When Pitfall first came out back in 1982, it was revolutionary, with graphics and game play that were cutting-edge for the time. In many ways, it was as much a progenitor of the modern exploration ...

Fans of the series might be able to enjoy Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure on a nostalgic level if they can grit their teeth through its serious flaws. Many game players seem to fear that the Game Boy ...

In the days when games were created by just one man, David Crane was a superstar. The market for home videogame machines was just beginning to flourish in the late '70s, when Crane was singlehandedly ...

This week we’re taking another departure from the ordinarily campy videos featured in the Retrotechtacular section. This time around the video is only two years old, but the subject matter is from the ...

Mario gets credit for popularizing the platformer, but his anti-turtle rampage didn’t invent the genre. The history of platformers stretches all the way back to the early ‘80s with games like Donkey ...