Museum Games #6 Space Evaders, Or How Ordinary Public Places of Coin-Op Play Challenge Museums

by Raiford Guins | Jul 2, 2026 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Arcade

When I visited M05’s Musée Du Jeu Vidéo and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France during my university’s spring break in March 2026, I decided to visit London for the day. The urge to see the Design Museum’s “Wes Anderson: The Archives” and “Blitz: The Club that Shaped...

INNOVATIVE LEISURE: A HISTORY OF ATARI – by Leonard Herman

by Leonard Herman | Jul 1, 2026 | 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Magazine Preview

When Jack Tramiel left Commodore in January 1984, he started a new company called Tramel Technology with several ex Commodore employees, and his three sons in top executive positions, with the goal of selling a new home computer. When Warner Communications announced...

The Retro RPGs that Inspired – by Matt Owen

by Matthew Owen | Jun 28, 2026 | 1980s, 1990s, 2010s, Magazine Preview

Every now and then, a truly great game will emerge, revitalizing a beloved genre and reminding us why we fell in love with it in the first place. In 2025, that game was Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, a turn-based RPG developed by Sandfall Interactive, which wears its...

RPGS on the NES – by Mat Bradley-Tschirgi

by Old School Gamer | Jun 26, 2026 | 1980s, 1990s, Magazine Preview

JRPGs are a genre that didn’t always take off in popularity on the NES the way Japanese developers had hoped. Despite all this, several titles were still localized over the years, so let’s give a gander at a few of the most notable ones. For the purposes of this...

Museum Games #3 Rapprochement na Habitación da Memoria

by Raiford Guins | Jun 25, 2026 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Arcade

I landed in Vigo, but my luggage didn’t. At Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport my lone carry-on gorged the steel jaws of an Iberia Air Lines baggage sizer stationed like a vigilant sentry at the boarding gate. Common carry-on luggage size, I learned, doesn’t...

Video Scaler for Retro Gamers

by Old School Gamer | Jun 24, 2026 | 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s, Console/Handheld

Friend of Old School Gamer, John Hancock did up a cool video on this scaler! John Hancock examines the performance of the Morph 2K analog video scaler across 18 distinct vintage consoles and classic computers. The demonstration explores various connection methods,...