Retrogaming

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This is the top 100 of best text adventures, as voted for by the visitors of WoS, updated daily.

It's almost 25 years to the day since the ZX Spectrum home computer captured our hearts and relinquished us of any social life back in 1982.

The ZX Spectrum can boast some 15 thousand titles, which is about ten times more than what is currently available for either GBA or NDS alone. This is quite a lot of games to choose from. To put it into perspective, if you try out one title each day, it will keep you occupied for more than forty years. So, where do you start?

As with the previous two TRB Top 100's, this is a long list of favourite games. My favourite games, that is. As with previous listings, the 2008 edition displays what position the game was in the 2006 listing, either (U), (D), (-), (NE) or even (RE).

This page lists Sinclair ZX Spectrum games which were unpublished or games which only got as far as the prototype stage or storyboard!

There have been a number of classic video game cartridges that have garnered surprising sums on the auction block over the years. On any given week on Ebay, or on dedicated fan sites, you can find plenty of titles changing hands for a couple hundred bucks. Notoriously rare Atari 2600 games like Tooth Protectors or Chase the Chuckwagon (which you got by sending in labels from dog food) trade for sums that far exceed the fun you're ever going to have with such rotten games. But every once in a while a retro cart comes along that goes for not hundreds, but thousands of dollars.

This site tries to list all adventure games (interactive fiction) produced over the years. When I say "adventure", I mean text adventures and their graphical decendants, but I don't include RPGs. For a more detailed description of what's included here and not, see the FAQ.

This section contains TXT and HTM formatted documents for old games. These files have mostly been created by users for other people to understand the games. Without these files many of the games have no instructions.

In 1991, a storm swept over the international arcade scene.  Street Fighter II swept the world, invigorating the arcade scene, determine the future of the ongoing home console war, and bringing a small genre fully into the public eye.  Much like Doom's effect on the First Person Shooter, Street Fighter 2 was followed by a legion of knock offs and clones, some mere travesties, and some with innovative and original ideas that would go on to further define the 2D VS. Fighter genre.

30 years ago, videogames changed forever.

Gerald (Jerry) Lawson interview talking about his early career in the games industry.

I was born in the 70's, so I have fond memories of the Nintendo Entertainment System. From having to blow in the cartridge to get it to work, stacking cartridges inside the system and writing down codes because there was no save feature.

The vintage Commodore 64 personal computer is getting a makeover, with a new design and some of the latest computing technologies, as the brand gets primed for a comeback.

Introduced at the beginning of the 1980s, the Mattel Intellivision was very popular in the early part of that decade. While never surpassing the Atari 2600 in terms of popularity, Mattel's console attracted quite a loyal following that holds the Intellivision in high regard to this very day. It is also the one console to receive the most continued support from its original developers. Today, Intellivision Productions owns the rights to the original games and continues to support the Intellivision community with emulators and "new" releases.

Considering the sheer number of arcade games that have come and gone in the past 25 years, narrowing it down to our ten favorites is a monumental undertaking to say the least! But we're all a sucker for top ten lists, aren't we? And because of the success of the console top ten section, we felt like a section devoted to arcade favorites was only natural. If you have a "top ten" list of your own that you'd like to share with your fellow gamers, please email us at editor@atarihq.com. An explanation of your choices would be super, but a simple list would also be appreciated. Enjoy!

Ten years after his death, Gunpei Yokoi has been reduced to legend: condensed, marginalized and re-packaged as a Nintendo creation myth instead of a man. You'd think there'd be entire encyclopedias profiling this Japanese Doc Brown, the prolific inventor who engineered the D-Pad, Game and Watch, R.O.B., Game Boy, Virtual Boy, a dozen or so children's toys and the Super Mario Land, Fire Emblem, Kid Icarus and Metroid franchises. Not so. Instead, most official Nintendo histories gloss over Yokoi's contributions, and many books and websites - if they're even translated into English - echo the same rudimentary, unsubstantiated stories. Even Yokoi's own obituaries wander off topic. The man was so vague and ghostly, he may not have even existed at all.

Nintendo's Virtual Console is a key component of the Wii, granting the system not just a little backwards compatibility but a whole lot of it. Eventually, it could be in the same league as Turner's GameTap, albeit with a different focus: No PC games, no arcade titles, just selections from every Nintendo home console... and every vanished major competitor, like the Turbografx 16 and Sega Genesis.

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.

Let's face it, nothing goes together better than food and video games. Heck, for many of us retro gamers of the '80s, the local video arcade and pizza place were one in the same. Perhaps that's how Nolan Bushnell, co-founder of Atari, came up with the idea of starting Chucky Cheese.