Time for The Nerd to take a look at an classic game that’s all about delivering newspapers: Paperboy on NES!
Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 140: Paperboy – Episode Review
Tag: atari
Haunted House – Atari 2600 Game Review – XVGR
Time to do the most stereotypical review one can on Halloween – a “spooky” video game and one that, while it’s been done to death, is still a game which I enjoy the occasional play of: Haunted House for the Atari 2600. The premise is a simple one – you are venturing into a long […]
Angry Video Game Nerd – Season 4 Review
Ah, Season 4 of The Angry Video Game Nerd. My favorite season by far for a great many reasons. Firstly, it was the first season I began watching as it was new, and thus marks the point where I was “current” with the series. I do believe the Metal Gear review was the first one […]
Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 66: Atari Jaguar Part II – Episode Review
Moving right along from where the previous episode left off, we find the Nerd playing a selection of Atari Jaguar games. This gives us a good look at what the system had to offer over the course of its life. The Nerd begins by taking a look at what are probably the best games for […]
Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 65: Atari Jaguar Part I – Episode Review
It’s time to begin taking a look at what I consider the best season of The Angry Video Game Nerd (Season 4) and what a better way to start off than a history episode! No, I’m not being sarcastic, I actually rather like the episodes where the Nerd talks about the back story of some […]
Bits And Bytes – Program 9: Computer Graphics
Ah, now we’re getting into one of the more interesting nuances of the 80’s computer scene – graphics! While today our systems simply use software to create everything we see on screen, with hardware doing the raw math to make it all happen, back in those days, you didn’t have processing power, memory, or, well, […]
The Atari 2600 Turns 40!
In a bit of news from yesterday that, out of respect for the date I waited until today to share, the Atari Video Computer System (better known as the Atari 2600) was released 40 years ago yesterday, September 11th. The Atari 2600 is one of the most historic consoles in gaming, to be sure. Not […]
Kit Kat Accused Of Copying Atari Game Breakout – Wait, What?
This one hit my radar last week but thanks to the usual delays I’m only now getting to it – apparently, Atari is suing Nestle, the company behind the chocolate-wafer candy bar Kit Kat, over the similarities a commercial from 2016 had with the game. I can’t find this commercial online, but apparently it used […]
An Atari 2700 Was Found At A California Thrift Store!
Crossing my news feed a few days ago is something rather interesting to me – An Atari 2700 console that was found in a thrift store in California… for $30! Yeah, if you know the story of the 2700, it’s amazing to read about. If you don’t, well, let me explain it to you. The […]
Bits And Bytes – Program 2: Ready-Made Programs
Returning to Bits and Bytes, we step into the land of ready made programs: that is, software that you just put in and run. You don’t have to write it yourself in basic. Of course, this is how computers are for us today, naturally – we have everything we could ever need, and probably more, […]
Writing About What I Want, When I Want, How I Want – An Update
So, over the past few months I’ve been writing more. Much much more than I have in months, indeed, in years past. I’ve expressed before that I am switching over from making YouTube videos to writing more. I still crank out the occasional video, but at this stage, it’s so much easier to write than […]
Finding The Perfect BBS For Me
Last week, I finally took the plunge into old-school computer usage by perusing various Bulletin Board Systems (BBSes) via Telnet. Always fascinated by the early days of “modern” computer usage, I wanted to experience the pre-internet digital community as best as I can in 2016, and since then, have been hunting around off and on […]
The Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 140 – Paperboy
I’ve been meaning to write about Angry Video Game Nerd episodes for years now. The videos, while extremely crass and possibly intolerable for some types, are also well loved by so many others, especially gamers of my age range who grew up playing games on the Atari 2600, the NES, and later consoles. We grew […]