Video Games

A brief history of Pong: The game that made the video game industry

A brief history of Pong: The game that made the video game industry

The video game industry as we know it got its start on November 29th, 1972, when Atari officially announced the release of the Pong arcade machine. Nolan Bushnell had an inkling that video games were going to be big, so he recruited coworker and friend Ted Dabney to create what...

Twisted Metal is getting its own ice cream flavor

Twisted Metal is getting its own ice cream flavor

It's the sweet treat we never knew we needed on a hot summer day — a scoop of ice cream inspired by a murderous, psychotic clown. I'm not sure how many hours I spent just rolling around in Sweet Tooth's ice cream truck, trying to blow up my friends and AI...

Revisiting Ninja Gaiden for the NES: Is it worth playing again?

Revisiting Ninja Gaiden for the NES: Is it worth playing again?

Sometimes arcade games lie to you. Case in point: the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. If you visited an arcade sometime in 1989 with three of your friends, you probably easily blew $10 worth of quarters EACH on the TMNT arcade game. It was thrilling, fast-paced beat ‘em up alongside impressive...

Every game you can play on Nintendo Switch classic consoles

Every game you can play on Nintendo Switch classic consoles

Updated 5/5/2023 I get it — there are emulators, handhelds, and all kinds of other ways you can play classic console games these days. But they can be buggy and unpredictable. Nintendo made a really savvy move, at least for consumers like me, when they essentially built their own...

10 SNES game soundtracks better than anything on your playlist

10 SNES game soundtracks better than anything on your playlist

Look, taste in music is subjective. I won’t argue that, but you also shouldn’t argue the fact that if you don’t have at least one Super Nintendo game soundtrack on your playlist, you’re objectively wrong. I don’t want to hear any whining about “oh, video...

Revisiting Tecmo Bowl: Is it worth playing again?

Revisiting Tecmo Bowl: Is it worth playing again?

Is there anything more American than sitting back, putting on the game, and watching a bunch of dudes try to give each other CTE? Actually, yes, yes there is — playing a video game where you pretend like you’re one of those dudes. Football video games have come a long...