My new book "Video Game Firsts" is now available on Amazon.com as a hardback, trade paperback or as a Kindle download.  

From the first video game ever created to the dawn of online gaming, VIDEO GAME FIRSTS takes you through hundreds of gaming breakthroughs that built a multi-billion-dollar industry.

As early as the 1950s, engineers began experimenting with the idea of manipulating dots on a TV screen. From those humble beginnings sprang the first video arcade machine, the first home video game console, the first ROM cartridge, wireless controllers, and every modern-day gaming amenity included in your favorite console or game.

Explore the early days of video games, the mania of titles that took over the world, and learn about the people behind the pixels in VIDEO GAME FIRSTS. 

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8 Bit Den can set up a mobile, vintage video game arcade at your next event!  Gen X birthday party? Employee appreciation day?  Looking to draw folks to your business with an event? We've got you covered.  Our mobile consoles include screens and are ready to play in minutes.  We have several and can also set up vintage CRT tvs to play vintage zapper games on the Nintendo Entertainment System.  Call or text CJ at 615-482-2839 for details.  Our mobile console arcade is available in the middle Tennessee area, especially south of Nashville.  If your in Nashville, Franklin, Brentwood, Thompson's Station, Spring Hill, Mount Pleasant, Lewisburg, Lawrenceburg, Murfreesboro or Columbia give us a call!

8 Bit Den creates modern video games with a retro twist.  Each of our games has been inspired by one or several vintage arcade video games, Atari 2600 games, Intellivision, Colecovision, early NES titles, and rare and odd offerings from the early days of video games.  

Our first release, Cirlynthia, is a circular ping pong style game inspired by the earliest video games including William Higgenbotham's "Tennis For Two", Ralph Baer's "Table Tennis" on the Magnavox Odyssey, and of course the seminal classic "Pong" by Allan Alcorn at Atari.

Cirlynthia is available for purchase and play at 8bitden.itch.io/cirlynthia

8 Bit Den's second, old school style video game is now available for FREE PLAY at 8biden.itch.io  You join Narvel Mace's school of crop dusting and learn how to pilot a prop plane to avoid barnyard animals and windmills, while collecting fuel and flying through barn doors!  It's a hoot!