This article covers a rarely-seen but interesting arcade game: Wyvern F-0 by Taito. This game used a unique graphics system to produce a presudo-3D effect.

Has anyone else heard of this game?

I read a lot of Harlan Ellison (worked on The Outer Limits, 80's Twilight Zone, Babylon 5), and I was wondering what people thought of this quote from him:

[S]cience fiction is the only 100% hopeful fiction. That is to say, inherent in the form is, "There will be a tomorrow". If you read a science fiction story, it says, "This will happen tomorrow". Now that’s very positive, that’s very pragmatic, "We’ll be here tomorrow. We may be unhappy, we may be all living like maggots, but we’ll be here." So that means it’s 100% positive.

Ellison has even said that his short story I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream is optimistic, because in the climax, there is still room for self-sacrifice and defiance to authority.

I guess it comes down to whether you think a bleak future is better than no future at all.

Shameless plug for my work if you like Ellison or want to learn more: https://ndhfilms.com/ellison

Hi @retrogaming,

Here's our Spring issue for 2024.

Retro Gaming articles in this issue:

• Coverage of ATG Expo 2024 in Waco, TX by AT Gonzalez. He saw an original Soviet-era Tetris computer.
• Grappling to New Heights: Roc’n Rope’s Unintentional Birth of the “Wire Action” Genre by Leland Tursi
• Views From the Road: Cricket's Draft House & Grill in Waco, TX
• Reader responses to last issue's article on the reverse-engineering of Sinistar.

Cover art by Chris Bordenca

The Chaos of Heat is a crime story as unrelenting as the heat wave described in its vivid prose. It follows a man who, wracked by heroin addiction, finds himself at the front of a dangerous robbery spree. Will Vince survive long enough to get his next fix, or is he little more than shark bait, out of his depth?

Hey, RetroGaming,

I'm excited to share this issue of Quarter Up with you. Writers from all over the country contributed to this last issue of 2023.

Our retro game article for this issue is about the reverse-engineering of Sinistar. Sinistar is one of the most technically-impressive arcade games of the 1980s. Our writer SynaMax took the entire game apart, down to the assembly code, and put it back together better than ever. He even discovered the origins of the famous 'Sinistar roar.'

The awesome cover art is by Anna "Pencilforge" Frohling.

Some retro arcade material in this fourth issue:

• The history of Nibbler, an early precursor to the "snake game" genre
• A promo of next month's Houston Arcade Expo

Hi, RetroGaming,

Here's the arcade content in this issue of Quarter Up:

• The legal woes of Ms. Pac-Man
• The legacy of the early Taito game Chack'n Pop, from arcade flop to unofficial company mascot
• A Zaxxon cabinet spotted at an RV park in Lander, Wyoming

Let me know what you think.