Tristan Ibarra, Author at Old School Gamer Magazine https://www.oldschoolgamermagazine.com/author/tristanibarra/ Dedicated to you...the old school/retro gamer from the arcades to your home! Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:50:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.9 https://i0.wp.com/www.oldschoolgamermagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/cropped-PacMan-Navicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Tristan Ibarra, Author at Old School Gamer Magazine https://www.oldschoolgamermagazine.com/author/tristanibarra/ 32 32 133814826 The Legend of Zelda – by Tristan Ibarra https://www.oldschoolgamermagazine.com/the-legend-of-zelda-by-tristan-ibarra/ Sat, 09 May 2026 11:23:05 +0000 https://www.oldschoolgamermagazine.com/?p=101907 The Legend of Zelda represents, for many gamers, the birth of what is arguably the greatest, and most influential, action-adventure franchise of all time. Released early in the Nintendo Entertainment System’s lifecycle, it arrived during a formative moment when players were just beginning to experience games driven by narrative rather than pure mechanics. Only one […]

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]]> The Legend of Zelda represents, for many gamers, the birth of what is arguably the greatest, and most influential, action-adventure franchise of all time. Released early in the Nintendo Entertainment System’s lifecycle, it arrived during a formative moment when players were just beginning to experience games driven by narrative rather than pure mechanics.

Only one generation earlier, players relied heavily on imagination to navigate the blocky worlds of titles like Adventure on…

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]]> 101907 Year 1952 and 1958 – by Tristan Ibarra https://www.oldschoolgamermagazine.com/year-1952-add-1958/ Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:54:42 +0000 https://www.oldschoolgamermagazine.com/?p=101785 The Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC) located at the University of Cambridge’s Mathematical Laboratory would be the first computer hardware to host a “game” developed by Alexander Shafto “Sandy” Douglas, a British Professor of Computer Science. The EDSAC was one of the first computers that could be both read and written to with an […]

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]]> The Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC) located at the University of Cambridge’s Mathematical Laboratory would be the first computer hardware to host a “game” developed by Alexander Shafto “Sandy” Douglas, a British Professor of Computer Science. The EDSAC was one of the first computers that could be both read and written to with an array of three 35×16 dot-matrix CRTs to display the state of the memory the computer was storing. Though not a video game under today’s definition, it ran on a computing device with an electronic display and is arguably the first “video game.” It was unnamed in 1952 at the time but is now known as “OXO”; a name given…..

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]]> 101785 Buy for Retro Gaming Friends – Or Ask Your Friends to Buy For You! https://www.oldschoolgamermagazine.com/buy-for-retro-gaming-friends-or-ask-your-friends-to-buy-for-you/ Tue, 09 Dec 2025 13:16:35 +0000 https://www.oldschoolgamermagazine.com/?p=98233 Looking for the perfect gift for the gamer in your life, or just a special treat for yourself? Level up your holiday shopping with : The Video Game Collector’s Field Guide, 2408 pages across four volumes, is the most comprehensive and beautifully designed guide in gaming. Stunning full-color visuals covering decades of game libraries A […]

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