Oops, that last Cassette Vision post was supposed to be a review of some games for it. This is a fairly historically important console, but not a huge seller...| nicole.express
I often like to cover oddities here; details of computers and arcade systems people may not have heard of, that didn’t sell well but had unique or interestin...| nicole.express
In 2024, it’s easy to look back at home video games in 1979 and think of it as a time of game consoles; the Channel F and the Atari 2600 (VCS) battling it ou...| nicole.express
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This in-depth interview (found at Game Odyssey) covers a period of Japanese videogame history that is obscure even to most Japanese: the pre-Famicom era of the Cassette Vision and similar LSI games. During this period, from about 1975-1982, Epoch took the lead in Japanese console video game development, bridging the gap from simple, discrete circuit games to “modern” games using actual microprocessors.| shmuplations.com - 80s/90s/00s japanese gamedev interviews
If we’re doing all these pong articles, we might as well get a real, authentic, Atari Pong. So much like with their Pinball, we’re not, but are doing the nex...| nicole.express
The first video game? Debatable. The first video game console, though, is well-established: the 1972 Magnavox Odyssey, brainchild of Ralph Baer. However, the...| nicole.express
If you told Yamauchi Fusajiro that the little playing card business he had just started would one day sell video game consoles, he would have no idea what yo...| nicole.express
Space Invaders is an epochal moment in video games. Arguably the first true megahit, it’s credited with starting the shoot ‘em up genre, making Japan obsesse...| nicole.express
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