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  • space cruser Space Cruiser

    Aug 23, 2006

    The reruns end with this look back at the descriptively titled Space Cruiser.

  • Space Fury Space Fury

    Jul 19, 2006

    It's the game so hot that it regularly caught on fire.

  • Astro Blaster Astro Blaster

    Jul 05, 2006

    It's no ordinary early-'80s space battler: It's in color. And it talks!

  • Got-Ya Got-Ya

    Dec 28, 2005

    It’s Pac-Man with a paper/rock/scissors twist. No, seriously.

  • Scramble Scramble

    Nov 23, 2005

    Few games make legal history. Scramble is one of them.

  • Turtles Turtles

    Nov 09, 2005

    What’s more exciting than being a turtle? Playing one in a video game.

  • Thief Thief

    Oct 26, 2005

    A pretty fun game from 1981 Thief faced one major disadvantage: People had already played Pac-Man.

  • Kaos Kaos

    Aug 16, 2005

    You play a duck-like clown. And that’s not even the crazy part.

  • Turbo Turbo

    Jun 01, 2005

    [Note: Games Of Our Lives will return next week when special correspondent Wil Wheaton returns from The A.V. Club's disabled list. In the...

  • Turbo Turbo

    Feb 23, 2005

    From the first time you sat in a cardboard box and made "Vroom! Vroom!" noises to the first time you put playing cards in the spokes of your bike,...