Day Roll    Does the following ever happen to you? You play an Atari 2600 game, decide it’s terrible, and forget it ever existed. Years later, you grant the game...

Day Roll    Double Dragon for Atari is a technical wonder. Check it out: many different screens of detailed city backgrounds; music, however beepy...

Day Roll    Instead of games, I sometimes like to look at aspects of mental health. Such as . . . How do you get rid of sadness? The cynical side of...

Day Roll    Twenty years ago, I saw a screenshot for Snoopy and the Red Baron. This was in the early 2000s, when I was changing from someone who...

Day Roll    A look at the Sega Pico and a few of its major franchise games.

Day Roll    When I played Night Driver as a child, I was impressed by the illusion of speed and movement. I still am, especially considering this is...

Day Roll    If you’re a big fan of missile defense games like Missile Command and Atlantis, you may enjoy M.A.D. Waves of enemies fly in, then drop...

Day Roll    After playing Bugs, a paddle game featuring bugs, I played Picnic, another paddle game featuring bugs. Picnic isn’t great, but it’s not...

Day Roll    Bugs by Data East is a great example of the low-quality games that flooded the market, leading to the Video Game Crash of ’83. Using a...

Day Roll    Human Cannonball is a puzzle game that tests memory skills, according to the Atari Flashback Companion guide. Well, it is, but it’s...

Day Roll    A unique adventure, with or without light gun. Wow, Crossbow must be an epic adventure We travel through many lands and fight all kinds...

Day Roll    Unique isometric shooter, but does it work? Desert Falcon for Atari 7800 Let’s start with that awesome Atari 7800 Prosystem. Because with...

Day Roll    Great title screens, and fun in different ways. Yes, fun Atari 2600 Dark Chambers: A good game inside a bad game? Though I always found...

Day Roll    It’s not really Rubik’s Cube; it’s a lot easier, and fun. A pretty good puzzle game The Atari 2600 may not have Tetris, but it does have...

Day Roll    Learn the D-Pad, game melodies, and the Konami Code. Now if only it played games. How do you teach a kid to play a video game? Pop in a...

Day Roll    I found an Atari game I’ve never heard of Now I know why. Cosmic Corridor plays like Vanguard, with its blocky scrolling and directional...

Day Roll    Jungle antics in a pith helmet? Yes Jungle Hunt succeeds, where Congo Bongo and Coconuts are so forgettable that I’d have to read the...

Day Roll    After playing Coconuts, I felt inspired to check out other ’nut-tossing ape games for Atari. And so we have Congo Bongo. This Sega title...

Day Roll    Interested in collecting for the Atari 7800 ProSystem? If so, the 7800 offers many affordable, excellent arcade ports such as Donkey...

Day Roll    This game is coco-nuts Not really, I just wanted to say that. This game is . . . well, it’s a game. In Coconuts, we play as Stanley I....