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LAST CHANCE: Pre-Order The Steven Universe Season 1 Score!
DON'T MISS OUT: Steven Universe: Season 1 (Score from the Original Soundtrack) 4x10” Vinyl Set! PRE-ORDERS CLOSE MONDAY, MARCH 16TH! We at iam8bit, along with Warner Bros. and WaterTower Music, are proud to present Steven Universe: Season 1 (Score from the Original...
Q*Bert – An Arcade classic is coming to the Amstrad CPC Plus, with a beta now available!
In 1982 Gottlieb released a very famous game that had an orange character with a long snout as a nose, it just had to be the isometric arcade game with puzzle elements of ' Q*Bert '. It was so popular in fact it appeared on many systems such as the Atari 2600 and the...
Swap Arcade Launches on Kickstarter – And it’s rollin!
Swap Arcade is a compact, affordable, retro home arcade designed for real homes. It lets you play the classics you love—and your modern favorites too—by using the devices you already own, including a Nintendo Switch, a phone or tablet, or a Windows PC. Most home...
Only $15 to go on this $20,000 Kickstarter for a book!
We at Old School Gamer have worked with this publisher/author on several of his books and enjoy reading them each time they come out. Check out more information on it at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/microzeit/redo-from-start-volume-ii REDO FROM START – Volume...
Captain Cloudberry Amiga Edition – A MegaStyle C64 production arrives on the Commodore Amiga
Way back in 2020 MegaStyle released the Commodore 64 game called 'Captain Cloudberry'. A game whereby you play as Captain Cloudberry, on mission to destroy radioactive weather balloons that have given an evil witch complete control of the atmosphere, keeping the...
Super Mario: The All Star Video Game Changer HAPPY MAR10 DAY!
Forty years ago, Super Mario jumped out of his debut role-he was the nameless carpenter "Jumpman" in the classic game Donkey Kong-and into a realm of his own with the 1985 release of Super Mario Bros. Video games have never been the same. In this spectacular new...
Video Game of the Day – Mario Tennis (GBC)
Video Game of the Day is a daily show available on Amazon Alexa devices and here on this website. Each day, we briefly discuss the history of a single game, randomly chosen. If you would like to listen on your daily flash briefing, you can enable Video Game of the Day...
10 Pac-Man Clones for the C64 for Pac-Man’s 45th
In the world of video game clones, most people will point to Doom as the most cloned game of all time. But, likely that title is held, or at least challenged, by the one and only yellow dot gobbler, Pac-Man. The first time I played Pac-Man outside the arcade was on a...
Five PlayStation 2 Games More People Need to Love
Think you’ve played everything on the PlayStation 2? Check out this fun list of games that you need to love! Blood Omen 2: While a far cry from the original and extremely linear, it’s a great game to play over a long weekend. Getting more of Kain is a fun experience,...
Fat Tarzan – This upcoming platformer for the C64 looks fantastic!
It's time for another Commodore 64 special, as looking through our Commodore 64/128 Facebook group earlier today we've come across an upcoming game by Rebel Bytes in partnership with Digital Monastery called 'Fat Tarzan'. A game that looks to feature great graphics,...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Roger Sharpe
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Roger Sharpe, who is displayed on card number 204, from the Superstars of 2012 Collection. Roger is also featured on trading cards 841 and 1709. Roger’s impact on the pinball industry dates all the way back to the 1970’s...
CRKD Announces PS3 Compatible Gibson Les Paul Guitar Controllers
The gaming hardware company CRKD announced earlier today the upcoming release of two new Gibson Les Paul Guitar Controllers. The Ebony Encore and Alpine White variants join the Cherry Sunburst and Blueberry Burst pro editions which were released last year. CRKD...
What Happened on the Ill-Fated Voyage of the Obra Dinn?
This Saturday, March 7, 2026, from 11am - 5pm, Gamespace is pleased to present Return of the Obra Dinn (2018) by renowned game designer Lucas Pope as part of the multi-site exhibition titled The Plot Thickens: Storytelling in Gaming. In this striking monochrome...
THE A1200 – FULL-SIZE. FULL KEYBOARD. FULL NOSTALGIA and a GREAT PRICE!
With the resurgence of retro gaming hardware enabling us to play old classics on big TV's with lots of built in games such as the NES Mini, SNES Mini, Playstation 1 Classic, NEO GEO Mini,PC Engine Mini and the C64 Mini/Maxi you'd be forgiven in thinking there wasn't...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Wes Copeland
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Wes Copeland, who is displayed on card number 769, from the Superstars of 2014. Wes is also features on card numbers 1838 and 2245. Wes is the current world record holder, on what some people call the holy grail of arcade...
Rise of Babylon – A city management game for the C64 by WindigoProductions
From the creator of awesome Commodore 64 games such Battle for Cronos, Deathflood Dungeon of Doom, devolution, and the tribe, comes a new C64 game that blends a bit of micromanagement and city-building, called 'Rise of Babylon' by WindigoProductions. A game in which...
Bringing Neo Geo to the PC Engine with the Arcade Card
If you were around for the 16-bit console wars, you probably remember the unspoken rule: Neo Geo fighting games were not supposed to be portable to “normal” home hardware without compromises. The Neo Geo MVS/AES was basically the arcade in a box, and it wore that...
A review of The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask from Boss Fight Books
One of the most popular books of the Boss Fight series, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask is finally back in print. It's easy enough to see why. Despite its odd place in the canon, with the game being a rushed project designed to make use of the Zelda assets...
Five Great Villains in Retro Gaming History
What makes a villain so great? Is it their demeanor? Their strength? Their disregard for the world? Or is it something else entirely? In no particular order, Old School Gamer Senior Writer Patrick Hickey Jr. breaks down five amazing villains that all possess something...
Five Retro Games Your Kids Need to Play
I was having a conversation a few days ago with a fan that loves my work in Five Nights at Freddy’s- kid is 18. We started talking games and I find out he’s never played Castlevania or Streets of Rage. I was shocked. So- this piece, which I know is written in a far...
Ten Hockey Games That Influenced the Genre Forever
The NHL Series from EA is the only hockey game on current consoles, but once upon a time, there were a ton of options for gamers. Old School Gamer’s Patrick Hickey Jr. breaks down 10 hockey games that influenced the future or made a statement. NHL All-Star Hockey:...
30 Years of Pokémon
On February 27, 1996, two games for the Nintendo Game Boy were released in Japan: Pocket Monsters Red and Pocket Monsters Green. Now, 30 years later, Pocket Monsters/Pokemon has become a sprawling, global phenomenon, with countless multimedia adaptations, toy lines,...
Retro Review: Fatal Frame: Maiden of the Black Water: Treading Lightly
Fatal Frame: Maiden of the Black Water” may be the best game in the series since the original, but it’s far from a perfect fit on the Wii U. With plenty of ambiance, beautiful visuals and some of interesting usage of the Nintendo Wii U GamePad, “Fatal Frame: Maiden of...
A “modernized” Speedball by Rebellion hits Steam
Lets go back to the 90's, a time of violent handball and ice hockey action, in which violence meets goal scoring antics that appeared in our homes on the Acorn Archimedes, Atari ST, Amiga, Amiga CD32, PC, Commodore 64, Sega Mega Drive, Sega Master System, Game Boy and...
