Monthly Archives: June 2011

Battle Zone 1980 Atari The only thing making this game old, is when it was released. End of story. This game once again broke boundries in the gaming industry. Clean cut 3d arena, not to mention unbroken lines of vector … Continue reading →

Galaxian 1979 Namaco a few blog posts ago i did a post on Space invaders and i hinted at the fact that it was responsible for the spawning on future space shoot em ups. this started that spin off market. … Continue reading →

Adventure Atari 1979 In 1979 Atari did something that a lot of none computer users at the time hoped and dreamed for…. they put “real” graphics to an adventure game. Which at the time was a big deal. Up until … Continue reading →

Space Invaders Taito 1978 There have been a large number of space based shooting games to be released over the many years of video games, all of which owe their existance and over all popularity to space invaders. Say what … Continue reading →

Combat 1977 Atari so back in 1977, ya know the dawn of what would be known as beginning of home video game market, atari released a system that came with two controllers! something that now a days along with the … Continue reading →

breakout 1976 Atari Remember that time that i said Atari took the pong experiece of not patenting their creations and so they continued creating new and better things(except e.t.) to throw it in there faces? Booom, here is one of … Continue reading →

Pong 1972 Atari If you have never heard of pong, its either because you are too young and i can fault you for that or its because you are not a gamer. In which case im not quite sure why … Continue reading →