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Below is a list of my favorite Atari 2600 games. Some are current favorites and others I liked better when they were new back in the 1980s. There are many games I haven't had a chance to play, so this list will probably change as I discover new favorites. Each game is linked to the appropriate AtariAge.com page in case you want instruction manuals, screenshots, scans, or ROMs.

The "last" commercial game for the ZX Spectrum was Dr. Who - Dalek Attack in July of 1993. Although the straight decline was easily noticeable from the beginning of that same year, which can be measured by the number of published software. From this year's spring software companies did not accept any new Spectrum games from developers as well the last of Speccy magazines disappeared. New games release section of still alive press were practically empty, or even cancelled. In May Sinclair User, and in September Your Sinclair was also exiting.

After Sega established a strong lead in the console market in the early 1990's, the company saw the possibilities that the new CD-ROM format could bring to gaming.  Sega produced the Sega CD add-on for the Genesis to bring the technology to the many Genesis owners around the world without requiring them to invest in a completely new system.  Unfortunately, they did not completely follow through with their vision.  Even though it was not a commercial success, that does not mean that a Sega CD isn't worth picking up for a reasonable price to expand on one's classic Sega collection.  The Sega CD is still an interesting piece of hardware and has some games that are still worth checking out.

In the early 1990's, video games experienced what is regarded by many to be the swan song of 2D gaming. The NES built up a lot of steam in the late 1980's with its 8 bits of processing power, but their competitor Sega wasn't going to just sit back and watch Nintendo cash in on all the console sales. Instead, they began a new generation of video gaming known as the 16-bit era by releasing a console known as the Genesis. It was inevitable then that in order to maintain their foothold in the home video game industry, Nintendo would have to release new hardware as well. In 1991, Nintendo launches the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, or SNES.

For several years I loved my Nintendo Entertainment System. It was like my best friend, but sometimes you drift apart and meet new friends. In 1989, I met my new friend, the Sega Genesis. There were many fun games on the Sega Genesis and I always considered myself a Genesis fans, as opposed to those Nintendo fanboys. It's time to take a little trip down memory lane and remember my ten favorite Sega Genesis games.

It wasn't necessarily that much better than the other consoles on the market at the time, it was just a hell of a lot more expensive. Not only that, but if you managed to somehow survive the $650 price tag the console hit you with, you'd still have to shell out another $200-$300 per game if you wanted anything to play on your shiny new console. It goes without saying that most gamers passed on the Neo Geo system, but the story still managed to have a happy ending. Over the years the Neo Geo consoles and arcade cabinets have become quite collectible around the internet and now these wonderful titles are getting a second chance on the Wii Virtual Console service.

In the wake of losing the spotlight to a pack of dishonest Rabbids, Ubisoft's limbless courageous person made a dazzling comeback in 2011 with Rayman Origins, recognized to be one of the most fittingly recreations in the arrangement.

Gaming itself lives, learns, breeds, turns ill, and even dies just like a living creature. Whether the economy is good or bad, it often thrives. When the winds of change blow over it, it shifts to remain relevant. When a fixture of gaming's popularity spills over, it breeds new forms of media- music, a movie, toys, so-on. When it stubbornly refuses to innovate, it suffers from low interest and weakened demand. Gaming even collapsed and died at one point- only to be revived later, much akin to the mythical phoenix's life cycle. Most of all though, gaming evolves alongside its surroundings in order to survive.

The Legend of Zelda game series may very well be the single most venerated series in all of gaming. The original NES classic was recently seen in the number one spot of GameInformer Magazine's 200 Greatest Games of All Time. Every time a new entry is announced the gaming community seems to lose it's mind. The games appeal to all gamers of all skill level and all ages. Many say that there never truly been a bad game in the series. And yet not all the impact from these games has been positive. Unfortunately there are a few areas in which The Legend of Zelda pioneered some very regrettable trends that gamers are still forced to deal with.

When you add a console to your collection, the first thing you want to do is get a handful of games to keep you busy with your new toy. However, most of us can't spend afford to spend fat pile of cash for a few games. This budget-friendly list should help you quickly find which games will start you off well without emptying your wallet.   Since the SNES is quickly growing with nostolgic collectors, it's getting harder to find real values in the SNES market.   However, as long as you don't mind skipping the harder-to-find cardboard boxes for the games, you can find these classics for $10 or less.  (Prices listed are an average eBay price for US cartridge-only games, including shipping)

A classic game isn't likely to have come out in the past 10 years. Even this site doesn't consider it a classic unless the game was made before 1999; but that doesn't mean there haven't been major achievements in retro gaming during the first decade of the new millennium.

It's great that various web site authors and contributors have written reviews of old arcade games, but it's a completely different thing to read reviews that were written when the games were brand new and the hype was on. Here you can find scanned arcade reviews from various popular European home computer magazines. If you wish to contribute by either sending me scans or magazines themselves, please contact me!

One of the most popular sections in my video game newsletter, Retrogaming Times is the MAME Reviews.  Each month, I would choose two or more games and review them.  Over the years, I received alot of requests to review certain games.  Well, the newsletter has been around for a long time (nearing 30 issues at the time of writing this) and it is quite time consuming to go through all the issues to read the game reviews.  So, I decided to compile all of them here.  This way, you can easily read all of them, quickly and easily.  Plus, I hope to add some new reviews here of games that weren't originally reviewed in Retrogaming Times.  So enjoy the reviews and let me know what games you would like to see covered!

Information guides include screen shots, a brief game review, box, manual, and overlay images, and content about Easter eggs and known ROM revisions. If you find new, contradictory, or other information you wish to share, please let me know!

Know what to expect before you purchase a new Xbox game. We offer our unbiased opinions here.

Welcome to the Game Zero's Final Word review section. Here you can find reviews for a wide variety of console games--both new and old.

In 2006, a lot has changed for dosgamesonline.com. We launched a new design and improved the technical part of the website. We also launched a wingamesonline.com

Welcome to IGN Retro's new weekly countdown of the strange, silliest, and best moments in classic gaming: Top 10 Tuesday. But don't let that "top" part lull you -- we'll point out just as much infamy on these lists as we do the good stuff.

Magnavox started the video game revolution in 1972 with the release of the Odyssey, the world's first home video game system. For the next five years, the company released a number of standalone consoles in the Odyssey line, giving them numerical suffixes like Odyssey 100, Odyssey 400, and so on. Finally, in 1977, Magnavox signaled a new generation of Odyssey by announcing the Odyssey², a dedicated unit that was to contain 24 games and accommodate four simultaneous players. However, the bottom was quickly dropping out of the over-saturated dedicated console market, and Magnavox scrapped the 24-game Odyssey² in favor of an expandable cartridge-based model. The company released it in 1978, touting it as "The Ultimate Computer Video Game System."