-
The Tale of Orpheo’s Curse
Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this story, “The Tale of Orpheo’s Curse.” For kids who grew up in the 1990s, “Are You Afraid of the Dark?” was practically a right of passage. Along with R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books (the television series wouldn’t begin until 1996) and Alvin Schwartz’s “Scary Stories…
|
-
Atari’s Asteroids Recharged Cabinet Already IN PRODUCTION | Amusement Expo & Alan-1
Alan-1, Inc., a video game studio and manufacturer of coin-operated arcade game cabinets, announced yesterday a new partnership with the iconic game publisher Atari. Alan-1 has been selected by Atari to create new arcade games cabinets for their Recharged games. These cabinets will be designed for Family Fun Centers, Barcades, and other location-based entertainment (LBE)…
|
-
Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo is coming to the Commodore 64/128 by RetroGL!
With the amount of news stories throughout the last week and the weekend just gone, you’d think we’d take a break, but not so! As waking up this morning, and waiting for the Caffeine to kick in, I was surprised to learn that RetroGL is aiming on bringing Super Street Fighter II Turbo over to the…
|
-
Squarez – A new abstract arcade game released for the Commodore Amiga
Fancy something different other than the usual genres we’ve been posting about these last few weeks, then come and check out la1n.ch’s endless top down arcade(?) game of Squarez. A new Commodore Amiga game which was created in connection with the CHLudens research project. A project in which the website describes as a research game that…
|
-
STERN OF THE UNION ADDRESS – OCTOBER 2024
The Stern of the Union Address, your monthly resource for news, information and highlights on all things Stern Pinball. Without further ado my fellow pinheads: The Uncanny X-Men: To me, my X-Men! Check out all of the latest news on Stern’s latest and greatest game, The Uncanny X-Men. Stay tuned for upcoming details on the…
|
-
Alien Fish Finger – Check out this brilliant Amiga action platformer from 1995 which had a number of enhancements!
To be honest I’ve heard about most games that were released on the Amiga, especially ones that were either platformers or my personal favorite dungeon crawlers. However this game which caught our attention and worthy of a write up, was not only released in 1995 and a further enhanced update in 2011 but it’s a…
|
-
Pinball Machine out of Legos
Each year at the Pinball Expo in Wheeling, IL, there is a unique item that draws attention from huge crowds. The Pinball Expo in 2019 had one of those attention grabbers. 16-year-old high school student Luke Horwath brought a full scaled pinball machine. Why is that special, because Luke built the whole machine out of Legos.…
|
-
Halloween X – The first Halloween game appears, and it’s for the Commodore Amiga (Demo)
Ai art booooo! ;pYou can certainly tell that Halloween is approaching as more and more creepy games with pumpkins, ghouls and ghosts start to appear for your gaming enjoyment. One such game by the developer 8080 certainly has that ghostly appeal! As they have released a demo for the upcoming Commodore Amiga game of ‘Halloween…
|
-
Mijadore 2 The Key – EdD has released another high quality ZX Spectrum platformer!
It’s been a while since we featured any decent ZX Spectrum games, but looking through our messages this morning, we’ve been told that EdD has released the high quality ZX Spectrum game of ‘Mijadore 2 The Key’. A game in which you play as Milko Jone,s and must find a way of removing an ancient…
|
-
Jersey Jack Pinball Officially Launches Avatar: The Battle for Pandora Pinball Machine
Today at noon Eastern Jersey Jack Pinball officially launched its newest game, “Avatar: The Battle for Pandora.” In the game, players play the role of one of the natives of Pandora, the Na’vi and battle along with well-known characters from the movie like Jake and Sully against invaders. Callouts in the game were done by…
|