It’s the mid-2000s. You are a racing video game based company. In 2001 you published a military simulation by the name of Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis and it released to critical acclaim. Unfortunately, your company and the developers of Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis couldn’t come to an agreement a few years back, so now you are alone.
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Image: Two Games that are fairly difficult to give an accurate valueWritten by: Elijah Moon Blackwell Are retro video game prices too high? Is the market crashing? If you do a quick Google search for “retro video game prices,” you’ll find a wide array of answers. There is no reason to point to specifics; it’s just the nature of the
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Retro isn’t always a good thing. It’s like buying a washboard as opposed to a modern day washing machine to do laundry.
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Written By: Elijah Moon Blackwell CD-ROM Fossil started out as a college assignment. Elijah Blackwell sat in his evening Editing and Design course. It was the last semester and senioritis had kicked in hard. Some seniors in college push themselves to finish the four year march strong. Others, like Elijah, struggle to crawl to the end. To make this last
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Written By: Elijah Moon Blackwell Don’t judge a book by it’s cover. We’ve heard this cliché our entire lives and I do try to live by it. Well, what about logos? Do they fall under the same philosophy? If so, I have been violating it severely. When I’m at thrift stores or flea markets sifting through piles of electronic artifacts,
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Compared to any other year, 2005 has the most titles I consider noteworthy.
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Written By: Elijah Moon Blackwell It’s taken as a fact of life: Nintendo games can only be played on Nintendo hardware. Well, maybe now-a-days. Nintendo never releases their games on other consoles. It is the main reason why the Switch and 3DS sell so well. You can’t find official Super Smash Bros. or Legend of Zelda games on PC. But if you
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Written By: Elijah Moon Blackwell We are not even a year old yet and our collection has exponentially grown since our founding. Recently, the collection hit the 500 mark. Five HUNDRED physical computer games and software. We started the website in May with a handful of games from our childhood and now we have a massive library of products. At
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Because of human error and the deceptive marketing practices of video game companies, some horrible products made their way into my consoles.
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Image: Fallout 3’s game cover. Just the cover is intimidating. Written By: Elijah Moon Blackwell What a terrible reveal. Bethesda recently invited a bunch of “influential” gaming figures to an event in West Virginia to play Fallout 76 for three hours. YouTubers and “journalists” posted their impressions and game footage all over the internet for us potential buyers to pick
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