Many 1970s collectibles have surged in value, with some now selling for tens of thousands of dollars. From breakout video games and rare vinyl releases to designer handbags and iconic toys, items from ...

Ever since opening an original Game Boy and Tetris one Christmas morning, Joseph was hooked into the world of video games. A staggering number of years have since passed and Joe can still be found ...

When most people think of early video games, they likely picture the 1980s, when plenty of popular games were released. Still, games got their start in 1958, and between then and 1979, plenty of ...

The 1970s were a formative decade for video games. This was when arcade games like Pong and Space Invaders were all the vogue. Lest it be forgotten, video game consoles were first popularized in the ...

What happens when a traditional board game company decides to break into electronic gaming? Well, if it were a UK gaming company in 1978, the result would be a Waddingtons 2001 The Game Machine that ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. In the United States, the video game era in the late 1970s and early 1980s was defined by two consoles - the Atari 2600 and Intellivision. This rivalry ...

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