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Game 13: Food Fight (Atari, 1983)

Ice Cream Jonsey March 17, 2025 No Comments

Food Fight can only exist as a video game, it is a perfect representation of a time and platform. It is colorful in a way that arcade games were only…

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Game 12: Chopper Commando (Mark Currie, 1989)

Ice Cream Jonsey March 10, 2025 No Comments

Chopper Commando is a mission-based DOS game that was created by Mark Currie and released – depending on your source – in 1988, 1989 or 1990. (Rather than start each…

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Game 11: Spider-Man (Insomniac, 2018)

Ice Cream Jonsey March 3, 2025 No Comments

Kids today love Spider-Man; Marvel has done the best job possible with marketing. Stan Lee wasn’t shy about licensing, but they went from Mego Dolls and underwear to high quality…

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Game 10: Zwackery (Midway, 1985)

Ice Cream Jonsey February 24, 2025 No Comments

Zwackery is an arcade game with “complicated” controls from the mind of Brian Colin, an artist, animator and designer on other arcade titles like Rampage, Xenophobe and Arch Rivals. His…

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Game 9: Abuse (Crack Dot Com, 1995)

Ice Cream Jonsey February 17, 2025 No Comments

Abuse has been a fun one to try to do some background research on. Typing in the name of any of the developers, designers and engineers for Abuse + the…

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Game 8: Sentinel Returns (Psygnosis Limited, 1998)

Ice Cream Jonsey February 10, 2025 No Comments

Let’s avoid anything going on in the real world and talk about Sentinel Returns, a “modern” (at the time) remake of Sentinel. It’s a game that makes me feel like…

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Game 7: NHL ’96 (Electronic Arts, 1995)

Ice Cream Jonsey February 3, 2025 No Comments

I have a treadmill in front of my television and have learned that a full game of NHL 23 for the Playstation 4 is about 36 minutes. Walking that while…

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Game 6: Rocket Jockey (SegaSoft, 1996)

Ice Cream Jonsey January 27, 2025 No Comments

Rocket Jockey is a science fiction arena sports game that has the player operating a rocket-propelled sled in three different modes of play: a race course, a soccer-like game where…

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Game 5: Vyrzon (Minsoft, 2023)

Ice Cream Jonsey January 20, 2025 No Comments

The Vectrex homebrew scene is crushing it. Look at the box that Vyrzon arrives in! It’s gorgeous. It would not be out of place in the 1980s. The first versions…

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Game 4: Aquatron (Sierra On-Line, 1984)

Ice Cream Jonsey January 16, 2025 No Comments

Aquatron (Atari 8-bit 1983, Apple // 1984) is a bit like Defender, although with a slow enough pace that you can survive on the screen for a while. These days,…

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