Author Archives: 40 Bit Gaming

OK. Let’s dispense with the 80s nostalgia soft open and dive right in, shall we, because there’s a bunch of X-y stuff to talk about. Microsoft released the Kraken skinny on it’s next-gen consoles this week. So what did we learn?

Ricky Schroeder may have been the Tiger Beat star of the 80s sitcom Silver Spoons, but what caught my eye (and the attention of my friends) about the show back then was that the Rickster and his infantalized father had an arcade in their house. Sure, I had an Atari, but actual stand up arcadeContinue reading “Coin-Op of the Realm”

Watching the Netflix videogame docu-series, High Score, is not like watching a Ken Burns documentary. First, there are no slow pans over old photos while Peter Coyote narrates. And each episode only clocks in around 40 minutes — not 40 hours, so High Score is easy to binge.