The Intellivision video game console was launched by Mattel Electronics in 1979. It was a direct competitor to the Atari VCS (aka the 2600) and doesn’t tend to get much love, because – like the Atari 2600 – the games are pretty basic. The disc-like controllers were unorthodox too, although each controller does have a numeric keypad, which allows for some complex gaming.
Category Archives: Celebration
Famicom Disk System Special
The Famicom Disk System (FDS) was a peripheral for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) that allowed games to be loaded from disk rather than cartridge. Not only that but it also had extra RAM on board and an extra sound chip.
BBC Micro Special
The BBC Micro was a British invention – a range of 8-bit home computers, backed and branded by the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), and mostly pushed into schools.
Cinemaware Week
This week I’m going to be featuring grabs from the classic games of legendary American developer Cinemaware.
Atari 8-Bit Special
The Atari 8-bit home computer range played host to a large variety of ground-breaking games in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, and this week we’re going to be celebrating that fact.
Derek Brewster Week
Derek Brewster is a British game developer who made a name for himself in the 1980s.
He created a large variety of games for a number of different systems, but is probably best known for his work on the ZX Spectrum.
Games Beginning With ‘B’ Week
It’s time for another random celebration of video gaming goodness! This time: of games beginning with the letter ‘B’… 🙂
Enjoy,
The King of Grabs
Here’s a full run-down of what was published:
Ballblazer, Atari 7800
Booty, ZX Spectrum
Bomb Jack, Arcade
Bonanza Bros., Megadrive
Booga-Boo, MSX
Brainstorm, Commodore 64
Bomberman ’94, PC Engine
Bubsy, Atari Jaguar
Bobby Bearing, ZX Spectrum
Battle Valley, Commodore 64
Breath of Fire, Super Nintendo
Breath of Fire II, Super Nintendo
BMX Kidz, Commodore 64
Battlecruiser 3000AD, PC
Bubble Ghost, Atari ST
Bubble Ghost, Amstrad CPC
Bubble Ghost, Game Boy
Braxx Bluff, ZX Spectrum
Bounder, Commodore 64
Happy New Year 2019
As 2018 draws to a close we wish you a happy new year, 2019.
Keep on grabbing!
Best Wishes,
The King of Grabs
The King of Grabs is One Year Old
Today, the 21st December 2018, is our birthday.
21st December 2017 was the launch date of this website, so we are one year old.
Happy birthday to us!
In one year we have added more than 700 games with custom reviews and searchable tags.
Of course there will be more grabs to come. So stay tuned.
The King of Grabs
Nintendo 64 Week
Nintendo‘s 64-bit console was first released in 1996 in Japan (and in limited numbers in the USA), and 1997 everywhere else.
The N64 was the third Nintendo video game console (after the NES and the SNES) and was a leap forward in technology that had a profound effect on the games market as a whole. It is a console suited to 3D graphics and gameplay, but also extremely capable with 2D graphics (although you’d be hard pushed to find a game on the N64 that was entirely made of 2D graphics).
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