Did you grow up playing The Oregon Trail your school's Apple II? Here's the team you should thank. :) From left to right are Charolyn Kapplinger, John Krenz, Shirley Keran, and Philip Bouchard

In the past two days I've played over 3 hours of Number Munchers. Man, researching new posts is serious business!

Seems like a nice neighborhood, right on the water...what could go wrong?

"And when did your anxiety start?" Me:

Carol Shaw was a pioneer in the early video game world. In an industry dominated by men, she made her mark, impressed the co-founder of Activision, and made one of the most popular Atari games of all time - River Raid. Read her full story in the comments.

A failed space game. A Lucasfilm license. A controller built for Army tank simulators. Atari's 1983 Star Wars arcade game was one of gaming's greatest flukes and its greatest achievements. The story of this arcade classic is in the comments.

Special Guest post on the blog today! Søren Kamper from Star Wars Gaming contributed a piece on the development of Star Wars: X-Wing. www.retrogaminggeek.com/star-wars-x-...

A LAN party in 2002 wasn't a real LAN party until somebody broke out a case of Bawls. This stuff tasted like bottled Skittles. It was delicious.

One of my favorite parts about repairing arcade machines is being able to pull out at least a little bit of carpentry skills on it. My Daytona USA machine had a broken corner when I got it. Instead of using a bunch of Bondo, I just cut the thing and made a replacement. It turned out decent!

This is in my basement right now and it makes me oh so happy.

31 years ago today, the Sega Saturn made landfall in the US. To this day, it is still one of my favorite consoles.

I spent darn near a year working on and off on this project. What started as a once in a lifetime find turned into a labor of love. :) It's still not 100% complete, but I wanted to share the journey to restoring a Daytona USA Twin Cabinet. www.retrogaminggeek.com/daytona-usa-...

Daytona USA Twin Cabinet Refurbishing

In the summer of 2025, I came across a Daytona USA twin cab on Facebook Marketplace. I had been looking for just the seats, or even a simple shell of the cabinets for a couple of years, but they were ...

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WHY DID YOU WASTE IT?!?!

One of my favorite fighting games of all time!

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Fighters Megamix (Saturn – 1997) Sega's first 3D fighter, created exclusively for the Saturn, mixed other games and even let you fight as the Hornet from Daytona USA. #SEGA #RetroGaming #Daytona

I know it wasn’t as groundbreaking as the original, but Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 is still one of my favorite games.

The first TV I played NES on didn't even have a remote and to turn the channel I had to turn a physical dial, which only had 13 channel options.

Just remove those cabinet doors and bask in it...

My first computer connected to the printer via a serial port. Also, my back hurts.

The Gaming Historian is hanging up the retro gloves. 😢 Norm created some of the best documentaries about retro gaming, and you should absolutely binge watch his stuff. His Oregon Trail documentary is PHENOMENAL. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV_A...

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I feel like April Fool's Day is basically ruined at this point because the world is such a shit show that things that used to be comically absurd are now everyday occurrences. 😒

So many came later, and so many were technically better, but Dune II is still one of my favorite RTS games of all time.

A genius Lego build.❤️

*sigh* *takes more aspirin*

The whole push to use AI to make games look "better" doesn't make sense to me. AAA games look great right now, and in the past 10 years I've never thought, "Oh, I wish this great game looked better." The days of pushing graphics as a selling point are over. We want gameplay and story.

One of my favorite fighting games EVER. Friends...you can fight as a car...enough said.

Bad News Baseball is still one of my favorite baseball games. The mechanics of the game just feel right and it's so much fun to watch Mr. T give you a high-ten after a homerun. There are updated ROMs with updated players, so I can play as the 2016 Chicago Cubs. :D #retrogaming #NES

One of the greatest beat-em up developers of all time: Makoto Uchida. Starting with Altered Beast, Makato Uchida went on to create Golden Axe, and Die Hard Arcade.

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Gaming Copilot coming to Xbox consoles later this year: "[...]we will bring Gaming Copilot to the current-generation consoles, and we will continue to bring it to more services that players are playing", said Manager for Gaming AI at Xbox Sonali Yadav ➡️ www.gamesradar.com/games/xbox-j...

Ecco the Dolphin, a cute little game about a dolphin swimming around and...what the SHIT!?!?!!?