OutRunning on empty.

From the Apple II to the ZX Spectrum, the aural experience of loading a game from a cassette, disc or cartridge was all part of the fun

Two engineers from Midway pulled their truck up to an arcade, threw open the shutter door, and rolled out a plain black cabinet. They wheeled it into the cool, dimly lit den of flashing screens and plugged it in near two of Capcom’s Street Fighter 2 machines. Then they waited. “It was like stepping into a ring against Mike Tyson at his prime. But, we flipped the switch and sat back and watched,” said John Tobias, co-creator of Mortal Kombat.

The remastered Aladdin and Lion King collection will include a bunch of extras, including a heavily tweaked version of Aladdin.

Oh, you like the Game Boy? You probably also like drinking out of the toilet. Enjoy your 12 IQ, dumbass.

Four months ago, I did what I previously thought was unthinkable. I gave up my iPhone. I'd been using Apple products since I was eight and had been locked into iOS and the iPhone since a bespectacled Steve Jobs unveiled it in 2007. The change came after much public deliberating, a few close calls, and a tip from my colleague on the tech desk, Antonio Villas-Boas, who called the $580 OnePlus 6T "the best smartphone you've never heard of."

Yes, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Zork are both included.

Your favorite classic video games are getting a killer makeover. But it’s not big-name game developers making the improvements: it’s independent modders. Most game updates require teams of designers and coders working for months or even years, according to a fascinating new feature in The Verge, but now many are using machine learning to expedite the process — allowing a single highly-motivated modder to refurbish a game in just a few weeks.

You don't even need to own a copy of the game to have some fun, but it'll be even more fun if you do. 

A very expensive way to play Rad Racer.

What would Doom (2016) look like if it came out twenty-three years ago? And just how old would that make you feel to see it in action? Doom 4 Vanilla, released yesterday, is an impressive 'demake' mod for Doom 2 that boils down everything it can from Id Software's series reboot while adhering to the limits of Doom circa 1993. That means new monsters, guns, music, art and levels. It's an impressive package.

Competitive videogamer Billy Mitchell is threatening "legal recourse" against Guinness World Records and the Twin Galaxies scoreboard if they don't retract "defamatory statements" against him and reinstate his expunged game score world records within the next two weeks.

Earlier this year, reader Ilhan Ünal got started building his own Game Boy, which he only recently completed. It’s...a little bigger than Nintendo’s original version.

Dynamite Entertainment And Atari Join Forces For New Comic Projects - A new deal will see Dynamite creating new comics and graphic novels based on Atari properties as well as reprint old stories.

Old school "Snake" from the same developers makes a return on phones with updated graphics

Giant Bomb plays some old games. Games played: Awesome Possum, Michael Jackson's Moonwalker and Battletoads Double Dragon.

Brave Wave Productions is bringing the original Street Fighter II arcade soundtrack to vinyl and CD featuring remasters of the CPS-1 and CPS-2 hardware versions of the music. Scroll down their page a bit to see the cover art and more information.

One of my favorite lets play groups on YouTube, Game Grumps, play the NES version of Metal Gear on their GrumpCade show with special guest ProJared.

Over the past four decades the home video gaming market has gone from zero, to hero - adding eleven zeros in fact as global revenue for the industry is now approaching $100 billion. It’s been a crazy 

Byuu, the creator of low-level SNES emulator bsnes, explains the importance of accuracy in emulation.