With only a few days left until the new year what better time to reflect on the best game titles that released during 2008. (more...)... more.

Brush up on your post apocalyptic video game history with this GameTrailer retrospective featuring Fallout. (more...)... more.

It's been 10 years since Sega launched their last console, the Dreamcast, with over 10 million consoles sold and a great library of games what went wrong? Watch this two part G4 Icons retrospective and see for yourself. Part 1: [flashvideo file="http://umtrailers.gametrailers.com/gt_usermovies/um_94/um_1179575-471077-TheHistoryOfSegaDreamcast-1221402846.flv" /] Part 2: [flashvideo file="http:... more.

"We borrow the most infamous rides from the past and present GTA cities." Watch this retrospective Gametrailers produced covering the history of some of the most recognizable autos (there are over 100 vehicles) found around Liberty City in Grand Theft Auto IV. [flashvideo file="http://videogame2play.com/video/gta4_vehicle.flv" /]... more.

PlayStation 2 Sony Discontinued: Still going... Sold based on the strengths of the original PlayStation, backwards-compatibility and built-in DVD player, the PS2 has pushed more than 127 million units worldwide as of last year - making it the highest-selling console of all time. As the most popular console of the last generation, the PS2 secured exclusive rights to giant franchise sequ... more.

Amstrad GX4000 Amstrad Discontinued in: ~1990 This epically unheard-of beasty came and went as quickly as you walk from your front door to the mailbox. It's huge, played massive carts and kind of looks like it belongs in a hospital. Even with a version of RoboCop 2 in its library, kids happily ignored it in favor of the SNES and Genesis. NeoGeo AES SNK Discontinued in: 2004 Think... more.

Intellivision Mattel Electronics Discontinued: 1991 Known as the first console to pose a serious threat to Atari's 2600, the Intellivision sold 175,000 consoles in its first year and started a TV smear campaign against its rival. Interestingly, Mattel rolled out a voice synthesis peripheral in 1982 called the Intellivoice, which made speech integral to gameplay. Intellivision was also kno... more.

Take a trip down memory lane with the following video. The trip begins with some of the first Atari 2600 television advertisements and continues with almost 20 years of video game commercials. This great compilation of ads reminds us of our gaming past with legends like Mickey Mantle selling on demand intellivision, and Phil Hartman playing a wide range of characters for Philips CD-i. There is ... more.

Magnavox Odyssey As the first home console ever, the Odyssey ran on batteries and games came on removable circuit cards, not cartridges. The Odyssey tragically lacked sound capability, but that was later rectified. Also looks uncannily like a defibrillator. Atari Pong While the Odyssey used separate electronic components for its chip system, the Atari Pong used in integrated circui... more.

Take a trip down memory lane with the Angry Video Game Nerd as he covers the Intellivision and Colecovision, two consoles I grew up playing as a kid and still own today. With great peripherals like the Voice Modulator (shown in the video) and Steering Wheel (not shown - but Dukes of Hazard, Bump & Jump, and Destructor were a few of my favorite driving games) these two systems were quite simil... more.

Now here's a blast from the past - Activision's 1981 advertisement for Ice Hockey on the Atari 2600. With state-of-the-art graphics and gameplay that designer Alan Miller says, "My Activision Ice Hockey includes many of the features and much of the speed of real ice hockey." (more...)... more.

Gametrailers presents this video comparing hardware that was covered at E3 2007. The systems included are the Nintendo DS, Wii, PC, PS3 & 360 and they use each platforms lineup of promoted games as the criteria for their award. Since the public wasn't allowed at this years E3 we have to rely on what the press has to say, the following is Gametrailers take of the recent event. ... more.

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Experts pick the games most worthy of preserving. SAN FRANCISCO — Who makes a list of 10 all-time great games and leaves "Pac-Man" off the list? Henry Lowood and four of his friends did. Lowood is the curator of the History of Science and Technology Collections for Stanford University. More relevant to gamers, though, is the fact that Lowood recently got together with another ... more.

You may not have heard of Thunder Force. The metal-infused shoot 'em up spawn of cult Japanese developer Technosoft scored a series of direct hits for devoted Sega Genesis fans and their Mega Drive owning Eurotrash counterparts back in the nineties, but the fickle tides of the games industry would soon lead to Technosoft's grizzly demise of less than a decade later. Before its untimely end, Thun... more.

We take a look into the past of Sega and where they went wrong in the console wars. Tecmo Bowl sucks, I got Joe Montana. You're still playing Mario, Dude! Ask your Mom if you can come over. I'll let you play on a real video game system. My Genesis has 16-bit graphics, what's yours again? 8-bit, that's funny. Oh the good old days of harassing Nintendo players. Being the first kid to own a Sega G... more.