Notable Features

• Video Games Turn Forty (1UP.com)
• Birth of a Standard: The Intel 8086 Microprocessor (PC World)
• Oh Stella! Gaming's First Crush Turns 30 (1UP.com)
• The History of Civilization (Gamasutra)
• 10 Years of Ultima Online (1UP.com)
• Plastic Discoloration in Classic Machines (VC&G)
• Platform Agnostics (1UP.com)
• The 10 Worst PC Keyboards of All Time (PC World)

Interviews

• Ralph Baer, Inventor of Video Games (Game Developer)
• Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari (VC&G)
• Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer, Inc. (Gamasutra)
• Sid Meier, creator of Civilization and Pirates (Gamasutra)
• Robert Tinney, BYTE Cover Artist (VC&G)
• Bill Harrison, The First Video Game Hardware Guru (VC&G)
• Stephen P. Morse, designer of the 8086 microprocessor (PC World)

Product Reviews

• PowerPak NES Flash Cartridge
• Super Pac-Man TV Games Unit
• GameTap
• Console Classix: The GameTap Alternative
• Classic Game Room DVD

Humor

• VC&G’s Last Minute Halloween Costume Ideas: Video Game Edition
• What Computer Nerds Should Be Thankful For
• HOW TO BEAT THE VIDEO GAMES
• VC&G Wrestling League: Brick vs. Woz! Who Will Win?
• Game Ads A-Go-Go (GameSetWatch) (Highlights: 1 2 3)

Game Profiles

• Before Gauntlet, There Was…Dandy Dungeon
• Prodigy Lives! Play MadMaze On the Web
• Mario Adventure: The Best NES Game Hack of All Time
• The Lost Hacks of DahrkDaiz, Part 3 (Luigi’s Coin Quest)
• Secret Deadly Towers Maps Revealed!

"How-To" Projects and Hacks

• The Ultimate NES DVD Player Hack
• Performing a Permanent Famicom to NES Game Conversion
• No More Blinkies: Replacing the NES’s 72-Pin Cartridge Connector
• How to Tell if a Copy of Gyromite has a Famicom Adapter in it

Selected "Retro Scan of the Week" Columns

• The Most Complicated Video Game Controller Ever Devised
• Atari Force #1 In-Depth Extravaganza!
• Tiger’s R-Zone — the Ultimate Eye Strain Device
• The Apple IIe: Part of this Complete Breakfast
• Not So Fast, Apple Boy!

Musings, Commentary, and Personal History

• The Apple Lisa: My Holy Grail, Attained
• Anatomy of a Young Collector’s Room
• Why American NES Controllers Can Kill You & Other Famicom Thoughts
• My BBS Alter-Ego Turns 45
• The Dial-Up BBS Revisited