by BillLange | Oct 3, 2019 | 1970s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired, Magazine Preview, TandyTRS
Until the late 1970s, electronic gaming consisted of playing one of the hundreds of ping-pong console variants on your home television, an LED-based electronic handheld game, or possibly playing a text-based computer game … if you were lucky enough to have had...
by Ken Horowitz | Oct 1, 2019 | 1970s, Arcade, Magazine Preview
As gamers, we fondly remember certain titles that defined specific periods in our lives. Some of us grew up with one console or computer that became synonymous with our childhood or adolescence. That kind of impact is remarkable and likely beyond the scope of what the...
by Kevin Butler | Sep 26, 2019 | 1970s, Arcade, Magazine Preview
Space Wars was the first vector-driven arcade game. Its success would enable Atari to create their own vector generator creating games such as Asteroids and Battlezone. Space Wars also enabled a fledgling company called Cinematronics (established in 1975) to finally...
by Michael Thomasson | Sep 24, 2019 | 1970s, Arcade, Magazine Preview
Sometimes that amazing crossing of paths happens and you just get so excited that you have to jump on it. That opportunity came for our publisher, Ryan Burger at CES this past year when he ran into Tyler Bushnell who is working to make his place in the gaming industry...
by Old School Gamer | Sep 18, 2019 | 1970s, Columns, The Story Of...
The Magnavox Odyssey, the world’s first game console, wasn’t actually successful upon its initial release. While it would reimagine itself with the Odyssey 100 and 200 dedicated consoles as well as the Odyssey 2, the original model only sold 350,000 units over three...
by Patrick Hickey Jr. | Sep 17, 2019 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s
With remakes and remasters flooding the marketplace, Old School Gamer shares five franchises that would be a ton of fun with a fresh coat of paint, on a new console. Berzerk: The possibility of Coleco’s upcoming arcade mini-looks cool, as does what appears to be a...