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Browse 24 restored Video Games & Tech articles from the original Totally 90s archive.
Crash Bandicoot is an American series of 3D video games first released in 1994 by Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin of Naughty Dog. The games take place in a fictional place called Wumpa Islands somewhere south of Australia....
February 5, 2014
Amazon, or Amazon.com, is an international e commerce company that is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Amazon.com is the world's largest online retailer and even though it began as an online bookstore in 1995, it...
February 5, 2014
Doom is a 1993 science fiction first person shooter video game created by id Software. The game consists of three nine level episodes with a fourth episode released in 1995. The plot of the video game starts off with...
February 5, 2014
Tomb Raider was a video game that was created in the 1990’s. It was the beginning to a long last franchise. The game was available for Sega Saturn, Playstation and Personal Computers. The game follows the character Lara...
February 5, 2014
The company, Philips, first developed the Boombox in the 1970’s. A boombox is a portable cassette or CD player with two speakers on either side. Not only can you listen to CD’s and tapes, you could also listen to the...
February 5, 2014
A PDA personal digital assistant is a mobile device that acts as a personal information manager. The first PDA, known as the organizer II, was released in 1984 in by Psion. However, in 1993, the company released a more...
February 5, 2014
Diablo is an action role playing video game created by Blizzard North for Blizzard Entertainment on December 31, 1996. The game takes place in a role playing interactive world that the player navigates through with a...
February 5, 2014
The Super Nintendo was released in 1991 and became one of the most popular 16 bit video game consoles during that time. This was the second console to the Nintendo Entertainment System. Masayuki Uermura was the designer...
February 5, 2014
Mortal Kombat is a fighting video game series that was released in the 90s to extreme popularity. The games are known for their ultra violent aesthetics and particularly their signature "fatality" feature. Mortal Kombat...
February 5, 2014
Star Fox is a video game first released by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo console in 1993. Star Fox is a rail shooter game seen in third person and first person 3D perspective, which would also become Nintendo's first...
February 5, 2014
Virtua Cop or Virtua Squad is a first person gun shooter action arcade game created in 1994 by Sega AM2 and headed up by YU Suzuki. It was originally created to be an arcade game in 1994 but was later sent to the Sega...
February 5, 2014
The pager was the popular method of wireless communication during the 1990's, before the advent of the cellular phone as a popular device. Pagers were small, handheld devices that were capable of sending and receiving...
February 5, 2014
The Nintendo 64 is a video game console created by the Japanese video game company Nintendo. It was the last of the fifth generation of video game systems to be released, debuting in June 1996 in Japan. Though it...
February 5, 2014
Tetris is a tile match puzzle video game originally designed and created by Alexey Pajitnov of the Soviet Union. Released on June 6, 1984 its name derives from the Greek numerical pre fix “tetra” and tennis, Pajitnov’s...
February 5, 2014
Half Life is a 1998 first person shooter video game developed by Valve. It was released for PC and built using the GoldSrc engine, a modification of the Quake engine popular at the time. Half Life was the first game by...
February 5, 2014
Grand Theft Auto is a 1997 video game for PC and Playstation developed by Rockstar. It also generally refers to the series of video games developed by Rockstar, including the original 1997 title as well as its sequels...
February 5, 2014
eBay Inc was founded by Pierre Omidyar in 1995 and it is an American multinational internet consumer to consumer corporation. It is an online community built on commerce and people can buy or sell goods through the...
February 5, 2014
An MP3 player is an electronic device that is programmed to play audio files for personal use. They became popular in the late 1990s due to their high quality sound reproduction and ability to store many music files in...
February 5, 2014
The Discman, a name created for the first portable CD player on the market made by Sony in 1984. Like a fill size CD player, this portable version would determine the reflection of light cast off the CD. Sony worked for...
February 5, 2014
A laptop is a type of small personal computer PC that has a battery and can be carried around. It has a screen that can be closed like a lid attached to a keyboard and a type of mouse, usually a trackpad or mouse button...
February 5, 2014
Oregon Trail is the name of a series of video games originally produced by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium MECC in 1981. Players control a fictional family traveling in a covered wagon from Missouri to...
February 5, 2014
Street Fighter is a fighting game franchise from Capcom that has been released throughout the years in arcades and on consoles. Designed by Takashi Nishiyama and Hiroshi Matsumoto, Street Fighter was first released in...
February 5, 2014
The Sega Dreamcast was a 32 bit video game console launched by Sega in Japan in 1998 and world wide in 1999. After the very successful Sega Genesis and failure of Sega Saturn, the gaming titans decided it was time to...
February 5, 2014
Netscape was the name of a series of Web browsers created by the Netscape Communications Corporation NCC in 1994. It was widely used for much of the 1990s, but was quickly challenged by Microsoft's Internet Explorer,...
February 5, 2014