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1977 – Smack 70 of 77 – Indy 500
I like racing games. Not so much the complicated ones where it’s a requirement that you tune every bit of your car between races, and where hitting a tree at over 300 kms/hr actually slows you down....
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1977 – Smack 71 of 77 – Lord Foul’s Bane
There was a time in my life when I thought I could make a bit of extra money selling things on eBay. My grand plan was to pop into local charity stores that sell clothes, books, toys etc. that have...
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1977 – Smack 72 of 77 – Jungle Queen
Jungle Queen is the fourth pinball table in a row that I’ve RetroSmacked that was manufactured by Gottlieb, designed by Ed Krynski, and has artwork by Gordon Morison. Rest assured that this pattern...
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1977 – Smack 73 of 77 – Warren Horror Comics
I’d always wanted to read some of Warren’s black and white horror magazines, so including at least one of their major publications was a given when creating a list for RetroSmack. When it came down to...
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1977 – Smack 74 of 77 – Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Annie Hall might have won the Oscar for the best film of 1977, but we all know the most loved movies of the year were science fiction blockbusters by what became two of the most powerful men in...
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1977 – Smack 75 of 77 – Melee
You might recall from my Ogre post earlier in this RetroSmack year that there were two board games in Metagaming’s MicroGames series that met the criteria. They were Ogre (MicroGame #01) and Melee...
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1977 – Smack 76 of 77 – Air-Sea Battle
The very first video game I covered from 1977 was Street Racer, a primitive racing game programmed by eventual Activision co-founder Larry Kaplan. As it just so happens, the final video game of the...
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1977 – Smack 77 of 77 – Charmed Life
Whether or not to include something on RetroSmack isn’t always clear cut, particularly when it comes to children-focussed material. If I were to include everything that could be considered fantasy, I’d...
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We Came, We Saw, We Kicked its Ass! – 1977 Annual Review
The first RetroSmack year is in the bag! I’ve put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into it already, and while the blog hasn’t taken off the way I initially hoped it would, the little community that we...
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Gone to Monkey Island…Back Soon
The Trickster is currently busy attempting to find Big Whoop in Monkey Island 2 for The Adventure Gamer. Given the time demands of such a task, the RetroSmack schedule will be adjusted to include a...
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