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Retro Review: Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer Review: A Sorry Spin-Off
There are plenty of spin-offs in gaming, but just like film and television, not all are instant hits. For every “Daxter,” there’s an “Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer.” Although it does a solid job of recreating the cute and charming world of the original series,...
Pinball Machine out of Legos
Each year at the Pinball Expo in Wheeling, IL, there is a unique item that draws attention from huge crowds. The Pinball Expo in 2019 had one of those attention grabbers. 16-year-old high school student Luke Horwath brought a full scaled pinball machine. Why is that...
PinkSweets and Muchi Muchi Pork! Ports Confirmed for Modern Systems
On Friday May 29th, Clear River Games confirmed that they would be rereleasing the classic CAVE shooters Pink Sweets: Ibara Sorekara and Muchi Muchi Pork! on modern consoles. The developer City Connection is responsible for bringing the games to the PlayStation...
![RandomPac – A great tribute to Pac-Man, an arcade game first released by Namco in 1980 [UPDATE]](https://i0.wp.com/www.oldschoolgamermagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/pacman.jpg?resize=400%2C250&ssl=1)
RandomPac – A great tribute to Pac-Man, an arcade game first released by Namco in 1980 [UPDATE]
More great news this week as looking through the itch io website, we've found out that LC-Games has released the latest game of RandomPac for the Commodore 64. A game that isn't just a tribute to Pac-Man, an arcade game released by Namco in 1980. But this version of...
The Disney Afternoon Collection Physical Editions Now Available on Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2
Atari and Digital Eclipse are excited to announce that physical editions for The Disney Afternoon Collection are now available for Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 for $29.99 USD. Fans can purchase physical copies – featuring game cartridge, sticker sheets,...
Doom – by Matthew Owen
Doom dominated unlike any other PC game before it. Developed by id Software, this seminal first-person shooter defined the genre from that point forward, and any competitors to come in the years after were simply labeled as “Doom clones”. A technical marvel and true...
Super Pac-Man – A dedicated port of Namco’s Super Pac-Man for the MSX system
The MSX home computer library continues to grow with the release of a high-quality, dedicated port of Namco’s arcade classic, Super Pac-Man. Developed by Mastropiero, this new version offers fans a definitive way to experience the 1982 sequel on the MSX. While the...
Museum Games #2 Staging Microhistory in Tampere & Frisco
Over 5,000 miles separate the Finnish Museum of Games (Suomen Pelmuseo) located in Tampere from the National Videogame Museum (NVM) in Frisco, Texas. The city of Frisco is the result of early 20th century railroad expansion, taking its name from the St. Louis-San...
Something’s amiss in the US. Part 2
Clear-eyed at last, I found myself cataloguing the differences. Not between Athens and Heraklion, or between riot cops and farmers, but between what I’d been shown and what I’d been denied. The teargas had been indiscriminate — it didn’t care whether you were a...
The Five Most Essential RPGs for Your Nintendo DS
Old School Gamer Writer David Lloyd shares his thoughts on The Five Most Essential RPGs for Your Nintendo DS Catalogue. Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey The Megami Tensei franchise started way back in 1987 with Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei on the Famicom, but...
Wolfenstein 3D – by Michael Thomasson
Before John Carmack, Tom Hall, and John Romero unleashed the blistering corridors of Wolfenstein, they cut their teeth on smaller 3-D experiments: Hovertank 3-D for DOS and the Apple II’s Catacomb 3-D, the latter running on an embryonic version of the engine that...
Basic Tower – RetroSouls ‘Old Tower’ gets a Pure Basic demake for the ZX Spectrum 48k
In 2020 I told you of a new game that was released by RetroSouls called 'Old Tower'. A game that featured a wicked soundtrack, an awesome loading screen, and superb graphics by a worthy team of RetroSouls. Well, fast forward to today, and if you remember playing this...
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: THE ARCADE GAME – by Mat Bradley-Tschirgi
Beat-em-ups, also known as belt scroll action games in Japan, were all the rage in the 1980s and 1990s in arcades. Players controlled beefy characters who pummeled their way through thugs of a dubious nature with their fists, or a special weapon if they were lucky,...
Life Before the Plumbers – Platform Games Before Super Mario Bros
Super Mario Bros. This game single-handedly changed how platform games were approached after it stormed onto the scene in 1985. It established so many conventions that people now expect in side-scrolling platform games. When you approach a new platformer, what is the...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Mark Robichek
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Mark Robichek who is displayed on card number 40, from the Superstars of 2011 Collection. Mark is another original Twin Galaxies alumnus from 1982. He can be seen alongside the greats in the Time Life Magazine photograph...
Mortal Kombat – by Patrick Hickey Jr.
Those two epic words helped launch the work of Ed Boon, John Tobias, and the rest of the team behind Mortal Kombat in pop culture lore forever. It’s also made it a video game series that essentially always comes back refreshed and inviting, after over 30 years of...
Super Slalom – Speed down the slopes in this new SKI game for the C64
If you've had enough of blasting away enemies, jumping from platform to platform, or dealing with difficult puzzlers then come and check out Super Slalom by Bisboch for the Commodore 64. A new sports down hill skiing game, which is based on the original SLALOM game by...
“Arcade Archives TAG TEAM WRESTLING” and “Arcade Archives 2 TAG TEAM WRESTLING” now available!
“TAG TEAM WRESTLING” is an action game released by Technos Japan in 1983. Enjoy the world of professional wrestling as you control the hero wrestler and aim to become world champion. Quick move selection and the skillful tag team work unique to tag matches are the...
Kick Off 2 CV – 2026 GFX Restyle gameplay – KONEY-SCANLINES is working on a graphics fix/restyle of the Amiga Competition Version.
The Amiga’s competitive football scene looks to be receiving a significant visual boost with the upcoming demo of a new graphics fix and restyle for the Amiga Competition Version of Kick Off 2. Developed by KONEY-SCANLINES, the project—titled Kick Off 2 CV—is based on...
Dune II – by Mat Bradley- Tschirgi
By far the best and most influential of these is Westwood Studios’ Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty from 1992, a landmark Real Time Strategy (RTS) game that not only laid the way for Command & Conquer, but also for the whole genre. Of course, Dune II wasn’t the...
Stern Pinball releases new Transformers Pinball Table
Earlier today, Stern Pinball formally announced through a video and a news release on its website that it has developed and is now selling a Transformer pinball table, specifically titled Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye. This table is themed around the...
Beagle Bros Two-Liners: A Coding Magic Trick
One of the things I miss most about the Apple II era is how much personality surrounded the machine. The Apple II was not just a computer you used - it was a computer you explored. You typed things into it, made mistakes, and discovered strange memory locations. Apple...
![Moon Cresta – A faithful recreation of an Arcade classic is coming to the Amiga via Johnny Acevedo(Amiten Games) [BETA 2 UPDATE]](https://i0.wp.com/www.oldschoolgamermagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/moon.jpg?resize=400%2C250&ssl=1)
Moon Cresta – A faithful recreation of an Arcade classic is coming to the Amiga via Johnny Acevedo(Amiten Games) [BETA 2 UPDATE]
The Commodore Amiga scene has received another hot news story with the first beta tease of a high-performance recreation of the arcade classic, Moon Cresta. Developed by Johnny Acevedo under the Amiten Games banner, this "from-scratch" build serves as a free tribute...
One Game, Five Systems – Choplifter
Most popular video games eventually end up on platforms other than the one for which they were initially created. Obviously, there are exceptions. You wouldn't have seen a Super Mario Bros title on a Sega console, just like you weren't going to see the blue hedgehog...
This Day In Video Game History
