by Brett Weiss | Jul 16, 2018 | 1970s, Columns, Magazine Preview
Welcome once again to Brett’s Old School Bargain Bin, where I point out inexpensive games worth playing. Great RPGs for retro consoles tend to be pretty pricey, so I have a different and historical angle for this issue’s role-playing theme. We’re traveling back in...
by Shaun Jex | Jul 14, 2018 | 1970s, The Story Of...
Robert Louis Stevenson published his classic novel Treasure Island in 1882, telling the story of Jim Hawkins, the pirate Long John Silver and their quest for buried gold. Almost 100 years later, the book would serve as the inspiration for the classic adventure game...
by Old School Gamer | Jul 10, 2018 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Arcade, Console/Handheld
OSG #5 is available digitally now for all subscribers and will be in the mailboxes of print subscribers early next week… This “action-packed” issue puts the emphasis sports games in the realm of retro gaming. We start out with NBA Jam and Mutant...
by Antoine Clerc-Renaud | Jul 9, 2018 | 1970s, 1980s, Console/Handheld, Magazine Preview
Dragon Quest may be the first Japanese Role Playing Game using mechanics still used today, but it’s certainly not the first role playing game from the land of the rising sun. It was a trailblazer that inspired and led a charge by the Japanese but there were some...
by Ric Pryor | Jun 24, 2018 | 1970s, 1980s, Console/Handheld
The image above is from an Atari 2600 game. Before you continue reading, pause for a bit and let that really sink in. As soon as you’re suitably dumbfounded, you may continue. I have something of a love/hate relationship with homebrew arcade ports for the Atari...
by Shaun Jex | Jun 9, 2018 | 1970s
I don’t remember the first text based adventure game I ever played. It seems like the sort of thing I should know given my love for the genre, but the title has vanished from my memory. Because of this I suspect, the games have attained something of a towering,...