This piece has been copublished with Drop Site News. When a Southern Air Transport plane was shot down over Nicaragua in October 1986, the world got a rare window into U.S. government covert activity.

In 2012, programmer Chris Oberth passed away after a career that spanned from the dawn of video games in the late '70s to the PlayStation 2 era. Now, one of Oberth's unfinished games, Xcavator 2025, ...

NES screenshot of the game Jaws (side view, underwater) A scuba diver shoots a harpoon at a menacing shark. (YouTube) The retro release coincides with the Spielberg movie's 50th anniversary. From ...

Originally developed at Incredible Technologies Inc., the company behind coin-op classics like Golden Tee Golf, Big Buck Hunter and more, Xcavator was shopped around to multiple publishers across the ...

The story of Xcavator is a fascinating one. It was originally the brainchild of legendary programmer Chris Oberth (1982's Anteater) and built for the original Nintendo Entertainment System. However, ...

An original a-cappella arrangement of the Jungle Theme from Contra for the NES! Trump pushes Supreme Court to overturn ruling Arkansas to become first state to cut ties with PBS: 'Not feasible' 1 dead ...

EL CERRITO, Calif. - Teachers in the West Contra Costa Unified School District entered the third day of their strike Monday after weekend negotiations failed to produce a contract agreement, according ...

About 1,500 teachers in the West Contra Costa Unified School District took to the picket lines on Thursday, striking over pay, benefits and staffing. Members of the United Teachers of Richmond, which ...

Splatterhouse was a sidescrolling beat 'em up series that first appeared in Japanese arcades in 1988. It and subsequent Splatterhouse games were novel for their gory horror approach to a genre we more ...

Houston ISD’s Hattie Mae White Educational Support Center. Campus enrollment data shows steeper declines in Houston ISD schools under the New Education System model, commonly referred to as NES, than ...

Back in November, we reported on the unexpected discovery and unofficial release of Splatterworld, a JRPG spin-off of the horror-themed beat-'em-up series Splatterhouse. Originally scheduled for ...

He emerged out of obscurity when his cargo plane was shot down while illegally ferrying arms to Nicaraguan rebels, setting off a scandal that tarnished the Reagan and Bush White Houses. Eugene ...