Bouncing back in time to August to catch a couple games that I’d missed came out that month, it’s Imagic’s brilliant adventure game Riddle of the...

   September 1982 continues on, with the releases Apollo’s shockingly strong Infiltrate and Activision’s solid parody shooter Megamania While the latter...

   Atari’s critically acclaimed computer hit comes to the VCS Months after third parties started publishing clones of it on the hardware, Carla Meninsky...

   Mattel opens 1982 with Star Strike, an action game paying homage to the famous Star Wars trench run by requiring players to destroy a space station...

   We conclude August 1982 with three games, only one of which definitively came out in August. First, we have US Games’ latest: the educational shooter...

   A wee bit of catch-up this video, as at least two of these three games appear to have actually started trickling out to stores in July Nevertheless,...

   Around 1968-1969, a physics professor at Dartmouth University created a game that wound up having a powerful influence on early computer gaming...

   In August of 1982, a newcomer to the home gaming market made its debut with four games and a required hardware expansion to run them. The...

   Mattel closed out 1981 with three more cartridges for a total of six that year. Beyond the sports titles and the original Astrosmash, the company...

   In a stacked year, Activision’s Pitfall stands out as one of the most popular and among the most well-designed titles to debut. Reaching stores at...

   It’s August of 1982, and Parker Brothers has dropped its own bombshell in a month of massive hits: the VCS home conversion of the wildly successful...

   Atari’s final arcade conversion to the VCS for 1982 has appeared, with a remarkably faithful rendition of Stern Electronics’ hit game Berzerk. From...

   Coleco debuts on the programmable scene, publishing its Atari VCS rendition of Donkey Kong at the tail end of July. Donkey Kong, of course, was the...

   July 1982 marked the first time a competing hardware company published games on an opposing console, something that would wind up becoming fairly...

   Fast forward 10 months after the last Intellivision releases of 1980, and we have a tranche of new releases just in time for the holiday shopping...