Joe Pace
Player of Games, #104: Pac-Man
The concept of a game wherein the protagonist is a featureless yellow ravening maw, intent on devouring everything in its path, appeals...
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Joe Pace
Apr 7
Player of Games, #99: Dragonstomper
So, maybe you never played Dragonstomper on the old Atari 2600. Maybe you never plugged in the supercharger cartridge adapter connected...
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Joe Pace
Apr 2
Player of Games, #93: Pitfall!
In 1982, we were all Indiana Jones. Well, Pitfall Harry, anyway. Swashbuckling heroes, navigating jungles of doubt and underground...
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Joe Pace
Mar 7
Player of Games, #67: Phaser Patrol
Some games were just too big for eight bits. And so Atari came up with the Supercharger, a cartridge you would plug into the console that...
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Joe Pace
Feb 19
Player of Games, #50: Frogger
The Atari 2600 came into our house in 1981 or 1982, when I was six or seven years old and my brother eight or nine. We were excited,...
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Joe Pace
Feb 9
Player of Games, #40: Moon Patrol
Some games fared poorly when ported from full arcade cabinet splendor into the confines of an Atari cartridge or a home computing system....
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Joe Pace
Feb 5
Player of Games, #36: Fishing Derby
In 1979, Atari was riding the crest of the first home video game boom. So high, in fact, that despite tens of millions of dollars in...
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Joe Pace
Jan 14
Player of Games, #14: Missile Command
I was probably around six or seven years old when the Atari 2600 showed up in our house. 1981, 1982, something like that. This was, as my...
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