Montezuma’s Revenge on NES
Montezuma’s Revenge finally came to the NES, only 40 years late. Not a bootleg either. This is an official port licensed by original creator Robert Jaeger, and you can actually buy it. Want to play it on our NES? Just ask and we’ll pull the cart out of the back room.
David Repairs our Sega Genesis
David repairs our broken Sega Genesis!
Celebrate July 4th… in Air Conditioning
SEGA Genesis Hidden Game!
Let’s take a look at Pitfall Mayan Adventure for the Sega Genesis. This game came out in 1994 on the Genesis and Super Nintendo. This is a well made game that appeared during the peak of these system’s popularity. It’s a great game and clearly has its roots in the original Pitfall by David Crane […]
NES Tetris Unplayable?
Did you know there were THREE versions of Tetris for the NES? Most North American gamers only knew one, but Japan got a version first, and there’s a banned version Nintendo tried to erase from history. We’re breaking it all down at Time Rift Arcade, including the Japanese release with the most baffling control scheme […]
Pac-Man Was Designed for Women??
By the late 1970s, arcades had a bit of an identity problem. If you walked into one, you pretty much knew what you were going to get: waves of aliens, spaceships, explosions, and a whole lot of blinking lights. Games like Space Invaders were wildly popular, but they all followed the same formula: fast, aggressive, […]
Hack Made Space Invaders Possible
The Atari 2600 only had 128 bytes of RAM total… yet developers still managed to bring Space Invaders to the console. How? Instead of storing the position and state for every alien individually, programmers used a clever trick: they stored the position of just one alien and mathematically calculated the rest. The only thing they […]
