For Scott Leftwich, the ’80s were the peak of existence! He has taken this hobby to a different level than anyone I have met in my ten years of networking with video game hobbyists, and Old School Gamer is going to tell you the story. For him, it starts out with...
Old School Gamer surveyed its friend running nationally and regionally known retro arcades and found out that there are some games you have to have to consider ourself a retro arcade. We started by listing the most popular games on the KLOV.Com site (Museum of the...
Rolling into town late on a Friday night, we didn’t know what to expect about the accommodations set up for us by Ryan of the Illinois Game Con. I had checked out the website for Arcadia (vintagevideogames.com) and it looked really cool. I was told we were staying...
Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. (KONAMI) and WayForward announced that Contra: Operation Galuga – a new entry in the legendary Contra run-‘n’-gun video game series – is on its way to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC...
When an opportunity to get involved in a Mini-Con in Kansas City came up with about 10 days to go before the event, I jumped at it. Contacting Cat, who runs the King Arcade for its owners Billy and Derek,I found out that they had done one of these events before but...