El Blanco's Retro World

Nowhere in the world was the 8-bit computer market more vibrant and competitive than 1980s Britain . I'll even make the controversial cl...

Donkey Kong was a major smash hit in video game history and it helped put Nintendo on the international entertainment industry map. It fea...

When Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney  built their first arcade game, Computer Space , (released just a couple months aft...

When I first fired up Granada , I was expecting some kind of overhead shooter in the style of Ikari Warriors , but with one of ...

Came across this excellent history and overview of graphics. Definitely worth a watch .

It's difficult to talk about games in the abstract, in the sense of the ephemeral components that sum together with the concrete technol...

The night before Christmas my cousins and I built a fortress of presents under our fake Christmas tree and lay under the plastic needles l...

When you're dealing with a platform as old as the PC you see lots of halting transitions. Text-to-monochrome graphics, monochrome graphi...

The Castlevania II: Simon's Quest  (C2SQ) release on the Nintendo Entertainment System, part of the 1987 onslaught of sequels-that-w...