Weird Retro Video Games: TV-Less Gaming in the Early 1980's

You're a kid in the early 80's and you are ready to settle down in your plaid sofa with a bowl of Count Chocula in your favorite Dukes of ...

Pong - retro tennis, soccer and squash TV game in a CPLD.

This is a close emulation of the AY-3-8500 chip manufactured by General Instruments and fitted to many TV games consoles during the late 1970s ...

Retro arcade games

22.02.12

Games from decades past for the original Nintendo Entertainment System from 1985.

Mobido is just one of many gamers who enjoy the way-back fun of retro gaming, a thriving movement where video games of old get an extra life.

Retro gaming mainly covers games from the 1980s and '90s, from cartridges that clicked into an Atari 2600 or NES to discs that dropped into a Dreamcast or the first PlayStation. Games for old computers such as the Commodore 64 also get thrown into the retro-gaming mix.

And like they did so many years ago, retro gamers still gather to get their game on - be it at special conventions such as the Classic Gaming Expo in Las Vegas or specialty stores such as Game Over Videogames, a Texas-based chain where regulars like Mobido buy, sell and trade their old electronic adventures.

"There's always that place and time where it takes you back to when you were a kid," says Game Over CEO and president David Kaelin . "In a bigger sense, I would say that retro gaming in general has gotten a lot bigger.

Source: Houston Chronicle

Retro Video TV Game News

Retro arcade games

Houston Chronicle - Feb 22, 2012

Cartridges abound with the likes of Super Mario Bros., the '85 hit that made Mario a video-game icon, along with the 1982 jungle treasure hunt Pitfall! and more titles that beeped and booped to life on the family TV back in the day. ...

Thursday Night Football: Cleveland Browns/Pittsburgh Steelers (retro-preview)

isportsweb.com - Feb 22, 2012

The system that is “the coverage of nationally televised games.” If you're a Browns fan who either, a) hates yourself because you have to root for the Browns, b) easily develops grudges against talking heads on TV who degrade your team, ...

SupaBoy Handheld Video Game Console

Coolest Gadgets - Feb 22, 2012

by Edwin - on December 4th, 2011 Roll back the gaming years with something retro for your home this Christmas – I'm talking about the here. This little puppy was specially designed to look like that of your classic ...

Voltron: Defenders of the Universe, classic TV yesteryear meets gamers today

Monsters and Critics.com - Feb 22, 2012

Monsters and Critics was invited to a special Voltron launch party in honor of THQ's new Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 game called 'Voltron: Defender of the Universe.' They held the party at the Agoura, CA. THQ headquarters as the retro Voltron game ...

Mario Kart 7 for the 3DS review

Aussie-Nintendo.com - Feb 22, 2012

Apparently Tintin is coming to Wii, so I played the latest video game rendition of the movie of the TV If you've so humbly read Lucario's impressions, you'll know that he and I visited Nintendo HQ for a special 'Mario Kart Syndrome' is a popular ...

Comments

Tomcreed says:
Check out new post about Offers Retro Arcade Pac-Man (and more) Plug & Play Video TV Game Christma...

sheri barber says:
Cleaned kids old rooms. Found Nin 360, Play Sta, Play Sta II, X Box & ton of games. Now making retro video game area w/retro big screen TV.