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Designing Yars’ Revenge (Part 1 – The Inception) – By Howard Scott Warshaw

by Old School Gamer | Oct 21, 2019 | 1970s, Arcade, The Story Of...

“Talent borrows, genius steals.” -Oscar Wilde My first game for Atari ultimately became what is now known as Yars’ Revenge. This is not how it started. Originally it was assigned as a coin-op conversion of a Cinematronics arcade game called Star Castle. The key to...

Mini Street Fighter II Arcade Cabinet Released by New Wave Toys

by Old School Gamer | Oct 20, 2019 | 1990s, Arcade, Press Release

New Wave Toys announced the launch of the limited edition Street Fighter II X RepliCade, a fully-playable 12-inch tall replica of the original Street Fighter II: Champion Editioncabinet. This 1/6-scale arcade cabinet fully licensed by Capcom, also includes Super...

Analogue’s $200 Pocket Could Be the Ultimate Retro Gaming Portable

by Old School Gamer | Oct 20, 2019 | 1980s, 2010s, Press Release

A multi-video-game-system portable handheld. A digital audio workstation with a built-in synthesizer and sequencer. A tribute to portable gaming. Out of the box, Pocket is compatible with the 2,780+ Game Boy, Game Boy Color & GameBoy Advance game cartridge...

Entering the Digitized Era–Part3 – By Warren Davis

by Old School Gamer | Oct 19, 2019 | 1990s, 2000s, Arcade, Columns

In Parts 1 and 2, I talked about the development of WTARG, the software I developed at Williams/Bally/ Midway to allow artists to incorporate digitized video of live actors in our games. My exploration into digitizing began in 1986, and the first version of WTARG came...

People and Places: Estarland – By Ryan Burger and Billy Mitchell

by Old School Gamer | Oct 17, 2019 | 1990s, Home Consoles, Reviews

In this issue of Old School Gamer, we are profiling two stores that we love for different reasons. The first, which you will read about elsewhere in this issue, is a smaller sole proprietorship. Jason took his passion and built a store that caters to like-minded...

Designing Yars’ Revenge (Part 1 – The Inception) – By Howard Scott Warshaw

Mini Street Fighter II Arcade Cabinet Released by New Wave Toys

Analogue’s $200 Pocket Could Be the Ultimate Retro Gaming Portable

Entering the Digitized Era–Part3 – By Warren Davis

People and Places: Estarland – By Ryan Burger and Billy Mitchell

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