Well, our first forum contest was a spirited one. Its goal was to stimulate activity on our previously stagnant forum, and it succeeded. We saw many new members arrive and many interesting discussions held. After a month of battling it out for post supremacy, I’m sure our contestants are anxious to hear the results. So […]

It should come as no surprise to my regular readers that I like to foster a sense of community around Vintage Computing and Gaming; I believe that the main strength of any publication lies in its readership, and VC&G is blessed with an exceptionally intelligent, resourceful, and creative one. As a historian, I like to […]

The popularity of “TV Games” units seems to have waned a bit recently as overexposure and, to some measure, public apathy, have set in. After at least three years on the market, the newly reborn dedicated home video game concept (pioneered by Jakks Pacific) is a product line whose novelty has finally begun to wear […]

So far I am an owner of four “TV Games” units. I have the venerable Atari TV Games unit that looks like a vintage Atari 2600 joystick, the highly underrated and very hackable Commodore 64 30-in-1 unit, the Namco 5-in-1 unit (with Pac-Man, Galaxian, etc), and of course, the subject of this mini-review, Jakks Pacific’s […]

Last Updated: 07/06/2017 Here is the master list of all the computers, video game systems in my collection — what I sometimes more ostentatiously call the “Vintage Computing and Gaming Collection.” It’s a private collection, but I maintain it mostly to preserve historical artifacts of the video game and computer revolution. If an item is […]