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Sega’s Fantasia 13 Mar 2012 | 09:17 pm
By 1991, Sega and Nintendo were the undisputed masters of the home console. Sega had released it’s Megadrive/Genesis in 1989 and spent the first couple of years marketing the product and building sal...
Manic Miner 21 Feb 2012 | 02:00 am
Way back in 1983 a game was released which was very hard to play, had some of the most migraine-inducing sounds around but turned out to be one of the most addictive games ever released. Matthew Smit...
Chuckie Egg 24 Jan 2012 | 11:42 pm
It’s back to the source for this post or at least back to 1983 and an era when it was still possible to develop game software sitting in your bedroom then try and flog it to one of the publishers. Th...
Electronic Arts – Part Two 7 Jan 2012 | 01:03 am
We ended the previous article by noting the departure of EA founder Trip Hawkins away from the company with the intention of forming 3DO with a number of other big industry names. The console manufac...
Electronic Arts – Part One 10 Dec 2011 | 01:18 am
Electronic Arts Electronic Arts is one of the world’s biggest and most recognisable brands in the computer games industry. It has relatively long and largely successful history and, unlike Atari for...
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 24 Nov 2011 | 04:57 am
Towards the end of the 1990s a game was released which, like Space Invaders in the 1970s and Donkey Kong in the 1980s, added a new layer of innovation and gameplay to the world of console gaming. The...
The History Of Atari – Part Three 17 Nov 2011 | 01:10 am
In Part Two, we finished the article by describing how Atari had reached a situation in the 1990s in which they had plenty of money in the bank after several successful lawsuits but two failed device...
The History Of Atari – Part Two 8 Nov 2011 | 01:24 am
Atari Under Warner Following the departure of Nolan Bushnell from Atari, now under the control of Warner, the development of the successor to the Atari 2600 became a priority. This project had in fa...
The History Of Atari – Part One 20 Oct 2011 | 10:48 pm
One of the names most closely associated with the early history of video games, video Atari Logo game consoles and home computers is Atari – familiar to anyone who has played any type of electronic ...
Magnavox Odyssey 12 Oct 2011 | 11:41 pm
While other early consoles such as the Fairchild Video Entertainment System and the Magnavox Odyssey original Atari’s often get the credit for kicking off the home console boom, it was the lesser kn...
