by Old School Gamer | May 13, 2026 | 1980s, 2020s, Magazine Preview
Gamers wouldn’t know which sequence they’d play until it began, and the unveiled info was only useful after a lost life returned them to the menu. By comparison, the freedom of choice in Mega Man allowed struggling players the opportunity to gain an advantage by...
by Brian Lesyk | May 11, 2026 | 1980s, 2020s, Magazine Preview
This could have safely guessed that Tetris (Alexey Pajitnov, 1988) would appear in our list of The 50 Most Influential Video Games Ever. There’s a simple reason for this… Tetris is the single greatest video game ever created… No caveats. No clarifications. No...
by Tristan Ibarra | May 9, 2026 | 1980s, 2020s, Magazine Preview
The Legend of Zelda represents, for many gamers, the birth of what is arguably the greatest, and most influential, action-adventure franchise of all time. Released early in the Nintendo Entertainment System’s lifecycle, it arrived during a formative moment when...
by Todd Friedman | May 8, 2026 | 1980s, 2010s
MAY 7, 2026 Atari has acquired the complete and exclusive rights to the first five games in the landmark Wizardry role-playing franchise, expanding the gaming company’s push to revive classic intellectual property through remasters, new releases and cross-media...
by Old School Gamer | May 7, 2026 | 1980s, 2020s, Magazine Preview
Before RPGs, 1986,to strong narrative. Sir-Tech’s Wizardry from 1981 dumped players into a massive 10-floor dungeon with little more than a sentence of congratulatory text for beating the game. The first Ultima came out the same year and switched players from a...
by Marcus Albers | May 6, 2026 | 1980s, 2020s, C64 Vic20, Reviews
In case you haven’t heard, the classic Commodore has undergone a rebirth. Retro computer YouTuber Christian “Peri Fractic” Simpson managed to gather the support and financing to purchase the bits and pieces of Commodore held by other companies and...