Posts by Carl Mueller

In 1983, video game manufacturer Cinematronics Inc produced an arcade game that was predicted by many to be the first in a line of new video games that would take the industry to the next level with...

The first time I remember playing an arcade video game was near the cashier area in our local K-Mart around 1980. There was a small corner in front of the cashiers with 3 video games. One of them was...

These days, many of us are looking for things to occupy our time during the times of COVID. It's an interesting time that we live in where people have plenty of free time on their hands with record...

The most common materials used to build a pool table playing surface are slate (rock) and wood. While pool tables all tend to use wood of some kind for the frame, the distinguishing feature for a...

When people hear the word shuffleboard they often think it's an activity that only old people do. That's if they even know what shuffleboard refers to. Nowadays, when you say the word shuffleboard...

The long-defunct company Fairchild Semiconductor, International Inc has several distinctions in the annals of home video game history. Upon its release in 1976, their Fairchild Channel F home video...