Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Walter Day

by Todd Friedman | Sep 21, 2017 | 1970s, 1980s, Columns

The first Trading Card Spotlight we will feature is the creator of the cards himself, Walter Day, who is displayed on card number 95, from the Superstars of 2011 Collection.   Walter is also featured on cards 108, 523, 539, 591, 775, 1000, 1021, 1859, 2133, 2149,...

Orange is the New Grey: The Evolution of the NES Zapper

by David Oxford | Sep 21, 2017 | 1980s, 1990s

The Zapper light gun is an icon of classic gaming for the Nintendo Entertainment System, appearing across multiple forms of media, including as the trusty sidearm for the eponymous protagonist of the 1989 DiC Entertainment animated series Captain N: The Game Master....

NES’s Golf Found as Easter Egg on Switch Consoles

by Brendan Meharry | Sep 20, 2017 | 1980s, 2010s, Uncategorized

Satoru Iwata, who was the 4th President and CEO of Nintendo, was a programmer and game designer decades before he was a businessman. Long before his tragic death in 2015, he successfully wrote and initiated his own data compression tool to fit the NES’s Golf (which...

Keep Calm and Insert Coin: Drink Up Y’all

by Brad Feingold | Sep 20, 2017 | 1980s, Arcade

Every so often, you run into a game that you look at and think to yourself, who the heck came up with this?  I thought the standards of a video game are to drive a car, rescue a princess, shoot an alien or even jump into your lily pad.  So how is a game like Tapper...

The show that kicked our retro in the rear has moved!

by Old School Gamer | Sep 19, 2017 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Arcade, Home

Fellow Gamers, I’m extremely excited to be writing to you to inform you that we just released the Midwest Gaming Classic web site for 2018, and we have BIG news! The Midwest Gaming Classic will be moving from our long-time home of the Sheraton Milwaukee...

Atari and Fig

by Old School Gamer | Sep 19, 2017 | 1970s, 1980s, Home

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (SEPTEMBER 18, 2017) – Atari®, one of the world’s most recognized publishers and developers of interactive entertainment via its subsidiary, Vagabond Production Corp., and Fig, the community publisher behind such games as Phoenix Point, Pillars...