Well, it happened -- Thanksgiving was last week, Cyber Monday is today and from here on out, we are neck deep in the holiday season. This time of year is particularly busy on the App Store, as various ...

In an age of blocky pixels, vectorbeam monitors offered sharp arcade action in games such as Asteroids, Tempest and Star Wars. The Vectrex game console brought the technology home, but the system's ...

With the more common availability of 3D printers, making miniature models of retro computer and video game gear is one way to nerd out and not fill the house up. [Jason] was looking around and noticed ...

Ask any hardcore gamer who grew up in the 1980s to name what they believe to be the first portable gaming console. They’d probably answer with the Entex Electric Baseball game or those tiny, white ...

Building and modifying game systems has long been a staple of the DIY community. But have you ever tried creating a retro gaming system with an oscilloscope? People deeply embedded in the history of ...

Although it wasn’t the first to do it, Nintendo certainly brought a renaissance to miniaturized throwback consoles with its NES and SNES Classic Editions, which then inspired miniaturized versions of ...

Alongside the Commodores, Ataris, Nintendos, and all the other game systems of the 80s, there was a single unique video game system that stood out from the pack. This was the Vectrex, a console with a ...

I'm fully aware that I have a basement full of crap, and, yes, to many eyes, my collection of crap really may be analogous to a firm, healthy turd, but if I accept this unpleasant analogy, then I'd ...

Anybody who played on classic cabinets like Asteroids or Lunar Lander in the arcades knows that those games' unique, glowing-line graphics were impossible to replicate on standard TV video game ...

Finishing up your backlog is usually discussed as an act of time; these games are kept around until we have the free weekend necessary to finish them before moving them over to the mental “finished” ...

Editor's Note: I've long been impressed by Xcell Journal from Xilinx, both for the quality of its production and the quality of its articles. So I'm delighted to have the opportunity to present the ...

This week's thrifting adventures happened mostly by proxy. In the middle of recording another exciting installment of Game|Life The Video, I got a rare midday phone call from my parents in Connecticut ...