People In The 80s Had Awfully High Hopes For The Future Of Video GamesKirk Hamilton1/09/14 2:00pm3075EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalinkQuick: What are video games going to look like in the year 2024? Will we be beaming games directly into our brains? Will eXistenZ or The Matrix come to be a reality? Will Half-Life 3 finally come out?
NY Library Discovers Timothy Leary's Stash of Experimental Video GamesOwen Good9/28/13 3:00pm432EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalinkYou may not remember that Timothy Leary, the psychologist renowned for his advocacy of psychedelic drugs and a key figure of the 1960s counterculture movement, dabbled in video games development in the 1980s. Now a trove of games discovered inside hundreds of discs in Leary's archives will be playable at the New York…
The Pac-Man Saturday Morning Cartoon is Coming to DVD Next WeekOwen Good2/26/12 5:00pm91EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalink Despite how silly it looks, the Pac-Man animated series broadcast on ABC in the early 1980s was a modest success. It lasted only two seasons, but that can partly be attributed to the crash of home console video gaming taking the subject off people's minds.
Gary Garcia, Wrote and Performed 80s Pop Hit 'Pac-Man Fever,' Dies at 63Owen Good11/18/11 7:40pm46EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalinkGary Garcia, who teamed with Jerry Buckner to perform the 1982 hit "Pac-Man Fever," a song synonymous with 1980s pop culture and America's early love affair with arcade gaming, died yesterday at his home in Englewood, Fla. He was 63.
Bet On Virtual Matchups of Starcade's Roster of ChampionsOwen Good8/28/11 6:00pm16EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalinkThe company behind the original video game competition, 1982's Starcade, has launched a site that packages clips from the old game show into a format that lets you "play" Starcade online.
Pac-Man Fever Duo Stake Their Comeback to a Mobile GameOwen Good6/30/11 9:30pm11EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalinkWhen they cashed in on the video game crazy nearly 30 years ago, Jerry Buckner and Gary Garcia didn't have to worry about licensing. Columbia/CBS records took care of that as Pac-Man Fever soared to No. 8 on the charts in 1982. Of course, the price they paid came later, in the form of CBS's insistence that they think…
The Binder That Ties You To A GameOwen Good4/16/11 5:00pm33EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalinkWax nostalgic with a sports gamer of a certain age and it's not long before he will mention, like a venerated religious text, the Three-Ring Binder. It was the original franchise mode. I'm 37, and I've yet to meet a guy from my generation who didn't keep his own stats in a sports video game and doesn't still take…
Study of 1980s Gamers Finds Them Less Likely to be College GraduatesOwen Good4/08/11 9:30pm137EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalinkA researcher at Oxford University queried adults who were 16 years old in 1986 and found a correlation between an interest in video gaming and a lower likelihood of going on to college.
Dead Wrestler Of The Week: Captain Lou AlbanoJoel Johnson3/17/11 3:20pm22EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalinkOne could forgive a child of 1991 if he were to look at a photo of Captain Lou Albano and say, "That's Super Mario," or a teenager from 1986 if he were to say, "That's Cyndi Lauper's dad." [Deadspin]
Gaming As A 1980's Music VideoMike Fahey8/23/10 10:00pm103EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalink As seen this weekend during Gamescom 2010.
Twenty-Five Years Later, Goonies Still Never Say DieOwen Good6/07/10 10:30pm244EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalinkWith no sequel, no reboot, no spinoffs - just one movie and one video game - The Goonies is a rarity, a phenomenon supported by two decades of nearly unexploited nostalgia. The film's 25th anniversary of its release is today.