PixelatedArcade News

Advertisements are a part of video game history; viewing flyers, magazine ads, product catalogs, and so on can provide a lot of insight into what the market was like at the time. Sometimes the artwork was amazing and worth preserving just by itself, but perhaps more often the results are ridiculous and very much a product of the era and provide amusement only in an MST3K fashion. Either way, it's noteworthy! We've been adding scans of numerous advertisements to games here at PixelatedArcade; nearly 1000 have been posted as of this writing, with many more to come! One issue, however, can occur if you're using an ad blocker (such Adblock Plus)...

Welcome to the new PixelatedArcade news section! Perhaps blog would be a better description; either way, this is one of a few new features just added to the site and is intended to provide an opportunity for me to ramble about code changes and additions, games I may find interesting (both the good and the bad ones), and probably whatever random thought happens to be on my mind on a particular day. As with everything, it's a work in progress; no doubt the format will change, the topics that come up will vary, and so on...