December 2020 for Nintendo Switch™ both digitally and physically in North America, Europe and Australasia together with the PlayStation®4 platform versions with the exception of th...

When I came across this compilation of vintage holiday commercials from the '70s and 80's, I just knew I needed to share them with you.

Friday 11 December 2020 For years, retro gaming primarily lurked in the game world’s seedy underbelly. Although some dedicated advocates of classic titles sought out original hardware, most players did not. After all, it was far easier to launch a videogame ROM or disk image on a PC, hacked handheld or smartphone than battle with increasingly rare, failure-prone consoles and computers of old. There had been attempts at official retro products, but 2016’s NES Mini (or to use its full name, t...

Christmas in the ’80s: Rubik’s Cube, Cabbage Patch dolls, Nintendo. Here are the top, must-haves from the decade Updated Dec 11, 2020; Do you remember Christmas in the 1980s? If you were growing up during the decade you probably have a fond remembrance for the toys, the ones which shaped our childhood and changed forever the way the holiday was marketed. People stood in lines for hours for the Nintendo Entertainment System and a Cabbage Patch Kid. Those were the biggies, but there were so ...

Space Invaders in Newcastle 40 years ago - and how youngsters were flocking to gaming The new arcade video game Space Invaders was all the rage on Tyneside in 1980. Now, 40 years later, an updated version is being released for gamers Sign up for our free newsletter on Dave Mortons nostalgia and local history stories sent direct to your inboxInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newslett...

Veteran producer Anthony Khan celebrates the release of his debut album with a special live set.

Boku, Inc. Antstream & Fortumo launch global carrier billing partnership 7:07 am Boku Inc. (LON:BOKU), a leading global mobile payment and mobile identity company, has announced the launch of a global direct carrier billing partnership between the retro-gaming streaming service Antstream and Boku’s subsidiary Fortumo. Gamers can now subscribe to Antstream and access more than 1000 games by charging the purchases to their mobile phone bill or prepaid SIM card. The first market l...

Alessandro Baricco is one of Italy’s most versatile contemporary writers and public intellectuals. His new book, The Game (McSweeney’s, 2020, translated from the Italian by Clarissa Botsford) is a journey that maps out the transformations that the digital revolution has wrought upon the landscape of human experience Brian Christian is the author of three acclaimed books on the intersection of humanity and technology, including, most recently, The Alignment Problem. The interview begins in...

Details You Didnt Know About Space Invaders Details You Didnt Know About Space Invaders Taito/Midway By Jim Rowley/Dec. 10, 2020 1:30 pm EDT Space Invaders was one of the first true blockbuster games. It debuted in 1978 and almost immediately was a hit. One urban legend at the time said the game was so popular in Japan that the country ran out of coins. Players crowded video arcades, and some of them were content just to watch their friends play the game. Space Invaders also h...