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  Addiction has a name and its name is Tetris. Vintage Classic Tetris. Tetris is a game that has been around for over three decades. It has spread from the hand held consoles of the mid 1990's into becoming a staple of everyone's mobile phones. The first version of the game surfaced in 1984. It was developed at a Russian Science Centre by Alexey Pajitnov and Vladimir Pokhilko. Alexey Pajitnov made very little money from the game as he signed over the rights to the product to the then Soviet Government for ten years. Tetris was one of the first computer exported to the USA from the Soviet Union. The game's aim is to sort the seven geometric shapes into perfect lines that will disappear and award you points. If the lines are broken, they remain where they are and stack up until they reach the cut off line that signifies the end of the game. It is estimated that over 50,000,000 physical units of the game have been sold across numerous game platform...

Operation Wolf was an addictive retro journey through a hail of bullets and explosions!  Growing up, there was always an abundance of arcade games available to play.  Locally there was usually an arcade machine in the chip shop and there was at least two arcades in the city centre which had a small cult following. Trips to the seaside or beach always had that cold weather safety net of the amusements. So finding something to play on was never a big problem. There much to amuse us and we were lucky with the choices we had in our youth. There was the Street Fighter game series. Mortal Kombat had just appeared on the scene and the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles arcade game offered an engrossing multi-player game experience. But the one arcade game that I made a beeline for was Operation Wolf. This shoot em up involved a mounted rifle with the ability to launch grenades at enemy fighters and mechanized threats such as helicopters. It was a single player ...

The trans-state motorcycle racing game Road Rash was very successful on the Sega Mega Drive and was a popular game across many other game systems.  This type of game has an endless appeal and the basic game style will appeal to most modern video gamers. I think that motorcycle enthusiasts and the " Grand Theft Auto " generation would still find a certain charm in its enduring content. With online competition and a gripping multi player mode, this would be a great hit with today's current players. In the second game of the series,  Road Rash 2  (which I personally preferred )The racing took place in through much of the United States. One of the major changes that I can recall from the original was that the races could only be won by placing first, second, or third in each race. ( In the first game, it would still allow you a placing by finishing in fourth). After all five tracks were won, the player would advance to the next level, where more money was at stake...

The vintage game Afterburner was a classic of the arcades in the late 1980's.  Although not directly tied into the movie Top Gun, it's likely that much of its success could be attributed to the wave of popularity and interest that occurred around the films release. Afterburner was a game that saw conversations to the home console and computer market. But at the time it was unable to recreate the full Afterburner experience. Partly due to inferior graphics present in the domestic machines and missing the gyroscope chair that was offered  to give the player the full 360 air combat experience. The game in the arcades was pretty much impossible to replicate properly yet software houses were unwilling to miss out on the lucrative market that the arcade machine opened up. The Arcade Version Screen Shot. Afterburner was released on several Sega consoles and from 1989 through to 2006, many versions of the game were released. Afterburner was available ...

If there was one computer game that defined my youth.. It was Frontier: Elite II. Frontier:Elite II was a vintage computer game written by David Braben and in my opinion, it was an excellent way to lose yourself for months if not years! Initially published by Gametek in 1993. It is the first sequel to the earlier game Elite. The Elite franchise was a series of games in which you traded and fought through the known universe. The game systems that it was initially available on were for the Commodore Amiga, the Atari ST and the PC home computers. I originally used to play the game on my trusty Amiga and even now, I have fond memories of the game. The game allowed you to choose whether or not to align yourself with the democratic Federation, the uncompromising Empire or to keep yourself independent of both of these galactic superpowers. If you sided with one you found the other power would take a dim view of your presence in their territory and from that poin...

Have you seen how much the vintage Star Wars figures go for? I am pretty sure that most would happily have to sacrifice their right arm for some of those figures. For those whose early childhood was dominated by the original trilogy, playing with those figures with friends in the backyard is a purely happy memory. I myself lost a couple of storm troopers, buried under the muddy soil of a good friends garden feature. Whether or not the mud was a good substitution for that of the forest moon of Endor? - I don't know. But at the age I was then, authenticity was never going to be a pressing concern. When I looked through the value of some of the Vintage Star Wars Collectables and saw their prices a good forty years later- I was genuinely shocked. There has always been a thriving market for vintage Star Wars collectables in mint condition. But I was really surprised by how much the worth of  Vintage Star Wars Figures had increased over time. Of course those rare figures or tho...