Games Of Our Lives

  • Games of Our Lives Arabian

    Gaming’s sensitive treatment of the Middle East begins here.

    March 7, 2006 | 2:57pm -

  • Games of Our Lives Tazz-Mania

    In the early '80s, developers at Stern took the robot from Berzerk and dressed him up in a fuzzy green suit, so he kind of looked like the...

    February 28, 2006 | 4:14pm -

  • Games of Our Lives Shark! Shark!

    Meet the game that almost saved the Intellivision. Almost.

    February 21, 2006 | 3:25pm -

  • Games of Our Lives Champion Baseball

    Forget dynasty modes and lineup changes: This is video baseball stripped to its essence.

    February 15, 2006 | 1:51pm -

  • Games of Our Lives Astro Fighter

    A space battle… in color? It was a radical idea circa 1980.

    February 8, 2006 | 4:50pm -

  • Games of Our Lives Kung-Fu Master

    The game that gave all the non-stop martial-arts action a few bits of memory would allow.

    February 1, 2006 | 1:51pm -

  • Games of Our Lives Peter Packrat

    Only one game dared to take a generation’s I-wanna-be-a-rat fantasies and run with it.

    January 25, 2006 | 3:27pm -

  • Games of Our Lives Triple Punch

    The weird name’s just the beginning.

    January 18, 2006 | 2:46pm -

  • Games of Our Lives Jungle King

    Which ’80s video game pissed off the estate of Edgar Rice Burroughs? (Hint: It’s this one.)

    January 11, 2006 | 2:16pm -

  • Games of Our Lives Bump 'N' Jump

    And speaking of racing games

    January 4, 2006 | 11:50am -

  • Games of Our Lives Got-Ya

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

    December 28, 2005 | 11:37am -

  • Games of Our Lives Keystone Kapers

    Crooks need chasing. And that’s premise enough for this 1983 home-console favorite.

    December 21, 2005 | 1:59pm -

  • Games of Our Lives Satan's Hollow

    When visiting Satan’s Hollow, take a moment to beat the devil.

    December 14, 2005 | 4:05pm -

  • Games of Our Lives King And Balloon

    In 1980, only one game dared to re-create the spectacle of king-versus-hot-air-balloon combat.

    December 7, 2005 | 1:03pm -

  • Games of Our Lives Chiller

    Guns and gore dominate an envelope-pushing 1986 game.

    November 30, 2005 | 5:29pm -

  • Games of Our Lives Scramble

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

    November 23, 2005 | 11:52am -

  • Games of Our Lives Hard Hat

    For some reason, the daily grind of construction work failed to translate into exciting arcade action in this 1982 game.

    November 16, 2005 | 1:44pm -

  • Games of Our Lives Turtles

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

    November 9, 2005 | 12:22pm -

  • Games of Our Lives Demons To Diamonds

    Does the Atari game that made the paddle controller a must-buy withstand the test of time?

    November 2, 2005 | 1:13pm -

  • Games of Our Lives Thief

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

    October 26, 2005 | 2:53pm -

  • Games of Our Lives Targ

    Sure, it looks like a bunch of random shapes, but

    October 18, 2005 | 1:59pm -

  • Games of Our Lives Battlezone

    Arcade players loved it. So did the U.S. Army. A look back at Battlezone.

    October 12, 2005 | 2:01pm -

  • Games of Our Lives Moon Patrol

    This week, a look back to a true classic.

    October 5, 2005 | 3:27pm -

  • Games of Our Lives Cavelon

    Fight baddies, rescue the princess, repeat as necessary.

    September 28, 2005 | 3:31pm -

  • Games of Our Lives Super Locomotive

    The train keeps a-rollin'—in spite of numerous obstacles—in a semi-forgotten arcade classic.

    September 21, 2005 | 1:45pm -

  • Games of Our Lives Bank Panic

    Cowboys go blam, 1983-style.

    September 14, 2005 | 12:33pm -

  • Games of Our Lives Logger

    Ever wonder what Donkey Kong would have been like if the game had talked to you in a weird underwater voice? Or what if, instead of playing...

    September 6, 2005 | 3:30pm -

  • Games of Our Lives Scrambled Egg

    Scrambled Egg: Some games defy description.

    August 31, 2005 | 1:27am -

  • Games of Our Lives Anteater

    An anteater's tongue proves to be as vulnerable as it is flexible in this (mostly) forgotten golden-age arcade game.

    August 23, 2005 | 1:00pm -

  • Games of Our Lives Kaos

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

    August 16, 2005 | 1:24pm -