Pete Rose Baseball on the Atari 2600 and 7800

by Ric Pryor | Oct 30, 2017 | 1970s, 1980s, Console/Handheld

Pete Rose Baseball is a game that makes people sit up and say “Wow, I can’t believe this is an Atari 2600 game.” And not just people whose only experience with the 2600 is watching YouTube videos of kids making fun of the dragons in Adventure. Pete...

Can you name all of the characters on our cover!

by Old School Gamer | Oct 23, 2017 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s

At the Portland Retro Gaming Expo this past weekend, over 2,000 copies went out of our first issue of Old School Gamer, and they (and all print copies) go out with our cover as a foldout poster.  Alot of people were asking who all the characters were on it.  So here...

Old School Gamer Magazine – Issue #1 ONLINE NOW!

by Old School Gamer | Oct 17, 2017 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Arcade, Console/Handheld

And it’s waiting for you!  Remember, the digital edition is totally free for all OldSchool Gamers! This issue contains: Event Updates – Classic Game Fest, National Video Game MuseumWe Stopped By – Galloping Ghost Arcade Michael Thomasson’s Just...

SUPERBRIEF: Star Trek

by Kristopher Purzycki | Oct 6, 2017 | 1970s, Console/Handheld

So far, SUPERBRIEF has focused on interactive fictions such as Zork and Colossal Cave Adventure as some of the earliest standout computer games. While both of these (and many, many others) claimed tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons as one of their...

A Review of “Break Out: How the Apple II Launched the PC Gaming Revolution”

by BillLange | Oct 6, 2017 | 1970s, 1980s, Apple 2

In the new book, Break Out: How the Apple II Launched the PC Gaming Revolution, the author, David L. Craddock, covers about two dozen influential Apple II computer games along with the companies and people who created them. For the book, Craddock states that he...

New Ataribox Details Emerge

by Brendan Meharry | Sep 28, 2017 | 1970s, 1980s, 2010s

Remember the Ataribox? The “new” console by Atari? While not much was known originally about the console apart from what was revealed in a twenty-second video showing nothing but 3D renders (so, nothing) – recently, Atari sent out an email newsletter exposing...