Welcome to A and R Vintage! We would like to eventually offer a plethora of information on retro and vintage gaming including "Games You May Have Missed" and tips for connecting old games to new technology.  We would also like to link to relevant information.

We are a pair of gamers who would love to spread our knowledge of games to others, as well as show the next generation of gamers the foundations of their current systems and favorite games.  Mario can fly around the galaxy all he wants today, but we believe it's fun to know that he flew from world to world with a whistle 20 years ago, and with wings on his hat 10 years after that. It's fun to know that you could simulate an ant colony in a backyard and life on an island before you could simulate the lives of humans.  It's fun to know that Sonic didn't even have Tails in his first game, let alone the plethora of characters that he interacts with today. It's fun to know that once, eight pieces of the triforce had to be found.  It's fun to know that Donkey Kong used to have an affinity for guy's girlfriends before he become obsessed with his hidden banana cove.  The characters that we know and love have stories that go back long before some gamers know.

Graphics used to require imagination, stories required your ideas of how those characters sounded when they spoke. Games had bleeps and bloops long before they had soundtracks provided by the Offspring. On the Atari, your pixel of a snowspeeder had to find the pixel that was an AT-AT in Star Wars, and it was still enjoyable.  Years later, the graphics became so intense that the objectives of the level were completely different and the snowspeeders that flew past yours had easily discernable characters piloting the ships.

We miss the pixels.