“Robotron” co-creators Eugene Jarvis and Larry DeMar are speaking at this weekend’s California Extreme classic arcade games show in Santa Clara. A version of this tribute ran on the SFGate.com blog ...

Eugene Jarvis had a normal Menlo Park childhood in the 1960s and early ’70s; blowing up Army men with firecrackers, throwing dirt clods at his friends and remaining ignorant of the existence of video ...

This week on Shack's Arcade Corner we are taking a look at Robotron: 2084, the 1982 arcade classic. Developed by Vid Kids and published by Williams Electronics players had to kill waves of enemies and ...

Publisher's full slate of Live Arcade titles yanked from Marketplace; Smash TV, Gauntlet, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 among those no longer available. Microsoft's new camera peripheral for the Xbox 360 ...

Eugene Jarvis hasn't made a game in around a decade, and is enjoying a well-deserved retirement, but in the 1980s especially this guy made the most brilliant and brutally tough arcade games around.

A big appeal of Ernest Cline’s novel Ready Player One was its reverence toward the pop culture of the 1980s, from movies to video games. As the big-screen Steven Spielberg adaptation inches closer to ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Game designer Eugene Jarvis (left), creator of seminal arcade titles from the eighties and nineties including Defender, Robotron, NARC, Smash T.V., ...

Did anyone else get the Xbox Flash email with free DL codes for Joust and Robotron?<BR><BR>Just curious, I guess those have been out long enough now that they can give them away for free, luckily, I ...

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