To download Volume 4 Issue 7 visit the following link:Download Now! you must be logged in to download it This month: * More of Dr. Robbie's Perlers of Wisdom * What did collectors do before the NA price guide? * Cracking the Gluk Code * Paulyshobby spills all in the Member Spotlight * Tracking your collection when it's more than just NES-The NintendoAge.com Team [Link] [Cache]

Presented by Ack Here at Racketboy.com, we don’t often talk about LCD games. They’re not really under our purview, so to speak. But they do have a solid relationship with video games, and in some cases, this bleeds over into definite video game territory. Sometimes it’s as simple as a character appearing in a game Game N Watch in Super Smash Bros. Melee, anyone? , but in a few others it forms a weird hybrid area which fans of both might appreciate or shun. The R-Zone is one of those hybrids, created by Tiger Electronics in the mid-1990s as a ... [Link] [Cache]

During the early 1980s, Namco wasn't only conquering arcades with games like Pac-Man. The company was doing something else. Something important. It was building robots. Namco made a handful of bots for the Japanese Science Foundation Musuem, including "Largo" the stamp robot. Kids would press Largo's red nose and the robot would then stamp their museum pass. Another one of Namco's robots was Atoma "The Atomic Robot", which was apparently able to "talk" to visitors via pre-recorded phrases. Namco's 1983 arcade game Mappy even got a maze-solving toy. In 1985, when Tsukuba, Japan played host to the World Expo, Namco ... [Link] [Cache]