SpaceWar! The First Computer Game – by Eugene Jarvis

by Old School Gamer | Mar 29, 2026 | 1970s, 2020s, Magazine Preview

My favorite old school game has got to be 1962’s Spacewar! Spacewar! may well be the first true video game ever made. Developed by Steve Russel and collaborators at MIT. This 2-player space combat video game was played on a circular monochrome vector graphics display...

Atari 2600 Encyclopedia: Do you know Basketball?

by Old School Gamer | Mar 21, 2026 | 1970s, Atari 2600 Encyclopedia, Columns

Release Date: 1978 Publisher: Atari Controller: Joystick Players: 1 – 2 Genre: Sports Alternate Title: N/A Model #: CX2624 Rarity: 2 Programmer: Alan Miller This one-on-one basketball duel is a flawed but entertaining take on the sport. This is about as...

Captain Cloudberry Amiga Edition – A MegaStyle C64 production arrives on the Commodore Amiga

by Indie Retro News | Mar 11, 2026 | 1970s, 2000s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

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,...

Video Game of the Day – Mario Tennis (GBC)

by Video Game of the Day | Mar 9, 2026 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Arcade

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...

Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Roger Sharpe

by Todd Friedman | Mar 6, 2026 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Columns, Pinball

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...

THE A1200 – FULL-SIZE. FULL KEYBOARD. FULL NOSTALGIA and a GREAT PRICE!

by Indie Retro News | Mar 4, 2026 | 1970s, 2000s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

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...