Give Me My Pancake! – A DIY Homebrew Kit for the Atari 2600

by Ric Pryor | Dec 3, 2017 | 1970s, 1980s, Console/Handheld

Homebrew video games have come a long way since they first started appearing in the 1990’s. Not only the games themselves, but the way they’re packaged and sold. Long gone are the days of inkjet printed labels and photocopied instruction sheets. Current...

Keep Calm and Insert Coin: Sucked Into a Black Hole

by Brad Feingold | Dec 2, 2017 | 1970s, Arcade

So over the Thanksgiving weekend, I was honored to be part of one of Iowa’s largest video game and pinball auctions.  These auctions happen twice a year.  Normally during Easter weekend and Thanksgiving weekend.  I’m not going to get in depth about the...

Billy Mitchell coming to SoCal!

by Old School Gamer | Dec 1, 2017 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Arcade, Console/Handheld

Billy Mitchell will be coming to the Retro City Festival in January – http://retrocityfestival.com.  And Old School Gamer will be there giving out issue #2 of our magazine. “THE KING OF KONG” BILLY MITCHELL The star of King of Kong and history’s most...

Obelix for the Atari 2600

by Ric Pryor | Nov 29, 2017 | 1970s, 1980s, Console/Handheld

Asterix is the name of a very popular French comic that, like many Americans, I have never read. I can tell you that Asterix is the little guy, Obelix is the big guy and they both have Atari 2600  games named for them. That’s about it. Sales weren’t...

Monaco GP – My First Arcade Game

by Ric Pryor | Nov 20, 2017 | 1970s, Arcade

Monaco GP is the first arcade game I ever played. I was so young at the time I didn’t even know it by name. It was simply the racing game right inside the entrance to the arcade that was right inside the entrance to the mall. It was loud and fast and simple, an...

Donkey Kong for the Atari 2600

by Ric Pryor | Nov 14, 2017 | 1970s, 1980s, Console/Handheld

The first place I saw Donkey Kong on the Atari 2600 was an in-store display sometime in late 1982 or maybe early 1983. By this time my family owned a Colecovision and I’d played the arcade game a few times, so I had a pretty good idea what Donkey Kong should...