In Real Life

Watch Creators Of Doom, Pac-Man, Pitfall! Wax Nostalgic

Not only can you now relive this year’s Game Developers Conference keynote from Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, who spoke about the creation of Kirby and the devaluation of games in “Video Games Turn 25: A Historical Perspective and Vision for the Future”, you can experience the best part of GDC 2011: the classic game post mortems.


February 23, 2011
Retro

How One Coin Saved Arcades In Japan And Another Killed Them In The US

Arcades aren’t just dead, they’re not coming back.


January 16, 2010
News

Marble Madness Creator Selected To Hall Of Fame

Mark Cerny, a developer known for his work with Naughty Dog and Insomniac Games – and for his 1984 arcade hit Marble Madness – has been selected to the Hall of Fame of the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences.


January 20, 2009
In Real Life

Best. Marble. Madness. Player. Ever. Period.

On my very best day, I can maybe beat the second level of Marble Madness. But to blaze through the entire arcade game in under two minutes, thirty seconds? Just shy of impossible, personally.