The Game Hoard

After having played both of Midway’s attempts to reinvent the alien shooter series Area 51 with its 2005 version and

While releasing in 1979 does make Asteroids one of the earliest well known video games ever made, it always felt

The 2012 animated feature Wreck-It Ralph featured many loving homages to classic gaming and cameos from major characters from video

Pac-Man, Galaga, and Dig Dug. These three are practically the holy trinity of Namco’s early arcade offerings, often cropping up

If you had a winning formula for a video game, how often would you recycle it? And in those reuses

The rules and structure we apply to sports are what give these tests of physical skill their appeal, for without

Visualizing progress well goes a long way towards making a game feel satisfying, and for many of the early arcade